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 Level Up Project.

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

Our multi-faceted and hands-on approach to teaching supports a co-creative process between professional artists and designers, high school and 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.

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? Let’s talk!