Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935

$24.95 at Art Institute of Chicago.

The country's most important social settlement, Hull-House was a nexus for educators who envisioned the arts as a tool for social reform. Radical Craft celebrates the work of these immigrant artists and reformers while illuminating the local beginnings and international influences upon Hull-House’s approach to the practice and experience of art. Painting, textiles, metalwork, pottery, and bookmaking provided immigrant neighbors with opportunities to experience what Jane Addams called, “restorative power in…