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Events Category: Center for Design & Material Culture
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Community Day
Wisconsin Idea Room 1199, Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Join us for the spring 2025 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, …
Parallel Lines: Quilts and the American Landscape
Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery @ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm
Parallel Lines: Quilts and the American Landscape explores the parallel processes of quilt-making within the American home and place-making on the American landscape. Featuring nineteenth- and twentieth-century American quilts drawn from the Helen Louise Allen …
Chipstone-CDMC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium
Wisconsin Idea Room 1199, Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
The Center for Design and Material Culture is pleased to host the sixth annual Chipstone-CDMC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium on Friday, September 12 at 10:00 AM. This fellowship program, in partnership with the Chipstone …
Find Your Quilt
Ruth Davis Design Gallery @ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm
Find Your Quilt invites visitors to make their own personal connections to the quilts on display by offering a range of ideas and perspectives about the meanings of quilts. This bright and bold exhibition presents quilts …
Fall Exhibition Celebration
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Join us in celebrating both exhibitions in the CDMC’s Year of Quilts: Parallel Lines: Quilts and the American Landscape and Find Your Quilt. October 16, 2025 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Center for Design and …
Quilt Exhibitions Bus Tour
@ 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Join us on Saturday, October 18 to visit four quilt exhibitions across southeastern Wisconsin! For this daylong adventure, coach buses will shuttle visitors between the Center for Design and Material Culture (Madison), the Textile Art …
Quilt Documentation Day
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Calling all quilts and the people who love them: find out more about your quilted treasure! Help us save the stories in the stitches by bringing your precious family heirlooms (or modern creations) to the …
