Hemispheric Conversations: Urban Art Project (HCUAP) seeks to create platforms for conversation and education about urban art production (graffiti, street art, and muralism, among other genres) to explore aesthetic and historical connections between post-industrial cities. Beginning in 2016 HCUAP has sustained eight years of programming that focused on the intercultural exchange between the post-industrial cities like Pittsburgh, Chicago, Mexico, and León Guanajuato Mexico.

HCUAP activates dialogue through a combination of educational outlets: public debates, day-long symposia, and parallel public-facing research with art production residencies and a series of art workshops. This approach forges a collaborative approach to making and advocating for the amplification of urban arts and artists as positive mechanisms for imagining and reimagining urban space.