Mary Carothers, BFA Photography ’91, was featured in LEO Weekly about her artwork and artificial intelligence. “AI simultaneously fascinates and terrifies me,” she said.
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Rachel Handlin, MFA Photography ’24, is the first person with Down syndrome in the world to earn a master’s degree. She was featured last year in a video by Ruby’s Rainbow.
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Sylvia Morse, senior program manager for research and policy at Pratt Center for Community Development, has been selected for Urban Design Forum’s 2024 class of Global Exchange Fellows. “Over the next nine months, they will build bridges between New York City and its peer cities, uncover cutting-edge projects and demand courageous public policy to address New York City’s housing crisis.”
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Alanna Fields, MFA Photography ’19, was honored with the Washington Award for Visual Arts.
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Students Brianna Casas, MS Museums and Digital Culture ’24, Katherine Duval, MS Museums and Digital Culture ’24, and Nicolas Lord, MS Museums and Digital Culture ’25, published an article on the Museum Next blog about how museums do audience research and evaluation.
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Assistant Professor of Fashion Susan Cianciolo was featured in Vogue and Frieze. “This has been the most enjoyable time for me,” she told Vogue. “I don’t want to ever stop or sleep or eat, because there’s nothing I love more in the world than making clothing. It’s just truly my craft.”
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Hilary Cheung, BFA Communications Design (Graphic Design) ’24, contributed designs for Megan Thee Stallion’s tour poster and magazine.
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Assistant Professor of History of Art and Design Jennifer Babcock received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching, which “recognizes and honors the expertise, dedication, and commitment of outstanding adjunct faculty members.”
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Yield, a sculpture by alumnus Roxy Paine, was included in Art & Object’s list of “10 Must-Sees At Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art,” among works by Louise Bourgeois, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Keith Haring. Reaching “curling silver branches towards the sky,” Paine’s sculpture “appears to have grown in some alternate reality where trees are made of metal.”
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David Burney, academic director of urban placemaking management and visiting associate professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, published two pieces in Common Edge, explaining NYC’s planning and approval process and how to fix NYC public housing.