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 …

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The Future Is

Ruth Davis Design Gallery
@ 10:00 am - @ 2:00 pm

The MD+I Futures Studio Summer Design Exhibition represents the culmination of the final MS in Design + Innovation capstone class, an 8-week speculative experiment in imagining what the future — our Wisconsin future — could …

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Bringing Akris Stories to Life

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

Starting July 21, Bringing Akris Stories to Life will be on view in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery window. This semester-long consulting project between Akris and the Kohl’s Center for Retailing brought together Textile & Fashion …

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Wisconsin 4-H State Art Show: Beyond Ready!

Ruth Davis Design Gallery
@ 4:00 pm - @ 6:00 pm

The 4-H Art Show is a vibrant showcase of creativity, featuring artwork from talented youth across Wisconsin, including contributions from the Wisconsin 4-H Art Team and 4-H County Educators. This inspiring exhibit celebrates the imagination, skill, …

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Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Community Day

Wisconsin Idea Room 1199, Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for the spring 2025 Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Community Day! Once a semester, collection staff host a Community Day where we lead behind-the-scene tours and share information about the collection. In addition, …

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Open Drawers Rotation Reception

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Please join us to celebrate the rotation of Open Drawers, a second set of mini-exhibits curated by graduate students in Dr. Sarah Anne Carter’s Material Culture course. You may have walked by our exhibition space …

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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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Public Lecture: Defining Sustainability in Theory and Practice

Nancy Nicholas Hall, 2235
@ 10:00 am

Join us for a public lecture on architecture and sustainability with architect Tom Bassett-Dilley. This event has passed, click below for the recording: Watch Recording Tom Bassett-Dilley, FAIA CPHC LFA founded TBDA in 2006 to …

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Threaded Narratives: An Anthology of Design Opening Reception

Ruth Davis Design Gallery
@ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Join us in celebrating the opening of Threaded Narratives: An Anthology of Design. Threaded Narratives: An Anthology of Design celebrates collections by 13 Textiles & Fashion Design students in their final semester in the School of Human Ecology. …

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