2024 End of Year Show

Thu, May 23, 2024 5pm - Mon, Jun 10, 2024 5pm

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The Cooper Union annual End of Year Show transforms the school’s classrooms, hallways, and studios into galleries showcasing work from The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, the School of Art, and the Albert Nerken School of Engineering. 

The End of Year Show will have a limited opening on Wednesday, May 22, immediately following Commencement, for graduates and their registered Commencement guests, faculty, and staff. For the show’s run from May 23 through June 10, guests must be registered to view the show by faculty, staff, or students. 

The exhibition will be closed during the Memorial Day weekend.

On view Foundation Building & 41 Cooper Square

Located at 7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues

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  • 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.