1/20/18: Class 45: Archive w/ Katie Blumenkrantz and Cooper Union History Project w/ Barry Drogin
1/20/18: Class 45: Archive w/ Katie Blumenkrantz and Cooper Union History Project w/ Barry Drogin
Hello Projects Class💌
We'll meet at 2pm this Monday (1/22) in 414 of the Foundation Building. As discussed last week, we'll be starting off each class with a _'Weekly Bulletin'_this is a 2-3 minute go around where we'll each speak to one of the following:
- Progress: fill us in on where you or your group are at with a project (individual or group)
- Ask : something specific you need help with & how others can follow up
- Share: something external you read or saw that feels relevant to the class (reading, media, show, piece)
- Update: an observation or development internal to the school you think everyone would benefit knowing about
This week
In the first half of class we'll be returning to the Cooper Archives to touch base with Katie Blumenkrantz to discuss what she sees for the future of the Archives as well look at some of the documents/objects stored there. Hopefully we'll also hear from some class participants that have been working with Katie via Archives research/Archives Club/ or Student Work!
In the second half of class we'll be joined by Barry Drogin (EE '83) who in addition to working with the Alumni Association and on the Working Group used run the Alumni Pioneer. He now helms the Cooper Union History Project.
Last week
We kicked off the semester with introductions of new and returning class members and a proposed overview for visitors and trips. Visitors include, Board members to discuss the Free Education Committee report, Jalal Toufic, Will Villalongo/Leslie Hewitt/Lucy Raven, and Howard Singerman among others as well a possible bus trip to Cooper-related sites and properties and a presentation to Freshmen Projects a seminar that addresses the entire School of Art freshman class. Dan presented a proposal for a collaborative exhibition; Ariana, Kiersten, and Taesha described a two semester humanities course about higher education gearing towards applying to 100&change, and Casey went over the class wiki which hosts documentation from the past few semesters.
Lastly, Walid invited anyone interested to accompany Freshmen Projects (Mondays 7-10pm 215F) on two field trips, one to Pioneer Works this Monday evening 1/22 and the other to Situ Studio on 2/5.
Extras
In case anyone missed it Anton sent along Cooper's recently released 990 for 2016 where he cited:
'On page 52 of 58, there is a new mission-old mission hybrid. It has parts from the asterisk, even. I don't know if this answers anything, but this is a legal document of sorts so I guess the new mission was used already. Note instead of how the new mission says "...dynamic setting," the mission in the 990 says things about the "urban setting" etc. so the apparently binding document is different even from the mission, or rather academic vision, sent to the community. More confusion ..'
Below is the directory we generated in class for your reference:
