Cross Connections is a global collaborative project and an invitational exhibition and juried competition.The exhibition promotes creativity, innovation, and the trends of international visual communication design and aims to inspire and educate through active engagement.

Hosted and curated by School of Art, College of Fine Arts, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), ten higher education institutions from around the world have accepted the invitation to join the exhibition and competition. The Cross Connections 2018 International Exhibition of Design & Illustration, consists of a selection of 96 artworks in a wide range of visual art forms including 80 print-based works and 16 screen based works. They showcase a fusion of cross country, cross culture, cross discipline, and cross conceptual contemporary design. The selected artwork has been curated for exhibition by a professional jury and were on display in ten institutions of higher education around from the world in the Fall of 2018. As the exhibition curator, I designed this exhibition poster to promote the international event in July of 2018.