During spring and summer 2025, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum hosted a workshop and celebration of Chicago’s multi-ethnic and multi-generational immigrant legacies. Artist Aram Han Sifuentes, in partnership with HANA Center, brought traditional Korean folk banner-making to Hull-House through a workshop series and community gathering. In conjunction with the exhibition Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935, this series celebrated over one hundred and thirty years of craft, immigrant narratives, and the fight for racial justice.

Beginning in 2023, HANA Center and Aram Han Sifuentes have facilitated over fifty workshops for immigrants, Chicago youth, survivors of domestic violence, and any community members who want to share their story and collectively envision a more just and equitable world for all.

Nonggi are traditional Korean folk banners used in farming rituals, festivals, and community gatherings. The banners lift up prayers, a desire for well-being, and a hope for social harmony so that the gods will receive the messages. Citizenship for All: Storytelling Through Nonggi invigorated this cultural practice for everyone.

In two workshops held at Hull-House, participants were guided through the process of how to make Nonggi, and invited to create messages of their own. The workshops were led by Aram Han Sifuentes. The banners created in the workshops were hung for public display in the Hull-House Courtyard at the community gathering which featured Korean Drumming and Dancing as well as a chance to meet storytellers and artists who advocate for their communities.