Kumru Toktamis, associate professor of social science and cultural studies, was interviewed by the Peace in Kurdistan Campaign with the conversation highlighting her work with Human Rights Watch in Turkey.
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Black Public Media is honoring film editor Lillian Benson, BFA Art Education ’70, with the Trailblazer Award. “[Her] career has helped pave the way for so many and whose commitment to mentoring is shaping a new generation of artists,” said Leslie Fields-Cruz, executive director of Black Public Media.
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Pratt has been recognized as a Fulbright Top Producing Institute for 2024–2025, marking the sixth consecutive year that it has ranked in the top ten of four-year special-focus institutions.
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Associate Professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Founding Director of the Center for Climate Adaptation David Erdman gave a lecture titled “Archipelagic Infrastructures; a planetary perspective” for the spring 2025 public lecture series The Good Life, organized by architecture faculty at the University of Hong Kong.
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Jaye Moon, MFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’94, and former Visiting Assistant Professor of Arts and Cultural Management Laurie Cumbo will be honored at the 2025 NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit, celebrating their induction into the NYFA Hall of Fame.
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WWD featured the news that Nicholas Daley will be honored with this year’s Pratt Fashion Visionary Award at the “2025 Pratt Shows: Fashion” event on May 16. Fashion Chair Lisa Z. Morgan acknowledged Daley’s “dedication to storytelling through design, commitment to responsible practices and ability to reimagine cultural narratives within contemporary fashion.”
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Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice Carlos Motta’s mid-career retrospective exhibition Pleas of Resistance is running at MACBA. The exhibition covers over 25 years of work, exploring “the magnitude of Motta’s artistic research and its implacable rigor in relation to the archive, interrogating its violence, its silencing and its desires.”
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Lady Gaga wore a custom hat designed by Sarah Sokol, BFA Interior Design ’11, during her performance at the 2025 Super Bowl.
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Mylo Butler, BFA Film ’21, shot a motion cover for Ebony Magazine.
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Yimeng Zhang, MS Packaging, Identities, and Systems Design ’25, was interviewed in Canvas Rebel. “Many of my ideas come in flashes of inspiration—sometimes within a day or two—but the real challenge lies in prototyping, refining, and modifying them repeatedly. The final product must be visually compelling, practical, and, most importantly, cost-effective.”
