Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-40

by Margaret Strobel, Cheryl R. Ganz (Editor), Vicki L. Ruiz (Foreword by), Peggy Glowacki (Contribution by), David A Badillo (Contribution by)

Overview

Pots of Promise delves into the Hull-House arts programs of the 1920s and 1930s and the pottery program at the commercial Hull-House Kilns. Four in-depth essays stand side-by-side with 131 color and black-and-white photographs, many of them previously unpublished, to reveal the untold story of Mexicans in the Hull-House colonia, at one time the largest Mexican settlement in Chicago. 

Contributors: David A. Badillo, Cheryl R. Ganz, Peggy Glowacki, and Rick A. López

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252071973
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	04/15/2004
Series:	Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Cheryl R. Ganz is retired as the chief curator of philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. She was the curator and designer of the "Pots of Promise" exhibition for the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and is the author of The 1933 Chicago World's Fair: A Century of Progress. Margaret Strobel is the former director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and professor emerita of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her publications include European Women and the Second British Empire, Three Swahili Women: Life Histories from Mombasa, Kenya, and Muslim Women in Mombasa, 1890-1975. Vicki L. Ruiz is Distinguished Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xiii
	Chronology	xvii
	Introduction	1
1	Bringing Art to Life: The Practice of Art at Hull-House	5
	The Founders of Hull-House	7
	Morris Topchevsky, Hull-House Artist and Teacher	20
2	Incorporating Reform and Religion: Mexican Immigrants, Hull-House, and the Church	31
	Adrian Lozano and Chicago's First Mexican Mural	50
3	Shaping Clay, Shaping Lives: The Hull-House Kilns	55
	Founders of the Hull-House Kilns	61
4	Forging a Mexican National Identity in Chicago: Mexican Migrants and Hull-House	89
	Wallace Kirkland, Hull-House Photographer	94
	Emily Edwards, Hull-House Artist and Teacher	96
	Sources	113
	Contributors	119
	Credits	121
	Index	123