Alumni in the News!
6/12/2013

Check out the Reunion 2013 Bio Page
6/11/2013

Summer Tour Schedule Now Available!
6/11/2013

Check out photos from the Reunion Weekend 2013 Boat Cruise
6/4/2013

Read the May Newsletter!
5/31/2013

2013 Cooper Union Alumni Association Election Results
5/17/2013

Learn More about Commencement 2013
5/14/2013

Cooper Alumni Participate in Group Exhibition @ Whitney Museum
5/3/2013

WHITNEY INDEPENDENT STUDY STUDIO PROGRAM EXHIBITION

Drexel-Cooper Union Partnership to Monitor Second Largest Green Roof in U.S.
4/30/2013

Read the April Newsletter!
4/25/2013

Attend a new documentary screening produced by Cooper alumni: "Lost Child ~ Sayon's Journey"
4/25/2013

On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. there will be a screening of Lost Child ~ Sayon's Journey -- a new documentary about how one Khmer Rouge child soldier confronts his childhood experiences during Cambodia’s genocide will be followed by a talk by filmmaker Janet Gardner and Alex Hinton, Rutgers University professor of anthropology and director, Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights. Work by The Gardner Group, producers of Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story. Cooper alumni involved in the film include: Janet Gardner, A '65 (Director/Producer) and Mitsuko Brooks, A '05 (Coordinating Producer).

Screening Location: The Community Room (1st Floor) at The Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ. EVENT DETAILS

For more information about the film, visit lostchildthefilm.org. VIEW TRAILER 

Announcement from The Board of Trustees
4/23/2013

Read the letter from The Cooper Union Alumni Association Elected Trustees and the CUAA President
4/23/2013

The New York Public Library to host panel discussion with Elizabeth Diller, AR '79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR '55, + Charles Renfro
4/2/2013

Read the March Newsletter!
3/27/2013

After Cooper: Crye Precision
3/25/2013

After Cooper: Rebuilding Afghanistan
3/25/2013

Astronaut Dr. Donald Thomas to Speak at The Great Hall
3/25/2013

Cooper Union late Professor Lebbeus Woods is featured in LA Times article
3/18/2013

Toshiko Mori, AR '76 presents a lecture on Japan at Harvard University on Monday, March 11 from 12:30-2:00 pm,
3/8/2013

Maria Giudice, A '85, is featured in an Inc.com article, "Why My Art Degree Paid Off"
3/8/2013

Brian Eno, will present an illustrated talk at The Cooper Union on May 6, 2013
3/8/2013

Read the A/N Blog review of Cooper Union's exhibition "Lessons From Modernism"
3/8/2013

Check out our special Cooper Couples photo gallery
2/28/2013

Malcom A. Davis II A '05, Sam Vernon A '09, and Awol Erizku A '10, are featured in The Huffington Post
2/27/2013

Read the February Newsletter
2/27/2013

Diller Scofidio + Renfro Rountable at Storefront
2/11/2013

Read the January Newsletter
1/24/2013

Alumnus Receives Prestigious National Safety Award
1/22/2013
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority General Manager and CEO, Richard Sarles, CE '67, has been recognized by the National Safety Council (NSC) as one of their 2013 CEOs Who "Get It," the Council announced today.  The Council recognizes leaders who understand "that safety is not only the right thing to do, but that creating a culture of safety also is a business imperative." READ MORE

Alumni Art Installation to Light-up Times Square
1/11/2013
The Brooklyn-based design firm Situ Studio is the winner of this year’s annual Times Square Valentine Heart Design. The four partners of the group are Cooper Union alumni, including: Basar Girit, AR ’05, Aleksey Lukyanov, AR ’05, Wes Rozen, AR ’05, and Bradley Samuels, AR ’05. 

Using boardwalk boards salvaged during Sandy’s aftermath—from Long Beach, New York; Sea Girt, New Jersey; and Atlantic City, New Jersey—Heartwalk begins as two ribbons of wooden planks that fluidly lift from the ground to form a heart shaped enclosure in the middle of Duffy Square. The slatted construction, illuminated from within, provides varied views of the interior as visitors move around the perimeter of the installation. Visitors can enter the installation itself and literally stand in the heart of the world’s greatest city.

Over the last five years, the Times Square Alliance has invited architecture and design firms to submit proposals for a romantic public art installation celebrating Valentine’s Day in Times Square. This year’s winning design, Situ Studio’s Heartwalk, will be unveiled on Tuesday, February 12, 2013, and remain on view until March 8, 2013.

Read full article in the Times Square Alliance.

Read more about the project and competition in the ArchDaily.

Above: Rendering of Heartwalk by Situ Studio in Times Square as part of the Annual Valentine Heart Competition 

Check out our Featured Alumni
1/3/2013

Cooper Alumna Receives Prestigious Art Award
1/3/2013
Congratulations to Joan Semmel, A ’52! She will be receiving the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award this year, along with Tina Dunkley, Artis Lane, and Susana Torruella Leval. 

The awards celebration will take place on Thursday, February 14, 2013. It is free of charge to the public and will take place from 6:00 -7:30pm in the auditorium of the New York Institute of Technology, 16 West 61st Street New York, NY 10023, followed by a ticketed Gala from 8-10pm, at the nearby American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square (Columbus Avenue at 66th), New York, NY 10023. The ticketed Gala event will include a walk-around gourmet dinner, an open bar, and the opportunity for networking and meeting the awardees. Gala ticket prices include reserved seating at the awards presentation and the Gala celebration.

Joan Semmel, A ’52, is a widely exhibited artist whose paintings are included in many collections and museums. She began her painting career in Spain and South America in the 1960s. In the early 1970s, she returned to New York, where her practice turned towards figurative paintings, many with erotic themes, in response to pornography, popular culture, and the emotional and political implications of representations of the body. Ms. Semmel's paintings are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Blanton Museum, Austin, TX; Orange County Museum of Art, CA; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; the Jocelyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; the Jewish Museum, New York; and the Brooklyn Museum.
 She is the recipient of numerous grants, including Anonymous Was a Woman and the National Endowment for the Arts awards. She is Professor Emeritus of Painting at Rutgers University. Her recent museum exhibitions include: Shifting the Gaze at the Jewish Museum (2010); Rebelle at the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, The Netherlands (2009); Solitaire: Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Joan Semmel at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2008); and the touring exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Movement, MoCA, Los Angeles (2007). In 2013 her work will be on exhibit in a one person show at the Bronx Museum from January 20th - June 16th.

Click here to learn more about the event and this year's honorees.

Read the December Newsletter
1/2/2013

Alumni in the News
1/2/2013

RSVP for Founder's Day 2013
12/19/2012

WATCH Cooper alumnus on NY1
12/13/2012
On NY1, Inside City Hall’s Errol Louis asked Consolidated Edison CEO Kevin Burke, ME '72, what changes the utility is making after Hurricane Sandy and why he is calling for a possible rate hike.

