Undergraduate Art and Design Education

Giving

An Award-Winning Film Editor’s Childhood Creativity Flourished at Pratt

Lillian Benson, BFA Art Education ’70, shares how growing up in Brooklyn & attending Pratt led to a prolific career editing documentaries that chronicle African American stories.

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 Art

Alumna Sarah Grace Holcomb Leads High School Students to Success as Part of Pratt’s Vibrant Art & Design Education Network

Sarah Grace Holcomb (far right) with her students at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn (courtesy Sarah Grace Holcomb) Brooklyn high school students Brianna Blue and Aleksandra Kwiecień, who have been recognized for their distinctive…

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…

Undergraduate Art and Design Education

NY Times Features Alumna Mickalene Thomas and How She Uses Artistic Success for Positive Change

With celebrated solo shows at major museums and work in the collections of leading institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, continues to be recognized for her…

School of Design

Many Hands: Taconic Fellows Collaborate with a Community to Share Stories in Sound and Clay

Bridging the expertise of Pratt students and faculty with communities beyond the gates begins with strong partnerships. For six years, the Taconic Fellowship, a program of the Pratt Center for Community Development, has…

Undergraduate Art and Design Education

Pratt Remembers Art and Design Education Advocate and Pedagogical Reformer Amy Brook Snider

The Pratt Institute community mourns the loss of one of its inspiring faculty members, the education pioneer Amy Brook Snider, Professor Emerita, Art and Design Education, who passed away on December 17, 2018, at the age of 78.  Snider…

Architecture

We Contain Multitudes: The 2018 Alumni Achievement Award Winners on Empathy at Work

With humanity, compassion, and courage, Pratt alumni are changing culture, altering the landscape of the world for the benefit of others. Patients can access more effective care, communities that have experienced injustice grow stronger, and citizens find means to…

Foundation

Exhibitions and Activities Celebrate Act of Drawing on Brooklyn Campus and Myrtle Avenue

Pratt is celebrating the act of drawing with two special public events this October, “Drawing Democracies” and “Drawings Along Myrtle.” On October 25, “Drawing Democracies” will provide the public with the opportunity to engage in a range of drawing-related activities…

Undergraduate Art and Design Education

Pratt Young Scholars Reception Celebrates New Class of High School Scholarship Recipients

The Pratt Young Scholars program welcomed its second class of students with a reception at the Caroline Ladd Pratt House on September 23. The 15 students, all sophomores attending Brooklyn public high schools, will receive three-year scholarships to attend the…