Afterlives: Material Stories from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection

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 …

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Design in Mind: Creating Neuroinclusive Spaces for Health & Well-Being

Room 228, Educational Science Building, 1025 W Johnson St, Madison, WI 53706
@ 9:55 am - 10:45 am

This event has passed. Watch the event recording below: Event Recording How can the built environment better support the diverse ways people think, feel, and experience the world? In this lecture, Dr. Kati Peditto, a Senior Design …

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Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Community Day

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for the fall semester 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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Why do we need Scientific Glassblowing?

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

Klaus Paris is a second generation scientific glassblower, born and trained in Germany. Paris will speak about the German glass training programs, the similarities and differences in being a scientific glassblower in different countries and …

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