Joan Semmel, BFA Art Teacher Education ’63; MFA ’72, was featured in AnOther Magazine, Wallpaper, and Ocula on the occasion of her latest exhibition in Brussels. The 91-year-old figurative painter is lauded for “sex-positive paintings,” which “celebrat[e] natural urges which to this day are laden with shame and stigma,” writes Emily Steer in AnOther.
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Professors of Undergraduate Architecture Lawrence Blough and Deborah Gans received a grant from PennPraxis to write a case study on Church Grove, a self-built housing project on a land trust in London by the Rural Urban Synthesis Society.
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The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently completed a $1.5 million upgrade to the drainage infrastructure of the North and Main parking lots. The project will capture 1.75 million gallons of stormwater annually, “helping to reduce flooding in the neighborhood as well as keep pollution out of the East River.”
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Salt and pepper shaker designs by Eva Zeisel, who taught as a professor of industrial design at Pratt from 1934 to 1959, were featured by Cooper Hewitt. “I have rarely designed objects that were meant to stand alone. My designs have family relationships. They are either mother and child, siblings, or cousins. They might not have identical lines, but there is always a family relationship,” Zeisel said.
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Interim Chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design Alexandra Barker was awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Grant for her project “Climate-Adaptive Vernacular Building Practices of Mexico City and Oaxaca—A Study of Traditional and Contemporary Biostructures Using Local and Renewable Materials.” For more information, visit the School of Architecture News Page.
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Karina Sharif, BFA ’08, was featured in STIR. “I approach fabrication with a particular care and softness,” she said. It is important that when working with the material, I explore its ability to preserve history, tell stories and challenge the commodification of the material by highlighting it as precious.”
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A dress designed by Jeremy Scott, BFA Fashion Design ’95, is on view at the Louvre Couture exhibition. Scott was featured in Vogue with Gigi Hadid, who wore a design designed by Scott at the exhibition celebration during Paris Fashion Week.
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“Hangman,” a story by Professor of Writing Samantha Hunt, was published in The Yale Review.
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Alanna Fields, MFA Photography ’19, spoke at Penumbra Foundation as part of their Spring 2025 Artist Series, which “brings to life the work of featured photographers and other notable guest artists and scholars, offering a unique opportunity to engage with them in an intimate setting as they discuss their work and process.”
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Adjunct Associate Professor – CCE of Architecture Eunjeong Seong moderated conversations at symposia in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition she co-curated at the University of Houston, Is Housing Still Housing? Houston’s Single House. The exhibition suggests “a need for a renewed term for the broader climate, economic and social aspects that will reshape shelter over the coming decades.”
More Pratt Institute News
Pratt Institute Ranked in Top 10 of Art & Design Universities
The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 also place Pratt in the top five universities for art and design in the United States. Pratt was also ranked in the Top 10 for History of Art.
Pratt Drives Innovation at Brooklyn Navy Yard
From Pratt Institute News
New York City Council Member Lincoln Restler celebrates Pratt’s partnership with the Brooklyn Navy Yard in an op-ed for Crain’s New York Business.
Graduate Architecture Student Quinn Gregory Named 2025 Fulbright Semifinalist
From Pratt Institute News
Pratt Institute was also named a Fulbright Top Producing Institute for the sixth consecutive year.