CLASS NOTES

Shigeru Ban AR'84

Shigeru Ban AR'84 participated in the first edition of the Norman Foster Foundation’s Public Debates on Shelters in May, in conversation with Norman Foster. For more information, click here.

Leslie Hewitt A'00

Leslie Hewitt A'00 has a solo exhibition at Dia Bridgehampton. For more information, click here.

Frank Gerard Godlewski AR'82

Frank Gerard Godlewski AR'82 was a 2022 Participating Designer for Art in Bloom, the pop-up exhibition that brings spring to life at the Montclair Art Museum in May. For more information, click here.

Eva Hesse A'57

Eva Hesse A'57 is the subject of an exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York, Eva Hesse: Expanded Expansion. For more information, click here.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.