Cooper Union

School of Art

The hands-on workshop section of the annual Typographics festival, moved into a virtual space for this year’s conference with spectacular results

Sep 28

Thinking About Talking About Spacing

Nathan Willis will explore how designers talk about spacing
Sep 29

Ways of Seeing Green
Sep 29

Yarimar Bonilla, "The Coloniality of Disaster"

Yarimar Bonilla, a leading voice on questions of Caribbean and Latinx politics, will be in conversation with artist, scholar, and School of Art guest associate professor Coco Fusco

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.