CUP’s core staff supports the organization from day to day, but CUP projects are designed and implemented by teams of artists, designers, educators, activists, and researchers.
Is There A Pattern?
Urban Investigations
What's in the Water?
Making Policy Public
Carbon City
City Studies
Voters Rule
City Studies
What's in the Water?
Making Policy Public
Power Trip
Urban Investigations
Participants by Project
Max Allbee
Max Allbee is a visual artist, muralist and educator from San Francisco, California. Max specializes in community mural ... moreMax Allbee
Max Allbee is a visual artist, muralist and educator from San Francisco, California. Max specializes in community mural art and illustration, yet teaching has always been in the forefront of Allbee’s creative practice. In 2013 Max worked with CUP on Voice Recognition, investigating decision making in NYC public schools. Max studied art education, community art and Spanish at The Evergreen State College, whose mascot is The Geoduck. Allbee has worked with arts organizations, schools and community groups to create professional quality artwork, in a variety of different communities from California to Central America and New York.
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Pema Domingo-Barker
Pema was CUP’s Program Assistant for youth education programs. She previously worked at the Queens Museum and was a ... morePema Domingo-Barker
Pema was CUP’s Program Assistant for youth education programs. She previously worked at the Queens Museum and was a Public Allies New York fellow. Pema grew up in Bangkok and went on to study art at the University of Washington and the University of the Arts London.
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Valeria Mogilevich
Valeria is a visual storyteller who creates tools for participation in collaboration with social justice organizations. She ... moreValeria Mogilevich
Valeria is a visual storyteller who creates tools for participation in collaboration with social justice organizations. She also consults with cultural institutions, education non-profits, and others on community engagement and youth education. Valeria was formerly the Deputy Director of CUP, where over the course of eight years she created popular education tools with community-based organizations and developed curricula to help public high school students change the way the see their own neighborhoods. She has shared her thoughts on project-based learning, collaboration, and design for social impact at places like the New Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt, Pratt Institute, and institutions from Indianapolis to Rotterdam. Valeria holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in Modern Culture and Media.
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Lindsay Harris
Lindsay is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, cultural worker, and educator based in Brooklyn. She loves teaching outside ... moreLindsay Harris
Lindsay is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, cultural worker, and educator based in Brooklyn. She loves teaching outside of the classroom and her work engages cross-media explorations of identity and community. She was the teaching artist for Lotto Zone, an urban investigation that explores how the lottery really works. Check out her most recent project here
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Jeff Kasper
joined CUP as an intern and Weston Scholar from The City College of New York. He studies art and the social sciences, with ... moreJeff Kasper
joined CUP as an intern and Weston Scholar from The City College of New York. He studies art and the social sciences, with an independent focus on the perceptions and aesthetics of cities. He is interested in exploring how visual media can illuminate obscured shared values among diverse groups of urban dwellers. Jeff frequently engages in various design, writing, research, curatorial, pedagogical, and public projects. He currently is a contributor to The City Atlas of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, as well as GreenspaceNYC. His work has been featured at venues including the Art Directors Club, Phoenix Design Museum, FIGMENT, PS Project Space, among others.
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Students from Lotto Zone
“Lotto Zone” is a collaboration of The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), the Resilience Advocacy Project (RAP), ... moreStudents from Lotto Zone
“Lotto Zone” is a collaboration of The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), the Resilience Advocacy Project (RAP), and high school students from all over New York City. Those students are: Khassandria Chin, Jasmine Downs, Mehnaz Sultana, Elizabeth Adesanya, Shakira Ali, Julien Nizam, Berhtier Francois, and Horace Trim
closeValeria Mogilevich
Valeria is a visual storyteller who creates tools for participation in collaboration with social justice organizations. She ... moreValeria Mogilevich
Valeria is a visual storyteller who creates tools for participation in collaboration with social justice organizations. She also consults with cultural institutions, education non-profits, and others on community engagement and youth education. Valeria was formerly the Deputy Director of CUP, where over the course of eight years she created popular education tools with community-based organizations and developed curricula to help public high school students change the way the see their own neighborhoods. She has shared her thoughts on project-based learning, collaboration, and design for social impact at places like the New Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt, Pratt Institute, and institutions from Indianapolis to Rotterdam. Valeria holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in Modern Culture and Media.
closePema Domingo-Barker
Pema was CUP’s Program Assistant for youth education programs. She previously worked at the Queens Museum and was a ... morePema Domingo-Barker
Pema was CUP’s Program Assistant for youth education programs. She previously worked at the Queens Museum and was a Public Allies New York fellow. Pema grew up in Bangkok and went on to study art at the University of Washington and the University of the Arts London.
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Lindsay is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, cultural worker, and educator based in Brooklyn. She loves teaching outside ... moreLindsay Harris
Lindsay is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, cultural worker, and educator based in Brooklyn. She loves teaching outside of the classroom and her work engages cross-media explorations of identity and community. She was the teaching artist for Lotto Zone, an urban investigation that explores how the lottery really works. Check out her most recent project here
closeValeria Mogilevich
Valeria is a visual storyteller who creates tools for participation in collaboration with social justice organizations. She ... moreValeria Mogilevich
Valeria is a visual storyteller who creates tools for participation in collaboration with social justice organizations. She also consults with cultural institutions, education non-profits, and others on community engagement and youth education. Valeria was formerly the Deputy Director of CUP, where over the course of eight years she created popular education tools with community-based organizations and developed curricula to help public high school students change the way the see their own neighborhoods. She has shared her thoughts on project-based learning, collaboration, and design for social impact at places like the New Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt, Pratt Institute, and institutions from Indianapolis to Rotterdam. Valeria holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in Modern Culture and Media.
