Pots of Promise (original) (raw)

This exhibit featured pottery and ceramics made at Hull-House by Mexican immigrants and Hull-House artists and neighbors during the era of the Hull-House Kilns art pottery commercial operation. Photographs of Mexicans on the Near West Side and in the pottery studio and artwork by Hull-House artist Morris Topchevsky depicting Mexicans were also displayed. These exciting visual artifacts explored the following themes:

• Mexicans in Chicago's Near West Side
• The Hull-House Kilns
• Mexican Influence on Hull-House Reformers
• Mexicana in the Great Depression

	Jesus Torres at the Hull-House Kilns, JAMC neg. 1036. Photograph courtesy of the University of Illinois at Chicago, University Library, Jane Addams Memorial Collection. Do not reproduce without permission.