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Grounding, Advocating, and Experimenting with Craft: What I Learned From “Agency: Craft in Chicago from the 1970s–80s and Beyond”

Xiao Faria daCunha reviews "Agency: Craft in Chicago from the 1970s–80s and Beyond" for Sixty Inches from Center.

Radical Craft: Firebird Community Arts and Red Line Service pick up the threads of Hull-House

A look into the community-centered collaboration between Firebird Community Arts, Red Line Service, and Jane Addams-Hull House Museum.

Chicago Reader Examines the Origins of Chicago Arts Education at Hull-House

The Chicago Reader profiles Jane Addam’s Hull-House Museum’s exhibition, Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935, which is presented as part of Art Design Chicago.
Two young visitors look at a large standing loom in front of a window of Hull-House.

ADC Partners Collaborate to Present “Weaving Stories” Series

"Weaving Stories" is a collaborative series of community-building weaving workshops meant to connect shared stories of heritage and culture to material practices.
An abstract female form from shoulders to thighs, without hands. The vagina is formed from an inverted torso and a pair of legs.

Exuberant Experimentation: Christina Ramberg’s Late Works

Thea Liberty Nichols writes about Chicago artist Christina Ramberg (1946-1945), who is the subject of the Art Institute's retrospective exhibition opening April 20.  
Metal egret’s beak and torso against the sky.

it wants to lie down, you want it to stand up: a letter to Ruth*

A letter written to artist Ruth Duckworth (1919-2009) is the most recent composition to come out of the editorial partnership between Art Design Chicago and Sixty Inches from Center.
A young artist stand in a ceramics studio holding a work in progress. Other students are working at a long table behind her.

A Conversation on Engagement with Kahari Blackburn

Terra Foundation Intern Kaitlin Rikala interviews the Smart Museum’s Art Design Chicago Engagement Fellow Kahari Blackburn.

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Grounding, Advocating, and Experimenting with Craft: What I Learned From “Agency: Craft in Chicago from the 1970s–80s and Beyond”

Radical Craft: Firebird Community Arts and Red Line Service pick up the threads of Hull-House

Chicago Reader Examines the Origins of Chicago Arts Education at Hull-House

ADC Partners Collaborate to Present “Weaving Stories” Series

Exuberant Experimentation: Christina Ramberg’s Late Works

it wants to lie down, you want it to stand up: a letter to Ruth*

A Conversation on Engagement with Kahari Blackburn

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