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Pratt Institute President Thomas F. Schutte was presented with the Rowena Reed Kostellow Award for his career-long advocacy for design at a ceremony on March 8 at the Knoll showroom in Manhattan. Pratt alumna and Chrysler interior designer Cindy Juette…
Fashion
Pratt Institute will honor design team Laura Kim (B.F.A. ’04) and Fernando Garcia, co-creative directors of Oscar de la Renta and Monse, with the Pratt Fashion Visionary Award at Pratt Shows: Fashion | The Work on May 4, 2017. The 118th runway show will spotlight inventive…
Pratt Institute’s Legends 2016 gala was held at the Mandarin Oriental on November 16 celebrating icons of art and design whose works have helped shape the cultural landscape. The event raised $1 million in advance and an additional…
Earlier this year, Megan Lighty (B.I.D. ’17) was selected to design the award for Legends 2016, Pratt Institute’s annual scholarship benefit honoring icons of art and design whose works have helped shape the cultural landscape. Pratt’s…
Dean Gerry Snyder announced that Pratt Institute’s School of Art has received a $777,000 gift from the estate of Philip Dulmage of Saint Clair Shores, Michigan, to enhance the student learning experience and scholarly pursuits of Pratt’s faculty. Dulmage’s gift…
On Wednesday, November 16, Pratt Institute will present Legends 2016, an annual scholarship benefit supporting Pratt students and honoring creative icons whose works have helped shape the cultural landscape. Hosted this year against a sweeping backdrop of Central Park and…
Keiron de Nobriga (B.F.A. Sculpture ’16) has been named the recipient of the 2015 Charles Pratt Memorial Scholarship, an annual $35,000 award conferred to a third-year undergraduate in a given department. Each year, a new department is chosen to present…
Architecture
Gift Will Put Undergraduates on Path to Success Young Woo (B. Arch. ’79) has established a reputation as one of the most innovative and enterprising real-estate developers of our time. As founder and principal of Youngwoo & Associates, his projects…
While she has many memories of her undergraduate years at Pratt, Patricia Tuohy (B.F.A. ’79) cherishes her time in the Institute’s Library most. “Before Google, the library gave people access to the world’s information. It was a place to explore,”…
Architecture Students to Benefit from Late Widow’s Estate Gift Dubbed “our boy wonder” by his colleagues on the 1930 Prattonia yearbook committee, former Pratt Trustee and instructor Charles L. Macchi (Cert. Arch ’30) will have a lasting impact on the…