Tori Egherman was awarded the fellowship for his work as the Associate Curator for ABCs of Triangle, Square, Circle: The Bauhaus and Design Theory; From Preschool to Post-Modernism, an exhibition held at The Cooper Union from April 8 to May 11, 1991 curated by Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller. He contributed an essay titled "The Birth of Weimar" to the accompanying catalog. Egherman graduated from the Cooper Union in 1991.