Last week, Hull-House hosted a pilot arts educator institute with University of Illinois Chicago’s Gallery 400. Chicago-based arts educators were joined by Hull-House guests from social settlement legacy institutions and historic urban community arts sites based in Manchester, Edinburgh, and the site of the world’s first social settlement and the inspiration for Hull-House, Toynbee Hall in London. The week-long gathering marked the first time since the 1920’s that educators and scholars from the United Kingdom have gathered with Chicago-based arts educators at Hull-House.

The gathering, funded generously by the Terra Foundation for American Art, connected community-oriented arts educators with the historical roots of their practice at Hull-House, while also providing Chicago-based educators with practical tools to begin a new school year. Hull-House guest from the UK also visited significant sites of arts education and insurgent community oriented arts project in Chicago. Look below for images from the arts educator institute or click the link to read about detail of the week on the museum’s blog “From the Desk of Jane Addams” .

-Painting by Hull-House Arts Educator Enella Benedict from the Hull-House collection
-Selections from Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Collection
-Borderless Studio community arts engagement at Anthony Overton High School
-Exploring education strategies with arts educator Victoria Martinez
-Rhizome Mapping with Jorge Lucero and William Estrada
-Rhizome screen printing with Jorge Lucero and William Estrada
-Hyde Park Art Center with Mike Nourse, Director of Education
-National Museum of Mexican Art with Cesáreo Moreno, Visual Arts Director/Chief Curator
-Arts Educator Jim Duignan of the Stockyard Institute

From the Desk of Jane Addams: Exploring the Origins of Arts Education at Hull-House

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