Watch full NY1 interview here.



Mutual aid clean-up crew
October 31, 2012
Photo by Alex Lin, ME '03

Take a Virtual Tour of 41 Cooper
12/13/2012
Take a virtual tour of 41 Cooper Square with the designer himself, Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects.


Mayne will receive the 2013 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (the Institute’s highest honor) for his bold projects at The Cooper Union, the University of Cincinnati, and the U.S. Federal Building in San Francisco. Read more about the architect and this prestigious award here. 


Stairwell to lobby, 41 Cooper Square

WATCH Cooper Union lecture on C-SPAN3
12/12/2012
C-SPAN3 will air a free lecture featuring Cooper Union Professor Burt Neuborne this weekend. The lecture is part of a free evening lecture series in the Great Hall exploring the United States Constitution and the Supreme Court's evolving interpretations of it.

Stream it live on Saturday 12/15 @ 9:20am ET, Sunday 12/6 @ 4:20pm ET, and on Monday 12/17 @ 5:20am ET. 

Click here for more information about the lecture series.

NY Mag profiles alumni design firm
12/11/2012
Gregg Thompson, ME '98, and Caleb Crye, A '97, are profiled in the latest edition of New York Magazine. Their design firm, Crye Precision, is listed as the #33 "Reason to Love New York." Read excerpt below:


33. Because a Bunch of Kids From Cooper Union Are Remodeling American Military Camo Right in the Navy Yard.

By Alex Morris
Published Dec 9, 2012 

In early 2001, the U.S. Army decided to try installing individual air-conditioning units in soldiers’ uniforms—an idea complex enough to garner the attention of then-25-year-old Caleb Crye and 24-year-old Gregg Thompson, two Cooper Union graduates (Crye studied fine art, Thompson majored in engineering) who founded the design firm Crye Precision in a basement office in Chelsea. With no military expertise and no experience designing clothing, Crye and Thompson began studying soldiers’ uniforms and were shocked to find that few updates had been made since the Vietnam era. (Continue to full article.)

Read the November Newsletter
11/28/2012

November: Architect Alumni in the News
11/14/2012

• Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR '79; Ricardo Scofidio, AR '55) | article | "AD Round Up: Urban Projects Part I," archdaily, November 8, 2012
  
• Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR '79; Ricardo Scofidio, AR '55) | article | "Take a Bow," The Architect's Newspaper, November 9, 2012
  
• Clarke Caton Hintz (John Clarke, AR '66) | award | 2012 PCI (Prestressed Concrete Institute) Design Awards, Best Parking Structure (1000+ Cars), Ruppert Plaza Garage and Macombs Dam Rooftop Park, New York, NY
  
• Joan Ockman, AR '80 | article | "Academic Discourse," Architectural Record, November 2012    
  
• Evan Douglis, AR '83 | speaker | Arch Schools 2012 Exhibition Reception and Deans' Roundtable, Center for Architecture, November 17, 2012
  
• OBRA Architects (Jennifer Lee, AR '97) | group exhibition  | Where are the Utopian Visionaries? Architects of Social Exchange, Rhode Island School of Design, on view November 3-16, 2012; traveling to Boston Society of Architects, BSA Space, on view November 16 - December 31, 2012.
  
• Terreform ONE (Mitchell Joachim; Maria Aiolova; Melanie Fessel, M.Arch II '11) | group exhibition | Past Futures, Present, Futures, Storefront for Art and Architecture, October 5 - November 24, 2012 

November: Art Alumni in the News
11/14/2012

• Trisha Baga, A '07 has her first US solo show, Plymouth Rock 2, November 7 - January 27, at the Whitney Museum.> She is also in a group exhibition, New Pictures of Common Objects, October 31 - December 31, at PS1.>
• Jennifer Crupi, A '95 is included in 40 Under 40: Craft Futures at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery, through February 3, 2013. >
• Malcolm A. Davis II, A '05 / Painting Technician has new work in NEWSFEED, an exhibition at MoCADA's 2AC Gallery in Brooklyn, through January 20. >
• Stephen Ellis (Adjunct Professor), Thomas Nozkowski, A '67 and Philip Taaffe, A '77 have work in Conceptual Abstraction, a group exhibition at Hunter College on view from October 5 - November 10. >
• Olivia Glennon, A '14 is featured in 30 Under 30, a group exhibit at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, Oct. 4 - Nov. 10. >
• Laurie Lee-Georgescu, A '09 will be exhibiting a series of new woodcut prints at 440 Gallery in Brooklyn, Oct. 18 - Nov. 25. >
• Sylvia Plimack Mangold,  A '59 will have a solo exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, from December 9, 2012 to March 3, 2013. EXHIBITION LECTURE: SUNDAY DECEMBER 9, 3pm. >
• Katie Merz (Adjunct Instructor) has a solo show at Ferro Strouse Gallery (Founded by alum Max Ferro, A '08), from November 8 to December 9. OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8, 7-9pm. >
• Leigh Ruple, A '06 is in a group exhibition at Projekt722 in Brooklyn, November 10 - December 9. >
• "Public Hearing", a feature film by James Kienitz Wilkins, A '07 will premiere this November at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. The film features a soundtrack by Eugene Wasserman, A '06, animation by Ben Hemmendinger, A '07, and Prudence Katze, A '09, Ross McLaren (Adjunct Professor) and Jacob Burckhardt (Adjunct Professor) in small acting roles. D. Christian Hagerman, A '07 was the assistant director, and Harold Batista, A '09 was on crew. >
• Jennifer Williams (Adjunct Instructor / A' 94) has work in a group exhibition, Disparate Roots, at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton NJ, Sept 23 - Jan 6. > 
  
• Thea Halo, A '71 (author of Not Even My Name: A True Story) held a lecture: "The Genocide of the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire 193-1923" on Thursday, November 15 from 6-8pm at Queensborough. Event sponsored by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
• Marina Gutierrez (Saturday Program Co-Director / A '81) is exhibiting in Caribbean: Crossroads of the World at the Queens Museum, through January 6, 2013. >
• Josephine Halvorson, A '03, former Visiting Artist) has a solo exhibition at Galerie Nelson-Freeman in Paris, on view through January 26. >
  
• Kim Holleman, A '95 will be leading a workshop on creating glass terrariums at ScuptureCenter in Long Island City on December 8. >
  
• Anna Hostvedt, A '93 (Painting Office Senior Coordinator), Sylvia Plimack Mangold, A '59, Lois Dodd, A '48 and Susanna Coffey (former faculty) are in a group exhibition at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects through December 23rd. >
  
• Katie Merz (Adjunct Instructor) has a solo show at Ferro Strouse Gallery (Founded by alum Max Ferro, A '08), from November 8 to December 9. 

