MOCACREATE: Cover of the Year! with Teaching Artist Yu Rong

Ever wonder what it would be like to see yourself on the cover of a magazine? Small publications from the 1980s-2000s were some of the first to feature Asian Americans front and center. Browse through cover art that did just that and design a magazine cover starring… you! From choosing the perfect images to designing catchy headlines, explore the elements that make a cover stand out on the newsstand.

Yu Rong is a painter and product designer. She was born in Sichuan and currently lives in New York City, where she is a teaching artist at the Hope Garden Center and at MOCA. She received her BFA in Product Design and MFA in Painting at Parsons School of Design and NYSS, but has been practicing art ever since she was a child.