18 May 2010

End of Year Show at The Cooper Union

The End of Year Show at The Cooper Union is opening May 24th with works on display representing the three schools: The School of Art (through 6/19), the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture (through 6/26) and the Albert Nerken School of Engineering (5/26). The show marks the transition from the studios and classrooms to the gallery as students formally exhibit their new works in the Foundation Building and 41 Cooper Square, the college’s state-of-the-art new academic building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne of Morphosis. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Opening reception: Monday, May 24, 2010, 5–9 pm.

Floors dedicated to the School of Art feature a diverse array of sculpture, painting, graphic design and video installations. Architecture projects explore the role of architecture in contemporary culture and society through conceptual and scaled drawings, detailed three dimensional models and digital renderings.  Proposals range from new projects in New York City to sites in Haiti, Israel, Iran and others. Inventive engineering pieces on view this year include a Formula 1 race car, battling robots, computer musical compositions, 3D printing, tissue engineering, stress distribution on a ballerina’s toe, electrical generating using waves and a steel bridge building.

ABOUT THE COOPER UNION
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, located in New York City’s East Village, is an all honors college that provides full-tuition scholarships to all students accepted. Dedicated exclusively to preparing students for the professions of architecture, art and engineering, The Cooper Union has an enrollment of approximately 1,000 students, all accepted on merit alone; it was the first private college in the United States to forbid discrimination. Under the leadership of President George Campbell Jr., the rigor of its three professional schools – the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, the School of Art and the Albert Nerken School of Engineering – has made The Cooper Union one of the most selective institutions of higher education in the nation. In the 2009 US News & World Report, Cooper Union is ranked number one among baccalaureate colleges (northern region), number one in graduation rates among baccalaureate colleges in the region and number three nationally among all undergraduate engineering colleges. The Princeton Review included Cooper Union among the nation’s best colleges and the nation’s best value colleges.

Cooper Union’s mission is to provide outstanding academic programs in architecture, art and engineering to gifted students who will make enlightened contributions to society. All Cooper Union students receive full-tuition scholarships, close contact with a distinguished and creative faculty, and a rigorous, humanistic learning environment stimulated by the process of design and enhanced by the urban setting.