2025 showed us how critical collaboration, art, and education are to understanding our power to create a more just and equitable city. Everything we accomplished in 2025 is a testament to how, despite the uncertainties we face, our constant is the ability to create together. In 2025, we: 
<ul><li>worked with <a href="https://welcometocup.org/youth-education-projects" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">400 young people</a>, in classrooms and after school, to use art and community research to investigate systems affecting their communities, and affirm the world they want to be part of creating.</li><li>launched our new <a href="https://welcometocup.org/news/introducing-our-teaching-artist-fellows" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Teaching Artist Fellowship</a> to deepen our commitment to supporting Teaching Artists, students, and our school partners.</li><li>collaborated with <a href="https://welcometocup.org/news/announcing-our-2025-mpp-projects" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">six community organizations</a> and <a href="https://welcometocup.org/news/introducing-our-2025-mpp-designers" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">seven artists and designers</a> to create educational resources that uplift movements, amplify the dignity and rights of communities, and build local power.</li><li>started a new effort to <a href="https://welcometocup.org/news/open-call-adapt-translate-or-update" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">adapt, update, and translate</a> our resources to ensure communities have access to critical information about changes to policies affecting their safety and well-being.</li><li>worked with community partners to reprint 40,000 copies of resources to support immigrant communities facing ICE raids and family separation.</li><li>hosted our third <a href="https://welcometocup.org/news/how-we-made-this-2025-thank-you" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How We Made This</a> event highlighting the collaboration behind our community education resource, <a href="https://welcometocup.org/projects/here-to-stay" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Here to Stay</a>.</li><li>created an exhibit, <a href="https://flickr.com/photos/cup_photos/albums/72177720330471192/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shaping Our City Together</a>, in partnership with MoMa, to show the collaborative decision-making behind our community and youth education programs.</li></ul>
We are grateful to all our community partners, artists, designers, students, teachers, and supporters for being our collaborators. It’s with everyone’s contribution and shared commitment to using art and design to further the work of creating a more just and equitable city that we start 2026 with a lot of hope and commitment to the work ahead.
Didn’t get a chance to support CUP in 2025? <a href="https://givebutter.com/center-for-urban-pedagogy-inc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Click here to donate today</a>!
In 2026, we’re ready to: 
<ul><li>celebrate our 25th birthday through different events and projects — including our annual fall <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cup_photos/albums/72177720329706813/">celebration of art and advocacy</a>. Stay tuned for announcements and projects throughout the year as part of our work to acknowledge everyone who has made these past 25 years possible.</li><li>launch our 2025 <a href="https://welcometocup.org/news/announcing-our-2025-mpp-projects">Making Policy Public</a> collaborations.</li><li>kick off our 2026 <a href="https://welcometocup.org/news/making-policy-public-open-call-2025-2">Making Policy Public</a> projects (announcement coming next week!)</li><li>continue our new effort to <a href="https://welcometocup.org/news/open-call-adapt-translate-or-update">adapt, update, and translate</a> our resources to ensure communities have access to critical information about changes to policies affecting their safety and well-being.</li><li>partner with nine schools and youth organizations throughout the city to create art-based, civic education programs in class and after school.</li><li>host our fourth <a href="https://welcometocup.org/news/how-we-made-this-2024-announcement">How We Made This</a> event where we reunite collaborators from past CUP projects to talk about the collaboration behind our community education resources.</li></ul>
Thank you for being with us at the start of a new year! 
Waving from Gowanus, The CUP Team

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