Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Don't Bank On It

Making Policy Public

Don't Bank On It

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Public Access Design

Stand Up to Clean Up!

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Making Policy Public

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Students Spring into New Investigations!

Students Spring into New Investigations!

In the past several weeks, CUP launched two Urban Investigations with students to explore social justice issues impacting New Yorkers.

CUP and Teaching Artist Hugo Rojas are collaborating with students from the Bronx School for Law, Government, and Justice to investigate parole and its impact on New Yorkers. What’s the difference between parole and probation? How many people are impacted by these systems and how could things be different? 

Over the next several weeks students will interview directly involved individuals, elected officials, public defenders, people working in the system, and members of their communities. Through collaborative filmmaking techniques, students will explore the issue and record what they learn to produce a video documentary. Stay tuned for more updates!

CUP and Teaching Artist Chaparro are collaborating with students from the High School for Climate Justice to explore the issue of flooding streets and subways. Why do NYC streets and subways stations flood?  How do these floods impact New Yorkers? How can we work towards a greener future? 

To explore this issue, students will interview stakeholders and members of their community, engage in collaborative artmaking, and create a final printed project that explains what they learned. Check out some images of students in action as they learned how to marble paper, make styrofoam prints, and map their neighborhood!

Sign Up!

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Sign Up!

The Newtown Creek BOA

Technical Assistance

The Newtown Creek BOA

A Fair Chance

Making Policy Public

A Fair Chance

Shelter Skelter

Urban Investigations

Shelter Skelter

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

Child Support?!

Making Policy Public

Child Support?!

Swept Up

Urban Investigations

Swept Up

Bottled Up

City Studies

Bottled Up