Undergraduate Archives

Animation Career Review Ranks Pratt One of Nation’s Top 10 Colleges for Animation in 2021

Work by Jun Huang, MFA ’19 Pratt Institute is ranked one of the country’s top colleges for animation in the 2021 Animation School Rankings recently published by Animation Career Review, a comprehensive source of information on…

Undergraduate Photography

Photography Student Brandon Foushee Brings Love & Care to Myrtle Avenue for Black Artstory Month

“Forever Caring” by Brandon Foushee, BFA Photography ’21 (photo by Kate Therrian Barron) The words “forever caring” stretch across four windows of the Pratt Institute Film/Video Building on Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn as part…

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…

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…

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 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…

Undergraduate Fine Arts

Fine Arts Student Devin Alexander Collages Magic & Community on Myrtle Ave for Black Artstory Month

Cut from colorful paper in blue, red, green, orange, and yellow, the illustrated figures in the windows of the Pratt Film/Video Building on Myrtle Avenue gather around glowing objects. Devin M. Alexander, BFA Fine Arts ‘20, was reflecting on…

Film/Video

Films by Pratt Faculty and Alumni Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival

Two films by members of the Pratt Institute community will premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, being held from January 23 to February 2. The annual event is considered the largest showcase of independent film…

Graduate Fine Arts

Pratt Alumni Push the Boundaries of Painting at UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach

At this year’s 2019 UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach held from December 4 to 8, Pratt Fine Arts presented an exhibition exploring and challenging conventional boundaries in art and society through the work of…