Updated News
11/2/2012

Read October Newsletter
10/24/2012

Alumni in the News
10/15/2012

• Alex Katz, A '49, is featured in the Art Fix Daily article, "ALEX KATZ: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art." Read here. 
• Matthew Richmond's, A '98 surprise egg marriage proposal is featured on the SwissMiss design blog. >
  
• Jennifer Williams (Adjunct Instructor / A '94) is in a group show called Urbicide, curated by Diann Bauer (A'95) at Workshop in Venice, Italy from December 18th 2012 to January 22nd 2013.
  
• Marina Gutierrez (Saturday Program Co-Director / A '81) will have work on view in "Archipelago", Works by LMCC's Swing Space Artists-in-Residence. Westbeth Gallery, January 17 - 27. OPENING RECEPTION: January 17, 6-8pm.
  
• Jennifer Williams (Adjunct Instructor / A '94) is in a group show called Urbicide, curated by Diann Bauer, A '95 at Workshop in Venice, Italy from December 18th 2012 to January 22nd 2013.Click here >
  
• Caryl Gordon, A '75, has a solo exhibition at Galatea Fine Art in Boston, MA, January 2 - 27.  OPENING RECEPTION: JANUARY 4, 6-8pm. Click here >
  
• Trisha Baga, A '07 has a solo show, The Biggest Circle, at Greene Naftali Gallery, through January 12. Click here >
  
• Trisha Baga, A '07 has a solo show, Holiday, at Dundee Contemporary Arts in Dundee, Scotland, December 8 - January 27. Click here >
  
• The Bruce High Quality Foundation presents FALL OF 2012, featuring School of Art alumni Trisha Baga , A '07,Phillip Gabriel, A '07, Nik Gelormino, A '08, Oto Gillen, A '07, Kathryn Kerr, A '07, Keegan Monaghan, A '08, Nick Parker, A '08, and Leigh Ruple, A '06. Open through January 11, 2013. Click here >
  
• Con Ed CEO, Kevin Burke, ME '72, discusses Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts on NY1 on 12/11/12. Watch video here.
  
• Gregg Thompson, ME '98 and Caleb Crye, A '97 are profiled in NY Magazine. Read article here. 
  
• Snarkitecture duo, Daniel Arsham, A '03 and Alex Mustonen, AR '05 show off their new pavilion for the Design Miami Fair. Read Dezeen magazine article here.
  
• David Sena, A '97, is opening his gallery Senaspace on Centre Street this Wednesday, 12/12/12. Click for opening reception info here.
• Alumni Hall of Fame member, Toshiko Mori, AR ’76, is mentioned in ArchDaily. She is part of a jury that gives out the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.Read full article.
  
• Yash Risbud, EE '93 is quoted in this article about research being done at Cooper: Forbes
• Maurice Cox, AR '83, was recently interviewed in this article: MetropolisMag
• The New York Times profiled Pasquale Buzzelli, CE '91 in this article: "New 9/11 Programs Are a British Talk"
• Margarett Jolly, ME '97 wrote a story for Public Utilities Fortnightly and was interviewed for a story by Forbes in August
• ArtOnAir.org featured Paul Garrin, A '82 in a recent broadcast on Media Art and Media Freedom. Listen here. 
• The New York Times features the life and works of Sy Schulman, CE '49 in this article: "Sy J. Schulman, Planner for New York City Parks, Dies at 86"
• "A Poem as Big as New York City" by Masha D'yans, A '98 featured in The New York Times
• C.B.J. Snyder, AR '1882 is recognized for land marking several schools, including Morris High School Campus (formerly named Peter Cooper High School). Read more here.
• The New York Times discusses the restoration of a mural by recently-deceased Georgette Seabrook, A '37 in this article: "At Harlem Hospital, Murals Get a New Life"
• An exhibition preview for "Object(ing): The Art/Design of Tobias Wong (A' 00)" at the Museum of Vancouver is featured in The New York Times.
• Portia Mudson, A’83 is featured in The New York Times along with her husband, Jared Handelesman: "Their Own Museum"
• Alumni Hall of Famers: Jesse Reiser, AR '81 and Nanako Umemoto, AR '83 were recently interviewed by the Arch Daily. Watch the video here. 
• Samantha Vernon, A '09 is featured on PBS's Art21 blog. Read it here. 
• Kim Holleman, A '95 was recently interviewed about her work at Maker Faire on NPR's Morning Edition. Listen here. Kim's Trailer Park installation was also featured in The New York Times article: "A Nature Park That Doesn't Put Down Roots."
• Boris Raisin, A '05 is featured in the Metro New York article: "Concerned New Yorkers' leaving fake parking tickets on 14th street"
  
• Amber Marsh, A '04 is mention in this Chicago theater review for her set designs. Her stage name is Lolly Extract. Read review here.
• Anita Giraldo, A '82 wrote an article about photography in The New York Photo Review. 
• The exhibition pavilion at the Louvre that was designed by Charles Matz, AR '90 is featured in Travel + Leisure and Design Wire.
• Matthew Richmond, A '98 spoke at the How Interactive Design Conference in San Francisco from October 29-31, 2012. Click to watch video.
  
• Alexander Gorlin, AR '78 is featured in New York Magazine's article: "Space of the Week: The People's Architect."
• Homa Shojaie's AR '91 work is featured in the November Yew Journal: A journal of innovative writing and images by women. Read more.
• The November/December 2012 edition of Design Intelligence Magazine cites late professor and alumnus John Hejduk, AR '50 as having influenced one of the most admired educators of 2013. The Cooper Union is also recognized as one of the Top 20 Architecture Programs in the U.S.
• Cooper Union Art Professor, Will Barnet, passes away at age 101. Read full article

Ellen Lupton, A '85 to receive Visionary Woman Award
10/8/2012

The Moore College of Art and Design will present the 2012 Visionary Woman Awards to two exceptional women who have made significant contributions to the arts: graphic designer, writer, curator and critic Ellen Lupton, A '85, and interior designer Victoria Hagan. The awards gala will be held on Thursday, October 18, 2012 from 6 to 9 pm at Moore College of Art & Design.


Since 2003, the Visionary Woman Awards has become a widely recognized event that honors women whose work and leadership have had a powerful influence on the visual arts. In 2005, the College designated proceeds from the Visionary Woman Awards to benefit Visionary Woman Scholarships. Since then, 40 four-year scholarships have been awarded.
The 2012 Visionary Woman Award gala will be held at Moore College of Art & Design, located at 20th Street and The Parkway. The Elizabeth Greenfield Zeidman Lecture featuring the two honorees will be held earlier that day at 2 pm in the Stewart Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.


