Keiran Brennan Hinton, BFA Fine Arts ’14, is among the latest grant recipients from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation.
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Pratt Fine Arts alumni Nanette Carter, Carl E. Hazlewood, Shahpour Pouyan, and Terry Winters were elected as National Academicians in the Class of 2025 by the National Academy of Design. Their appointment recognizes their contributions to contemporary American art and architecture.
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Paula Stoddard Sotomayor and Michael Ortiz Jiménez, both MArch ’24, discuss their recent ICFF Launch Pad win for their project Herencia Tótem, a furniture collection that transforms reclaimed textiles, and their studio Estudio PM with Dwell. “We like to think of our studio as a constant experiment of spatial design, materiality, and storytelling,” said Ortiz.
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Carisima Koenig, adjunct associate professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design (GA/LA/UD), was selected for the National Council of Architectural Registration Board’s Scholars in Professional Practice 2025 program held at the University of Utah’s School of Architecture. Read more at the School of Architecture News Page.
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Many Pratt alumni participated in this year’s Armory Show.
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Coralie Norenberg, MFA Communications Design ’27, has been selected as Atlantic East Conference Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week after winning the Golden Eagle Invitational on September 14.
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Pratt has been named a recipient of the Insight Into Academia 2025 Excellence in Mental Health and Well-Being Award, which recognizes national leadership in supporting the mental health of students, faculty, and staff. The award “is a measure of an institution’s individual programs and initiatives that significantly advance the core values of inclusive excellence and belonging through programs, initiatives, and many other campus priorities deserving of this national recognition.”
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Fine Arts alumnus Peter Kuper has won the Entomological Society’s 2025 Science Communication Award for his graphic novel Insectopolis. The award honors “impactful and innovative communication projects or programs that engage diverse public audiences with entomology-related scientific information.”
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Undergraduate Communications Design faculty members Tim O’Brien and Rudy Gutierrez, BFA Communications Design ’79, and alumnus Kadir Nelson, BFA Communications Design ’96, have been inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. Each year, the Society adds three contemporary illustrators to the Hall of Fame, chosen for “their distinguished achievement in the art of illustration.” This year, all three honorees are part of the Pratt community. The Society will be honoring this year’s inductees at The Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on October 9, 2025.
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Paolo Balboa, MSLIS ’20, has been appointed the chief digital equity officer for the City of New York.
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