Visible/Invisible: Designing Afro-Futures

Center for Design & Material Culture
@ 5:00 pm

Visible/Invisible: Designing Afro-Futures Thursday, November 4 @ 5pm CT This event has passed. Watch the recording HERE. D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem presents on her multi-hyphenate practice as an award-winning, self-described “space sculptor”, designer, writer, performance artist, …

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Woven Together: Hello Loom at Copenhagen Contemporary

Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery

Embedded exhibition instructions: use arrows, scroll bar, or swipe to navigate left and right; click the expand icon to view the exhibition fully in your browser; click the menu options for the accessible view. This …

Photograph of a miniature wooden hand-held loom with words "Hello Loom"

Lace from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection

Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery
@ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm

Lace is the single largest category of objects in the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. How do we make sense of this ubiquitous yet enigmatic material? From fine art on the wall to intimate garments …

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Politics at Home: Textiles as American History

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

Featuring work from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection ranging from the 18th through the 21st centuries, this exhibition includes a range of domestic textiles that demonstrate how public discourses of American politics have always …

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Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium

Virtual Event
@ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Second Annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium August 24, 2021. 10AM CT. The Center for Design and Material Culture is pleased to host the second annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium on Tuesday, August 24 …

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Feeling Fragmentary: A Graduate Student Material Culture Symposium

Virtual Event
@ 9:30 am - 5:00 pm

Feeling Fragmentary: A Graduate Student Material Culture Symposium Friday, May 14, 2021 9:30AM-5:00PM CST   The isolation of the past year as a result of COVID-19 safety measures has left many of us feeling as …

Photograph of a fragment of a ceramic delftware salt with blue and white glaze.