No images? Click here Hull-House Looks Back on 2020 Our ability to create and maintain community was tested throughout 2020. Remote work, social distancing, and working through a global pandemic transformed how we continue to support each other and connect. Throughout these challenges, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum was able to reach our audience in new ways and share the historical efforts to fight for the common good and demand justice. In July, JAHHM began hosting free virtual events connecting the pandemic and demands for racial justice to the social justice legacy of Jane Addams. We commemorated the suffrage centennial with Illinois Congresswomen Lauren Underwood and authors Michelle Duster and Martha Jones and interrogated how museums support social justice with museum leaders, educators, and youth. We launched new virtual family programming that dove into Hull-House ghost stories, connected Hull-House arts programing with democracy, and we had fun with Hull-House Trivia! You can watch all these programs on the Museum's new YouTube channel. The Museum has been closed for many months, but Educator-led virtual interactive 360-degree tours allowed our visitors to learn from the comfort of their homes and virtual classrooms. Our virtual public and family programs from September to December 2020 reached more than 8,700 people around the world. We stayed connected through it all. We look forward to moving into 2021 and continuing to connect people with more illuminating virtual programs and new educator-led tours! Take a look below for more details about 2020 at Hull-House! Virtual and in-person toursThis year, we served900+ visitors from 25+ schools and organizations! Educator-led Virtual toursEducator-led Tours connect the civil, labor, immigrant, and women's rights issues championed by Hull-House reformers to the social, gender, and economic justice demands of today. Visitors can explore the two-floors of the Hull Mansion in beautiful 360-degrees, and get special access to primary documents and information presented by a Hull-House Educator. Get an inside look at the scale model of the 13-building complex, see Jane Addams’ Nobel Peace Prize, and so much more!Do you or someone you know want to book an Educator-led Group Tour for your virtual classroom or organization?2020 Public ProgramsJAHHM cannot continue its work without partnership. Thank you to all our program partners this year: Gail Borden Public Library District, Schaumburg Township District Library, Aurora Public Library, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, and Reaching Across Illinois Library System, The Chicago History Museum, Frances Willard House Museum, Newberry Library, Northwestern University, UIC Disability Cultural Center, Fielding University, Association of Midwestern Museum, Colorworld Creative, 8tiv, and activist-artists Monica Trinidad, Grae Rosa and Sarah-Ji. Race and Rights: Wells, Willard, and Addams Ida B. Wells, Frances Willard and Jane Addams worked to expand women’s rights, but had significant disagreements in their approaches. We closed our Suffrage Centennial Series with observations by scholars of these three women: Michelle Duster, Rima Lunin Schultz, Lori Osborne all led in conversation by historian Leslie Harris. SURGE: Film screening and discussion How do we encourage more women to run for political office and broaden support for women candidates?Congresswoman Lauren Underwood shares her journey to Washington followed by Hannah R. Rosenzweig and Wendy Sach, the directors and producers of SURGE, the documentary film about first-time women candidates in 2018. All led in conversation by Ex. dir. of the American Library Assoc. Tracie Hall. Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality for All Historian Leslie Harris led author Martha S. Jones in conversation about her new book that offers a new history of African American women’s political lives. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women’s movement did not win the vote for most Black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America with author Anya Jabour Hull-House was joined by Anya Jabour author of the new biography, Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America that highlights Sophonisba Breckinridge’s remarkable career as an educator and activist. For the Freedom of Her Race: Remembering Black Women in the Fight for the Vote JAHHM opened our suffrage centennial by inviting author Lisa Materson to a discussion about Black suffragists in Illinois, the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment. Materson was joined by historian Jane Rhodes, archivist Beverly Cook, and author Michelle Duster. Color Me Resisting Family Day, January 2020. (JAHHM/Sarah Lawson) Color Me ResistingThe first Family Day of 2020, Color Me Resisting was a mulit-generational Martin Luther King Jr. Day gathering where we celebrated youth protest and resistance.Hull-House Always Coming Out Family Day and Queer Craft Fair, March 1, 2020. (JAHHM/Brandon Fields) "Always Coming Out"Jane Addams Hull-House Museum kicked off Women’s History Month by highlighting women at Hull-House, their relationships with each other and their self expression through the arts. Visitors shopped Chicago-based artists at our Queer Craft Fair, printed their own zines with Marimacha Monarcha Press and joined a FREE Gender and Sexuality Tour of Hull-House.In our first virtual Family Day, our Educators answered your burning Hull-House questions - from the facts to the misconceptions and rumors! Since its inception, the Hull-House Settlement was at the center of urban legends and supernatural stories.. Educators shared the paranormal tales, their origins, and the neighborhood's reactions during the progressive era. Hull-House prepared for the 2020 elections with a discussion on arts & democracy. Our audience helped direct the conversation and voted for the next topic live! Educators discussed how Hull-House reformer used arts programs to promote and enhance democracy. Think you’re a Hull-House expert? We asked our viewers questions about Jane Addams and the Settlement’s Reformers, Chicago history, past Museum exhibitions and our featured partners! Viewers learned more about each questions while competing for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes! Teaching Social Justice: About Museums, Culture, and Justice to Explore in Your Classroom Are you a teacher, student or educator who advocates for museums as a tool for learning? Therese Quinn discussed her new volume, About Museums, Culture, and Justice to Explore in Your Classroom (Teachers College Press/2020). The History of Art & Feminism: Where the Future Came From How has feminism shaped Chicago based arts institutions? Meg Duguid, editor of the new volume, Where the Future Came From (Soberscove Press/ June 2020) was joined by book contributors as they explore the collaborative, participatory and activist history of feminist artist-run projects in Chicago. Curatorial Collaborations: Exhibitions for Social Justice Throughout 2020, many more museums than ever before evolved into sites of social justice. Author Elena Gonzales shared highlights from her new book Exhibitions for Social Justice, and joined in conversation with a range of representatives from local museums that work directly with diverse communities to address issues of social change. Did you miss our virtual events?Recordings of our digital events are available on our new YouTube channel! Listen and watch below and subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch recordings of public programs and family days all of our virtual events from this year, and the five previous years. Visit Current Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Holiday BreakThe Museum offices will be closed for the holidays from Tuesday, December 22, 2020, through Sunday, January 3, 2021. We will be back Monday, January 4, 2021. However, with our new 360 virtual museum tour and recorded events, we are virtually open to the public! Happy Holidays and see you in the New Year! |