Community & Design Thinking

Design is a tool for community.

Twenty-five years of design and publishing has taught us that creative problem-solving belongs to everyone — including the next generation.

Why We Do This Work

More than a studio.

Art & Anthropology Press has always believed that design thinking — asking better questions, testing ideas, and making things together — is bigger than any single brand or book.

It’s a way of seeing problems, and a way of bringing people together to solve them. The same curiosity that drives our design, publishing, and curation drives how we show up in our community.

That belief is rooted in Newburgh, the Hudson Valley city we call home — a place with a rich, complex history and no shortage of talent. We think design has a role to play here, well beyond the work we do for clients.

The Next Generation

Design thinking, for young people.

We’re proud to support Newburgh Creates, a hands-on arts and technology program that brings making, design, coding, and robotics to young people ages 7–14 across the Hudson Valley.

Through camps and after-school programs — from BUILDLab and ROBOLab to CITYLab, Junior Coding Lab, and FIRST LEGO League — students learn to ideate, prototype, build, and present real work. It’s design thinking in its most hopeful form: a young person discovering they can imagine something, make it real, and share it with the world.

Design thinking in the community

Our Work With Newburgh Creates

Lending our craft to a bigger mission.

Art & Anthropology Press is an independent design and publishing firm. We’re not a program of Newburgh Creates — but we share deep roots with it, providing design and identity support and lending our craft to its mission.

We believe the creative tools we use every day for clients and books can change what a child believes is possible. When a student sketches an idea, builds a robot, or designs a solution to a problem in their own neighborhood, they’re learning the same thing we practice professionally: that ideas matter, and that they can make them real.

Visit Newburgh Creates →

Work With Us

Building something for your community?

Start a Conversation

Art & Anthropology Press
10 Carpenter Avenue, Suite A
Newburgh, NY 12550

(845) 206-9933
hello@artandanthropologypress.com