Colette Bernard, BFA Fine Arts (Sculpture and Integrated Practices) ’21, presented designs at the Brooklyn Museum for New York Fashion Week 2024.
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Former Dean of the School of Architecture, Dr. Harriet Harriss, professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, was featured in Building Design and on Dezeen’s top 10 architecture and design books of 2024 for 100 Women: Architects in Practice, co-authored with Naomi House, Monika Parrinder, and Tom Ravenscroft.
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An exhibition by Visiting Associate Professor of Fine Arts Nat Meade was included in Cultured’s 10 must-see gallery shows in LA this month.
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Three short films by Mackie Mallison, BFA Film ’23, will be streaming on Vimeo starting today, January 9.
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Pratt Center and its partners in the Basement Apartments Safe for Everyone (BASE) coalition won a victory with the recent enactment of legislation that will enable the creation of a basement and cellar apartment legalization program in NYC. “These zoning and building code reforms, following the State legislation won earlier this year, represent the key regulatory changes needed for safe basement apartment conversions.”
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Here: Where the Black Designers Are by Cheryl D. Miller, MS Communications Design ’85, was included in Fast Company’s best design books of 2024.
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Christina Perla, BID ’14, and Manny Mota, BID ’02, were interviewed about their 3D-printing company Makelab. “Perla and Mota both studied industrial design at Brooklyn’s prestigious Pratt Institute, which is more or less the whole rationale behind why the duo started an additive manufacturing (AM) service bureau in the unlikely location of one of Manhattan’s five boroughs.”
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Adjunct Associate Professor – CCE of Writing Sofi Thanhauser was included on a list of The Verge’s favorite books from 2024 for her 2022 book Worn: A People’s History of Clothing. “This book isn’t just for fashion people (though they should be the first to read it); it’s for anyone curious about the labor that goes into the luxuries they take for granted,” writes Mia Sato, a features reporter at The Verge. “You will never look at a T-shirt the same way again.”
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April Maxey, BFA Film ’12, was interviewed in Shoutout LA. “My work is very personal, and it always feels risky to write about myself, my fears, my mistakes, my deepest wounds and desires—it’s an incredibly vulnerable process,” said Maxey. “But I think as artists that is the task, to risk exposing our depths and being rejected, but doing it anyway.”