Kaimin Wang, BFA Interior Design ’24, participated in and won the UNI Moon Base competition 2024 with his entry Future City of Mars Colonization.
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Photography Matthew Leifheit was interviewed about his work with queer archives. He was also featured in the Daily Gazette.
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The iconic poster for My Fair Lady was created by Bill Gold, who earned a certificate in advertising design from Pratt in 1940. The poster was featured on Country Life’s list of the 14 greatest movie posters in cinema. “This 1964 Audrey Hepburn classic was masterminded by Bill Gold, the man behind the posters for most of Clint Eastwood’s repertoire,” they write.
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Illustrations by School of Continuing and Professional Studies Lecturer Nina Edwards were included in the AsianInNY Fashion Show.
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Fine Arts Fellow in Civic Engagement Alex Strada spoke at CUNY Graduate Center, organized by the United Nations Network on Migration on December 16, for Every Day Is Migrants Day. The event showcased work by “a diverse group of artists, scholars, and organizations with projects that foreground migrant narratives” and “highlight[ed] the essential role migrants play in the creation of culture.”
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A story about Joan Semmel, BFA Art Teacher Education ’63; MFA ’72, was Art in America’s most read article of 2024.
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For Freedoms (co-founded by Michelle Woo, BFA Fine Arts (Painting ’07)) was featured in the New York Times and Print Magazine. The organization is beginning a three-year residency with the National Gallery of Art.
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Jake Stewart, AOS Illustration ’26, was named the first place winner of an illustration contest for students, hosted by Pratt’s AOS Department and leading Italian legacy printer PdiPigna. Participants designed notebook covers and the winning notebook design is to be printed and sold commercially in a limited-edition release. As the winner, Stewart will earn a portion of commissions as well as the opportunity to work with an established art brand.
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Professor of Undergraduate Architecture John Lobell appears in a documentary film about post modernist architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, which premiered at the 2024 Architecture & Design Film Festival. Lobell was a student of Venturi and Scott Brown in the 1960s, and a clip of his interview appears in the film.
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Edel Rodriguez, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’94, was selected as a PRINT Awards Jury Member for Hand Lettering, Illustration, Graphic Novels, and Invitations. The jurors were chosen because they possessed the “insight and experience needed to recognize standout work across these creative categories.” Rodriguez has also been chosen as The Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence for the spring 2025 semester at Baruch College, and he recently presented his book, The Mango Tree, at the Miami Book Fair.