Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 9:00 am - @ 5:00 pm
View the Online Exhibit It’s All the Rage: Activism, Aging, and the Raging Grannies of Madison grows from a two-year archival and oral history project. This exhibit focuses on several decades of local Wisconsin grassroots activism …
Ruth Davis Design Gallery @ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm
Material Intelligence magazine, published by the Chipstone Foundation, celebrates the human capacity to understand and shape the physical world around us. Inspired by the magazine’s exploration of individual commonplace materials, this exhibition foregrounds two key …
Ruth Davis Design Gallery @ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm
The power of shaping glass has played a critical role in the history of UW–Madison. Glass has enabled us to see near, far, into, and beyond. Spheres of Influence: Glass Across UW foregrounds the material …
Ruth Davis Design Gallery @ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm
Ann B. Coddington works in threads—living lines created by natural fibers. This material invites layered metaphorical possibilities that are not bound by a loom or a specific interpretative category. Her iterative process invites a range …
Center for Design and Material Culture, 1235 Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
RSVP Join us in celebrating the fall 2024 exhibitions in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery and Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery. Hear from collaborators and participants from Feel the Beat: Felted Textiles and Material Intelligence and …
Wisconsin Idea Room 1199, Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 5:30 pm
Janice Arnold has been redefining the boundaries of handmade Felt for over 25 years. Her work is a confluence of ancient and modern methods using traditional and unexpected materials. In this presentation, she will share …
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 6:30 pm
The Raging Grannies are giving a crash course in how to leverage creativity and making to address a specific social or environmental issue through posters and buttons. Join us for this exciting event and use …
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Join us for the fall semester Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Community Day! Once a semester, collection staff host a Community Day where we lead behind-the-scene tours and share information about the collection. In addition, …
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm
Afterlives explores the many lives of objects and what happens to textiles after they enter the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. From a remarkable quilt made out of carefully saved 19th-century American cigar silks, and …
