New York City Commissioner of Culture Laurie Cumbo, who was a visiting assistant professor from fall 2001 to fall 2009 in the Arts and Cultural Management program at Pratt Institute, spoke about Broadway Week on Eyewitness News Mornings. Cumbo was also featured in Our Time Press. “Economically, cultural institutions are great drivers for the economy,” she said. “So if neighborhoods really want to thrive, it’s critical that they have a cultural institution there.”
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Graduate Communications Design Kelly Grey opened a new lingerie design studio, Greymade, in Montclair, NJ, which was featured on Montclair Girl.
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Annalisa Baron, MFA Fine Arts (Sculpture and Integrated Practices) ’17, demonstrates her process for making optical glass chandeliers in a short documentary as part of her residency with the Wendell Castle Workshop.
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Recognizing his outstanding rookie campaign, Pratt Institute first-year guard Thomas Graetz, BID ’28, was named the 2024-25 Atlantic East Conference Men’s Basketball Rookie of the Year, one of the league’s most prized awards.
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Visiting Associate Professor of Fine Art Shervone Neckles created an installation for the MTA. “The Land Between Open Water” is located at the Westchester Sq-East Tremont Av station. Composed of painted steel panels, the artwork “honors the indigenous Siwanoy population, a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape, who lived for centuries in the area now known as The Bronx.”
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Alexandra Amon, BFA Communications Design ’06, stars in Eternal, a new film on Amazon Prime.
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Associate Professor of Film/Video Matías Piñeiro’s acclaimed film You Burn Me (Tú me abrasas) opened in North America and was reviewed in Slant Magazine. “You Burn Me shows how desire, as palpable and unchanging as thirst, makes itself felt through the metaphors of ancient gods and modern plumbing alike.”
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Pratt Student Affairs was awarded a 2025 NASPA Excellence Award. The New Student Orientation program received Silver in the “Enrollment Management, Financial Aid, First-year, Other-year, Orientation, and related” category.
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Kate Gavino, BFA Writing ’11, discusses her decision to move to Paris, her career trajectory as an author, and her love of New York in an interview with The New Paris Dispatch. “In 2022, my third book came out shortly after my second kid was born. At the time, I felt like I had been a shut-in for so long, having spent most of lockdown and the pandemic twice pregnant and too scared to leave the hermetically sealed bubble of our apartment. I had forgotten how to be out in the world.”
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Canada Council for the Arts selected School of Architecture graduate student Fabio Lima, MS Historic Preservation ’26, for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Fellowship. “Venice offers a rich case study that illuminates early biopolitical strategies of bodily categorization and surveillance, from the bubonic plague of the mid-14th century to the covert sexual subcultures of the late Renaissance,” Lima told the School of Architecture News Page.