Teaching Artists

Jonathan is a New York born, New York-based artist and educator. His work spans the disciplines of painting, film, and community artworks made in …

Jonathan is a New York born, New York-based artist and educator. His work spans the disciplines of painting, film, and community artworks made in collaboration with youth. He has created numerous art projects in both the US and Venezuela working in collaboration with schools, non-profit organizations, and other artists. He received his BFA in Painting and Art History from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.

Jonathan Bogarín has worked on Bodega Down Bronx

Michael Cataldi was born in 1982 in Philadelphia, received a Bachelors in fine arts degree at the Maryland Institute College of art in 2004. After …

Michael Cataldi was born in 1982 in Philadelphia, received a Bachelors in fine arts degree at the Maryland Institute College of art in 2004. After moving to New York Michael Cataldi attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Artist in the Marketplace programs in 2005. His work has been shown at Reobling Hall, ABC No Rio, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Current Space in Baltimore, and Curators Office in Washington DC.

Michael Cataldi has worked on The Nomadic Classroom, Alternative Urban Perspectives

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Wennie Huang is a painter, printmaker and performance / installation artist who has exhibited her work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chicago Cul…

Wennie Huang is a painter, printmaker and performance / installation artist who has exhibited her work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chicago Cultural Center, Detroit Artist’s Market, Korean Cultural Center, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, International Print Center, Wave Hill, and Westchester Arts Exchange, as well as in group exhibitions in Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Argentina and Japan. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, and an MFA from the University of Michigan’s School of Art & Design. She has participated in residencies at Sculpture Space, Lower East Side Printshop, Dieu Donne Papermill, and the Ragdale Foundation, and she is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. She has recently been awarded a commission through Percent for Art for the creation of permanent public art at a new elementary/middle school in the Inwood neighborhood of upper Manhattan. Huang teaches at the 92nd St. Y., Pratt Institute, and The College of New Rochelle. Freedom & Incarceration is her first CUP project.

Wennie Huang has worked on Freedom and Incarceration

Amanda was a CUP Teaching Artist in the spring of 2006.

Amanda was a CUP Teaching Artist in the spring of 2006.

Amanda Matles has worked on Chew On This

Valeria, a native New Yorker, coordinates CUP’s education projects and public programs. She comes from a background in visual studies and film and …

Valeria, a native New Yorker, coordinates CUP’s education projects and public programs. She comes from a background in visual studies and film and architectural theory with a degree from Brown University in Modern Culture and Media. In addition to working many years in the non-profit sector, she is an independent film curator specializing in scientific films. Valeria is also on pest-control patrol in the CUP office.

Valeria Mogilevich has worked on Knoxville: Building Communities, The Water Underground, Green Information Center, Tagging the Social Contract, Prison City Comix, Temporary Showroom, People and Buildings, Freedom and Incarceration, Making Policy Public, Bodega Down Bronx, Mapping the Concourse, The Internet is Serious Business

Sarah Nelson Wright is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates interdisciplinary media projects …

Sarah Nelson Wright is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates interdisciplinary media projects about the urban experience that both explore the changing city and investigate avenues for intervention. As a founding member of Electronic Social Club [ ESC ], she fosters collaboration among socially engaged media artists. Sarah enjoys writing about new media and urban development, and teaching art and theory to students of all ages. She holds a BA in American Studies from Yale and an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College.

Sarah Nelson Wright has worked on Bodega Down Bronx, Mapping the Concourse, The Internet is Serious Business

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Kevin Pyle is a comic artist. His books include Blindspot, Lab U.S.A. and Prison Town. He is also a co-editor of World War 3 Illustrated, America’s…

Kevin Pyle is a comic artist. His books include Blindspot, Lab U.S.A. and Prison Town. He is also a co-editor of World War 3 Illustrated, America’s longest running political comics anthology.

Kevin Pyle has worked on Prison City Comix

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Cassie Thornton is an artist and teacher living and working in Brooklyn.

Cassie Thornton is an artist and teacher living and working in Brooklyn.

Cassie Thornton has worked on Tagging the Social Contract

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Daniel Tisdale has worked on Just In/Justice

Margot Walker has worked on Mapping the Concourse