Alumni attended Target Free First Saturday on December 3 at the Brooklyn Museum for three shows featuring alumni. Curator Catherine Morris gave a talk on the late Eva Hesse (A’57), the focus of Eva Hesse Spectres 1960. This was followed by a tour and talk by Lan Tuazon (A’99), who discussed her solo show,On the Wrong Side of History. Tuazon’s exhibit is part of the Raw/Cooked year-long series of exhibits by five emerging Brooklyn artists.  Alumni were encouraged to explore the museum, especially reORDER, an installation in the first floor atrium by SITU STUDIO (Sigfus Breidfjörd (AR’05), Basar Girit (AR’05), Aleksey Lukyanov (AR’05), Wes Rozen (AR’05) and Bradley Samuels (AR’05)).Continue reading and see more photos.

The Free Cooper Union Community Summit, organized by alumni and featuring a panel of alumni and faculty speakers, was attended by over three hundred people in the Great Hall. Speakers were (in order of appearance): Editorial Committee Chair Karina Tipton (CE’99), Cooper Union Trustee Emeritus Milton Glaser (A’51), Ben Degen (A’98), Adriana Farmiga (A’96), Seth Messer (A’76), Che Pérez (AR’14), VP of Alumni Events Rocco Cetera (CE’99), Professor Peter Buckley, Annual Fund Committee Chair Nick Agneta (AR’80), Professor Richard Stock, Barry Drogin (EE’83), Professor David Gersten (AR’91), Kevin Slavin (A’95), Sean Cusack (BSE’98), Jason Paul Guzman (A’00), Henry Chapman (A’11) and CUAA President Peter Cafiero (CE’83). Topics addressed Cooper Union core values, institutional financials, the CUAA alumni governance structure and engagement. Brainstorming sessions on summit topics concluded the evening, led by Mary Lynch (ChE’82), John Leeper (AR’85), Eric Fehlberg (A’99), Nadia Pervez (EE’99), Sangamithra Iyer (CE’99), Jason Paul Guzman (A’00), Matthew Foster (EE’00) and Koukaba Mojadidi (AR’01). Click here for the Cooper Union Commons community that instituted the summit.

Alumni joined host Colin Anton Samuel (ChE’96) to compete in zany and off-the-wall trivia categories ranging from current events to movie quotes. Teams received 40 questions in four categories and won special drink prizes throughout the night.

Alumni and friends gathered at the studio of Zoe Pettijohn Schade (A’95) and Chris Schade in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, for a studio visit. Zoe discussed her gouache paintings and her research on how the brain sees and how patterns help the brain process visual information. Alumni heard about Zoe’s work on the restoration of Jane’s Carousel in DUMBO, Brooklyn. She restored the paintings on the ceiling and painted and gilded all the architecture of the carousel. Read more

The financial event speakers, host committee and President Bharucha

In light of current financial circumstances, At Cooper Union magazine has been published in an electronic format, making it more cost effective, greener and accessible to a wider audience through our online presence. The Fall/Winter 2011 issue is available now at: http://cooper.edu/acu

In May 22, 2011, Maria Yoon (A’94) was married for the 50th time. The ceremony in Times Square was the culmination of her Maria the Korean Brideart project, where she held a wedding in all 50 states to examine the culture of marriage and respond to the pressure on young, single Asian American women to get married. Her spouses included a 1,200 pound Angus bull, a horse, a Miller Brewery Company t-shirt, a pump jack in Oklahoma and a multitude of grooms from across the country. Her weddings became an exploration of the diversity of traditions and ceremonies that mark marriage in the United States. For more information on the project, visit mariathekoreanbride.com.

The City of New York has invited Karen Bausman (AR’82) to mount her site-specific installation The Wall Project in the Meatpacking District, with the installation planned to go up in April 2012 on Gansevoort Plaza. The installation challenges and proposes an alternative to the Commissioner

’s Plan of 1811, which established the Manhattan grid. The installation will be a series of walls built up from cut layers of turf to reflect New York’s richly layered history. The Wall Project is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), with critical early support provided by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs to realize an ancillary exhibit, Envisioning the Wall.

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