Damon Rich, founder and Creative Director of CUP, has been named a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Damon will be in residence at Harvard for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Founded in 1970, the Loeb Fellowship provides a year of independent study at Harvard for mid-career professionals in fields related to the built and natural environment. Primarily the focus is on architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and urban designers. Professionals in related fields such as filmmaking, journalism, non-profit administration, the arts, and government service have also been Loeb Fellows.
Upon his departure, Damon will resign his position as CUP’s Creative Director, allowing him to devote more energy to his responsibilities as Chair of CUP’s Board of Directors. While in Boston, he will also be working on CUP’s project on redlining and the representation of risk at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies.
The everyday activities of the CUP office will be in the capable hands of Rosten Woo, who will work with Damon and the rest of the Board of Directors to continue and extend CUP’s programming.

We’re pleased to announce that Valeria Mogilevich has joined CUP as our Project Assistant. Valeria comes to us from an education in semiotics and several years of experience working in small arts organizations. Already in her short tenure at CUP she has written grant applications, created animations about sewage, helped tame the always threatening chaos of the office, worked with students from the Bronx Helpers to create an information kiosk and series of zines, and helped prepare curricula for the Academy of Urban Planning. We are privileged to have her as part of the CUP family.

To celebrate CUP’s best office yet, and to send Damon off to Boston, please drop in and say hello this Sunday at CUP’s open house.
Sunday, August 27, 2 pm until 8 pm (or later)
at the CUP office
232 Third Street #B402B in proud Gowanus, Brooklyn
Directions: http://anothercupdevelopment.org/about#contact
Please RSVP to info@anothercupdevelopment.org (the office is small, but the hours are long)
Feel free to bring a refreshing beverage (we’ll bring the snacks)

CUP’s recent film about water and sewage in New York City will be screening this Saturday at SolarOne, “the City’s first solar-powered Green Energy, Arts, and Education Center,” right on the East RIver.
Saturday, August 26
Program begins at 9 pm
The Water Underground to screen at 10 pm
SolarOne
2420 FDR Drive, Service Road East
Directions: http://www.solar1.org/about/map/index.html
Admission is FREE.
For full event information, see http://www.solar1.org/arts/film/index2006.html#contested

The Wannabe, a short film fiscally sponsored by CUP, has been awarded BEST SHORT in HBO’s New York International Latino Film Festival! Congratulations to writer/director Althea Wasow and the rest of the project team.
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