Cooper Union

Films and Filmmakers at The Cooper Union

A new exhibition in the colonnade of the Foundation Building celebrates Cooper's connection to film and filmmakers through the years. This exhibition is presented this month in conjunction with a special screening of the Oscar-contending documentary Champions of the Golden Valley, part of The Cooper Union’s Gardiner Foundation Great Hall Forum series.

Gardiner Forum

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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.