Ellen Lupton is the director of the Center for Design Thinking and the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art. She also serves as a curator of contemporary design at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Honored in 2007 with an AIGA Gold Medal, Lupton lectures on design around the world and has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office (1993), Mixing Messages: Graphic Design and Contemporary Culture (1996),  and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002). Her book Thinking with Type (2004) is used by students, designers, and educators worldwide. She has published essays and illustrations in The New York Times and contributed to various publications, including Print, Eye, I.D., and Metropolis. Lupton received her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1985 and her Doctorate in Communication Design (DCD) from the University of Baltimore in 2008.
Photo credit: Katie Shelly

A Retrospective: 9/11 Tribute
9/25/2012

Shigeru Ban, AR '84 to give lecture in Japan
9/24/2012

Shigeru Ban, AR '84 will be the guest lecture at the 217 Architectural Lecture Series in Japan on October 10, 2012 at 7:00pm.    
Ban is a John Q. Hejduk Award winner and holds a spot in the Cooper Union Hall of Fame.

Lifetime achievements:
Shigeru Ban, who was born in Tokyo in 1957, attended at Southern California Institute of Architecture and graduated from Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1984. In 1985, he established Shigeru Ban Architects, a private practice in Tokyo. In 1995, he started working as a consultant of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and at the same time established an NGO, Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) in 1995. Renowned for his works with innovative ideas such as “Curtain Wall House”, “Japan Pavilion Hannover EXPO 2000”, “Nicolas G. Hayek Center”, “Centre Pompidou-Metz”, he is today based in his three offices at Tokyo, New York and Paris. Meanwhile, he contributes his knowledge, skills and energy for the disaster relief projects such as Paper Log House (Kobe of Japan in 1995, Turkey in 2000, India in 2002), Paper Church (Kobe,1995), Temporary Elementary School (Chengdu, China 2008) and Container Temporary Housing (Onagawa, Japan in 2011). He has been awarded a number of prizes, including Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture (2005), l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France (2010) and Auguste Perret Prize(2011). Jury of Pritzker Architecture Prize from 2007 to 2009, Professor at Keio University, Japan from 2001 to 2008, Visiting Professor of Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Visiting Professor of Cornell University(2010), and Professor of Kyoto University of Art and Design from 2011.


For more information about the 217 Architectural Lecture Series, click here.

Alumni Participate in Ruckus NYC
9/12/2012

Cooper Spotlight: Marilyn Henrion (A`52)
8/9/2012

Parallel Cases
7/30/2012

Current & Upcoming Alumni Exhibits
7/10/2012
Below is a selection of current art exhibitions featuring Cooper Union alumni. 
To submit a listing, click here.

Dissonances of the Diaspora
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island
August 4 to September 16, 2012
Mitsuko Brooks (A'05) uses the lush and beautiful setting of the Botanical Garden to create a series of photographs that document the body immersed in the landscape as if reclaimed by nature. Her work has been exhibited at Aljira, Rush Arts, Momenta and is currently on view at Stephan Stoyanov Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Alight
Tayloe Piggot Gallery, Jackson, WY
August 30 to October 16, 2012
Open reception: September 7 at 5:00PM
Paul Villinski (A'84) explores flight in this exhibit. As a glider pilot, he sails the skies. As an artist, he coaxes clouds of tin butterflies into lyrical orbit. Villinski started his education at the Phillips Exeter Academy, followed by the Massachusetts College of Art and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Over the years, he has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and has been an Artist-in-Residence at many prestigious institutions including Wyoming’s own Ucross Foundation. His works hang in many public and private collections including the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, Miami International Airport, FL, Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Offices, NY and Paris, France, and Fidelity Investments, NY.

Celebration of Clay
Ghost Ranch Museum, Abiquiu, NM
September 5 - October 2, 2012
Mario Quilles (A'66) will be doing a handbuilding demonstration at the annual NMPCA Ghost Ranch workshop on Friday, September 21, 2012.

Counterpoint
Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles
September 8 to October 27, 2012
Ruth Pastine (A '87) explores the subtle character of color in her new pastel on paper works. Open reception on Saturday, September 8 from 6:00-8:00 PM.

Two Hemispheres
The Gabarron Foundation: Carriage House Center for the Arts, NYC
September 14 - November 2, 2012
This exhibition of young contemporary American and Spanish artists features works by Jason Clay Lewis (A '98). The purpose of this special exhibition is for American artists from New York to build a cultural dialogue with their fellow Spanish artists, recognizing the strong link among the United States, Latin America, and Spain.

The graphic design of Paul Rand
Fundit.ie (online campaign) through September 15
Two Dublin artists from Curate & Design put together a free 2 week exhibition, which aims to introduce a new audience to the work of Paul Rand. He was a former art professor at The Cooper Union who passed away in 1996. The online exhibition will tell the story of Rand's philosophy and takes you though his works from the early age of advertising through to modern identity design, showing his thinking and methods throughout.

September 11th Memorial
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC
September 9, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Meredith Gan Bergmann (A'77) invites the Cooper Community to the unveiling of her new September 11th memorial sculpture at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue.

Recent Paintings
Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC
September 7 - October 14
Laura Newman (A'78) invites the Cooper Community to the opening of her solo show entitled Recent Paintings (oil and acrylic on canvas) at the Jen Bekman Gallery on Spring Street. An open reception on Friday, September 7 from 6:00-8:00 PM.

A Blade of Grass Double Feature: Panel + Party
17 West 17th Street, 8th Floor
September 11, 2012 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
A panel discussion on "The Aesthetics of Doing: Collaboration" will be followed by a celebration of Artist Files, an experimental curated grant for socially engaged art. Features Nicky Enright (A'96). RSVP to aharsanyi@abladeofgrass.org.

Natura Viva: Visions of the Muddy River
Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
September 14 - October 12
This upcoming exhibition in the Brookline Arts Center gallery features photographic prints by local Brookline artist, Lois Swirnoff (A'51). These photographs document years of Swirnoff's exploration of the Muddy River and its surrounding natural beauty. The images capture the various seasons over time to reveal the subtle beauty of this urban treasure.

Superpositions: New Wight Biennial 2012
New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
September 27 to October 11, 2012
Opening reception: Thursday, September 27 at 5PM
Superpositions is an exploration of interference as a model for art-making and reception. The glitch, stutter, moiré, palimpsest, thwarted expectation, and feedback loop all fall within this purview. The exhibition includes the work of 26 international artists, including Lea Cetera (A '05) and Devin Kenny (A '09).


Noah Lyon (A'02), NY Art Book Fair

The New York Art Book Fair 2012
MoMA PS1, NYC
September 27-30
Printed Matter presents the seventh annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 28 to 30 at MoMA PS1. A Preview will be held the evening of Thursday, September 27. Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world's premier event for artists' books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by more than 250 international pressers, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from over twenty countries. Featuring Noah Lyon (A'02).

Drawing Water
Building 110 LMCC's Arts Center, Governors Island, NY
September 29-30, 12-5PM
The Lower Manhattan's Cultural Council presents Open House at Governors Island with Open Studios; Transforming Function, a group exhibition in the gallery; and a performing arts presentation. Come meet the 20 visual artists-in-residence, including Marina Gutierrez (A '81) who will display her exhibit Drawing Water. The Open House also features a work-in-progress presentation by People Get Ready.


