This spring, artists from Red Line Service return to the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for another artist-led workshop. Inspired by Perennial City: Experiments in Urban Gardening, the workshop will be led by community bookbinder Regin Igloria. This workshop expands upon Red Line and Hull-House’s fall 2025 workshop, facilitated by paper-making artist Melissa H. Potter. The paper works created in fall are currently on display in the museum as Planting Community, a series of botanical prints created by Red Line Service artists. These plant prints were created during workshops facilitated by artist and educator Melissa Hilliard Potter. Using plants collected from the Hull-House grounds and across the city and printed on pulp recycled by the artists, the prints appear in the windows throughout the historic home and invite visitors to reimagine found materials from the city and its natural environs as tools for regeneration, and to rethink art as a medium for social belonging.

Since its founding in 1889, Hull-House has championed access to the arts as an experience of democratic exchange and an expression of individual identity. Red Line Service is a community of artists and art lovers with a lived experience of houselessness working together with professionals in the arts to reduce barriers to the arts for all.

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 Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and Red Line Service is supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.