Nancy Nicholas Hall -
Open Drawers represents a multidimensional understanding of home and heart. Where we find home may not always be where we lay our head at night—it may be in objects and materials that we travelled with …
Nancy Nicholas Hall -
Open Drawers represents a multidimensional understanding of home and heart. Where we find home may not always be where we lay our head at night—it may be in objects and materials that we travelled with …
Part 1: UW-Madison Glass Lab. Part 2: Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Registration for this event is full. As part of the exhibition Spheres of Influence: Glass Across UW, the Center for Design and Material Culture is excited to partner with the UW-Madison Glass Lab to offer this …
Wisconsin Idea Room, Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Please note: this event will meet in the Wisconsin Idea Room, 1199. Join MFA student Mariah Moneda in the Work In Progress (WIP) Lab to learn how to fold paper butterflies as part of the …
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
How scientifically accurate are the butterflies and moths depicted by the textiles on view in Afterlives? What do butterfly boxes tell us about the intersections of art, science, design, and decoration? What do insect collection …
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Session 1: 11am-12pm Session 2: 1pm-2pm Register here! UW Madison recently acquired a small and intriguing manuscript produced in the eighteenth century by Benedictine nuns at the St Godelieve Abbey in Bruges, Belgium. Across 30 …
Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery @ 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm
Join curator Dr. Sarah Anne Carter for a tour of Afterlives. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and explore the materials and methods in the exhibit. Space is limited. Please sign up so …
Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Join us in celebrating the opening of Afterlives: Material Stories from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. Write a valentine for your “collection crush” object from the exhibition, snap some Polaroids, and enjoy hors d’ouevres …
Emma MacLaughlin-Barck
Ruth Davis Design Gallery, Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Join Design Studies student Emma MacLaughlin-Barck staff in the Work In Progress (WIP) Lab to learn visible mending techniques. “In this workshop, get a brief introduction to various visible mending techniques, with an emphasis on …
Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery @ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm
Afterlives explores the many lives of objects and what happens to textiles after they enter the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. From a child’s feed sack dress lovingly crafted and then saved on a family …
Ann Coddington
Ruth Davis Design Gallery, Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
https://cdmc.wisc.edu/event/work-in-progress-wip-lab/
Join us in the WIP Lab to learn the basics of twining basketry from artist Ann B. Coddington, whose work is displayed in Threads: Natural Fiber and Living Lines. In this workshop, Ann will teach …