Quilt Exhibitions Bus Tour
Quilt Exhibitions Bus Tour
October 18, 2025
8:00 am - 6:00 pm, include
Cost: Free. Trip includes bussing and all exhibit admission fees.
Join us on Saturday, October 18 to visit four quilt exhibitions across southeastern Wisconsin! For this daylong adventure, coach buses will shuttle visitors between the Center for Design and Material Culture (Madison), the Textile Art Center (Madison), and the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts (Cedarburg). These venues will have unique quilt exhibitions on view.
Spots are limited and registration is required.
Please carefully select your departure city (Cedarburg or Madison)!
Madison departure:
8am: Meet at the Textile Art Center (1702 S Park St). Free parking is available.
8am-9am: visit TAC. On view: Statement Pieces: Quilts with Something to Say
9am sharp: bus departure
9:30am-11am: visit CDMC. On view: Find Your Quilt and Parallel Lines
11am sharp: bus departure
11:30-1pm: Lunch downtown Madison
1pm sharp: bus departure
3pm-4pm: visit WMQFA. On view: Rosemary Ollison: Know my heart
4pm sharp: bus departure
6pm: drop off at TAC
Cedarburg departure:
8am: Meet at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts (N50W5050 Portland Rd). Free parking is available.
8am-9am: visit WMQFA. On view: Rosemary Ollison: Know my heart
9am sharp: bus departure
11am-12:30pm: lunch downtown Madison
12:30pm sharp: bus departure
1pm-2:30pm: visit CDMC. On view: Find Your Quilt and Parallel Lines
2:30pm sharp: bus departure
3pm-4pm: visit TAC. On view: Statement Pieces: Quilts with Something to Say
4pm sharp: bus departure
6pm: drop off at WMQFA
Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture
The center and it’s galleries are located just off the main lobby on the first floor of Nancy Nicholas Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The Ruth Davis Design Gallery and Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery are open to the public and always free. The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection is free and open by appointment.
Textile Arts Center of Madison
TAC hosts and organizes exhibitions and special events featuring local and national textile and fiber artists, experts in the field, community members, and education program participants.
