Gabe Fowler

The Frank Stanton Chair in Graphic Design (Fall 2024)

Gabe Fowler owns and operates the Brooklyn art and comics store Desert Island, publishes the free tabloid Smoke Signal along with countless zines, and ran the Comic Arts Brooklyn festival for eleven years. His collaborative comics project Rescue Party will be published by Pantheon in 2024. Fowler holds a BA from the University of Florida and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.