CLASS NOTES

The Project of Independence Exhibition

The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985 is a MoMA exhibition on building and decolonization in South Asia. Risako Arcari AR'21, Taesha Aurora AR'21, Jesse Bassett AR'21, Javier Blancas AR'21, Bo Cai AR'21, Claudia D’Auria AR'21, Isaac Islas-Cox AR'21, Mudong Jung AR'21, Maks Mamak AR'21, Maren Speyer AR'21, Tracy Tan AR'21, Brandy Vazquez AR'21 and Wei Hong Xie AR'20 contributed wood models of buildings to the exhibition. For more information, click here and here.

Ravindra Bisram EE'21

Ravindra Bisram EE'21 has been named a 2022 Excellence Award winner at Success Academy Charter Schools. Since its founding in 2006, Success Academy has dramatically improved academic outcomes for thousands of children from low-income families in New York City. Currently enrolling over 20,000 children in 47 schools, K-12, Success Academy is the highest-performing public school district in the state of New York. To date, 100% of SA’s graduates have been accepted to college. Most are the first in their families to have the opportunity for higher education, and 70% received at least one offer meeting full financial need.

Audrey Flack A'51

Audrey Flack A'51 has an exhibition at Hollis Taggart in May and June of never-before-seen works on paper, as well as Abstract Expressionist paintings from the 1950s and ’60s. For more information, click here and here.

Evan Burgess AR'15

Evan Burgess AR'15 participated in an online reading session held at the ending of the creative writing workshop The Earth Of (4): Aggregate in Repose. For more information and to watch a video of the reading session, 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.