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Hull-House Museum Opens "Unfinished Business: Arts Education"

CHICAGO, IL.- The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago opens “Unfinished Business: Arts Education,” a hands-on exhibit demonstrating the history of arts education in Chicago and the need for art in a thriving democracy. Visitors to the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum can weave part of a giant city map or print artistic political postcards in “Unfinished Business: Arts Education,” the new exhibit on the history of arts education in Chicago. The hands-on arts stations revive the one-time settlement house’s commitment to learning by doing, said Lisa Lee, museum director. Lee noted that funding for arts education is cut too quickly in bad economic times. “Art urges a more engaged citizenry, allows for free expression, and creates opportunities for cross-cultural understanding,” she said. “This exhibit connects Hull-House history and our times through participatory learning