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, …
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Please join us to celebrate the rotation of Open Drawers, a second set of mini-exhibits curated by graduate students in Dr. Sarah Anne Carter’s Material Culture course. You may have walked by our exhibition space …
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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 …
@ 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Material Intelligence Hair Symposium Friday, April 25, 2025 8am to 11am CST Watch Recording No material is more intimate, immediate, or incendiary than human hair. Materially speaking it is fairly simple: strands of dead cells …
Nancy Nicholas Hall, 2235 @ 10:00 am
Join us for a public lecture on architecture and sustainability with architect Tom Bassett-Dilley. This event has passed, click below for the recording: Watch Recording Tom Bassett-Dilley, FAIA CPHC LFA founded TBDA in 2006 to …
Ruth Davis Design Gallery @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Join us in celebrating the opening of Threaded Narratives: An Anthology of Design. Threaded Narratives: An Anthology of Design celebrates collections by 13 Textiles & Fashion Design students in their final semester in the School of Human Ecology. …
Ruth Davis Design Gallery @ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm
Threaded Narratives: An Anthology of Design celebrates collections by 13 Textiles & Fashion Design students in their final semester in the School of Human Ecology. This exhibition, much like a diary or photo album, preserves …
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Join us in the Link for a drop-in wood carving workshop led by Derek Brabender. In this all-levels workshop, you’ll learn to carve a wooden flower using locally harvested red osier dogwood. Participants will be …
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Please join us to celebrate the opening of Open Drawers, an exhibit curated by graduate students in Dr. Sarah Anne Carter’s Material Culture course. You may have walked by our exhibition space without noticing the …
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Open Drawers represents a multidimensional understanding of home and heart. Where we find home may not always be where we lay our head at night—it may be in objects and materials that we travelled with …