On September 6—Jane Addams' 158th birthday—Jane Addams Hull-House Museum launched a multi-disciplinary exhibition entitled Participatory Arts: Crafting Social ChangeThe exhibition, which is part of the city-wide Art Design Chicago initiative, explores the social reformers influence on visual and performing arts in Chicago through historical and contemporary practices: bookbinding, art therapy, ceramics, and theatre and performance. Starting on October 23, the Hull-House will host a corresponding symposium, Participatory Arts: The Legacy of Chicago's Hull-House ArtistsThis multi-day symposium will bring together activists, artists, and scholars for a public forum. In addition to the panel discussions, the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum will host four immersive workshops throughout October and November. These workshops are led by scholar-artists and will bring together prominent thinkers and contemporary practitioners to engage with and reinterpret specific collections from the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.

Participatory Arts: Crafting Social Change

Exhibition: September 6, 2018 - July 28, 2019

 

Participatory Arts programming, workshop and special events

On Thursday June 20, 2019, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum celebrated the first-ever tribute to improv and theater greats, Viola Spolin, originator of theater games, and her son Paul Sills, co-founder of The Second City and Compass Players. Both were deeply influenced by Hull-House's activist and reform work and commitment to progressive education. The Museum welcomed champions of Chicago's theater history to return where it all began - at Hull-House.