Session 3.0

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Session 3.0 • Registration is Live! •

Session 3.0 Courses

Registration is open for our three long-format classes! Who’s ready for summer school?

IVY YU, DESIGNER

Translate your traditional analog design skills into the digital sphere, in this eight-week Rhino 8 course. You will learn all the essential tools and techniques needed to turn your sketches into a final, interactive 3D model with renderings.

June 6 - July 25
Thursdays 6:00 - 8:00 pm EST
Starting at $395

May 29 - June 26
Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:45 pm EST
Starting at $175

NABILA JUMA, ART DIRECTOR

Learn the correct photo retouching techniques
and methodology, from a professional post-production artist.

June 4 - 25 (preparation starts May 21)
Tuesdays 6:00 - 7:30 pm EST
Starting at $395

JENNIE WILDE, DESIGN BUSINESS COACH

Discover industry best practices for Product, Marketing and Sales to boost business growth. Uncover your strengths, illuminate blindspots, and generate fresh ideas; in four sessions, walk away with your personalized priorities plan for 2025.

Interested in being a Course Assistant?

In exchange for attending a course for free, our CAs will function as a liaison between TLUP, instructor and course participants.

Session 2.0 Recap

444 participants from 33 Countries

54 paid material packets 43 free material packets

$19,501 total sales + donations $13,603 after expenses

… which was used to fund our educational arts partnership
with Forsyth Satellite Academy & Pratt Institute

Interested in being a part of our organizing team or working with us?

Educational Partnerships

Our network of creative professionals facilitate hands-on workshop series with high school and college students

Co-Created Spaces: Workshops with Students

Our multi-faceted approach to teaching supports a co-creative process between professional artists and designers, high school & college teachers and students. We simultaneously introduce the students to various opportunities in the fields of design, while engaging them directly in the creation process.

This partnership seeks to expand opportunities not only for all students involved to grow from perspective-broadening contexts, but to understand that pursuing art, design and physical skill-based fields in their studies and as careers are viable options for their futures and as paths for self-expression.

Transdisciplinary Approaches to STEM Teaching & Learning

A one-off workshop with Forsyth Satellite Academy art class students in 2020, has grown into a years-long embedded partnership with the Lower East Side’s Title One transfer public high school, and the Interiors Department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY.

Our collaboration is rooted in years of trust-building, between Paula Walters Parker (FSA art teacher), Keena Suh (Pratt professor), and Allison E Samuels (TLUP founder & director), with generous support from Samantha Pritchard (FSA principal).

At the core of our model, is TLUP’s ever-expanding network of value-aligned professionals, who wish to support our next generation of artists & designers. Does this sound like you?

Visiting M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden; students exploring the neighborhood’s history of local activism and disobedient practice

Investing in Our Next Gen

The Level Up Project is a NYC Department of Education Certified Vendor, and we are grateful to have received private and public funding for our ongoing partnership. This includes grants from the Donghia Foundation, and NYC’s Arts for Multilingual Learners and Students with Disabilities.

Are you interested in sponsoring our work, or inviting us to collaborate with your high school, university, institution or community-based org?