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Graduate Industrial Design
Pratt Institute students and faculty participated in NYCxDESIGN 2017, New York City’s official citywide celebration of design, through a variety of exhibitions and presentations of work in venues around the city from May 3-24. Work by Pratt students…
Fashion
From the pages of Prattfolio, this article is part of a series exploring the artistic and professional practice of Pratt faculty through visits to their studios and workspaces. Here, Prattfolio looks inside the studio of artist Susan Cianciolo, Assistant…
Pratt Institute presented its 118th annual runway show to a full house that included fashion industry professionals and members of the Pratt community who gathered to see curated looks by graduating senior fashion students on May 4, 2017 at…
City and Regional Planning
Five undergraduate and graduate Pratt Institute students have been selected to participate in the Community Mobility Challenge as part of the 2017 Innovate NYC program, which provides students with the opportunity to learn valuable entrepreneurial skills and tackle real-life…
Fashion design student Mila Sullivan (B.F.A. Fashion Design ’17) combined her passion for nostalgia, vintage fabrics, and classic Hollywood films to create a final thesis collection that reinterprets glamour through modern silhouettes and deconstruction. For Sullivan, there is glamour…
Pratt Institute will honor design team Laura Kim (B.F.A. ’04) and Fernando Garcia, co-creative directors of Oscar de la Renta and Monse, with the Pratt Fashion Visionary Award at Pratt Shows: Fashion | The Work on May 4, 2017. The 118th runway show will spotlight inventive…
The Whitney Biennial 2017 will include the work of two Pratt-affiliated artists: Assistant Professor of Fashion Design Susan Cianciolo and alumna Carrie Moyer (B.F.A. Painting ’85). The Biennial will open on March 17, 2017. The Whitney Biennial is a prestigious…
Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, adjunct associate professor of industrial design and fashion design, has designed a number of high-tech costumes for the Brooklyn Ballet’s production of The Brooklyn Nutcracker, which was performed for sold-out audiences at the Brooklyn Museum from December 7-9…
School of Design
Selected Pratt students from a range of disciplines are taking advantage of a unique opportunity to work collaboratively to solve challenging problems through the Institute’s recent partnership with Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Lehigh’s Mountaintop Program is an innovative 8-…
Giving
Earlier this year, Megan Lighty (B.I.D. ’17) was selected to design the award for Legends 2016, Pratt Institute’s annual scholarship benefit honoring icons of art and design whose works have helped shape the cultural landscape. Pratt’s…
