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Sasha de Koninck, an Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance PhD student and听a member of the Unstable Design Lab, will host a virtual 鈥淔uture Heirlooms Workshop鈥� at the Textiles from听Home: Local Crafts, Global Conversations听Conference on March 17, 3-5听p.m. MDT. During the workshop, participants will work with materials around them to create a future textile heirloom to be used for a specific future moment. Textiles from Home is a project of the Design Studies Department and the Center for Design and Material Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and conference presentations focus on connections between textile making, domestic space, and local environments, historically and now. The conference includes sessions on 鈥渟uch of-the-moment crazes鈥� as artful mending, embroidery, women in fiber mills and Scottish wool.
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