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March 12, 2024

National Endowment for the Humanities chair visits Hull-House

Shelly Lowe, chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, toured the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in February and met with UIC students and staff

A person is laying down under the covers in a single bed with a lamp on.

October 24, 2023

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum offers chance to rest in an icon’s bed

Jane Addams Bedroom Project runs through fall semester

Jeremy Bolen, Because the Sky Will Be Filled with Sulfur 2022.

October 5, 2023

UIC awarded NEH grant for sustainable exhibition spaces

Grant requires UIC to raise a 1-to-1 match from nonfederal third-party funds

Liesl Olson is the new Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.

January 26, 2023

Cultural historian, writer named director of UIC’s Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Liesl Olson is a respected scholar, cultural leader and social justice advocate

Nadia Maragha, education coordinator at the Jane Addams Hull-Hou

October 27, 2022

Radio listeners hear ghostly tales from Hull-House

WBEZ public radio’s “Reset” news program broadcasts live from museum

Since it first opened, the Jane Addams Hull-House has been consi

September 29, 2022

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum celebrates a spooky October

Jane Addams wrote that women, especially, looked to the story of the “Devil Baby” for meaning in their own lives

A banner workshop was recently held where students took part in making banners.
Jane Addams with children at Hull-House.

May 16, 2022

Online library collection celebrates Hull-House on anniversary of founder’s death

Many of the settlement activities were documented in the Hull-House Bulletins

Jane Addams Hull House

May 14, 2021

UIC’s Gallery 400 and Jane Addams Hull House Museum earn Terra Foundation grants for joint exhibit

The grants total over $50,000 for the research and development of a joint initiative as part of Art Design Chicago, a Terra Foundation initiative

Jane Addams Hull House Museum partners with MacArthur "Genius" Grantee Guillermo Gómez-Peña.

January 11, 2021

Hull-House hosts year-long series of experimental audio performances by Guillermo Gómez-Peña addressing multiple pandemics

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist and radical pedagogue

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