Visiting Lecture | Mary Miss and Bryony Roberts in Conversation

Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 6:30 - 8:30pm

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This event will be conducted in-person in the Rose Auditorium and through Zoom. 

For in-person attendance, please register in advance here
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.

Mary Miss reshaped boundaries between sculpture, architecture, landscape design, and installation art. She envisions art addressing contemporary issues in the public sphere. She created "City as Living Laboratory" in 2009, making sustainability and climate change tangible through art. Currently, she's involved in two large projects, “WaterMarks: An Atlas of Water and the City of Milwaukee” and 'Rescuing Tibbetts Brook: One Stitch at a Time' in the Bronx. Her work featured at the Guggenheim Museum in 2010, the Sculpture Center in 2008, and the Des Moines Art Center in 1996. Miss holds multiple awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, Urban Land Institute's Global Award for Excellence, and the 2017 Bedrock of New York City Award.

Mary Miss will give a lecture followed by a conversation with Bryony Roberts and a Q&A discussion moderated by Kayla Montes de Oca.

Bryony Roberts is an artist, designer, and educator who leads the practice Bryony Roberts Studio. She designs public art and urban design projects that activate public spaces around the world. She has created immersive and participatory environments at international sites such as Lincoln Center, the Federal Plaza in Chicago, and the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome. She received the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, as well as support from the MacDowell Colony, the Graham Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She earned a B.A. from Yale University and a Masters of Architecture from Princeton University, and taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation from 2017-2024. She co-founded the collectives Feminist Spatial Practices and WIP Collaborative.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is Required.

Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

  • 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.