The School of Art at The Cooper Union

Adriana Farmiga Named Dean of Cooper Union School of Art Adriana Farmiga Named Dean of Cooper Union School of Art POSTED ON: June 5, 2024 Image Adriana Farmiga introduces the Great Hall program, "War/Art Balance: Deimperializing the Soviet Avant-Garde at the Time of Russia’s War on Ukraine, Its Culture, and People" held on April 27, 2023. Photo by Marge...

Meet the New Saturday Program Staff We spoke with José Ortiz, the new director of The Cooper Union Saturday Program, and Ciana Malchione A'21, who was recently promoted to assistant director.

Hollywood Reporter calls 2000 The Cooper Union alumnus Petter Ringbom's new documentary, "This World Is Not My Own," a "captivating film portrait." Read the review of the film that starts screening on May 3 at the Quad at https://bit.ly/3wcd3rn.

‘This World Is Not My Own’ Review: The Story of a Self-Taught Artist Breaks From Doc Tradition in Rewarding Ways Through voice work and motion capture, Uzo Aduba pays tribute to an outsider artist in a hybrid documentary that incorporates 3D-animated performances.

The Cooper Union Assistant Professor Fia Backström was awarded the Borlem Prize, which goes to an artist who brings awareness to mental health issues. Read more at https://bit.ly/3xo1GwL.

Assistant Professor of Art Fia Backström Receives the Borlem Prize Assistant Professor of Art Fia Backström Receives the Borlem Prize POSTED ON: April 3, 2024 Image School of Art Assistant Professor Fia Backström was awarded the 2023 U.S. Borlem Prize, which goes to an artist who brings awareness to mental health issues. Half of the $40,000 prize money is donated...

Generous Gift to School of Art from Harold Altman A'47 The celebrated artist credited Cooper with giving him a chance to excel.

See a gallery of images from opening night of the 2023 Benjamin Menschel Fellowship exhibition at https://bit.ly/3HSmdeG. This year's exhibition, "On Air," features four projects, all by fellows from the School of Art.

Menschel Fellowship Exhibition 2023 Menschel Fellowship Exhibition 2023 For more than 25 years, The Cooper Union student participants in the Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Program have mounted an exhibition showcasing their explorations in art, architecture, design, and engineering. These photos are a sampling from the opening night of....

Learn more about The Cooper Union adjunct faculty who are participating in the 2024 Whitney Biennial at https://bit.ly/4bgmWnv.

The New York Times calls The Cooper Union Professor Coco Fusco's "Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island" a 2023 best art book writing the "visually captivating book documents the politics & the poetry, both sharp, of an important career very much in progress." Learn more at https://nyti.ms/3RjetH0.

Best Art Books of 2023 The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from Botticelli to Vermeer, Lucy Lippard’s memoir, and Wade Guyton’s intelligent rereading of Manet.

Read a The New York Times interview with 2014 School of Art alumna Emilie Gossiaux about her work and her Queens Museum exhibition, "Other-Worlding," at https://bit.ly/416xQrr.

Her Guide Dog Inspired Her Art. Now the Lab Stars in a Museum Show. After losing her sight in an accident, Emilie Gossiaux found meaning and art in a bond with her dog, London, celebrated at the Queens Museum.

Fall in Cooper Square

Watch an Art21 interview with 2010 School of Art alumnus Esteban Cabeza de Baca about his practice at https://bit.ly/3Pz8cGu.

Esteban Cabeza de Baca's Time Travels | Art21 "New York Close Up" Painter Esteban Cabeza de Baca quietly defies the laws of space and time, blending past, present, and future in richly layered landscapes of the American Sou...

Congrats to 1951 School of Art alumnus Seymour Chwast who was inducted into the Society Of Illustrators Hall of Fame. Learn more via Print Magazine at https://bit.ly/44OKgEn.

The Daily Heller: Society of Illustrators Inducts Chwast Into Hall of Fame You’d be forgiven for thinking he was already there.

William Villalongo Bridges Histories of Black Identity Black Menagerie, on view through October 14, 2023, is Associate Professor William Villalongo's A'99 seventh solo exhibition at Susan Inglett Gallery.

"I have never had a catalog printed for any of my exhibitions. It's quite common in Europe for artists to have catalogs made for every exhibition. That happens much less frequently in the US. So for me this book is precious. It's a milestone," says The Cooper Union Professor Coco Fusco on her new monograph. Read more of the The Art Newspaper interview at https://bit.ly/3Ppm32W.

Coco Fusco on her new monograph, her activism and why she remains sceptical of the art world The artist also discusses her “meditation on death”, a film shot around and above Hart Island in the US

The Boston Globe announced that 2010 School of Art alumna Tomashi Jackson was awarded the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum's Rappaport Prize at https://bit.ly/3qFoEfV.

