CLASS NOTES

Mentorship for Women in Architecture

Anik Pearson AR'95’s professional development program Mentorship for Women in Architecture is featured in ARCHITECTURE New York State. Her firm colleague Angelique Pierre AR'10 is also mentioned. For more information and to read the full article, click here.

Laurie Hawkinson AR'83

Laurie Hawkinson AR'83’s work is included in an exhibition "TO BE RATHER THAN TO SEEM" at the North Carolina Museum of Art. For more information, click here.

Wangechi Mutu A'97

Wangechi Mutu A'97 brings her evocative sculptures to the Storm King Art Center. The artist makes work that explores our relationship with the natural environment — as well as ideas of historical violence, mythology and ritual. For more information, click here and here.

Shirley Jaffe A'45

The Centre Pompidou in Paris presents the first retrospective dedicated to Shirley Jaffe A'45. For more information, 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.