If you haven't visited Un/Seen yet, this weekend is your chance! Listen to a podcast with Sarah Anne Carter, Curator and Director of Research The Chipstone Foundation on this wonderful exhibition! bit.ly/unseenpodcast

Very excited to welcome Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich to the Archives to revisit some of her favorite items from the collections. #LaurelX

In honor of #NationalNursesDay and #NationalNursesWeek, we explore the material clues in the 1942 residence of fictional historic character Florence Hasard, and how her seemingly contradictory public and private lives are actually mirrors of one another. jmkac.org/open-house-pro…

"Still, the soundest starting point seems to be the late 17th and early 18th century, because of that period’s extraordinary feeling for artifice, for surface, for symmetry […] #Camp art is often decorative art, emphasizing texture, sensuous surface, and style." #SusanSontag

Chipstone Curatorial Fellow Natalie Wright recently opened the Milwaukee Art Museum display "Functional Fashions," which introduces the largest collaborative clothing line for disabled persons in American history. This project is itself a collaboration with @elizejackson. #Cripstone

The Furniture Society conference FS19: GROUNDWORK will be at MIAD from June 19-22, 2019. Speakers include Sarah Anne Carter, Ph.D. and Glenn Adamson. Key themes will be research and where inspiration is drawn from. Visit the conference website for info and registration: furnsoc.org/inspiration/an…

NOW ON VIEW IN THE GALLERIES—Functional Fashions Explore some of the designs from America’s largest collaborative clothing line for people with disabilities in the Museum’s 20th- and 21st-Century Design Galleries now through early 2020. Learn more: ow.ly/znmK50ulJ5Y

Apartment 4: Iris Häussler and The Chipstone Foundation closes tomorrow at the JMKAC. Curious readers keen to know more about the full-scale period apartment and its mysterious occupant are encouraged to peruse the essays on the #Apartment4 website: jmkac.org/open-house-pro…

In 1775 a mob of rebellious colonists forced Solomon Stoddard, the owner of this chest and a leading Tory in MA, to “sign a confession and repent” for his loyalty to the Crown. “They act like mad people, tho well for a Mob” noted an ally of Stoddard’s. #July4th #IndependenceDay

Chipstone Curator and Director of Research Sarah Anne Carter, Ph.D. was one of three guest jurors for #Furnished. Jurors chose over 50 pieces by 15 artists whose work examines the contemporary spirit of furniture, design, and functional sculpture. Furnished is now open @SECCAcontempart!

New on Radio Chipstone: how one organization dedicated to ecologically driven land-use solutions is growing historically native plants in Wisconsin and discovering tasty outcomes.🌾🍞 #regenerativefarming #ecorestoration #ecology #climatesolutions

Exciting news for all curious minds: skip has relaunched the FREE online course Tangible Things with new units! Instructors include Chipstone Curator and Director of Research Sarah Anne Carter, Ph.D.. Enrolment is now open! edX #tangiblethings edx.org/course/tangibl…

What are the origins of material culture methodologies, and how can they help us better understand these practices today? Pendle speaks with Sarah Anne Carter, Ph.D. about her @OUPHistory book #objectlessons and how it addresses these questions. wuwm.com/post/radio-chi… UW–Madison School of Human Ecology

DYK that under the Functional Fashions label (1955-1976) nearly 30 of the United States’ top designers created clothing by, with, and for disabled persons? Visit the #FunctionalFashions display in the 20th and 21st Century Design Galleries at Milwaukee Art Museum to learn more.

New📽: join design historian @besswww, design strategist & disability advocate @elizejackson, & Chipstone curatorial fellow Natalie Wright as they discuss the #FunctionalFashions clothing line, histories of rehabilitation, & the disability rights movement chipstone.org/module.php/73/…