Great Women Live from the Great Hall Exhibition

Mon, Mar 6, 12pm - Sun, Mar 19, 2023 12pm

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A new free, public exhibition specially curated for the "Great Women Live from the Great Hall" event will celebrate the achievements of pioneering women from across the arts, sciences, and civic life who have spoken on the Great Hall stage and used it as a national platform for advancing the issues and ideas that matter most to women. “Great Women Live from the Great Hall” illuminates the importance of The Cooper Union and particularly its Great Hall as a New York City landmark for public dialogue and social progress. The exhibition is on view in the street-level colonnade windows of The Cooper Union's Foundation Building along 4th Avenue on Cooper Square.

 

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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.