Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, and Jane South, chair of fine arts, will be honored as a “Dynamic Duo” at the 2024 Badass Art Woman Awards hosted by Project for Empty Space on April 10. “Together, Mickalene Thomas and Jane South founded Pratt>Forward, which is a free platform that inspires and mentors emerging artists by nurturing artistic exploration, bolstering career development skills, empowering cultural advocacy, and collaborating to develop new artist-led models for cultural engagement.”
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Terrence Howard, who studied civil engineering at Pratt, portrays Arthur Hardwick, Jr., the first African American from Erie County to be elected to the New York State Legislature, in the film Shirley, available for streaming on Netflix.
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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.”