The Level Up Project is an informal network of solo creators & entrepreneurs. We are individuals with decision-making power, either as, or within a larger company or organization. We are committed to removing systemic accessibility barriers to, and shifting power dynamics within, our fields of craft and design.

 
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TLUP Featured Artists at Field + Supply

This fall, prestigious maker's market Field + Supply will host not one, not two, but three TLUP featured artists at their booths this year: ceramicist Erica Recto, woodworker Eileen Bellamy, as well as our very own Allison Samuels and her Two Tree Studios.

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Curriculum-Embedded Classroom Workshops

The Level Up Project is beginning its very first in-person curriculum-embedded classroom workshops with Forsyth Satellite Academy and the Pratt Institute on September 20th! Our artists, designers and fabricators will conduct a series of hands-on workshops and ongoing dialogue for a semester-long course with 12 students from Pratt and 60 students at Forsyth. Together, we will be designing a STEAM makerspace within the existing school building, and introducing a variety of materials, crafts, tools, and processes such as needle felting, woodworking and digital fabrication. These disciplines will be integrated into their existing schoolwork, and are co-designed with the high school and college instructors to meet curriculum requirements.

Workshops for NYC High School Students

New skill-building three-part, two-week workshops have been running since Fall 2020 as as part of the high school art curriculum at Forsyth Satellite Academy. Our TLUP instructors will partner with Paula, Forsyth’s esteemed art teacher, to give students a basic understanding in the fields of natural dyeing and photography.

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“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge — even wisdom. Like art.”

— Toni Morrison