Cooper Union

Gaetano LaRoche A'87

Gaetano LaRoche A'87 has a video presentation available on YouTube: ACPL Presents- USF Lecture Series 32 - The Work of Gaetano LaRoche, from a lecture he gave at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN in May 2023 as part of the University of St. Francis Lecture Series.

Speaker: Assistant Professor of Art Education Dr. Gaetano LaRoche Dr. LaRoche will discuss the development and change within his paintings and drawings over time. He will present images of work from his early college days to today. The work will show his interest in working from life as well as from the imagination and within the history of abstraction.

To view this presentation, 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.