Fall Exhibition Celebration

Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture
@ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Join us in celebrating both exhibitions in the center’s Quilting Connections exhibition season: Parallel Lines: Quilts and the American Landscape and Find Your Quilt. All attendees will receive a 16-month Quilting Connections calendar featuring images of …

Close up photo of a colorful crazy quilt with irregularly shaped patches sewn together with decorative top stitching. A white bird on brown fabric is centered.

Find Your Quilt

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

View the Exhibition Archive This exhibition invites you to Find Your Quilt. A quilt can be artistic and designed, scientific and mathematical, political and personal. Quilts offer windows into the past, or hopes for the …

Graphic with colorful quilt triangles pointing in various directions on a white background with yellow text in the center that reads "Find Your Quilt."

WIP Lab Workshop: Handmade Paper Quilt Tops with Sam Northcut

Multiple locations
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Join artist Sam Northcut (MFA ’25) to learn to make paper quilts in this 2-part workshop! Starting with the basics of large sheet paper making, participants will make 6′ x 4′ sheets as a group, …

A photo of a blue paper quilt top. Text on masking tape above the image reads "WIP Lab Workshop." Text on brown paper below the photo reads "Handmade Paper Quilt Tops with Sam Northcut."

WIP Lab Workshop: 3D Printing

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Join PhD student Ely Rendon for this hands-on workshop introducing the fundamentals of digital modeling and rapid prototyping through 3D printing. Participants will learn how to transform 2D sketches into basic 3D models using open-source …

Photo of 3D printed objects. Text on masking tape above the image reads "WIP Lab Workshop." Text on brown paper below the photo reads "3D Printing with Ely Rendon."

DS-CDMC Lecture Series: Libby O’Bryan

Elizabeth Holloway Schar Hall, 5th Floor | Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Watch the Recording What is it Worth? An experiment in the value of domestic labor and skill During her career in NYC’s garment industry, Libby O’Bryan witnessed many sewing jobs move overseas and was haunted …

Photo of a woman with long dark hair and a green jacket standing in a space with clothing hanging on racks in the background. In the background is an image of skeins of yarn, and text that reads "DS-CDMC Lecture Series Libby O'Bryan Owner of Sew Co."

WIP Lab Workshop: Cyanotypes

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Join artist and PhD student Kean O’Brien to explore cyanotypes in this workshop! Create striking cyan-blue images by placing objects on a light-sensitive surface and exposing them to sunlight. Unlike other photographic techniques, cyanotype is …

Photo of a cyanotype depicting a cloudy sky. Text on masking tape above the image reads "WIP Lab Workshop." Text on brown paper below the photo reads "Cyanotypes with Kean O'Brien."

Open House for the Art History Centennial Celebration

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Join the Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture in celebrating 100 years of Art History at UW-Madison! Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery: Drop in with curator Dr. Marina Moskowitz in the exhibition Parallel …

A graphic of the shape of state of Wisconsin created with a collage of art historical images. Across the state, a red banner reads "1925-2025." In a circle around the image, red all caps text reads "University of Wisconsin-Madison Art History 100 Years."

Chipstone-CDMC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium

Wisconsin Idea Room 1199, Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Center for Design and Material Culture is pleased to host the sixth annual Chipstone-CDMC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium on Friday, September 12 at 10:00 AM. This fellowship program, in partnership with the Chipstone …

Graphic with two buildings at the bottom spliced together and black text in the center of the white background that reads "6th Annual Chipstone-CDMC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship."

After Hours Drop-In with the Curator

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Join curator Dr. Marina Moskowitz in the exhibition Parallel Lines: Quilts and the American Landscape. In this informal setting, you are invited to discuss the quilts on view, ask questions, and explore the materials and …

A cropped view of a log cabin quilt, in which the strips form diamonds of light and dark.