Featured events:
Teaching Textiles: The History of Craft Instruction
Detail from an early 19th-century German embroidery sampler in the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection.
December 6 – 7, 2019 | Organized by Dr. Marina Moskowitz
Teaching Textiles: The History of Craft Instruction is a symposium at the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, that will explore the nexus of skill, education, communication, enterprise, and collecting of textiles. Learn more.
Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture: Henry Drewal
“Come to Your Senses! Understanding Arts Everywhere… and the Arts of Yoruba People in Particular”
Image: Dr. Henry Drewal dances with Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, former director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, at its African Art Awards event in October 2018.
November 13, 2019 | 5:30 – 8:00 PM
This presentation invites the audience to come to its “sense-abilities” in its engagements with the arts. People feel and think with their “body-mind,” an idea whose universal relevance Dr. Drewal explores by way of the arts of the Yoruba in West Africa. Learn more.
About the Collection Over the past half century, the collection has grown from an original 4,000-piece gift to more than 13,000 objects that have inspired and informed thousands of students, researchers, historians, and textile aficionados. The new Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery is a permanent space dedicated to year-round displays of the collection.
HOURS
(Closed for installation)
Wed & Fri 10am-4pm
Thurs 10am-7pm
Sat-Sun 12-4pm
LOCATION
1300 Linden Drive,
Madison, WI 53706
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February 5 – May 15
CONTACT
hlatc@sohe.wisc.edu
(608) 262-1162