Australia Square Tower, Sydney, 1961-67; Under Construction, photo by Max Dupain (part of Harry Seidler exhibit)

Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design
Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia
October 4 - November 25, 2012

Episodic Drift
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA
August 10 to October 28, 2012
Jennifer Williams (A'94) is known for her over-sized photo collages which are stuck to walls, floors and ceilings. In Episodic Drift she uses numerous photographs of ladders. The images are printed on adhesive-backed vinyl, mounted on foam-core, and then hung throughout the gallery creating a 3D collage.

The Double Dirty Dozen
Freight and Volume Gallery, New York
August 16 to September 22, 2012
Noah Lyon (A'02) will be exhibiting new paintings at Freight and Volume gallery in the group exhibition "The Double Dirty Dozen." This is an exhibition about the quest for freedom of expression – sexual, intellectual, spiritual, political - and ultimately salvation through making art.

The Abstract: New Mexico's Own
Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe
August 17 to 30, 2012
Ellen Koment (A'65) is an abstract artist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is joined by three other artists living and working in New Mexico to showcase artwork featuring oils, encaustics, and acrylic as part of this group exhibition.


Art by Nyeema Morgan (A'00)

Nyeema Morgan: The Dubious Sum of Vaguely Discernible Parts
The Bindery Projects, Saint Paul, MN
August 18 to September 2, 2012
Nyeema Morgan's (A'00) first solo exhibition in the Twin Cities includes her series of text based computer drawings title Forty-Seven Easy Poundcakes Like grandma Used to Make (2007-2012) along with a photographic installation and writing based on the aforementioned series. Open reception on Friday, August 17th from 7-9 PM, and an artist talk on Saturday, August 18th from 2-3 PM.

Fun Can Be Work! The Art of ClaraGee Stamaty, Stanley Stamaty, and Mark Alan Stamaty
April 22 to August 30, 2012
Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, Freehold Township, New Jersey
Mark Stamaty (A'69) is exhibiting in this group show.

From Bursa FotoFest to Istanbul: Three World Famous Photographers
Istanbul Photography Museum, Turkey
August 31 to December 2, 2012
Ken Schles (A'82) is featured in this show in the recently opened Istanbul Photography Museum of work by three photographers who exhibited in the recently established Bursa Photo Fest in Bursa, Turkey.

A Guide to Nature: The Art of Arthur Singer with Alan Singer
The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History, Jamestown, NY
June 23 to August 31, 2012
Arthur Singer's (A'39) paintings have been featured in gallery and museum shows, prints, books, collectibles, and U.S. Postage stamps. Later in his career he enlisted his son, Alan, to help him revise books and create botanical backgrounds for his compositions in the tradition of John James Audubon and his sons. Included in this exhibit are over fifty works from book illustrations to full scale paintings, framing Arthur Singer's spectacular career.

Place
New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE
September 7 to October 19, 2012
Larry Lairson's (A'10) painting entitled Place, depicting a concrete model of temporal retinal space, is included in the New Wilmington Art Association's annual group exhibition. Curated by art critic, F. Lennox Campello. RSVP only.

Superpositions: New Wight Biennial 2012
New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
September 27 to October 11, 2012
Opening reception: Thursday, September 27 at 5PM
Superpositions is an exploration of interference as a model for art-making and reception. The glitch, stutter, moiré, palimpsest, thwarted expectation, and feedback loop all fall within this purview. The exhibition includes the work of 26 international artists, including Lea Cetera (A '05) and Devin Kenny (A '09).

Natura Viva: Visions of the Muddy River
Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
September 14 - October 12
This upcoming exhibition in the Brookline Arts Center gallery features photographic prints by local Brookline artist, Lois Swirnoff (A'51). These photographs document years of Swirnoff's exploration of the Muddy River and its surrounding natural beauty. The images capture the various seasons over time to reveal the subtle beauty of this urban treasure.

Be a Rebel of Just Look Like One
The Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
October 13, 2012 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM
A free cockade-making workshop for families with artist Robyn Love (A'88). In this workshop, families will decorate tricorn hats with cockades they make from ribbons, buttons and feathers.  During the Revolutionary War, soldiers wore cockades to declare their allegiance to a cause.  Whether you are a rebel, or not, come make a hat that shows the world where you stand! This workshop is part of the Battle Pass Project, a Proteus Gowanus initiative.

Bits and Mortar: Architecture in the Age of Digital Communication
AIA New York Center for Architecture, New York, NY
Saturday, October 13 from 8:30AM to 6:30PM
Bits and Mortar: Architecture in the Age of Digital Communication is a Saturday symposium – with a Sunday evening keynote by Frank Gehry - that will discuss how architecture enabled by digital technology can drive cultural change beyond its traditional boundaries. Featuring Paul Seletzky (AR'82).

City-Wide Open Studios
Erector Square, New Haven, CT
October 13 - 14, 2012 from 12:00 - 5:00PM
Come visit Martha Lewis's (A'87) studio and play her new installation/game T.O.E./T.A.L.


Courtesy of Princeton University

Performing Architecture Symposium
Princeton University: Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ
October 13, 2012 from 10:00 - 5:30PM
This symposium will bring together significant theorists and practitioners in the fields of architecture and performance and inviting a broader engagement with the artistic and academic community. Including Liz Diller (AR'79), Pedro Gadanho (MoMA), Vito Acconci, Roselee Goldberg, and many others, they hope to offer lasting provocations to how we think of the body, space, structure, and design in the disciplines of performance and architecture – and somewhere between the two.

Thesis Retrospective 1990-2012
Center Gallery at New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY
October 13, 2012 from 9:00 - 5:00PM
The Center Gallery in Education Hall hosts a retrospective exhibition presenting 22 years of independent student thesis projects accomplished in the studio section of Professor Paul Amatuzzo (AR'69). A Closing Reception will be held on Sunday, November 11, 2012 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. This event is part of Archtober, a celebration of architecture and design during the month of October 2012.

Recent Paintings
Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC
September 7 - October 14, 2012
Laura Newman (A'78) invites the Cooper Community to the opening of her solo show entitled Recent Paintings (oil and acrylic on canvas) at the Jen Bekman Gallery on Spring Street. An open reception on Friday, September 7 from 6:00-8:00 PM.

Alex Katz
Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall, England
May 19 to September 23, 2012
This exhibition of work by Alex Katz (A'49) brings together over 30 canvases, plus collages and cut-outs, that span the breadth of his six decade career.


Art by Fred Marcellino (A'60)

Dancing by the Light of the Moon
Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, Nebraska
July 14 to September 30, 2012
The late artist Fred Marcellino (A'60) known as an author and illustrator of award-winning children’s books is featured in this exhibit. Dancing by the Light of the Moon: The Art of Fred Marcellino is traveled by the Norman Rockwell Museum and the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature.

