Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 6:30 pm
The Raging Grannies are giving a crash course in how to leverage creativity and making to address a specific social or environmental issue through posters and buttons. Join us for this exciting event and use …
Past Events Category: Workshop
Work in Progress (WIP) Lab Activation with Artist Ann Coddington
Ruth Davis Design Gallery @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
https://cdmc.wisc.edu/event/material-intelligence/
Welcome to the first Work in Progress (WIP) Activation event! Artist Ann Coddington will be present in the gallery and working on her Work in Progress piece. We invite you to join her in and …
Work in Progress (WIP) Lab
Ruth Davis Design Gallery @ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm
https://cdmc.wisc.edu/event/material-intelligence/
The Work in Progress Lab in the rear of the Ruth Davis Design Gallery invited visitors to engage with materials and techniques on display in the CDMC. Feel the materials and learn techniques that transform …
Craftivism: Crochet for a cause with the Raging Grannies
Sterling Hall, Rm 3401 @ 6:30 pm
Come learn about ‘craftivism’ – how the Raging Grannies combine crafting and activism in their efforts. See samples of their iconic Ursula the Uterus and learn how to make it or create your own crocheted …
How to See Energy: Visualizing Extraction, Labor, and Resistance workshop with Jamie Jones co-sponsored with the Center for Visual Cultures
University Club Room 212 @ 12:00 pm
Jones’s book and talk are about the way that the concept of “energy” itself got bound together with fossil fuel extraction, settler colonialism, and extractive forms of labor in the massive energy transitions of the …
Broom Making Workshop with Berea College Student Craft
The Link @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
After much anticipation, we are thrilled to announce the upcoming Broom Making Workshop with Berea College Student Craft! Join us on February 15 and learn about broom making from Berea College Student Craft staff and …
Working with resistance – What can textile teach us? workshop with Jorella Andrews co-sponsored with the Center for Visual Cultures
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection @ 12:30 pm
In “The Challenge of Constraints,” a chapter in E. H. Gombrich’s The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art (1979), Gombrich presents encounters with material resistance, with natural and mathematical laws experienced as …
Random Weave Workshop with Ann Coddington
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Join us for this engaging workshop where you will explore the process of random woven basketry. We will begin by creating an armature, then complete the form with random weaving using round and flat reed …
Tour of The Mending Project at Madison Central Library
Madison Central Library @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Starting at Madison Central Library from 11am-12pm, The Sewing Machine Project will host a tour of the mending services available through their initiative, The Mending Project. Learn about the day in the life of the …
Mending: Community Repair in Madison
@ 11:00 am - 4:30 pm
Explore mending across Madison through a series of events hosted in partnership by Madison Public Library, The Mending Project, the James Watrous Gallery, and Center for Design and Material Culture at UW-Madison’s School of Human …
