Ellen Zhengyi Ren, BID ’21, was interviewed by @artsthread about her senior project BIRDER Birder, a collection of birdwatching gear designed to bridge the gap between older adults and youth: “My project takes birdwatching as a medium to offer a counter-stereotypical intervention and invites [users] to participate in mutually beneficial intergenerational activities.”
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An exhibition by William Kim, MFA Fine Arts ’25, was featured as a “Must See” in Artforum.
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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.”
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Lucy Clary, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’28, won the ‘paint out’ at the Evanston Plein Art Festival.
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Pratt is included in the Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2025 Edition that features sustainability and other information from 511 schools.
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Visiting Professor in the School of Information Bill Levay, MSLIS ’15, presented at the Archivists Round Table symposium. He spoke about managing and migrating digital collections in recent years at the New York Philharmonic Archives.
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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.”
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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.
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Jojo Buchmann, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’28, was among GrowHouse NYC’s 2024 Youth Design Competition winners for her piece Know Who You Are. “If we can see art as a gateway to transforming our perspectives, imagine how much change can happen in one individual, and then imagine society as a whole,” said Buchmann.
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Landscapes of Retreat by Rosetta S. Elkin, academic director of the landscape architecture program, won The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize. “The purpose of this prize is to reward contributors to the intellectual vitality of garden history and landscape studies.”