Online Launch May 8, 2021. Inspired by botanical history, land use, and plant ecologies as they relate to us as citizens and noncitizens, this exhibition builds connections between Obeng’s experiences as a surveilled non-citizen and plant specimens in the UW–Madison Herbarium through hundreds of cyanotype images presented on handmade paper made from recycled Badger T-shirts.
Ruth Davis Design Gallery
Nora Renick Rinehart: “Flannel Futures”
Online Launch: May 8, 2021. “Flannel Futures” inquires into the making of memory, questions the perseverance of tradition versus the conjuring of new normals, and wonders how we will commemorate that which we have used to commemorate our own past from the vantage point of the future.
Amanda Thatch: “Long Draw (Training for Spinsterhood)”
In conjunction with her Design Studies MFA Exhibition, Amanda Thatch livestreams a performance – spinning yarn while listening to stories – performing a convergence of text and textiles.
CDMC Conversation Series: Amanda Thatch and Zoe Cohen
Conversation between MFA candidate in Textiles/Design Studies Amanda Thatch and Zoe Cohen, PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies. Cohen will also read “Thrum,” the lyric essay she composed in response to Thatch’s work, and the two will discuss their book.
Amanda Thatch: “Long Draw (Training for Spinsterhood)”
In conjunction with her Design Studies MFA Exhibition, Amanda Thatch livestreams a performance – spinning yarn while listening to stories – performing a convergence of text and textiles.
2021 Design Studies Master in Fine Arts Exhibition
Online Launch: April 16, 2021. In the culmination of three years of intensive work, Design Studies MFA candidates Amanda Thatch and Han-ah Yoo present their thesis work in two digital exhibitions representing recent installations in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery.
Han-ah Yoo: “Relationships: Invisible, but Extant”
Online Launch: April 16, 2021. This exhibition of creative works is designed to provoke awareness of the adverse ecological impacts of the fashion industry. During washing and manufacturing synthetic textile products, thousands of different chemicals and tons of microfibers are emitted, and the emission causes risks to aquatic organisms…
Amanda Thatch: “Tromp as Writ”
Online Launch: April 16, 2021. To weavers, the phrase “tromp as writ” means that the sequence of threading is repeated in the foot-operated treadling; a single set of instructions can function for both setting up the loom and for the movement of the weaver’s feet while working. The pieces in this exhibition explore the interaction of text and pattern through hand-woven images.
The Portal: Call for Entries
“The Portal” is a juried online exhibition featuring student-designed historic interiors. The virtual exhibition will showcase selected period rooms designed by students of the course “DS 422: History of Architecture (18th Century to Present)” in the Fall 2020 semester.
Design 2021: Call for Entries
This spring, the CDMC and the Design Studies Dept. present “Design 2021,” a virtual edition of SoHE’s annual juried student exhibition. UW–Madison students of all majors are invited to submit their best design work generated through Design Studies courses over the past 4 semesters.