WIP Lab Workshop: Neon-Inspired Wire Bending

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Join PhD student Skye Xollo to learn how to create sculptures that mimic the look of glowing neon. In this all-levels workshop, you’ll learn to sketch a design, shape armature wire using techniques inspired by …

Photo of a yellow-green neon light. Text on masking tape above the image reads "WIP Lab Workshop." Text on brown paper below the photo reads "Neon-Inspired Wire Bending with Skye Xollo."

Quilts are Jazz

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Join us for an evening of jazz performances inspired by quilts! In collaboration with the Mead Witter School of Music jazz studies program, the Creative Music Collective (directed by Anders Svanoe) will perform original compositions …

A close cropped image of a geometric quilt with radiating blocks of blue, pink, green, and purple creating an optical effect.

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.

Community Quilting Workshop: Picking Up the Thread

Carlee Latimer
Ruth Davis Design Gallery
@ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll take Together-together* down from the gallery wall and come together around the quilting frame to begin stitching the quilt’s three layers. Artist Carlee Latimer believes quilts are powerful tools for …

The word "quilts" is spelled out in all caps in red pieced letters on a patchwork quilt.

Natural Dye Demonstration

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Join staff from the Allen Centennial Garden as they dye embroidery floss with different plants harvested from the garden. This session will feature weld, indigo, and coreopsis. Staff will demonstrate basic principals of plant-based dying …

Photo of 4 dyed textiles lying atop one another.

Quilt Exhibitions Bus Tour

@ 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Join us on Saturday, October 18 to visit five quilt exhibitions across southeastern Wisconsin! For this daylong adventure, coach buses will shuttle visitors between the Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture (Madison), …

Photo of a close up detail of a log cabin quilt square.

Open House for the Art History Centennial Celebration

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Join the Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture in celebrating 100 years of Art History at UW-Madison! Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery: Drop in with curator Dr. Marina Moskowitz in the exhibition Parallel …

A graphic of the shape of state of Wisconsin created with a collage of art historical images. Across the state, a red banner reads "1925-2025." In a circle around the image, red all caps text reads "University of Wisconsin-Madison Art History 100 Years."

Bringing Akris Stories to Life

Ruth Davis Design Gallery Window
@ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm

Starting July 21, Bringing Akris Stories to Life will be on view in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery window. This semester-long consulting project between Akris and the Kohl’s Center for Retailing brought together Textile & Fashion …

Graphic with a light blue overlay over a sketch of several wavy garments and text that reads "Bringing Akris Stories to Life: Brand Consulting Project."

Field to Frock

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https://www.wisconsinlinenrevival.org/field-to-frock

Come makers, artists, textile enthusiasts, agriculturalists, small farmers, local foodies, slow-fashionistas! Together we are weaving relationships with materials, makers, growers, and thinkers to encourage a richer modern human connection with textiles.  Midwest Linen Revival presents …

A blue organic shape is the background for white text and an abstract flower graphic. The text reads "field to frock."