Installation photo shows a row of shelves on the righthand wall full of colorful ceramic vessels. On the left is a large vertical black and white photo of a Latinx man making ceramics on a pottery wheel. To the left of that is a color figurative painting of a surreal scene hanging above a fireplace.

Situated on the University of Illinois Chicago’s (UIC) campus, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum historicizes the influential social settlement from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But little has been done to illuminate the innovative arts education piloted at Hull-House until now. “Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935” does just that. The exhibition and […]

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