?Handmade Meaning: The Value of Craft in Victorian and Contemporary Culture? combines pieces culled from historical societies around the state with contemporary embroidery, paper arts and beading. The show is a collaboration between the Watrous gallery, the UW department of art history and the Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database, and it runs through Feb. 6 on the third floor of the Overture Center.
Quoted: Anne Smart Martin, associate professor of art history and the head of the material culture program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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