School of Art

Undergraduate Digital Arts

Pratt’s Digital Arts Department to Launch New Game Arts Degree

The burgeoning gaming industry has grown to more than solely an entertainment business. Today, game arts is considered to be one of the most exciting industries in the tech field, with innovations and technology exploring what is possible in fields…

Foundation

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…

School of Architecture

Balenciaga and The Black Alumni of Pratt Partner on Full Scholarships to Diversify Art and Design

Balenciaga and The Black Alumni of Pratt (BAP) have partnered to establish two full undergraduate scholarships for Pratt Institute students in the School of Design, School of Art, and School of Architecture. These scholarships, funded by a generous gift…

Graduate Fine Arts

US News & World Report Ranks Pratt’s Fine Arts MFA Program among Top 15 in the Nation

In its 2020 listing of Best Arts Schools, US News & World Report ranked Pratt Institute’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program among the top 15 of over 200 programs from across the country. The scoring of top graduate…

Creative Arts Therapy

Best Counseling Degrees Ranks Pratt’s Art Therapy Program Among Top Five in the Nation

Creative Arts Therapy students (from the Pratt Institute Graduate Bulletin 2019-20) Pratt Institute is ranked fourth in the country in the Top 10 Best Master’s in Art Therapy Programs list recently released by…

Architecture

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…

Design Management

UN Publishes Book with Pratt Student to Help Children Stay Positive During COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic can be particularly isolating for children who have to spend much of their day at home, unable to play with friends, see grandparents, or interact in ordinary ways with family members who are essential workers. Pratt Institute…

Architecture

New Pratt Shows Portfolio Website Showcases Work by Graduating Students

A new website is offering a digital window into an exciting range of bold creative work by this year’s graduating Pratt students. Launched this May, the Pratt Shows portfolio website showcases individual student work and projects from across Pratt’s…

School of Art

Guggenheim Fellowship Awarded to Alumnae Danna Singer and Cyrilla Mozenter

Danna Singer, “A Future,” from the series If It Rained an Ocean (courtesy the artist) Danna Singer, BFA Photography ‘10, and longtime former faculty member Cyrilla Mozenter, BFA Art Education ‘70; MFA…

Undergraduate Fine Arts

Students Use Immersive Sound Design to Share Personal Stories of Life in a Pandemic

Image from Nicole Schiulaz’s “Coronachles: My Story” (via Soundcloud) “Before everything happened with the coronavirus, my routine was very set in stone,” Claire Mason, AOS Game Design and Interactive Media ‘21, begins in…