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Leigh Davis
Leigh Davis is a photographer, artist, and educator. Her work investigates the relationships between people and the ... moreLeigh Davis
Leigh Davis is a photographer, artist, and educator. Her work investigates the relationships between people and the physical spaces in which they live, work, and perform. Her subjects span a broad range—from the men of a dying religious order, to women living in a YWCA residence hall, to a variety of performing artists (a choir, a Michael Jackson impersonator, a conductor)—and derive from the relationships that she develops with those subjects over time. Leigh has been involved with CUP since 2000. Her photographs were featured in CUP exhibitions, YMCA, The City Without a Ghetto, and Values and Variety. In 2013, Leigh was the teaching artist for “Making the Grade.”
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Sam Holleran
Is an artist, designer, and writer. Sam was CUP’s Communications Coordinator from 2011 to 2014. He attended the the ... moreSam Holleran
Is an artist, designer, and writer. Sam was CUP’s Communications Coordinator from 2011 to 2014. He attended the the Cooper Union where he was the recipient of the Herb Lubalin Fellowship for Typography and the Benjamin Menschel Fellowship for Creative Inquiry. Sam has worked extensively in printmaking; his fields of interest include: photogravure, letterpress, Ukiyo-e, and silkscreen.
closeJeff Kasper
joined CUP as an intern and Weston Scholar from The City College of New York. He studies art and the social sciences, with ... moreJeff Kasper
joined CUP as an intern and Weston Scholar from The City College of New York. He studies art and the social sciences, with an independent focus on the perceptions and aesthetics of cities. He is interested in exploring how visual media can illuminate obscured shared values among diverse groups of urban dwellers. Jeff frequently engages in various design, writing, research, curatorial, pedagogical, and public projects. He currently is a contributor to The City Atlas of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, as well as GreenspaceNYC. His work has been featured at venues including the Art Directors Club, Phoenix Design Museum, FIGMENT, PS Project Space, among others.
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Students from Making the Grade
Students from Lyons Community School worked on an Urban Investigation about who makes decisions around restaurant grades. ... moreStudents from Making the Grade
Students from Lyons Community School worked on an Urban Investigation about who makes decisions around restaurant grades. Those students were Joshua Arroyo, Gipsy Bisono Ramirez, Dayquan Cogdell, Jason Fernandez, Armanie Fing, Jamal Grainger, Aimee Hernandez, Yuleidy Lugo, Erica Marshall, Esmerlyn Mesa Regla, Kimberly Ponce, Justino Rodriguez, Chardhil Spratley, Gabriella Tinsley, Cristian Tolentino, and Jonathan Trivino.
closeValeria Mogilevich
Valeria is a visual storyteller who creates tools for participation in collaboration with social justice organizations. She ... moreValeria Mogilevich
Valeria is a visual storyteller who creates tools for participation in collaboration with social justice organizations. She also consults with cultural institutions, education non-profits, and others on community engagement and youth education. Valeria was formerly the Deputy Director of CUP, where over the course of eight years she created popular education tools with community-based organizations and developed curricula to help public high school students change the way the see their own neighborhoods. She has shared her thoughts on project-based learning, collaboration, and design for social impact at places like the New Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt, Pratt Institute, and institutions from Indianapolis to Rotterdam. Valeria holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in Modern Culture and Media.
closePema Domingo-Barker
Pema was CUP’s Program Assistant for youth education programs. She previously worked at the Queens Museum and was a ... morePema Domingo-Barker
Pema was CUP’s Program Assistant for youth education programs. She previously worked at the Queens Museum and was a Public Allies New York fellow. Pema grew up in Bangkok and went on to study art at the University of Washington and the University of the Arts London.
closeValeria Mogilevich
Valeria is a visual storyteller who creates tools for participation in collaboration with social justice organizations. She ... moreValeria Mogilevich
Valeria is a visual storyteller who creates tools for participation in collaboration with social justice organizations. She also consults with cultural institutions, education non-profits, and others on community engagement and youth education. Valeria was formerly the Deputy Director of CUP, where over the course of eight years she created popular education tools with community-based organizations and developed curricula to help public high school students change the way the see their own neighborhoods. She has shared her thoughts on project-based learning, collaboration, and design for social impact at places like the New Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt, Pratt Institute, and institutions from Indianapolis to Rotterdam. Valeria holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in Modern Culture and Media.
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Aaron Reiss
Aaron grew up in a coastal town in Southern California. He studied Urban Planning and Environmental Studies at Yale, where ... moreAaron Reiss
Aaron grew up in a coastal town in Southern California. He studied Urban Planning and Environmental Studies at Yale, where he fell in love with using the visual arts as a means for exploring the places we inhabit and for talking about fascinating and important social issues. Right now, he lives in Chinatown, Manhattan where he works as a freelance journalist and cartographer.
closeValeria Mogilevich
Valeria is a visual storyteller who creates tools for participation in collaboration with social justice organizations. She ... moreValeria Mogilevich
Valeria is a visual storyteller who creates tools for participation in collaboration with social justice organizations. She also consults with cultural institutions, education non-profits, and others on community engagement and youth education. Valeria was formerly the Deputy Director of CUP, where over the course of eight years she created popular education tools with community-based organizations and developed curricula to help public high school students change the way the see their own neighborhoods. She has shared her thoughts on project-based learning, collaboration, and design for social impact at places like the New Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt, Pratt Institute, and institutions from Indianapolis to Rotterdam. Valeria holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in Modern Culture and Media.
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Becky Slogeris
Becky Slogeris is a social designer and educator based in Baltimore, MD. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of ... moreBecky Slogeris
Becky Slogeris is a social designer and educator based in Baltimore, MD. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, her work is focused on re-thinking public education and empowering students to create change in their communities. She worked with CUP and students at CUNY College Now to create “Get Money!” Becky’s website is http://designing-education.com/
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