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Commencement 2014 Venue Changed to Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall has recently become available for Commencement 2014, and the ceremony will no longer be held at Madison Square Garden. The return of Pratt’s Commencement to Radio City Music Hall on May 16 will mark the fifth…

Pratt Presents “Designer City” Panel Moderated by NY Times Editor During NYCxDesign May 16

Pratt Institute will present “Designer City: How Innovative Solutions Transform Urban Life,” a panel discussion moderated by The New York Times Home section Deputy Editor Julie Lasky and featuring leading design industry experts on May 16 including: David…

Pratt Presents Features Speakers from WIRED and The NY Times During NYCxDesign May 9, 10, and 16

Pratt Institute will host three thought-provoking panels during NYCxDESIGN. The panels have been coordinated through Pratt Presents, a curated series of high-profile programs and events arranged by the Institute’s new Office of Public Programs and Campus Event Services. Each of…

Pratt Community Advocates for Increased Arts Instruction in New York City Public Schools

Pratt Institute’s Art and Design Education community recently had a chance to publicly advocate for an issue near to its heart: the lack of instruction in art and design in the New York City Public Schools. On April 7, New…

2014 Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipients Announced

On Friday, May 16, Pratt Institute degree candidates will gather in their caps and gowns at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. The procession begins at 1 PM when approximately 1,050 graduating students will file into the main…

Pratt Hits Prime Time in The Carrie Diaries and Switched at Birth

Remember when Pam Beesly of NBC’s hit show The Office temporarily ditched her day job to study graphic design at Pratt Institute a few years ago? Then there was April, the Institute architecture student diagnosed with lymphoma in…

Pratt Alumnus David Shirk Awarded Oscar for Best Visual Effects in Gravity

David Shirk, a senior animation adviser on the 2013 film Gravity, won the Oscar for “Best Visual Effects” at the Academy Awards Ceremony held March 2. Shirk, originally from Lancaster, Pa., received a dual B.F.A. in Illustration and Film…

PBS “Treasures of New York” Program Celebrates Pratt’s History

“Treasures of New York: Pratt Institute,” a PBS documentary now available for streaming, explores the great minds and bold ideas that have established Pratt as an art and design education powerhouse. Originally aired around Pratt’s landmark 125th anniversary…

Famed Filmmaker Spike Lee to Speak at Pratt on February 25

Director Spike Lee, one of contemporary cinema’s most celebrated figures, will speak on Tuesday, February 25 at 6:30 PM in the Memorial Hall Auditorium on Pratt's Brooklyn campus, in honor of African American History Month. The filmmaker, producer, and writer…

Photographs by Charles Pratt, Jr. and Former Pratt Faculty Featured in Image Gallery Redux Show

The Howard Greenberg Gallery is currently holding an exhibition featuring the work of Charles Pratt, Jr. (1926-1976), whose great-grandfather Charles Pratt founded the Institute, and former Pratt professors Arthur Freed (b. 1936) and David Vestal (1924-2013). The exhibition, titled Image…