Exhibitions

Unfinished Business: The Right to Play

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Unfinished Business: The Right to Play
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, May 2014
Lead Curator and Coordinator

Unfinished Business: The Right to Play is a temporary exhibition at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum that explores the history of the social movements that created the first playgrounds, fought for an eight-hour workday, and suggested that time off from work could create a more just society. The exhibition includes community-curated art pieces, interactive engagements, and opportunities for play of all sorts.

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Exceptions to the Rule

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Exceptions to the Rule
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and WBEZ Chicago, October 2013
Lead Curator and Coordinator

Either by law or by practice some workers across the country earn less than the minimum wage and are beyond the reach of other basic labor protections. Hull-House and WBEZ asked participants from three Chicago-area labor organizations to choose artifacts and write labels about their experiences as excluded workers.

The resulting exhibition was displayed at Hull-House and online at WBEZ.org.

Unfinished Business: 21st Century Home Economics

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Unfinished Business: 21st Century Home Economics
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, December 2012
Lead Curator, Coordinator, and Media Producer

This community-curated, participatory exhibit explores first generation of Home Economists who sought to create a world with healthy food for all, fair labor practices for domestic work, ethical consumerism, and community childcare solutions. Through hands-on activities, multi-media, and experimental exhibition techniques, this exhibit draws connections from that time of change to our contemporary moment, and re-imagines the domestic space as a site of social change.

“Unfinished Business: 21st Century Home Economics” and its accompanying paper won the Brooking Prize for creative innovation in museum exhibitions from the American Alliance of Museums. 

Report to the Public

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Report to the Public: The Untold Story of the Conservative Vice Lords
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, June 2012
Co-curator and Audio Producer

In the late 1960s, gang members rose up in North Lawndale and fought for the life of their community. They called themselves Conservative Vice Lords Inc. With funding from major foundations they organized youth, protested unfair housing policies and working conditions, opened small businesses, and fought for peace and racial equality. This community-curated exhibition tells this history through the voices of those who lived it. 

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