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Monday, December 14, 2015 10AM
Call for winter 2016 City Studies Teaching Artist
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Two of our Making Policy Public posters are now available in Spanish!
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 5:30PM
© Ricard Estay, Public Art Agency Sweden, 2015
On Tuesday, November 24th, Ingrid Haftel, CUP’s Community Education Program Manager, spoke at Public Art Agency Sweden. She participated in a discussion about how to increase civic participation in urban development ...
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Monday, November 23, 2015 5PM
CUP is looking for a Teaching Artist to lead an Urban Investigation in the winter of 2016 in the South Bronx. The Teaching Artist will work with CUP, a classroom teacher, and a group of 8th grade students from Jonas Bronck Academy to investigate a fundamental ...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015 2:30PM
We are extremely excited and honored to announce that CUP’s Urban Investigations has been awarded the 2015 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, the nation’s highest honor for creative youth development programs.
At a White House ceremony on November ...
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Saturday, November 14, 2015 2:30PM
On Saturday, November 14th, Ingrid Haftel, CUP’s Community Education Program Manager, spoke at the Creative Time Summit. She participated in the classroom session “Education and the Right to the City” with Rachel LaForest of Right to the City and Jennifer ...
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Friday, November 6, 2015 12:30PM
CUP launched the Chicago edition of our What Is Affordable Housing? guidebook on Friday, November 6th at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in conjunction with our updated What Is Affordable Housing? workshop. The event was part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial and ...
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Friday, October 30, 2015 10AM
On Friday, October 30th, Christine Gaspar, CUP’s Executive Director, co-led a workshop with the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center and Hester Street Collaborative on how “resource allies” can effectively collaborate with ...
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Making Policy Public, CUP’s fold-out poster series, is currently featured in AIGA/NY’s Making the City, an exhibition exploring civically-engaged design in New York City. The show will be up until December 30th, 2015—be sure to check it out!
Monday, October 19, 2015 5PM
CUP is looking for designers to join our Public Access Design program as 2015-2016 Design Fellows.
