Design Studies MFA student Nora Renick Rinehart and fellow artist and Star Trek enthusiast Emilie Mulcahey ponder how craft and queerness overlap with The Final Frontier.
Textiles
Student Spotlight: Samantha Comerford, “Dresses for Death: Mass-Produced Burial Garments in America, 1880-1915”
Art History Master’s student (and 2021 graduate) Samantha Comerford shares her research and favorite HLATC stories with us to reflect on her recent graduation.
Student Spotlight: Lindsey Wilson, “Grief Unveiled: A Study on Victorian Mourning Practices and Spiritualism”
Textile Design and Art History student (and 2021 graduate) Lindsey Wilson shares her Senior Thesis work and research around Victorian mourning practices.
2021 Design Studies Second Year MFA Exhibition
Online Launch: May 8, 2021. In the culmination of two years of work, Design Studies MFA candidates Henry Obeng and Nora Renick Rinehart present their work in two digital exhibitions representing recent installations in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery.
Henry Obeng: “The Trail”
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.
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.
Threads 2021: “Reality?” A Virtual Design and Fashion Event
Join us for a student-led, socially-distanced, large-scale outdoor projection at the Garver Feed Mill. Take a step onto the virtual runway with UW-Madison’s TFD students as they share their work.
Threads 2021: “Reality?” A Virtual Design and Fashion Event
Join us for a student-led, socially-distanced, large-scale outdoor projection at the Garver Feed Mill. Take a step onto the virtual runway with UW-Madison’s TFD students as they share their work.
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.