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  • Instructors in Pratt’s Center for Art, Design, and Community Engagement K-12 are being highlighted on @PrattYouth, including alumnus Noel Caban who has been teaching in the Saturday Art School program since 2017: “Over the past few years, I’ve enjoyed watching students make intuitive creative connections and derive a sense of satisfaction from their artwork. I like to think that those moments of creativity will continue to be a tool and resource in their emotional and intellectual development as they grow.”

    Jul 19, 2021

  • Annabelle Selldorf, BArch ’85, and Pratt Trustee Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, were named among Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2025.” For more than two decades, the TIME100 list has highlighted the artists, icons, leaders, and innovators that are shaping our present day. Annie Liebovitz writes that Selldorf’s work “embodies the values she holds dear. Art and life are not separate.” About Thomas, Alicia Keys says that “she’s constantly creating new lanes, breaking boundaries, and exceeding expectations.”

    Apr 18, 2025

  • Mark Reyes, BFA Film ’20, announced that two of his films will be screening at the Fantaspoa Film Festival in Brazil. “WOW! What an Honor! TALES FROM THE END will be making its INTERNATIONAL premiere alongside my brand new short THE NIGHTWALKER being shown for the first time ever as its WORLD PREMIERE!!!,” Reyes wrote on social media. 

    Apr 18, 2025

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing Benjamin Krusling was awarded a 2025 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Of over 900 submissions, three manuscripts were chosen for publication. Krusling’s manuscript Fear of God Essentials “narrate the goings-on of a sticky, discomfiting city, one in which the speaker witnesses a parade of delights and atrocities as they cohere in the present—the Cybertruck on Nostrand Avenue, the Candy Crush–playing cops in the subway station, the subversive humor of living in an era of upheaval,” write Emily Bark Brown and Gia Gonzales. 

    Apr 18, 2025

  • Thomas Klinkowstein, adjunct professor – CCE of graduate communications design, will be conducting an art project on a sub-orbital space flight with Virgin Galactic in 2027. As part of his year-long research leading up to lift-off, he has been facilitating creative workshops with students in the US and abroad. At Yonsei University in South Korea, Klinkowstein taught speculative design students a “Synthetic Memories” workshop, which involved using ChatGPT to predict their future careers, and creating a design responding to their results. In Pennsylvania, he ran a “Space Art Challenge,” in which middle school students created triptychs around the theme of “space as place, space as persona, and space as idea.”

    Apr 18, 2025

  • Laura Kim, BFA Fashion Design ’04, was profiled in The Cut in a piece that explores her professional relationship with Fernando Garcia, with whom she directs Oscar de la Renta. “They’ve held their jobs at Oscar for nearly a decade, a lifetime in this business, by saying ‘yes.’ Yes to almost every major celebrity, yes to Trumpworld and the Resistance Dems, and yes to an advertising campaign for a smart toilet.”

    Apr 17, 2025

  • Donni Davy, BFA Photography ’10, was interviewed by PopSugar for her work as a Hollywood makeup artist. “Makeup communicates so much to the audience,” she said. “It’s extra info; a storytelling tool.” 

    Apr 16, 2025

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