Hull-House was world-renowned for supporting immigrants and world peace, but did you know it paved the way for LGBTQ+ rights? With the changing landscape of human rights today, it is important to ask ourselves, where do we learn about LGBTQ+ history? Led by Michael A. Ramirez, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum’s Education Manager, participants in this seminar will learn about the unique settlement house created on the Near West Side of Chicago and gain insight into the challenges and accomplishments of creating space for LGBTQ+ history in public institutions.

Think you’re a Hull-House expert? Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for our very first virtual trivia game!

Who gets to be a citizen? This session will focus on three significant Chicago-based women activists who were connected in their reform work, but who encountered difficulties in finding common ground. Ida B. Wells, Frances Willard and Jane Addams each worked to expand women’s rights and influence. However, they had significant disagreements in their approaches informed by their differing views about the impact of race and racism.

Are you a teacher, student or educator who advocates for museums as a tool for learning? Therese Quinn discusses her new volume, About Museums, Culture, and Justice to Explore in Your Classroom (Teachers College Press/2020). Quinn will be in conversation with local museum educators, teachers and activists who are pushing the boundaries of learning, authority and pedagogy. A part of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum’s series: Museums and Social Justice.

Hull-House prepares for the 2020 elections with a discussion on arts & democracy! Join our Education Team and help direct the conversation as you vote for the next topic live! Learn more about the art programs and how Hull-House believed that the arts were a way to promote and enhance democracy.

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is partnered with the UIC Disability Cultural Center to continue celebrating activism. Join us for Disability and Access in Movement Building. This panel discussion is facilitated by Queer and Trans activists and artists of color with disabilities. The panelists share honest takes on their real-life experiences in navigating organizing spaces in relation to disability and access, as well as the creative practices they have developed to address those issues.

Employing art as social practice, Aram Han Sifuentes confronts social and racial injustices created by and through institutions and governments. In this virtual presentation, Han Sifuentes will guide us through her practice and the ways she employs fiber and performance to reimagine inclusive systems of civic engagement and belonging. This program is presented in partnership with George Washington University Textile Museum.

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. A part of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum’s series: Museums and Social Justice.

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Since its inception, the Hull-House Settlement was at the center of urban legends and supernatural stories, as Chicago’s neighborhoods kept alive whispers about its supposed unearthly inhabitants. Educators will share the paranormal tales, their origins, and the neighborhood's reactions during the progressive era. Participants will also get the chance to share their own hometown ghosts stories or urban legends and the implications behind them.

Dialogue: Disability and Access in Movement Building is a panel discussion facilitated by Queer and Trans activists and artists of color with disabilities. The panelists share honest takes on their real-life experiences in navigating organizing spaces in relation to disability and access, as well as the creative practices they have developed to address those issues.

How do we encourage more women to run for political office and broaden support for women candidates? Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and presenting partners Chicago History Museum and DuSable Museum of African American History for a screening and discussion of the new documentary film SURGE. The film followed inspiring first time female candidates during the historic 2018 elections.

On this virtual tour partnership with Chicago History Museum learn about the life and work of Hull-House founder Jane Addams, the activism of its residents that secured the passage of the 19th Amendment. Tour the current exhibition Why Women Should Vote, based on a 1911 essay by Jane Addams advocating for women and immigrant women to take up the fight for the franchise.

Join us for our first virtual Family Day where you can ask us your burning Hull-House questions!

As we move into 2020, many more museums than ever before are evolving into sites of social justice. Author Elena Gonzales shares highlights from her new book Exhibitions for Social Justice, and will be in conversation with a range of representatives from local museums that work directly with diverse communities to address issues of social change.

In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth 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. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in America.

Hull-House was joined by Anya Jabour author of the new biography, Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America (University of Illinois Press/ 2019) that highlights Sophonisba Breckinridge’s remarkable career as an educator and activist.

On this virtual tour collaboration with Chicago History Museum learn about the life and work of Hull-House founder Jane Addams, the unique work and activism of its residents, the settlement house’s lasting impact on the conditions immigrants faced in the city’s 19th Ward.

In a period of civic unrest and a public health emergency, museums can help confront and expose false histories that shape the current moment. Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and institutional members of the Association of Midwest Museum for an interactive presentation with guest presenter Mindy Fullilove, a public historian and social psychiatrist.

There are remarkable parallels between Jane Addams’ work at Hull- House Settlement and the challenges faced today. This event, organized by the Fielding Graduate University Alumni Association, gathers Jane Addams and Hull-House Settlement scholars and Fielding Graduate University faculty for a discussion about how the past can inform our response to contemporary challenges.

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum will host the first in a series of devised theatre masterclasses for theatre creatives, performers and artists of all backgrounds, teachers, students, and those curious to learn collaborative performance making. This masterclass will feature The Neo-Futurists and The Young Fugitives, both theater groups are featured in Ensemble-Made Chicago: A Guide to Devised Theater by co-authors Chloe Johnston (Neo-Futurists) and Coya Paz Brownrigg (Free Street Theater) who will also be present. This series is presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.

Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum as we kick-off Women’s History Month with by highlighting women at Hull-House, their relationships with each other and their self expression through the arts in an "Always Coming Out" family day of activities. Shop Chicago-based artists at our Queer Craft Fair, printmake your own zines with Marimacha Monarcha Press and join a FREE Gender and Sexuality Tour of Hull-House.

Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and Lisa Materson, author of For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 (University of North Carolina Press/March 2009) in a discussion about black suffragists in Illinois. Speakers include: Jane Rhodes (moderator), UIC Department Head and Professor of African American Studies and Beverly Cook, Senior Archivist at the Vivian Harsh Collection. The session will focus on the overlooked stories of black women in Illinois who advocated for voting rights and the racism within the suffrage movement – past and present - what is remembered, what is forgotten and how little has been told.

The 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.

Most grassroots activism in Chicago is led by women and queer communities of color, yet their work and legacy are often obscured, erased and overlooked. This program will feature local women and queer activists who work towards social change and explore the continuums in social justice organizing. How are these are remembered, documented, made visible and archived?

A one-day seminar with specialists from the fields of art, architecture and mathematics to develop a new methodology to describe the role of art and creativity in the field of human activity, moving beyond categorization and binary systems.

An open public workshop with the Directors of the Asociación de Arte Útil, Tania Bruguera and Alistair Hudson. This will be a group activity to analyse case studies from Chicago, and participating projects of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, to be submitted into the Arte Util Archive, to be involved in the decision making processes and development of the project and to learn more about the expansive international network of Arte Util.

Reclaim November 11 as a day dedicated to peace with The Chicago Chapter of Veterans For Peace and Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. Join community groups, individuals and youth as the share the work they do to stop all forms of violence — guns, police, sexual, racial, nationalistic, domestic, military.

A public discussion and presentation of local social change art projects, featuring Hull-House collaborators, past and present. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum’s current exhibition, True Peace: the Presence of Justice highlights Chicago artist-activists Monica Trinidad and Sarah-Ji. Their work will serve as a catalyst for the discussion on ‘useful art,” the archive and documenting social change.

Meet the co-author of Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong, Gayle Romasanta in this social justice-driven family program from the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago. This Program is apart of