CUP

CUP was founded in 1997 by artist and architect Damon Rich with co-founders Oscar Tuazon (artist), Stella Bugbee (graphic designer), Josh Breitbart (media activist), Jason Anderson (architect), AJ Blandford (architectural historian), Sarah Dadush (attorney), Althea Wasow (filmmaker), and Rosten Woo (policy analyst).

During the fall of 2003, at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, CUP organized the exhibition City Without a Ghetto on the theme of low-income housing development in New York City since the late 1940s.

In 2011, CUP received a Rockefeller CIF grant to develop its Public Access Design project. This project aimed to connect graphic designers with struggling communities. In November 2018, CUP partnered with the Drawing Center of New York to advocate for civic engagement through drawing and design. Design that breathes life into important regulations, smartsign Center for Urban Pedagogy, Freedom and Incarceration, New York, NY TOC of MONU #23 ‘Participatory Urbanism’