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The Brown Bag Stitching Salon on Fridays at lunch has been cancelled until further notice. We are re-conceiving the series so as to expand and build audiences of people committed to the Hull-House legacy of craft and social consciousness. If you have any suggestions for programming in this series, please email Catherine at cath@uic.edu. Craft on!
Sign up for our upcoming kid-friendly, eco-friendly workshop!
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June 15th
1-3pm
Feed the birds! Milk-carton Birdfeeder Workshop: Learn to turn your recylcling into functional art!
Ellen Gates Starr Craftivism Series
Join us for a Sunday Family Fun Day at the Museum. Bring your kids to the Museum to learn about important Chicago history and then stop by the green arts workshop in the Residents Dining Hall. Kids and their adult companions bring in plastic or cardboard milk cartons and learn to turn them into decorated birdfeeders. Just in time for summer! Kids 7 and up are welcome and must be accompanied by an adult. Art supplies and kid-friendly refreshments provided. Please RSVP: 312.413.5353 or cath@uic.edu |
PAST EVENTS:
Friday, March 21
Noon-1:30
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Residents' Dining Hall, Downstairs
800 S. Halsted St.
Do you have an ever-growing accumulation of plastic grocery bags under your kitchen sink? We do! Let's turn them into yarn and crochet new reusable grocery bags, purses, placemats, and more! Join us for a lunchtime workshop at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, a historic center of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Bring your lunch, your grocery bags, your crochet hook (the bigger the better, we recommend size K or larger) and your crocheting appetite! Coffee and cookies will be provided. Beginners welcome.
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About the Ellen Gates Starr Craftivism Series
Ellen Gates Starr was the college friend of Jane Addams and co-founder of Hull-House. The women of the Progressive Era who were tied to the Hull-House Settlement were not only proponents of craft and creativity, they were also fighting on the front lines of important social issues of their day, such as public housing, economic justice, juvenile justice, women’s suffrage, immigrant rights, and much more. She was a dedicated craftswoman who studied the art of bookbinding and set up a bindery at the Hull-House with apprentices from the community. She believed that in order to be free, one must work under conditions of freedom and engage both the mind and the hands in the pursuit of one’s accomplishments. The latter part of her life was dedicated to labor reform and activism. The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum establishes this Craftivism Series as a way of honoring her legacy, bringing together the powerful practices of craft and activism so that we might engage in acts of making, even if surrounded by the forces of unmaking and destruction. |
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More information about the museum and its programs can be found at: www.hullhousemuseum.org. |
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