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Pop-Up Runway and Gallery on Myrtle Ave

On a recent spring weekend, Pratt Institute students transformed Myrtle Avenue Plaza just outside the Brooklyn campus into a public showcase of sculpture, video, performance, fashion, photography, and more. The ongoing Foundation Expanded: Myrtle Ave Public Projects (MAPP) initiative…

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Pratt Faculty and Alumni Receive 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships

Melissa Dubbin, visiting instructor of Foundation; Aaron S. Davidson, adjunct associate professor-CCE of Foundation; Lisa Corinne Davis, BFA ’80; and Maria Gaspar, BFA ’02 have all been awarded 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 180…

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Students Bring Public Art to Myrtle Avenue with an Oversized Welcome Mat, Animations, and More

Pratt Institute students rolled out a colossal welcome mat for the kickoff weekend of the fall 2021 Foundation Expanded, an ongoing initiative to bring public art to Myrtle Avenue. With “Keep Going!” spelled out in large letters, the 15-…

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The New Foundations Lab Invites Exploration of the Natural World

The Foundations Lab at Pratt Institute (photo by Armon Burton) The Foundations Lab in the Main Building on Pratt Institute’s Brooklyn campus is a space designed to spark curiosity about the natural world. Articulated skeletons and taxidermy animals are joined…

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How First-Year Foundation Courses Are Being Reimagined as a Virtual Collaborative Experience

Work by Foundation student Elizabeth Vasquez completed in the spring Space, Form, Process class led by Visiting Instructor Matthew Northridge. Students were asked to recreate an image with available objects.  In rethinking a pivotal first-year experience…

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Critiques at a Distance: Pratt Faculty Members Rethink Reviews in the Digital Space

Teaching and learning at Pratt Institute changed rapidly this spring as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic forced a move off the physical campus, and into digital spaces. Among the classroom and studio practices that needed to be reimagined were…

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Mural on Life and Hope Fills the Windows of Pratt Manhattan Campus

Over several days in early October, the first floor windows of the Pratt Manhattan campus were filled with vibrant drawings in ink. The painted mural is a long-term installation by Maria de Los Angeles, BFA Painting ’13 and…

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Pratt Student Wraps Myrtle Avenue Plaza Utility Boxes in a “Wonderland” of Art

Pratt student Elodia Wei, BFA Interior Design ‘22, was inspired by the seasonal shifts of color along Myrtle Avenue in creating her new installation for Myrtle Avenue Plaza located next to Pratt Institute’s Brooklyn campus. Called “Wonderland,” the work…

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Educating for the Future: Foundation Chair Leslie Mutchler

Exploring new models for education is one of the pillars of President Frances Bronet’s inauguration and an important area of discussion in academia. We live during a time of dramatic change, where the landscape is quickly shifting. How is…

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Foundation Class Mural Installed Outside Brooklyn Botanic Garden

A mural created by students in the freshman Foundation Drawing class taught by adjunct assistant professor and Distinguished Teaching Award winner Andrew Lenaghan this spring was recently installed outside the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG), where it is being displayed this…