A hands-on reverse drafting workshop inspired by the Hull-House textile collection

UIC Architecture research reconstructing Chicago’s vanished residential hotels and proposing new futures for SRO housing

Theatre Nobody presents an immersive storytelling experience to an audience of only two. 

Spend the day at Hull-House immersed in the spooky and supernatural, with tarot, silent films, and folk tales from settlement history. 

An event for creative and civic-minded people interested in urban ecology, science illustration, mycology and more!

A community program to examine histories of end-of-life care and the possibilities for rethinking death in the future.

Gather at Hull-House and celebrate over one hundred and thirty years of immigrant narratives in Chicago.  See over eighty Nonggi, Korean folks banners, displayed throughout the Hull-House campus. Listen to video testimonials from banner makers across Chicago. Visit the museum’s current exhibition Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935, that lifts up the immigrant artisans of Chicago Near West Side and celebrates the heritage of immigrant communities.  This event includes a shared meal.  

Join Hull-House for a celebration of Chicago's multi-ethnic and multi-generational immigrant legacies. Artist Aram Han Sifuentes, in partnership with HANA Center, brings traditional Korean folk banner-making to Hull-House through a workshop series and community gathering. In conjunction with Hull-House’s current exhibition Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935, this series celebrates over one hundred and thirty years of craft, immigrant narratives, and the fight for racial justice.  

Join Hour Studio for a conversation and celebration of Hull-House Theatre and graphic design. In conversation with Hull-House staff, and the audience, designers Tobey Albright and Mollie Edgar reflect upon the work of reimagining over a century of design for performance at the country’s most influential social settlement, engaging design as a mode of reproducing history in the present.

Join celebrated theatre historian Mark Larson for an afternoon of conversation and screenings from the archive of Hull-House Theatre. During the 1960s, Hull-House reestablished its place at the center of Chicago theatre and played a pivotal role in the development of the storefront theatre movement. Ahead of the conversation, visitors can engage a unique reading room of archival materials relating to the history of Hull-House Theatre.

Join us at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for a communal arts activation, presented in partnership with Court Theatre to celebrate the world premiere of Berlin. 

Join the Black chamber music ensemble D-Composed and legendary Chicago actor Cheryl Lynn Bruce as they create an evening of music and meditation celebrating the work of Black composers and theatre artists. This restorative musical experience will be accompanied by a reading room dedicated to narratives of Black theatre history at Hull-House, activated by theatre artist Ericka Ratcliff.

Join us to celebrate the opening of Act Well Your Part and the return of theatre to Hull-House. Explore the new exhibition in the Residents’ Dining Hall and hear from leading voices within the Chicago theatre scene, who will reflect upon the legacies of Hull-House’s mission-driven, civically engaged work for the present and future of Chicago theatre.

Mending Basics is a workshop where arts-educators from The WasteShed will help visitors develop and practice basic sewing skills, and Hull-House educators will share stories of the people and histories of Chicago’s garment industry.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day at Hull-House in Victorian style! Join Hull-House educators in making valentines or anti-valentines (“vinegar valentines”), and taking a a special tour of Hull-House highlighting the romantic history of the people who lived there.

Paired Repair, the 3rd session of the Radical Craft series, is a mending workshop where visitors can repair an item for a friend, sibling, partner-anyone they love! Mending items for loved ones can be a radical act of care, join this workshop to work alongside others and share in the act of community love.

Mending Basics is a workshop where arts-educators from The WasteShed will help visitors develop and practice basic sewing skills, and Hull-House educators will share stories of the people and histories of Chicago’s garment industry.

Join Emily Winter and Kendall Schauder from The Weaving Mill for a workshop inspired by Hull-House's historic textile collection. The workshop will emphasize close looking and weave drafting, through which participants will first diagram the construction of fabric on graph paper, and then weave on Hull-House table looms. We invite participants to see "found fabrics" as a starting point for a speculative historical engagement with the collection highlighted in Radical Craft.

This program is Free; RSVP preferred.

Sewing Stories, the second installment in the Radical Mending series, is a workshop centered around the creation of a textile tapestry to share personal stories. For this workshop, visitors are encouraged to bring a textile object of significance to contribute to a collective tapestry.

Join UIC’s Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas at Hull-House for the Radical Poetry & Performance Reading Series with Martin Espada, Tilsa Otta, Lauren Schmidt & Farid Matuk! The museum will be open for a special after-hours tour with Director Liesl Olson from 5-6 pm. 

Join us for a special day of spooky stories, ghostly poetry, and silent horror films from the era of Jane Addams.

Join us for one of Hull-House's famous haunted tours and a screening of the Hull-House episode of Watcher Entertainment's "Ghost Files"!

The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum has partnered with Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Ukrainian Institute for Modern Art, and Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture to present Weaving Stories. This series of community-building weaving sessions will connect our shared stories of heritage and culture to material practice. Visitors will work with experienced art-educators to learn how to use a hand loom and are encouraged to bring in materials from home (fabric scraps, fibers, ribbons, twigs etc.) to contribute to a collective tapestry. The sessions will take place at three different locations over a year with the intent of meaningfully strengthening our social fabric. 

This series is family-friendly, for all ages, and open to the public. Materials will be provided as well as refreshments. This series is presented with generous funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Mending Basics is a workshop where arts-educators from The WasteShed will help visitors develop and practice basic sewing skills, and Hull-House educators will share stories of the people and histories of Chicago’s garment industry.

If you have every engaged in civic action and would like to chance to share your story here at the Hull-House Museum, please consider submitting using the following guidelines! This event in partnership with the Chicago History Museum and Made By Us as a part of a national series of events and programming called Civic Season. Save the date for the evening of Friday, June 21st, 2024.