UP UNTIL NOW is a New York City-based Artist Collective Co-Founded in 2020 by Brandon Kazen-Maddox, Kevin Newbury, Jecca Barry, and Marcus Shields.   Committed to inclusive, accessible, and equitable working environments, UP UNTIL NOW develops and produces new interdisciplinary work that explores empathy, intimacy, and connection, and seeks to challenge the status quo by building new structures for artistic creation.  Since its inception, UUN has collaborated with over 400 artists.

Projects include the pioneering SOUL(SIGNS): AN ASL PLAYLIST, a series of American Sign Language music videos featuring songs by iconic Black female artists including Nina Simone, Tina Turner and Gladys Knight (commissioned by Broad.stream). SOUL(SIGNS) was profiled by The New York Times and ABC World News. The first video in the series, “Georgia,” was chosen by the Times Square Alliance as the July, 2021 “Midnight Moment,” appearing on 90 screens in Times Square every night at midnight throughout the month. UUN has curated free, ASL-accessible music performances in Times Square as part of the Midnight Moment, in Union Square and Astor Place as part of Make Music New York, at Southeby’s Auction House as part of the Burning Man: Boundless Space exhibit and in collaboration with Lincoln Center for “An Evening of Access Magic.” UUN’s fully-accessible, multi-sensory haptics installation UP UNTIL NOW: midair for some time was presented by the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn (2022), at REEL ABILITIES : NYC Film Festival (2023) and at JACK in Brooklyn (2024).