[DGFG] [Freelance / Contract, Hybrid, United States] Visual Designers and Illustrators for Making Policy Public

[Clair Beltran]

🪪 Visual Designers and Illustrators for Making Policy Public (Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP))

📍 United States (Hybrid)

🕣 Freelance / Contract

💵 4000-7000, depending on the scope of the project

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of art and design to increase meaningful civic engagement, in partnership with marginalized communities. Since 2001, CUP has worked with community organizations, schools, visual designers, and teaching artists, to make information about the public policies, processes, and systems, accessible.

Making Policy Public is a program for advocates and organizers to create a free project that breaks down a complex social justice issue, policy, or service into an easy to understand, visual explanation. Projects are created in collaboration with CUP staff, visual designers/illustrators, and selected organizations.

CUP is looking for visual designers and illustrators that are:

• motivated to use their skills to support the power and vision of organizers and advocates
• interested in a creative process that is collaborative, interdisciplinary, and

engages communities.

• able to create non-typographic solutions such as illustration, drawing, collage, information design, or photography.
• able to attend project meetings every 2-4 weeks and community sessions

every 2-3 months.

• able to attend a Making Policy Public Partner Orientation, if selected, on

January 21, 2026.

• able to attend three cohort gatherings — a training about CUP’s community engaged design practices with a focus on bias in visual design, a training about anti-oppression practices, and one gathering as a cohort to discuss and reflect

on your projects.

• based in the New York City metropolitan area. If the project team collectively decides to meet in person, we expect the designer to attend in-person meetings.

Read the full criteria here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Ji5djnh327S8Fu6Igl2IhWrvu5fifvaCBdm47KuI20/edit?tab=t.0

We encourage everyone to apply, and prioritize applications from:

• design teams (graphic designer and an illustrator).
• designers who have lived experience with oppression— BIPOC designers, people with low-income, those impacted by the carceral system, identify as LGBTQIA+, disabled, or as immigrants, among others.
• designers who haven’t collaborated with CUP before.

🚀 Apply Here: https://fr2vxsnid4p.typeform.com/to/ImPPs20b

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 👋 Shared by Clair Beltran (cl...@welcometocup.org)

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