![Woven wool cloth, multi-color on black ground. Greek design with 2 red birds on each end, grey dog in center. "1927" woven into center. Label sewn onto corner of cloth: "Eugenia Parry."](https://artdesignchicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DogWeaving-1-scaled.webp)
Eugenia Parry, textile, 1927. Collection of Jane Addams-Hull House Museum. Donated in 1977 by Katherine Parry, whose family lived in the Hull-House neighborhood.
This exhibition explores the history and legacy of arts education at the country’s most influential social settlement. Radical Craft illuminates a network of local beginnings and international influences upon Hull-House’s approach to the practice and experience of art. Through exemplary drawings, paintings, textiles, metalwork, pottery, books, and graphic design—largely from Hull-House’s own collection—the exhibition shows how the arts at Hull-House provided immigrant neighbors with opportunities to experience, in Jane Addams’s words, the “restorative power in the exercise of a genuine craft.” Together with a companion exhibition at UIC Gallery 400, Learning Together: Art, Education, and Community, the projects tell the first broad history of arts education and artist-educators in Chicago.