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The 58th Carnegie International opening September 24, 2022, at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh includes work by Carlos Motta, associate professor of interdisciplinary practice in fine arts, and Félix González-Torres, BFA Photography ’83. Titled Is it morning for you yet?, the exhibition features historical and contemporary work to examine how artists respond to critical questions in the world.

Juan Camilo Osorio, assistant professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), was named Brooklyn representative on the City Planning Commission by Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. Read more in the report from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Through August 20 in the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, The Work of Love, the Queer of Labor is exhibiting drawings, photography, video, posters, and installations reflecting on queer and left activism. Read more @prattexhibits.

“Interplay” by Chen Zhong, MFA Interior Design ’22, reimagines an interior as an incubator for spontaneous encounters and unexpected interplay between strangers, seeking to re-establish interpersonal relationships lost during the pandemic. Read more @prattinteriors.

Ekam Singh, MArch ’23, contributed chapters on two queer spaces in New Delhi, India—one a nightclub and the other an elapsed community theater—to the new Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories publication by RIBA Books. In conjunction with its publication and Pride Month, Singh spoke at the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

DDA animation students created mini-bios of LGBTQ+ heroes in collaboration with VideoOut’s The Scope. See their work online, including Shane Cagney and Mali Javadi’s animation for Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Adjunct Associate Professor of Fine Arts Jewelry David Butler fabricated a platinum necklace designed by artist Michele Oka Doner for the Queen’s 70th Jubilee. It was part of an exhibition at David Gill Gallery in London.

The Textile Dye Garden on the Brooklyn campus recently hosted a clay resist indigo event, with more programs planned for the coming weeks. Learn more @prattdyegarden.

Jean Shin, adjunct professor-CCE of fine arts, installed a temporary sculptural fountain at Philadelphia’s Cherry Street Pier that uses freshwater mussels to clean the river water. Shin told WHYY: “My fountain at the pier is envisioning an ecosystem that is possible if freshwater mussels could happily cohabitate in the Delaware River.”

The 2022 Pratt in Venice students have been working on etching projects at Scuola Internazionale Grafica. Follow @prattinvenice for ongoing updates from the summer program.