Tom Wesselmann
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
May 18 to October 7, 2012
This retrospective examines Tom Wesslemann's (A'59) focus on the process of stylization, and revisits the inspirations for his influential Pop Art.




Geometrics in Space
Loft Artists Gallery, Stamford CT
October 5 to October 28, 2012
Lisa Cuscuna (AR'73) is a video artist and surrealistic photographer. Her work is on display in various installations around the world including The American Museum of Natural History, The George Bush Presidential Library, and the International Olympic Committee museum in Lausanne Switzerland.

Venice Biennale
Venice, Italy
August 29 to November 25, 2012
Bojan Boric (AR'93) is an associate professor at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden. Boric and KTH architecture school's Urban Studio students will be presenting their work as part of the Hong Kong pavilion at Venice Biennale Architecture exhibition. Toshiko Mori (AR'76) is also participating in the Biennale. 

Sun Clock
High Desert Test Sites, Pioneertown, CA (Andy's Gamma Gulch Parcel)
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Lea Cetera's (A '05) human sundial encourages the viewer to regain a visceral experience with time. By eschewing contemporary technology in her practice and relying solely on audience participation and planetary placement for this piece, Cetera hopes to magnify a sense of real physical time and place that is often absent in our everyday lives - reminding us of our bodies and the earth, and heightening the awareness of this detachment that technology can create.

HUMAN stop Motion: Play In the Realms of the REAL
Anderson Center for the Arts Theatre at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
October 15, 2012 at 7:00PM
Award winning choreographer, animator and film-maker, Pooh Kaye (A'72)  presents her film, "Spring Cleaning," which will be part of the event at Hartwick on the 15th, premiered at RPI's EMPAC in Troy and has also been shown at Lincoln Center and the Winter Garden Theater, both in New York, NY. 

Alight
Tayloe Piggot Gallery, Jackson, WY
August 30 to October 16, 2012
Open reception: September 7 at 5:00PM
Paul Villinski (A'84) explores flight in this exhibit. As a glider pilot, he sails the skies. As an artist, he coaxes clouds of tin butterflies into lyrical orbit. Villinski started his education at the Phillips Exeter Academy, followed by the Massachusetts College of Art and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Over the years, he has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and has been an Artist-in-Residence at many prestigious institutions including Wyoming’s own Ucross Foundation. His works hang in many public and private collections including the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, Miami International Airport, FL, Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Offices, NY and Paris, France, and Fidelity Investments, NY.

FDR Four Freedoms Park: Open House
Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island
October 19, 2012 from 11AM to 3PM (reservation required)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park was designed by renowned architect Louis Kahn, who was commissioned in 1972 and completed the plans prior to his death in 1974. At the Open House reception, remarks will be made at 12:30 pm by Gina Pollara (AR'91), AIA, Executive Director of FDR Four Freedoms Park LLC, and Sue Ann Kahn, daughter of Louis Kahn.

Place
New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE
September 7 to October 19, 2012
Larry Lairson's (A'10) painting entitled Place, depicting a concrete model of temporal retinal space, is included in the New Wilmington Art Association's annual group exhibition. Curated by art critic, F. Lennox Campello. 'RSVP': September 7th from 6-9pm at 605 N. Market St., Wilmington, DE - 2nd Floor.


"Oyster Boat" oil on canvas, Paul Moscatt (A'59)

Paul Moscatt Open Studio
Station North Area (Cork Factory Building), Baltimore, MD
October 20 and 21, 2012 
Paul Moscatt (A'59) will be displaying Figures, Portraits, and Landscape pieces, along with oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings at School 33 Art Center from October 20-21, 2012.


Branded by Chuck von Schmidt (A'73)

"Branded" solo show by Chuck von Schmidt

Main Street Petite Gallery, Huntington, NY

September 12 - October 22, 2012

Chuck von Schmidt's (A '73) continuing series of sculpture-based mixed media pieces incorporates video and other elements.

Work by Paul Nueckel (A '74)

Coming to Brooklyn

Brooklyn Arts Waterfront Coalition (BWAC), Brooklyn, NY

September 22 to October 24, 2012

Paul Nueckel (A'74) joins a group of 200 artists who will express through painting, sculpture, photography, installation and assemblage what the experience of arrival has meant to them. In addition to a visual exploration, each artist is asked to write a narrative, a contemplation of process, emotion, or intent — a window into each artist's thoughts — of the meaning of this theme. 

Head/Hand

The Great Hall at the Cooper Union, New York, NY

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 7:00PM

The Architectural League of New York presents a lecture by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. Their body of work ranges from large cultural institutions to new skating rinks for Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University, and the recently awarded commission to design the New Embassy Compound in Mexico City. Introduced and moderated by Annabelle Selldorf.

The Ballot Show

The Front Room, Bklyn, NY

October 25 - November 6, 2012

The Front Room Gallery presents the third quadrennial "Ballot Show", which focuses on the American electoral system, and the overall notion of voting with a ballot. "The Ballot Show," held every 4 years since 2004, is inspired by the American election, and contemplates our antiquated electoral-college voting process. Group exhibition, featuring Jason Clay Lewis (A '98).

Counterpoint

Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles

September 8 to October 27, 2012

Ruth Pastine (A '87) explores the subtle character of color in her new pastel on paper works. Open reception on Saturday, September 8 from 6:00-8:00 PM.

John Berg

Wasserstein Galley at Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY

October 27, 2012 to January 6, 2013

This exhibition will include works by John Berg (A'76). As the Art Director for Columbia Records, he was nominated for 29 Grammys and won four. In a 25-year career with Columbia Records, he designed over 5,000 record covers. Berg’s most famous works include the first Bob Dylan album, Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” all the Chicago albums and Bruce Springsteen’s’ “Born To Run.”

Tamino charms the animals, Lisa Zwerling (A'74)

The Magic Flute

First Street Gallery, New York, NY

October 2-27, 2012

Lisa Zwerling (A '74) has created a series of 38 paintings inspired by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operatic fantasy The Magic Flute. For Zwerling, who usually paints in series, The Magic Flute is her most extensive and concentrated. Her paintings explore the emotional flowering of the opera's characters as they set forth on an enchanted quest to rescue a princess and reach a state of enlightenment. The Magic Flute offers an abundance of visual inspiration including magic bells and a magic flute, child spirits, trials of fire and water, a dragon, a vengeful queen with a high F note, comedic characters bedecked in feathers, and enchanted villains.

Episodic Drift

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA

August 10 to October 28, 2012

Jennifer Williams (A'94) is known for her over-sized photo collages which are stuck to walls, floors and ceilings. In Episodic Drift she uses numerous photographs of ladders. The images are printed on adhesive-backed vinyl, mounted on foam-core, and then hung throughout the gallery creating a 3D collage.

