Edel Rodriguez, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ‘94, recently displayed a selection of his drawings, posters, book covers, acrylic paintings, and more at the County College of Morris in Randolph, New Jersey. The show, Apocalypso, examined “the state of the world in the past thirteen years,” he told the New Yorker in a profile of his career.
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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Ari Fouse, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’21, was interviewed about her painting practice for VoyageLA.
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Pratt Institute has earned a STARS Gold rating in the 2024 Sustainable Campus Index by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). For the second consecutive year, Pratt has ranked in the top 10 of masters degree-awarding institutions for overall performance, with especially high scores in curriculum, research, and campus engagement. STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System) measures and encourages sustainability in all aspects of higher education.
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Courtney Knapp, professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, was recently featured in the Planner’s Network Disorientation Guide about confronting the carceral state in planning.
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An adaptation of “The Yellow,” a story from The Dark Dark, a short story collection by Professor of Writing Samantha Hunt, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Rodney Leon, BArch ’92, will serve as a special advisor to the team leading community engagement for the Harlem African Burial Ground.
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Assistant Professor in the School of Information Shruthi Chivukula presented two projects at the 2024 Design Research Society Conference: “Envisioning Transformation Structures to Support Ethical Mediation Practices” and “Quant-Ethico: A Computational Approach to Quantifying and Interpreting Ethical Decision Making.”
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Photographs by Yael Malka, BFA Photography ’12, were featured in The Cut and The New York Times.
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Assistant Chair and Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing Claire Donato was interviewed for the Los Angeles Review of Books. “Marketing in the United States has divorced autofiction from its French roots,” she said. “If anything, I feel identified with the French origins of autofiction, and I’m teaching a course in fall 2024 on autofiction at Pratt Institute that will further explore its French origin.”
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Evan Paul English, MFA Fine Arts ’16, was featured in Hyperallergic’s Fall 2024 New York Art Guide for his show at the Alice Austen House in Staten Island.