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 …

Graphic of a old plot map of Wisconsin with squares filled in with pieces of quilts. In the bottom right corner is text that reads "Parallel Lines Quilts and the American Landscape."

Small Matter

Nancy Nicholas Hall
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Soccer is the world’s most popular game, but experiences of the game are remarkably different around the world. When children do not have the luxury of affording a mass-produced soccer ball, they take to the …

A large sphere is made up of small white dots on an orange background. Text above the sphere reads "small matter."

Draw Your Quilt Workshop

Carlee Latimer
Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join artist Carlee Latimer for Draw Your Quilt, a hands-on, fast-paced, no-pressure drawing workshop that invites participants to explore personal stories, memory, and patterns through quilt-inspired imagery. Inspired by the exhibition Find Your Quilt, this workshop encourages attendees to translate the …

Digital illustration of a cream-colored quilt with a dark blue border. Designs within the quilt depict sections of blue flying geese patterns. With each section of flying geese, there are other smaller figures including trees, humanoid figures, and mushrooms.

Public Gallery Tour: Find Your Quilt

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

Join curator Dr. Sophie Pitman for a tour of Find Your Quilt. Discuss the quilts on view, ask questions, and explore the materials and methods in the exhibit. Space is limited. Please sign up so …

Cropped photo of a white quilt with light pink floral designs radiating out from the middle.

Drop In Community Quilting Workshop: Finishing Touches

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

As Together-together* nears completion, this final workshop invites participants to help guide the quilt-in-progress to its closing chapter. In this session, we’ll focus on finishing techniques—binding edges, reinforcing seams, adding final marks—and honoring the accumulated …

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

Quilt Top Tote Bags with Lauren Stephenson

Textile Arts Center
@ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Join artist Lauren Stephenson of Thread Campaign for this sewing workshop. Create your own one-of-a-kind tote bag from a pre-loved quilt top! Choose from a selection of vintage patchwork pieces and lining materials to design …

Photo of a patchwork quilted tote bag on a craft table with sewing supplies.

Public Gallery Tour: Parallel Lines

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Join curator Dr. Marina Moskowitz for a tour of Parallel Lines: Quilts and the American Landscape. Discuss the quilts on view, ask questions, and explore the materials and methods in the exhibit. Space is limited. …

A cropped view of a log cabin quilt, in which the strips form diamonds of light and dark.