Somerville-based painter and multimedia artist Tomashi Jackson awarded Rappaport Prize by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum - The Boston Globe Jackson says much of her work is defined by the push and pull of “grief and joy,” and how they appear differently in public and private contexts.

Watch an interview on Canal RCN with 2019 The Cooper Union grad Juan Jose Cielo who speaks about his arts fellowship with NASA, being name a recipient of YoungArts’ Jorge M. Pérez Award, and more at https://bit.ly/3smawIA.

Juan Jose Cielo Television Interview RCN "Trendiando" May 2023 www.juanjosecielo.com Juan Jose Cielo (b. 1996) is a Colombian-American artist, based in New York working in painting, photography, and short films. I create simulations…

Generous Donation of Milton Glaser Work Comes to Lubalin Center Approximately 400 new works by Milton Glaser, the influential graphic designer and 1951 School of Art graduate, have been gifted to The Cooper Union

Check out the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail - copies are available now at The Cooper Union Library - to read a story by The Cooper Union junior Clyde Nichols at https://bit.ly/3JOxTzM.

Click to see a new online exhibition of works by artists Joan Ruffins (1932–2013) and Reynold Ruffins (1930–2021), a 1951 School of Art alumnus and founding member of the iconic Push Pin Studios, at http://bit.ly/3YIcePn.

A Life in Art Entwined: Works by Joan and Reynold Ruffins A’51 A new Cooper exhibition of paintings and drawings by artists Joan and Reynold Ruffins is now on view by appointment in the Stuyvesant-Fish House.

Congrats to The Cooper Union Associate Professor and 2000 alumna Leslie Hewitt who was named a 2022 Anonymous Was A Woman award winner. Learn more at https://bit.ly/3GlXyQ5.

Associate Professor Leslie Hewitt A’00 Receives 2022 Anonymous Was A Woman Award Hewitt is one of 15 selected for the award

Lucy Raven, The Cooper Union associate professor of art, speaks with Art in America about her most recent films "Ready Mix" and "Demolition of a Wall (Album 1 and 2)", her practice, and more at http://bit.ly/3TFXGNv.

Shock Waves & West Concrete: An Interview with Lucy Raven The filmmaker and artist discusses Land art, extractive industries, and the politically fraught American West.

Congrats to 2019 School of Art grad Juan Jose Cielo who was named the 2022 recipient of YoungArts’ Jorge M. Pérez Award! Find out more at https://bit.ly/3rRPvlT.

Associate Dean of Art and 1996 alumna Adriana Farmiga is The Brooklyn Rail's September guest critic! She invited several fellow alumni to ruminate on the idea of flux. Read it to find out who at https://bit.ly/3cBYnIf.

On Flux “Clean, Flux, Solder, and Heat”: the order of operations for joining metals. In this process of metalworking, flux is indispensable as a chemical agent that prevents funk and oxidation—though it should not be thought of as an antioxidant, like, you know, blueberries. You wouldn’t want to ingest ...

We're getting excited to welcome the new class this weekend! Meet three of the new students entering Cooper Union this fall at https://bit.ly/3QYIav1.

From Dia Bridgehampton to Baltimore Museum of Art, catch up on some of the current and upcoming work on view by School of Art Associate Professor Leslie Hewitt A'00 at https://bit.ly/3PrxxR4.

Leslie Hewitt at Dia Bridgehampton A new body of work by artist Leslie Hewitt, associate professor in the School of Art, is featured in a yearlong exhibition on Long Island

"A food drive is direct action and works differently from merely talking about these issues. This is a stepping stone," says Orchid Sylvester, a rising junior in the School of Art, who collecting food to support the broader East Village community. Learn more at https://bit.ly/3P3GjnY.

Art Student Launches Food Drive for Community Orchid Sylvester, a rising junior in the School of Art, is collecting food to support her fellow students and the broader East Village community.

Congrats again to the Class of 2022! Check out a gallery of images from last week's celebration at https://bit.ly/3xirxTd.

Commencement 2022 Commencement 2022 Photo by Brian Cusack The Cooper Union’s 162nd Commencement took place in the Great Hall on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 10:30am. President Laura Sparks welcomed everyone and reminded the Class of 2022 that they are now taking their place among a group of individuals who represent ...

Seniors Isabel Jerome and Wildriana de Jesus Paulino reflect on their last four years in The Cooper Union's School of Art at https://bit.ly/3lPEM8k.

Senior Snapshots: Art 2022 In the third and final installment of our 2022 Senior Snapshot series, we meet Isabel Jerome and Wildriana de Jesús Paulino, who reflect on their last four years in Cooper's School of Art