Cooper Union

Luigi Lucioni A'1920

Paintings by the artist Luigi Lucioni A'1920 (November 4, 1900 - July 22, 1988) are on display at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT for the "Luigi Lucioni - Modern Light" exhibition. The exhibition opened May 15, 2022 and runs through October 16, 2022. To learn more about the exhibition, please click here.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Rutland Reader published an in-depth article: "'Luigi Lucioni: Modern Light’: Celebrating Vermont’s place in American modernism" discussing his career in painting. To read the article, please 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.