Radical Craft, an exhibition, catalog, and workshop series, celebrates the work of immigrant artists and reformers at the country's most important social settlement. The exhibition showcases Hull-House’s rarely exhibited textile collection, drawn from a wide array of immigrant traditions. Also included are handbound books from Ellen Gates Starr’s bookbindery, newly restored paintings by Alice Kellogg […]
This exhibition examines contemporary approaches to traditional Woodlands style art, highlighting the underrepresented and diverse Native cultures of the Great Lakes region and the materials, art forms, and processes they have carried forward over generations.
The importance of immigration and migration in the genre of self-taught art is an underexplored topic. Chicago, a city with a significant and ongoing history of immigration and migration, is fertile ground for investigating the cultural, communal, familial, and educational influences that enrich artistic production. In light of this history, the exhibition aims to be […]
