Quilter’s Book Club: Reading with Kathleen Ernst

Nancy Nicholas Hall, 5th Floor
@ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Join us for a reading and discussion with local author Kathleen Ernst. Ernst’s popular Chloe Ellefson Mysteries series of adult novels features weaving, lacemaking, and quilting! At this event, Ernst will read from Death On …

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2025 Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture

Nancy Nicholas Hall, 2235
@ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Since 1990, the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection has proudly sponsored the annual Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture series in honor of Ruth Ketterer Harris, the collection’s first curator. We are thrilled to share Dr. Sharbreon Plummer, artist and …

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DS-CDMC Lecture Series: Jordan Goldstein

Nancy Nicholas Hall, 2235
@ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Advanced Registration Required Designing the Future: A Personal Journey, the Power of Storytelling, and Gensler’s Vision for a Changing World   Jordan Goldstein is Co-CEO of Gensler, the world’s most influential architecture and design firm. …

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DS-CDMC Lecture Series: Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao

Elizabeth Holloway Schar Hall, 5th Floor | Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 9:45 am - 11:00 am

Register Designing Hybrid Skins Dr. Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao is an Associate Professor in Human Centered Design, with graduate field faculty appointments in Information Science, and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Cornell University. She founded and …

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DS-CDMC Lecture Series: Libby O’Bryan

Elizabeth Holloway Schar Hall, 5th Floor | Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Watch the Recording What is it Worth? An experiment in the value of domestic labor and skill During her career in NYC’s garment industry, Libby O’Bryan witnessed many sewing jobs move overseas and was haunted …

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Chipstone-CDMC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium

Wisconsin Idea Room 1199, Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Center for Design and Material Culture is pleased to host the sixth annual Chipstone-CDMC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium on Friday, September 12 at 10:00 AM. This fellowship program, in partnership with the Chipstone …

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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. …

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Hair Symposium

@ 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 …

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