Afterlives: Material Stories from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection
Event Details
Date
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Time
10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Location
Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery, Nancy Nicholas Hall
Description
Afterlives explores the many lives of objects and what happens to textiles after they enter the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. From a quilt made out of carefully saved 19th-century American cigar silks to an robe from Turkmenistan, material things carry traces of their journey through past, present, and future in our Collection. Both poetic and practical, the exhibition explores what these treasures can teach us if we pay attention to their stories.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-8815 or email bo.owen@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.