Wood Flower Carving Workshop with Derek Brabender

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Join us in the Link for a drop-in wood carving workshop led by Derek Brabender. In this all-levels workshop, you’ll learn to carve a wooden flower using locally harvested red osier dogwood. Participants will be …

Close up of fingers holding a flower carved from wood

Blow your own Glass Terrarium!

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 …

A beige exhibition case displays a collection of glass kaliapparat

Artificial Flowers: Ora, Labora, et Flore

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 …

A book page showing french handwritten text and a symmetrical illustration of orange and red flowers in an orange vase.

Glassblowing Techniques Worldwide: Workshop with Klaus Paris

Chemistry Department Glass Shop (rm B201), 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706
@ 12:30 pm

Klaus Paris, Master Craftsman in Scientific Glassblowing and State Certified Engineering Glass Technologist, will be sharing glassblowing techniques in a public workshop at the Chemistry Department’s Glass Shop. Paris will share glassblowing techniques he demonstrated …

Graphic with glass in fire in the foreground and text above saying "Glass Techniques Worldwide: Workshop with Klaus Paris."