Donatella Cusma is principal of the design office Claret-cup and currently engaged as project manager on the project of relocation and remodel of Richard Neutra’s Maxwell House. She is the co-founder and Board member of Elysian Valley Arts Collective a non profit organization devoted to experimental research on the revitalization of the areas adjacent to the Los Angeles River,
and promoter of the annual “Frogtown Art walk.” Her independent work includes the design of a prototype for a new school and community center in the earthquake devastated area of Kashmir in northern India: in collaboration with Kashmir Earthquake Relief and Collettiva Pulao. Presently she is an Adjunct Professor at Woodbury University, School of Architecture.
