We're excited to launch a new series, What's Up Beyond CUP?, where we spotlight the work our art and design collaborators are up to — from upcoming shows, to publications, to new projects — beyond CUP!
If you’ve ever collaborated with CUP as an artist, designer, fellow, or Teaching Artist, we want to hear from you! Fill out this form with any updates on your work to be featured in an upcoming newsletter!
In the meantime, check out what some of our past and present collaborators are up to:
Shreyas R Krishnan and Kruttika Susarla, current Making Policy Public designers:
Shreyas is an illustrator-designer from Chennai, India, and Kruttika is an illustrator, comic maker, and graphic designer based out of New Delhi. With the Kadak Collective, they successfully funded their Kickstarter project The Bystander Anthology, a collection of comic and graphic narratives by South Asian creatives about geography and gender, identity and self, and boundary and exclusion, experienced through the lens of the bystander. Click here to learn more about the project!
Nontsikelelo Mutiti, 2013 Teaching Artist:
Nontsikelelo is a Zimbabwean-born interdisciplinary artist and educator. She was recently featured in an AIGA Eye On Design interview on interrogating the Euro-centric design canon and her own practice as an educator. Read it here!
Karl Orozco, current Making Policy Public designer:
Karl is an artist and educator based in Queens. His work was recently featured in Cultural Cousins, a show of Latinx and Filipinx artists, at ChaShaMa. Click here to read more!
placehold, 2018–2019 PAD Fellows:
placehold is a New York based design partnership of Amanda Sarantos and Samantha Ong. In May, placehold received honorable mention in Non Architecture’s BUYING competition. Read more here!
Farideh Sakhaifar, 2018 Teaching Artist Fellow:
Farideh is a Brooklyn-based artist and educator born in Tehran, Iran. Farideh’s site-specific, multimedia installation Mute is featured at the OpenCall exhibit at The Shed, open now through August 25th. Click here for more info!