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Red Line Service Glass Blowing and Ceramics Workshop

Workshop

Past

A woman in a pink headscarf and glasses holds up a colorful piece of stained glass near a wooden window, with trees and sunlight visible outside.
Red Line Service and Firebird Community Arts glass making workshop. Photograph by Sarah Larson.

In Fall 2024 and Spring 2025, the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum partnered with Firebird Community Arts and Red Line Service to host a series of hands-on artist workshops. Approximately 35 Red Line Service artists participated in ceramics and glassmaking workshops, many exploring these artistic mediums for the first time.

Through these sessions, participants developed new creative skills, experimented with unfamiliar techniques, and built community through shared artistic practice. We are grateful to Firebird Community Arts and Red Line Service for their partnership and look forward to future collaborations.

Led by people with a lived experience of homelessness, Red Line Service wields art world resources to build community, generating the sense of belonging and mutual care essential to securing and retaining housing.

The partnership between the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Red Line Service and Firebird Community Arts was supported by the Terra Foundation, as part of the Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935 exhibition.