PhD candidate Hogan receives Smithsonian Fellowship to investigate textile and fiber arts collections

Design Studies PhD candidate Maeve Hogan’s dissertation research at UW–Madison has been driven by unique objects in the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at the School of Human Ecology. These works have the potential to help revise and broaden the story of craft made and collected in America, Hogan said. However, many of the items in the collection that Hogan studies lack essential documentation, making that task a difficult one.