WIP Lab Workshop: Boro Stitching Inspired Collage

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Boro Stitching is a Japanese style of mending clothing. Using a running stitch, boro stitching applies scraps of fabric onto a garment to reinforce it with a variety of patterns. Using this method, participants will …

DS-CDMC Lecture Series: Antonio García

Elizabeth Holloway Schar Hall, 5th Floor | Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Join us Thursday, October 15 for a public lecture with Antonio García, Strategy Director at Gensler. About the Lecture: Life in Beta: A Few Things I Wish I Knew Before I Knew Anything A career …

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Art Lab! Making with Linda

Linda Dykstra
@ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

In this hands-on workshop, participants are invited to experience art-making as led by the Child Development Lab’s Lead Bunny Classroom teacher, Linda Dykstra. Each workshop offers a creative opportunity to experiment with materials, try new …

Ninth Annual Bernstein Book Arts Lecture Featuring Jen Bervin

Kohler Art Library
@ 5:00 pm

The Kohler Art Library is thrilled to welcome distinguished visual artist and poet Jen Bervin to campus for the ninth annual Bernstein Book Arts Lecture. Bervin’s talk, titled “*You can almost feel the date,” will …

Small Fabric: The Poetics of Reading Fragments

Jen Bervin
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection
@ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Please join poet and visual artist Jen Bervin and Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Research Director Sophie Pitman for an immersive workshop focused on close reading of a selection of fragments from the collection. Slow …

The Virtual Image: A Media Archaeology Workshop

Amanda Shubert
Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

What methods of archival research are required to understand virtual images? How can playing with visual and material culture become a research method, and what forms of knowledge can such play reveal? Virtual images are …

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2026 Summer Fellowship Symposium

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture is pleased to host our 7th annual Summer Fellowship Symposium on Friday, September 18 at 9:00 AM. This year we will have students presenting from …

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Campus Museum Crawl

@ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

First year students are invited to join us for a night at the (campus) museums! Explore campus spaces, meet new people, and learn more about what our campus museums have to offer. Start at one …

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Drop-In with the Curator: Parallel Lines

Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery
@ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Join curator Dr. Marina Moskowitz in the exhibition Parallel Lines: Quilts and the American Landscape during its final week on view. In this informal setting, you are invited to discuss the quilts on view, ask questions, and …

A photo of a gallery space with quilts on display. In the foreground is a light green wall with a "crazy quilt" on display. To the right of quilt, vinyl text reads "Parallel Lines: Quilts and the American Landscape." Beneath the title, the wall text is too small to read. In the background, a "log cabin" style quilt made out of a wide variety of colored and patterned fabrics can be seen.

Drop In Community Quilting Workshop

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Together-together is a collaborative, evolving quilt project by Carlee Latimer, featured in the exhibition Find Your Quilt. Throughout the exhibition, visitors were invited to interact with the piece by completing the prompt “Quilts Are… ____” using interchangeable …

A photo of a gallery space with a quilt on display on the wall. This quilt is is made up of a variety of colored and patterned fabrics. Fabric patchwork letters near the top of the quilt read "Quilts Are". Beneath the phrase, signboard letters spelling out "community", "home", "art", and "maps." Surrounding the text, many polaroid photographs are displayed in mesh pockets on the quilt. To the left of the quilt is a white pedestal with a purple polaroid camera, a museum label standing behind the camera, and a wooden box containing more signboard letters. In the background to the far left is a window, through which a lobby space can be seen.