Instructor

Tida Tep is an independent designer and art director based in NYC. She specializes in identity systems, art direction, packaging and web design. She has done work for Apple, The New York Times, Google Creative Lab, MoMA and Uniqlo. She is an alumni of the Type@Cooper Extended Program and she teaches graphic design to high school students for Cooper Union’s outreach programs. 

Julia Hickey (M.F.A Rutgers University, B.A. Yale University) works across mediums including painting, textiles, and installation. Her recent work using found and altered fabrics addresses modes of display, desire and power in relation to female-identifying bodies. National and international exhibitions of her work include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara, CA; a solo exhibition at the Museum of Art in San Luis Obispo, CA; and Modern Art Oxford, UK. She is the founder of MATINEE, a project space for emerging artists. She lives and works in New York, New York.

Georgia Küng is a New York City based artist working across drawing, print, and sculpture in experimental exhibitions. Her work takes up intimate relationships to self, others, society and environment through material/conceptual pairings. She received a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from The Glasgow School of Art. She worked for seven years as a printer at Two Palms Press. She currently teaches printmaking at Parsons, The Cooper Union, and The Art Student's League. Upcoming exhibitions include at 'le vite,' Milan and dépendance/view, Brussels. 

  • 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.