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Tracing the Legacy of a Cooper-Trained Artisan

06/23/2025

Lisa Norberg

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A new book by architectural historian Zeny Edwards chronicles the life and work of Peter Melocco, an early-twentieth-century artist, designer, and businessman who spent his formative years studying at The Cooper Union. Painting with Stone: The Story of...

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A Comedy for Mortals: Artists Books of Tammy Nguyen

06/17/2025

Lisa Norberg

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Cooper Square, NY—The Cooper Union Library presents an exhibition by Tammy Nguyen, a 2007 alumna of The Cooper Union School of Art, featuring her series of artists books, A Comedy for Mortals...

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Archive for Loisaida - Arthur Lee AR'25

06/06/2025

Mackenzie Williams

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Arthur Lee's thesis is the library exhibition Archive for Loisaida, a project that celebrates and continues Loisaida’s—or the Lower East Side’s—history of grassroots activism. Arthur collaborated with faculty, neighborhood leaders, and the library...

Architecture

The Cooper Union Eco-System

04/14/2025

Mackenzie Williams

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The Cooper Union has served as a crossroads for ideas, activism, and innovation - and nowhere is this more visible than in its evolving relationship with environmental issues. This exhibition traces a lineage of climate consciousness rooted in Cooper's...

General Engineering

Yarn Club Exhibit

03/12/2025

Lisa Norberg

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Yarn Club strives to make fiber arts accessible to Cooper Union students through community resources, education initiatives, and yarn-funding opportunities...

Art

Welcome Calista Donohoe!

02/04/2025

Mackenzie Williams

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We are excited to welcome Calista Donohoe to The Cooper Union Library as our new Digital Collections & Services Librarian!

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John Hejduk's Security

01/27/2025

Mackenzie Williams

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It was on earth that once supported Gestapo headquarters, beside the Berlin Wall, that John Hejduk conceptualized the birth of a series of architectural figures titled Victims for a memorial park in 1984...

Architecture

Cooper Radio Collective Exhibition

08/19/2024

Mackenzie Williams

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Cooper Radio Collective, also known as CRC, merges and fosters the various interests, practices, and perspectives of all Cooper Union students within its development and broadcast through radio.cooper.edu. The collective facilitates 25 to 30 hosts per...

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The Patent Alcove

08/01/2024

James Edward Malin

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When it opened in 1859, The Cooper Union Library and Reading-Room was not just for students, but was accessible to anyone, of all genders, ages, races, and religions - no fees or letters of recommendation required – and kept late hours for the...

Architecture, General Engineering, Multidisciplinary/General, Workforce

Alumni Children's Book Collection

07/01/2024

Mackenzie Williams

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Flying school buses. Rainbow trains. House-sized dogs. Magical crayons. These images and many more came from the minds and hands of Cooper grads, professional children's book illustrators who once climbed the same steps to class as Cooper students do...

Art, Cooper Union, Education, Workforce