As part of the ongoing editorial partnership between Sixty Inches from Center and Art Design Chicago, writer Amanda Dee profiles a partnership between Red Line Service, Firebird Community Arts, and Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. The collaboration, which centers around the museum’s current exhibition, Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935, resulted in a series of Firebird-led glass workshops for Red Line artists and art enthusiasts in the courtyard. Dee’s article provides background information about each of the organizations and points to their intersecting missions, each focused on expanding access to the arts.
“As part of Radical Craft, the museum has been offering art classes by groups that follow a similar philosophy. Two organizations in particular, Firebird Community Arts and Red Line Service, continue to braid with this radical thread, remaking space in the city through art education.” — Amanda Dee, Sixty Inches from Center
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Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935 continues through July 27, 2025 at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amanda Dee
Amanda Dee is a writer, documenter, and apparition of the Midwest. She’s on staff at the literary journal TriQuarterly and, in a past life, was the editor of an alt weekly. Photo by Momoko Fritz.