Geometrics in Space

Loft Artists Gallery, Stamford CT

October 5 to October 28, 2012

Lisa Cuscuna (AR'73) is a video artist and surrealistic photographer. Her work is on display in various installations around the world including The American Museum of Natural History, The George Bush Presidential Library, and the International Olympic Committee museum in Lausanne Switzerland.

Work by Carlson Hatton (A'97)

Extinction Burst

Weekend, Los Angeles, CA

October 5 - 28, 2012

Open reception: October 5 from 7:00-10:00PM

In this exhibition, Carlson Hatton (A '97) presents works that are a bricolage of multiple sources.   Taking from design, fashion, art history and popular culture, Hatton utilizes varying techniques to construct a web of conflicting forms and reference points that are simultaneously beautiful and dark, sexually charged yet transcendent, and subtly humorous. 

Two Hemispheres

The Gabarron Foundation: Carriage House Center for the Arts, NYC

September 14 - November 2, 2012

This exhibition of young contemporary American and Spanish artists features works by Jason Clay Lewis (A '98). The purpose of this special exhibition is for American artists from New York to build a cultural dialogue with their fellow Spanish artists, recognizing the strong link among the United States, Latin America, and Spain. 

Dark Harbinger, Zoe Pettijohn Schade (A'95)

Speakers

111 Front Street Galleries, Bklyn

October 4 to November 3, 2012

Zoe Pettijohn Schade (A'95) is part of a group exhibition that gathers work from all of the artists who have presented their work at the Artist Lecture Series in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The Artist Lecture Series was established to formalize a comprehensive and fertile dialogue across a peer group of artists. It was founded by Christopher Schade, Zoe Pettijohn Schade, and Michael Lee in 2011. The exhibit also features work by Sue Havens (A’95), Colin Hunt (A’96), and Nichole Van Beek (A’98).

Speakers

111 Front Street Galleries, Dumbo, Brooklyn

Closing reception: Friday, November 9, 2012
Please join us this Friday, November 9th from 6-9 for the closing reception of the Artist Lecture Series show "Speakers".  The closing will be held in conjunction with "Suckitsandy"- a hurricane relief fundraiser that will be held with several other galleries at 111 Front Street that evening. Donations and proceeds from refreshments will be given to the DUMBO arts organizations who are working to rebuild after Sandy flooded their spaces and caused much damage. Featuring Zoe Pettijohn Schade (A'95).

Australia Square Tower, Sydney, 1961-67; Under Construction, photo by Max Dupain (part of Harry Seidler exhibit)

Vi Vona - Born under WHAT star?

Red Dot Gallery, Santa Fe NM

October 12 to November 11, 2012

Linda ViVona (A'61) will be hosting a retrospective of multimedia works from the early '60s through present day in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Opening reception on October 12 from 5-8PM.

Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design

Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia

October 4 - November 25, 2012

Vladimir Belogolovsky (AR'96) curated a traveling exhibition "Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design." The exhibition’s focus is on 15 key projects across four continents and on creative collaborations with such visionaries as Josef Albers, Marcel Breuer, Alexander Calder, Sol LeWitt, Pier Luigi Nervi, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Stella, and Lin Utzon. The exhibition’s world tour starts in Tallinn, Estonia on October 4, 2012. The curator’s lecture on life and work of Australian modernist Harry Seidler will take place at the Museum of Estonian Architecture at 5pm and will be followed by 6pm exhibition opening. 

Work by Marilyn Henrion (A'52)

Send Grandma to Poland!

September 28 to November 27, 2012
Marilyn Henrion (A'52) is auctioning off some of her finest artwork at a discounted price to seek funding for a trip to see her artwork exhibited at the International Tapestry Triennial in Lodz, Poland. Learn more about her project.

Venice Biennale

Venice, Italy

August 29 to November 25, 2012

Bojan Boric (AR'93) is an associate professor at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden. Boric and KTH architecture school's Urban Studio students will be presenting their work as part of the Hong Kong pavilion at Venice Biennale Architecture exhibition. Toshiko Mori (AR'76) is also participating in the Biennale. 

"Swiss Chard" by Jeannetta vanRaalte (A'60)

Vista: Contemporary Works by Latin American Artists

Arts Program Gallery at the University of Maryland, Adelphi, MD

September 16 to November 25, 2012

This exhibition focuses on new expressions by Latin American artists and will include works in a variety of media including oil and acrylic, photography, video, embroidery, and collage, by artists from Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina and elsewhere. Featuring Nicky Enright (A'96).

Hammer Conversations

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

November 29, 2012 at 7:30 PM

The Hammer Museum is hosting a lecture with Cooper Union Alumna Ellen Lupton (A '85) and graphic designer Michael Bierut on Thursday, November 29. Ellen is a designer, writer, and senior curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. She is also the co-curator of Graphic Design: Now in Production and serves as director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art, where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking.

Work by Yael Hameiri (AR'10)

Dialogical Corners

Centerpoint Gallery, NYC

September 15 to December 1, 2012

Yael Hameiri (AR'10) presents Dialogical Corners. The exhibition portrays series of imaginary architectural moments in different cities. The sites of transitional spaces are in dialogue with the historic conception of a plaza, and what could initiate a form of new civic space while bringing play into the urban filed. The question of childhood in the city is hovering through the proposed spaces. These intimate spaces, postcards from Other places, are presented in relation to a sequence of charcoal drawings, City Formations, which explore initiation in terms of what is yet to become.

From Bursa FotoFest to Istanbul: Three World Famous Photographers

Istanbul Photography Museum, Turkey

August 31 to December 2, 2012

Ken Schles (A'82) is featured in this show in the recently opened Istanbul Photography Museum of work by three photographers who exhibited in the recently established Bursa Photo Fest in Bursa, Turkey. 

Light Assembly, Miami, Florida 

Light Assembly

Verge Art, Art Basel Miami, FL

December 6 to December 9, 2012

Jill Taffet, A '78, was chosen to be included in the Architectural Projection program of Light Assembly, Verge Art Miami. It will be shown as a large-scale public art video projection nightly in the pool area of the Clevelander Hotel, 1020 Ocean Drive in the Art Deco section of South Beach during Art Basel Miami, December 6-9, 2012. 

Winter Workshop at Sculpture Center 

  

Winter Workshop: The Art of the Gift

SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY

Saturday, December 8 from 12:00 - 2:00PM

The first in a series of activity-based family programs led by contemporary artists, this unique event will focus on the spirit of gift-exchange. Artist Gina Beavers will direct workshops where youths (or the young-at-heart!) can create a variety of sculptural gifts. Artist Kim Holleman, A'95 will instruct participants on how to create miniature worlds inside of glass-jar terrariums, artist Leah Wolff will lead a ceramics workshop, and other guest artists will host a sprawling handmade wrapping-paper station.

