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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

  • Kerry Schuss Gallery and Gordon Robichaux are presenting an exhibition of recent work by Jenni Crain, BFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’13, who passed away in December 2021. Called Moments Spared, the show meditates on pause and reflection on the persistence of memory.

  • Rebekah Morris-Gonzalez, director of climate initiatives at the Pratt Center, wrote a piece for City Limits about New York’s $5 billion climate opportunity. “With $5 billion at our disposal and the climate and housing crises looming, we can’t afford to continue the energy efficiency redlining that is currently built into the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) incentive design,” she writes. “It’s time to address long-standing inequities and make investments that will deliver clean energy technology to LMI communities hardest hit by historical disinvestments and the climate crisis.”

  • An exhibition by William Kim, MFA Fine Arts ’25, was featured as a “Must See” in Artforum.

  • Assistant Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies Jan Dutkiewicz wrote an article for Vox about PETA. “Its controversial tactics are not above critique,” writes Dutkiewicz. “But the key to PETA’s success has been its very refusal to be well-behaved, forcing us to look at what we might rather ignore: humanity’s mass exploitation of the animal world.”

  • A film by Max Drexler, BFA Film ’24, will premiere at the London Short Film Festival in January. The film, titled Phillips, is “about the role of the documentarian and the meaning of truth in today’s world.”

  • Pratt received a $10,000 Bridging the Gap on Campus grant, funded by Interfaith America, for The Art of Listening, a forthcoming professional development series led by Vivian D’Andrade, director of diversity, equity and inclusion, Justin Kelley, assistant vice president and dean of students, and Emma Legge, director of student involvement. The Art of Listening is designed to reach supervisors and student employees across Pratt, emphasizing the importance of active listening skills to enhance communication, foster trust, and work across perceived and actual differences.