Jane Addams Hull-House Museum will also partner with educator and Austin resident, Danton Floyd, founder of 360 Nation, a community organization that runs Freedom Summer School based out of Charles Sumner Math & Science Academy. In 2013, the City of Chicago designated Charles Sumner Academy, located between the North Lawndale and West Garfield Park neighborhoods, as an “under-utilized” school. Sumner was spared closure and remains a growing, high-performing school, and beacon institution in the community, but three schools in close proximity were shuttered or consolidated.

360 Nation Freedom Summer School students spent the summer learning how to identify and transform neglected spaces into welcoming environments, where they could better see and express themselves through a lens of self-determination. They cleared and configured empty lots around Charles Sumner Academy into viable play spaces with found and discarded materials. In July 2017, Hull-House commissioned teaching artist Leah Gipson, who is the founder of West Side Art Chicago, to work with Floyd and 360 Nation students over six weeks to create new designs, from the organization’s existing motifs, into dynamic patterned wallpaper. Hull-House also partnered with Alexandria Eregbu, a West Side based artist and designer, to further interpret the designs by 360 Nation students into logo graphics that communicate key values related to the exhibition and the student’s experience.