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Katie Merz

Adjunct Instructor

Katie Merz received a Bachelor of Arts of Degree from the Cooper Union School of Art in 1984. Upon graduation, she maintained her drawing and painting practice and soon began her own decorative painting business. Professor Merz has maintained a diverse range of line drawing and painting throughout the years. She has worked with clothing designers, architects, literary journals and interior designers, using her original style in a variety of ways.  She has been a resident of the Judd Foundation in Marfa, Texas as well as a six-time artist resident at the MacDowell Colony. Professor Merz is currently working on staging a mobile art gallery with Rabbit Moving Company in New York City as well as collaborating on a graphic depiction of Plutarch’s Poems with writer John D’Agata.

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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.