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Remaking Objects in the Classroom and the Museum: A Panel Discussion

Join us for a panel discussion between scholars, curators, and creators including Deborah Krohn (Bard Graduate Center), Jonathan Tavares (Art Institute, Chicago), and Tracy Drier, Distinguished…

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Phyllis Huffman Fresh Ideas Lecture Series: Laura Devendorf

Weaving and Counterfactual Narratives of Technical Progress Counterfactual thinking is a form of asking “what if” questions that consider how the present would have unfolded had…

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Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture 2024: Mending in the Museum: The Professionalization of Textile Conservation

Since 1990, the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection has proudly sponsored the annual Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture series in honor of Ruth Ketterer Harris, the collection’s first curator. We…

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Phyllis Huffman Fresh Ideas Lecture Series: Ann Coddington

Professor Ann Coddington presents a lecture on the origins and history of the fiber art movement, and how the field of contemporary basketry emerged in the 1960’s. She also discusses her fiber…

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4th Annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium

The Center for Design and Material Culture is pleased to host the fourth annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium on Friday, September 15 at 9AM. This fellowship program, in…

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Shoemaking Artistry, Craftsmanship, History, and Future

Please join us for a conversation between shoemakers Amara Hark-Weber, Jesse Moore, and Sarah Madeleine T. GUERIN, and creative director and senior curator of the Bata Shoe Museum Elizabeth…

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Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture 2023: Shoe Obsessed: Power, Identity, and the Manufacturing of Desire

Fashion is anything but frivolous. This talk will explore the economic and social implications of footwear and how mass production, market fragmentation and the commodification of identities has made…

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3rd Annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium

The Center for Design and Material Culture is pleased to host the third annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium on Wednesday, August 24 at 10AM. This fellowship program, in…

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Public Lecture with Sofia Hagström Møller

Swedish artist, Sofia Hagström Møller, will present her artistic work in the field of weaving. Hagström Møller will show images from previous projects that have been important…

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Unsettling: Learning of Equity in Creative Expression and Teaching

Xia Gao presents her work and her exploration of equity through her practice. “I would never feel confident to say that my work centers on equity. I would often say that it addresses cultural,…

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Weaving Connections: New Interpretations of Historical American Textile Design

The exhibition Politics at Home: Textiles as American History, in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery, features several woven coverlets from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; these…

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The Overshare: Telling Stories and Documenting a Life in Needle Lace

Sydney-based maker Maggie Hensel-Brown will join the CDMC to talk about her approach as a contemporary lace maker. With work currently on view in Lace from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection…

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Textiles on Campus: A Panel Discussion on the Possibilities of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection

Politics at Home: Textiles as American History, on view in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery, and Lace from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, on view in the Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery,…

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2nd Annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium

The Center for Design and Material Culture is pleased to host the second annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium on Tuesday, August 24 at 10AM. This fellowship program, in…

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Cotton: A Conversation with Malkha

Sarah Anne Carter, Executive Director of the Center for Design and Material Culture, UW-Madison, introduces the Malkha | Madison project. Annapurna Mamidipudi (Ph.D., Science and Technology…

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Weaving Malkha

Weaving Malkha by Hong Huo for the CDMC and Malkha | Madison Project.

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