Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Curator Ross Jordan for a guided tour of Perennial City: Experiments in Urban Gardening. Be among the first to experience the exhibition in this in-depth, curator-led exploration of Hull-House’s rich histories.
Gain behind-the-scenes insight into the curatorial process and engage big questions about land, labor, and access to nature in the city. Discover the stories of the Harvester Garden and the People’s Friendly Club, and learn how Hull-House advanced innovative efforts to transform the urban and industrial landscape through nature, play, and education.
Visitors will also encounter works by our contemporary artist collaborators, including Carlos Flores’ Porta(til) (2022–ongoing), an installation of mobile altars that merges the symbols of colonial missionary altars with the tools of day laborers—reimagining both as vessels of migration, survival, and spiritual labor. The exhibition also features Olly Costello’s Fertile Futures (2022–2024), a vibrant series of cut-paper collages that use soil and garden imagery as both literal and figurative symbols for the health of social infrastructure.
Ross Stanton Jordan
Ross Stanton Jordan is a curator interested in the confluence of politics, history, and visual culture. At the museum, he has produced a dozen exhibitions and one hundred public programs that connect the social justice issues of the past to the present-day demands for social equity via collaborations with artists, scholars and community-based organizations.
