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Helen Louise Allen traveled the world to bring textiles and the stories they tell to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. You can be a part of her legacy.

 
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When Helen Allen gave her textiles to the University she hoped to inspire others to enhance this legacy by adding pieces to the Collection and working to maintain a uniquely comprehensive asset for teaching, research and creative innovation. As the size and reputation of the Collection has grown, the cost to maintain this repository has increased significantly. For example, the average cost to catalog, photograph and accession each textile is about $650.

 

The campaign is an invitation to individuals to invest in

preservation, conservation and curatorial activities to guarantee the preeminence of one of the most outstanding and comprehensive collections of its kind in the United States. Gifts made to the campaign will go to a general endowment fund to provide support in perpetuity for Collection activities. The adoption of a textile is an act of symbolic generosity connecting a gift to a specific textile for the greater good of the entire Collection.

 

What does it mean to adopt a textile?

 

Adopting a textile won’t require a lawyer and you won’t be responsible for caring for the piece. The adoption is symbolic. Depending on the size of the gift, the “adoption” provides an opportunity for you to select a specific textile or category of textiles that represents your interests and provides a meaningful connection to the Collection.

 

Each gift above $1,000 will be publicly acknowledged on the “Adopt-A-Textile” honor roll, a list of donors featured at Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection exhibitions.

 

When you make your gift you will receive a commemorative certificate to document the textile you have adopted or your chosen category of textiles. A gift of $10,000 will give donors the opportunity to select the textiles they want to adopt.

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Adoption Categories

 

    - Quilts & Coverlets
    - Lace
    - Contemporary Textile Art
    - Pre-Columbian & Coptic
    - North American
    - European

    - Native North American
    - South American

    - Central American
    - South and Southeast Asian
    - East Asian
    - African
    - Middle Eastern

Recognition Levels

 

- $10,000 Donor works with HLATC curator to personally select textile to “adopt.”


- $5,000 Donor selects “adoptable” textile from those pieces designated for each category.


- $2,500 Donor "adopts" a representative textile chosen by the HLATC curator.

 

Become part of Helen Louise Allen's legacy.

 

For more information contact:
Bobette Heller, Development Director
University of Wisconsin Foundation
bobette.heller@uwfoundation.wisc.edu

 

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