CLASS NOTES

James Allister Sprang A'13

Audiovisual Installation: James Allister Sprang A'13 Rest Within the Wake (World Premiere) September 25 - September 30, 2023, Monday - Saturday at 7pm at the Baryshnikov Arts Center,
Howard Gilman Performance Space, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018.

Discount tickets for $25, for any shows from September 26 -September 30, 2023 are available to all Cooper Union students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Please use discount code STU25 (please note that there is no discount for the opening night show on September 25, 2023):

Esteban Cabeza de Baca A'10

Artwork from Esteban Cabeza de Baca  A'10 will be on display in the Glyndor Gallery at the Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center, located at 4900 Independence Ave, Bronx, NY 10471, as part of the "Light from Water" exhibit together with artists Heidi Howard and Liz Phillips from August 19, 2023 through November 26, 2023.

Tammy Nguyen A'07

The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston is presenting artwork by Tammy Nguyen A'07 from August 24th, 2023 through January 28th, 2024 in the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser Gallery. It is Tammy Nguyen's first solo museum exhibition in the United States.

From Art Daily's announcement of the exhibithion:

Elizabeth Graziolo AR'95

On August 31, 2023, Elizabeth Graziolo AR'95 was featured in a New York Times article: "An Architect Who Forges Ahead in Her Own Lane":

".... She set her sights on the Cooper Union, a pioneering New York university that didn’t charge tuition at that time. When she couldn’t apply to its engineering school — no one had advised her to take the required SAT — she put in an application to the school of architecture. She was just 16 when she got in.

Once there, she fell in love with the subject. The curriculum was “super conceptual,” Ms. Graziolo said — one assignment was to analyze a juicer — but the classes opened her eyes to the built environment and the impact that design has on people. When she graduated in 1995, Ms. Graziolo recalled she was one of only two Black students in her class. The college said it did not keep statistics on race back then so could not confirm her recollection....

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