In Care Of: Postcard-Sized Portrayals of Caregiving in Wisconsin

Nancy Nicholas Hall
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On view Monday – Friday from 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM during summer (excluding legal holidays). Caring for loved ones can be difficult and beautiful at the same time. In Care Of: Postcard-Sized Portrayals of …

White text reads "IN CARE OF: Postcard Sized Portrayals of Caregiving in Wisconsin" against an abstract blue and green landscape.

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, …

photo of two people with their backs to the cammera looking at a textile on a table with a phone taking a picture of the textile

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 …

Photo of a quilt with man tiny squares in red, yellow, green, brown, blue, and white in a gride pattern

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 …

Graphic with two buildings at the bottom spliced together and black text in the center of the white background that reads "6th Annual Chipstone-CDMC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship"

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 …

Photo of a purple, green, blue, and pink geometric quilt

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 …

Close up of a colorful crazy quilt with irregularly shaped patches sewn together with decorative top stitching. A white bird on brown fabric is centered.

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 …

close up detail of a log cabin quilt square

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 …

detail shot of flying geese quilt pattern