Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Level Up

City Studies

Level Up

Immigrants & NY

Making Policy Public

Immigrants & NY

The Newtown Creek BOA

Technical Assistance

The Newtown Creek BOA

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!

Making Change

City Studies

Making Change

Let's Hang Out

Urban Investigations

Let's Hang Out

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

We care!

Making Policy Public

We care!

Work Forced

Public Access Design

Work Forced

Shifty Business

Public Access Design

Shifty Business

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

Making Policy Public

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change