Congratulations to the
Class of 2020!
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum congratulates the graduates of 2020! Today, we hosted a virtual send-off for four of our graduates who have worked closely with Hull-House over the past two years - two graduate students from University of Illinois at Chicago's Museum and Exhibition Studies Program who have served as graduate assistants with the Museum, one undergraduate student who assisted us with Visitors Services, and one undergraduate history intern who researched Hull-House for her final project. Kate Brown, Elise O'Neil, Cesar Palafox and Tia Baldwin, we cheer you on and celebrate your accomplishments! We will miss you, and wish you well! Congratulations to all members of the class of 2020!
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum celebrated members of our team that are graduates of the class of 2020. Zoom graduation "party" screenshot, May 11, 2020.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Collaborates with @past_present_praxis_power
Jane Addams Hull-House museum collaborated this month with @past_present_paxis_power, a virtual exhibition on Instagram. Hull-House artist Leah Gipson led School of the Art Institute of Chicago art therapy students in an effort to highlight institutions and Chicago community-based organizations that contributed to social change, restorative and healing justice. The Instagram exhibition features recent Hull-House exhibitions and public programs that amplify community responses to a range of social justice issues, especially in West Side Chicago neighborhoods: States of Incarceration, Gone But Not Forgotten, West Side Writers Guild, Memo to the Mayor from the West Side and International Women's Day: Archiving, Activism and Well-being. Also included on the Instagram are public actions and projects from Chicago Torture Justice
Center, Black Lives Matter, #LetUsBreatheCollective, A Long Walk Home.
Leah Gipson at Hull-House's opening of Claiming Space: Creative Grounds and Freedom Summer School at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum on September 17, 2017.
Book cover: Guildworks: Writings by the West Side Writers Guild (Blacksmith Books, 1996).
Making the West Side: Community Conversations on Neighborhood Change is a Jane Addams Hull-House Museum initiative, originally funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, that brings together scholars, activists, neighborhood residents, and other stakeholders to investigate the history of neighborhood change on Chicago’s West Side and connect those histories to contemporary issues and concerns.
Recognizing Women Advocates:
Ida B. Wells Receives Pulitzer Prize
Author and advocate, Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, speaks at Hull-House's program "For the Freedom of Her Race: Remembering Black Women in the Fight for the Vote" on January 22, 2020 - part of "With Your or Not at All" Race and Women's Suffrage collaboration in partnership with Frances Willard House Museum and Northwestern University. (JAHHM/Sarah Larson).
Congratulations to the family of journalist, lynching advocate and suffragist Ida B. Wells —who was awarded a posthumous 2020 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. Author Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, has worked hard to recover the history and advocate for public commemoration of Ida B. Wells and others like her who deserve recognition. Duster had this to say about the posthumous award: It is an amazing honor for my
great-grandmother Ida B. Wells to be awarded a posthumous 2020 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. She spent almost fifty years of her life fighting for justice. She did not have the right to vote until she was in her 50s. She had modest financial resources. So the only thing she had to fight against racist oppression and the violent practice of lynching, was the truth...The fact that she received this honor in 2020 is fitting. It is the centennial of the 19th Amendment and an election year. So all of her work is relevant in the context of where we are today in this historic moment.
WTTW.com. "Ida B. Wells Awarded Posthumous Pulitzer for ‘Outstanding and Courageous Reporting’" May 5, 2020.
You can watch Michelle Duster speak at Hull-House's recent 2020 kick-off conversation in January, "For the Freedom of Her Race: Remembering Black Women in the Fight for the Vote." Duster participated in a discussion about Black Women, their struggle for recognition and their fight for the right to vote in Illinois and nationally. Duster was joined by author Lisa Materson, whose book inspired the title of the conversation, archivist Beverly Cook and University of Illinois at Chicago historian Jane Rhodes.
This program supports Jane Addams Hull-House Museum’s current exhibition Why Women Should Vote (September 19, 2019 -July 31, 2020) that commemorates the 100th anniversary in 2020 of women’s right to vote. Hull-House's public programing series "With You Or Not At All" Race and Women's Suffrage Series, focuses on the history of the role of race in the suffrage movement. The series raises questions about the telling, obscuring, archiving and commemoration of these histories and explores connections to the upcoming 2020 election. “With You Or Not At All“ is an excerpt from
a quote from journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells, when she refused to participate in a segregated national suffrage parade in 1913. This series is a partnership between Frances Willard House Museum, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and Northwestern University in commemoration of the 2020 women’s suffrage centennial.
Recognizing Women's History
The Spring 2020 issue of Preservation Magazine from the National Trust of Historic Preservation highlights history's overlooked women and the historic sites that preserve their legacies. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum director and chief curator Jennifer Scott comments on the growing awareness of the role of women and their national legacies. Featured in the article are the historic sites of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, labor and welfare advocate Frances Perkins and human and civil rights activist and lawyer Pauli
Murray.
Michele Jones Galvin, Harriet Tubman’s great-great-grandniece authored Beyond the Underground: Aunt Harriet, Moses of her People to advocate for her family's legacy. For Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend 2018, Hull-House invited Galvin to Chicago as a part of the exhibition Claiming Space: Creative Grounds and Freedom
Summer (Sept. 19, 2017—July 29, 2018). Watch a segment about her visit to Hull-House on Chicago's WGN TV network.
For Artists: Find Support, Get Support
Arts for Illinois: Help is here!
To support artists, arts organizations and cultural workers that are struggling during the COVID-19 crisis, Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and Governor JB Pritzker announced the Arts for Illinois Relief Fund. The new fund supports urgently needed individual grants up to $1,500 and larger grants for arts organizations. The fund is supported by a broad philanthropic community and administered by Arts Alliance Illinois, 3Arts and Arts Works Fund. Visit the new website artforillinois.org to apply for a grant and to donate to the fund. This site also features performances, poetry, videos and art workshops submitted by arts
organizations and artists from across Illinois that you can enjoy from wherever you are. Included on the site is Hull-House's Memo to the Mayor from the West Side produced with Hull-House partner BBF Family Services. Click below to watch, donate, or apply.
Americans for the Arts: Impact Survey for Artists and Creative Workers
Are you an artist, designer, dancer, writer, arts educator or administrator who has been impacted by COVID-19? Americans for the Arts, a national nonprofit that lobbies congress to support the arts, is inviting arts workers to help them measure the impact of COVID-19. Take their survey here.
Artist Relief: Financial and Information Resources for Artists
To support artists during the COVID-19 crisis, a coalition of national arts grantmakers have come together to create an emergency initiative to offer financial and informational resources to artists across the United States. Click below to apply for a $5,000 grant for support. Applications for this grant close May 21 at 11:59 PM, the fund is also accepting donations.
Hull-House Updates about COVID-19
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum continues to monitor the COVID-19 situation and to stay alert and sensitive to the health and safety needs of visitors and staff. In accordance with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker's announcement on April 23rd about the expected stay-at-home order extension and aligned with the University of
Illinois' prescriptions for the remainder of the Spring semester, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum has cancelled all Spring events and will remain closed to the public through May 31, 2020. Current exhibitions have been extended through July 31, 2020. Continue to check our website for the latest updates. While the Museum is closed you can connect with us remotely by following Hull-House on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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