Mindy Lang A'82 has been affiliated with The Cooper Union for over twenty-five years, first as a student and later as a designer and educator. She was hired in 1982 as a teaching assistant in Graphic Design after completing her BFA in the School of Art. Currently an Assistant Professor, Lang teaches a Professional Practice class, in which Graphic Design students complete assignments for non-profit organizations for academic credit. "The day a living, breathing client is attached to a project, the design process changes for a student." Lang enjoys teaching the skills to negotiate that process, as well as conceptual and typographic development. Clients supported by recent student efforts via Lang's Professional Practice class have included: City Lore, Bellevue Hospital, The Center for Book Arts, Cancer Care, The Bronx Museum of Art, Urban Glass and The Waterford Institute.

Lang wears another hat at The Cooper Union, as Director of the Center for Design and Typography. Since 1992, Lang has overseen the design and production of the majority of the institution's publications and print materials, working collaboratively with faculty, administration and students. "Being and in-house designer for any institution or corporation involves a certain amount of repetition. I am fortunate that Cooper's ever-changing student population and programming always makes for challenging and fulfilling work."

Yasuko Tsuchikane received her BA at Gakushu-in University, Tokyo, in the history of Western and Japanese art, and proceeded to earn an MA in Western art history at Tufts University and a Ph.D. in Japanese art history at Columbia University, with minors in Chinese art history and the modern intellectual history of Japan.  Her special interest lies in the investigation of how the coexistence of conflicting values in cultures, religions and ideologies in 20th century Japan and Asia at large induced collaborations among multiple social sectors that conditioned the production and patronage of art works in various media to legitimize specific values.  Selected publications resulting from her work include “Picasso as Other: Koyama Fujio and Polemics of Postwar Japanese Ceramics,” Review of Japanese Culture and Society, 2014, and “Rescuing Temples and Empowering Art: Naiki Jinzaburō and the Rise of Civic Initiatives in Meiji Kyoto,” in Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The Arts of Reinvention (Routledge, 2016).  Between the fall of 2015 through the spring of 2016, she was a fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures in Norwich, UK, to develop a book manuscript about the patron networks of 20th century Japanese architectural paintings for Buddhist temples.