School of Art

Graduate Digital Arts

Animation Career Review Ranks Pratt One of Country’s Top 10 Colleges for Animation in 2022

Pratt Institute has once again been ranked one of the country’s top colleges for animation in the annual Animation School Rankings published by Animation Career Review, a comprehensive source of information on animation, game design, graphic design, and digital…

Graduate Fine Arts

2020 Alumni Exhibit Diverse Art Made in a Time of Uncertainty

Graduating during the early months of the pandemic, the Class of 2020 MFA alumni have endured great challenges but continue to expand their practices during this time of adversity. Chromotherapy in an Age of Doubt at Pratt Manhattan…

Creative Arts Therapy

Using Art and Dance to Promote Healing in Internships at Rikers Island and Providence House

Throughout the academic year, graduate students in Pratt Institute’s Creative Arts Therapy (CAT) department have been traveling to sites across the New York area to harness the healing power of art and dance and learn to care for individuals facing…

Foundation

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…

Foundation

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…

Graduate Art and Design Education

Students Travel to Puerto Rico to Teach Art in Public Schools and Museums

For the 2022 spring break, 16 Pratt Institute students traveled to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they taught visual art to children in public schools and a museum. Including students studying for majors in Art and Design Education and minors…

School of Architecture

Pratt Shows 2022 Is Fully Underway with In-Person Events, Exhibitions & More

Excitement is building across campus as Pratt Shows, the annual series of public presentations and exhibitions of work by Pratt’s graduating class, gathers momentum this spring. Featuring the best work from the Schools of Architecture, Art, Design, Information, and…

Graduate Fine Arts

Pratt>FORWARD Transports Its Mentorship of Emerging Artists to Newlab

Pratt>FORWARD, a program launched in 2021 by Pratt Fine Arts, connects emerging artists with creative thought-leaders and practitioners in the field. The goal is to help emerging artists navigate the art world and empower them to build their own…

School of Art

An Augmented Reality Installation Celebrates Black Women’s Leadership in Activism

Using augmented reality and bold illustrations, Ananda Ray, BFA Digital Arts ’24, is bringing awareness to the stories of three generations of Black women whose activism for equality made a lasting impact. Called “Reflections of Resistance,” the vibrant art…

School of Art

Growing Leather in a Lab to Promote Material Sustainability

The photographs of lab-grown leather recently on view in the Pratt Photography Gallery ranged from delicate brown gradients to deep tawny tones, some with richly textural surfaces reminiscent of buffalo hide, others with the smoothness of cow skin. Each documented…