Supply Lists

A Visual Diary: Sketchbook Drawing
Abstract Acrylic Painting
Art in Transition: 19th Century Painting at the MET
Artist Books
Basic Drawing
Business Writing
Calligraphy: The Italic Hand
Collage Art
Collage to Painting
Color: At the Heart of the Medium
Crochet: An Exploration of the Basics
Developing a Personal Project
Digital Photography
Digital SLR Camera Workshop
Drawing for Absolute Beginners
Drawing Nature & the Landscape Indoors
Drawing Nature & the Landscape Intensive
Drawing the Figure From Art & Life
Drawing Through the Found: Collage Techniques & Concepts
Fastest Route to the Finest Art
French - all levels
Getting Started Writing Fiction
Glories of the Old Masters
Hand Bound Coptic-Style Books
Handmade Archival Boxes
Introduction to Knitting
Introduction to Acrylic Painting
Introduction to Photoshop
Italian - all levels
Letterpress Printing on the Vandercook Press
Magic Books & Paper Toys
Myths Embodied: Sculpture at the MET
Painting: From the Idea to the Essential Image
Painting Techniques & Materials
Painting the City
Painting With Water Based Media
Photography Now
Photography: Word & Image
Portrait Drawing
Press-Free Printmaking
Spanish - all levels
Street Photography
Watercolor & Abstraction

  • 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.