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Jewelry
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) has acquired Jewelry alumna Casey Sobel’s Domina Collar for its permanent collection. The neckpiece is part of Sobel’s senior thesis collection and was included in the 2015 edition of LOOT: MAD about Jewelry,…
Graduate Digital Arts
A number of Pratt faculty and alumni will be participating in exhibitions and events during Art Basel Miami Beach from December 3-6. In addition, Pratt will present a panel discussion, “Women of Influence in the Business of Art” with media…
Undergraduate Photography
Pratt’s Photography Department launched the exhibition The pure products of America go crazy on October 7 with an evening featuring contemporary artists Lucas Blalock and John Lehr, assistant professor of photography at Pratt, in conversation with…
Fashion
The Biet Ha’ir Museum in Tel Aviv is displaying The BioWear Project, a wearable technology piece designed by Adjunct Associate Professor of Industrial Design and Fashion Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman. Also on view are a number of works created by the students…
Undergraduate Fine Arts
Beijing Memory: Nostalgia Paintings, a solo exhibition of paintings by Monique Rollins (M.S. History of Art and Design ’ 06; M.F.A. Fine Arts ’04) is on display at the American Embassy in Beijing through the end of November. Curated by…
Casey Sobel (B.F.A. Jewelry ’15) and Fangding “Andie” Xu (B.F.A. Jewelry ’15) will sell work from their thesis collections alongside renowned jewelry designers at LOOT: MAD about Jewelry, the 15th annual juried sale and exhibition at the Museum of Arts…
Film/Video
USA TODAY, one of the nation’s most widely read newspapers, has ranked Pratt’s Film/Video Department in a list of the top ten colleges for a major in film in the United States. “Developing our students’ artistic vision by exposing them…
Pratt Institute recently opened a new home for the Film/Video Department in the former Prattstore building at 550 Myrtle Avenue on the Brooklyn campus. The 15,000-square-foot facility was designed by WASA/Studio A with lead architect and Pratt alumnus Jack…
Sculpture student Anthony Limauro (B.F.A. Fine Arts ’15) referenced classical forms in the contemporary table that he created as part of his senior thesis project. With a glass and walnut top supported by four bronze caryatids, which are sculpted…
Giving
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…
