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.

Public Gallery Tour: Find Your Quilt

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

Fall Exhibition Celebration

Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture
@ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Join us in celebrating both exhibitions in the center’s Quilting Connections exhibition season: Parallel Lines: Quilts and the American Landscape and Find Your Quilt. All attendees will receive a 16-month Quilting Connections calendar featuring images of …

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

Find Your Quilt

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

View the Exhibition Archive This exhibition invites you to Find Your Quilt. A quilt can be artistic and designed, scientific and mathematical, political and personal. Quilts offer windows into the past, or hopes for the …

Graphic with colorful quilt triangles pointing in various directions on a white background with yellow text in the center that reads "Find Your Quilt."

After Hours Drop-In with the Curator

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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

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

After Hours Drop-In with the Curator

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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

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

Public Gallery Tour: Parallel Lines

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 6:00 pm - 7:00 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.

The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show

Alliant Energy Center
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https://quiltshow.com/

Join the Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture at the Alliant Energy Center for the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show! The center will host a non-profit booth during the Quilt Show’s open hours. …

Cropped photo of a white quilt with floral designs in its four corners.