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Andy Kim is an architect and educator based in New York City. His work explores the intersections of architecture, cities, and urban ecology through buildings and objects. He practices in diverse contexts across the United States, from urban environments to rural settings—ranging from fire-rebuild projects in Altadena, California, to the development of a rural art residency in Prattsville, New York. In collaboration with the Prattsville Art Residency, Andy was recently awarded the NYSCA Capital Project Grant. His work has been exhibited internationally at Collectible in Brussels, Design Delight in Shanghai, and A83 Gallery in New York City, and his writing has been published by Pidgin (Princeton University). Andy holds a Post-Professional Master of Architecture from the Princeton University School of Architecture and a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute. He has worked in the offices of MOS, Hume Coover Studio, Op–al, and Grimshaw Architects. He currently teaches at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union and has previously taught at the Syracuse University School of Architecture.

Kim's CV is available here

Cara Di Edwardo received a BFA from Cooper Union in 1985, studied printmaking at Kyoto Seika University and École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; biology, chemistry and foreign languages at NYU & Hunter College, and traditional goldsmithing at Cecilia Bauer’s school. 

She is an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union where she has taught hand papermaking since 1991 and calligraphy since 2001. In 2010 she spearheaded and co-founded Type@Cooper and has been organizing it ever since. In 2015, she co-founded Type@Cooper West in San Francisco forming the partnership between The Cooper Union & the newly established Letterform Archive, where she sits on the advisory board.

She is co-founder and director of Typographics, an annual international type festival  and conference at The Cooper Union that brings speakers from all areas of design where typography is key and an array of events surrounding the main stage days.

She was president of the Society of Scribes in New York City from 2008 to 2010 and served on the board of the Type Directors Club between 2014 and 2017.

Jessica Dickinson’s practice is primarily situated in abstraction and encompasses painting, works on paper, writing, and installations. Exploring durational shifts in light, matter, consciousness, and perception, she works to create space for a slowed down encounter within our world of increasingly accelerated exchanges.


Dickinson's work is represented by James Fuentes in New York / Los Angeles and Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco. Recent solo exhibitions include James Fuentes, New York, (2024, 2021, 2017, 2015), Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco (2022, 2019, 2016), David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis (2013); and Maisterravalbuena, Madrid (2012). Numerous group exhibitions include The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI,  Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington D.C.; Gladstone Gallery, NY; The Warehouse, Dallas; Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens;  Sikkema Jenkins, NY; and The Kitchen, NY.  Dickinson's work has been reviewed and included in Artforum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New Yorker, among others. Dickinson's awards include Steep Rock Arts Residency (2017), an individual grant from the Belle Foundation (2013), Farpath Residency in Dijon, France (2008), Change Inc. Grant (2003) and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program in New York (2001). Public collections include The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas.

Dickinson was born in St. Paul, MN and has lived and worked in Brooklyn since 1999. She received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Dickinson has taught at Yale University School of Art, Columbia University School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Rhode Island School of Design.

Installation image of four artworks in a white box gallery space
Installation View, And, James Fuentes, New York, 2024
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