Leigh Ruple (A'06), Family Tree. 2012. Oil on canvas. 72 x 72"

Temperature

Projekt722, Brooklyn, NY

November 10 to December 9, 2012
Drawing on the concept of temperature, this group exhibition includes work that jabs its own materiality with red-hot pokers. If you can't stand the heat, you best get out of the kitchen. Fire-walking across boundaries, theses artists forge new realities between abstraction and representation. Featuring work by Leigh Ruple (A'06).

Grand Opening of Senaspace 

Senaspace Gallery, 229 Centre Street, NYC

Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Opening reception: 6:00 to 10:00 PM

This gallery and tattoo studio is a reflection of David Sena's, A '97, lifelong interest in diverse modes of artistic expression, and his conviction that art is not a luxury but a sublime human need. He created this space to bring together the different strands of his life as an artist. On 12/12/12, Sena will host his inaugural art show, followed by a live fire-drawing demo. 

Otto Hats 
59 West 12th Street #12C, New York City

Saturday, December 15, 2012 from 2:00-6:00 PM

Rivka Schoenfeld A '67, painter, interior designer, and hat maker, will be selling hats currently carried by Comme des Garcons, Tokyo, Egg, London, and Dosa, NY, and formerly carried by Moss and Cooper-Hewitt store. One-day only special sale. 

Fall of 2012
BHQFU, New York
December 14, 2012 to January 11, 2013
A group exhibition featuring the works of Roland Allmeyer, A '06, Trisha Baga, A '07, Phillip Gabriel, A '07, Nik Gelormino, A '08, Oto Gillen, A '07, Kathryn Kerr, A '07, Keegan Monaghan, A '08, Nick Parker, A '08, and Leigh Ruple, A '06.




Moments of Being
Noho Gallery, 530 W. 25th Street, 4th Floor
December 18, 2012 to January 5, 2013
Opening reception: Thursday, December 20 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm
M55 Gallery started as a co-op gallery on Mercer Street in Soho in the late 1960's. When rents in Soho became too expensive, the gallery moved to Long Island City. Now the gallery has moved back into Manhattan to Chelsea, the center of the New York art world. They are sharing the space with the Noho Gallery at 530 West 25th St. 4th floor. Their inaugural exhibition, Moments of Being, includes the works of Eileen Mislove, A '55 and Joyce Silver, A '54.

(TOP): Charles Hagen, “Red Fender,” 2011, photograph, 18" x 28"
(BOT.): Laura Newman, “Fragment,” 2012, oil and acrylic on canvas, 30" x 40" 

Charles Hagen: Photographs
Laura Newman: Paintings

Carol Shen Gallery (Packer Collegiate Institute), Bklyn, NY

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 to January 11, 2013

Charles Hagen’s photographs record the undulating reflections and seductive colors of cars seen close up, transforming everyday spaces into evocative dreamlike scenes. In Laura Newman’s (A '78) abstract paintings, stained pools of color, gestural swooshes, and hard-edged shards interact across austere, almost meditative white fields.

"Born to Run" by Bob Dylan; design: John Berg (A'76)

John Berg: A Music Art Legend

Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY

October 27 - January 6, 2012
Special Gallery Tall on November 17 at 11AM
John Berg (A'76) was the Art Director for Columbia Records. He was nominated for 29 Grammys and won four. In a 25-year career with Columbia Records, he designed over 5,000 record covers, including: the first Bob Dylan album, Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” all the Chicago albums and Bruce Springsteen’s’ “Born To Run.”

Caribbean Crossroads of the World

Queens Museum of Art, New York

June 17, 2012 to January 6, 2013

Marina Gutierrez (A'81) is exhibiting is this group show exploring the diverse and impactful cultural history of the Caribbean basin and its diaspora. 

(TOP): Charles Hagen, “Red Fender,” 2011, photograph, 18" x 28"
(BOT.): Laura Newman, “Fragment,” 2012, oil and acrylic on canvas, 30" x 40" 

Charles Hagen: Photographs
Laura Newman: Paintings

Carol Shen Gallery (Packer Collegiate Institute), Bklyn, NY

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 to January 11, 2013

Charles Hagen’s photographs record the undulating reflections and seductive colors of cars seen close up, transforming everyday spaces into evocative dreamlike scenes. In Laura Newman’s (A '78) abstract paintings, stained pools of color, gestural swooshes, and hard-edged shards interact across austere, almost meditative white fields.

AES+F Allegoria Sacra, Still 1-22, 2011 (13.0.0.0.0.)

13.0.0.0.0

RH Gallery, NYC

November 14, 2012 to January 13, 2013

End of the World Party: December 18, 7:00 - 10:00 pm

RH Gallery is pleased to present 13.0.0.0.0, an exhibition influenced by the Mayan long count date marking the end of the 13th Bak’tun cycle, which, according to many scholars, falls on December 23, 2012. The artists included in the exhibition are AES+F, Rina Banerjee, Marcos Castro, Amelie Chabannes, Alex La Cruz, Myla Dalbesio, Tamar Ettun, Micah Ganske, Andrey Klassen, Jeremy Kost, Maria Kozak, Noel Middleton, Dane Patterson, Kristofer Porter, Elaine Reichek, Kirstine Roepstorff, Jean-Pierre Roy, Emily 
Stoddart, and Matthew Stone.

Introduction to Encaustic Workshop
Delray Center for the Arts, Delray Beach, FL
January 11-13, 2013
Workshop includes all the basics, everything you need to know to begin to work in this medium. Featuring Ellen Koment, A '65. To register for this workshop go to: DelrayCenterForTheArts.org

Diagram

Real Room Gallery, Hartford, CT

November 15, 2012 to January 17, 2013

Open reception: Nov. 15, 2012 from 6:00-8:00PM

Featuring work by Martha Lewis (A'87), Enid Hatton, Karla Knight, Laurie Sloan.

Deirdre Schiffer: Retrospective
The Hilles Gallery at Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut
Friday, January  18,  5:00  to  7:00
Hours:   Monday-Friday:   9:30  AM  to  5:30  PM   Saturday:   9:00  AM  to  12:00  PM
Featuring work by the late Deirdre Schiffer (A '65). “Art is the Chalice into which we pour the wine of transcendence”  - Stanley Kunitz.

Newsfeed: Anonymity & Social Media in African Revolutions and Beyond

MoCADA, Brooklyn NY

October 18 to January 20, 2013

This exhibit features a compilation of new media art, contemporary works and digital installations that investigate global interconnectivity and how anonymous parties define, construct, and support uprisings in Africa via social media. Featuring the works of  Malcolm A. Davis II (A '05).

Mass Masonry
Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
January 2 to January 27, 2013
Open reception: January 4 from 6:00 - 8:00pm
After being a print maker for many years, Caryl Gordon, A '75, has become passionately in love with encaustic where she paints with hot wax as well as use wax as an adherent to collage handmade fiber papers, callograph prints, silk fabrics and Indian cottons into my compositions.