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Brownstoner highlighted the Pratt Institute Archives Negatives Collection which has recently digitized materials taken between 1957 and 1973 on and around campus. A two-year project resulted in thousands of images being newly accessible online.

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion published a Latinx and Undocumented Resource Guide with links to resources, articles, books, films, podcasts, and other materials for the Pratt community.

Rebekah Morris, senior program manager at the Pratt Center for Community Development, joined the Brian Lehrer Show for a discussion on “How to Prevent More Deaths in NYC’s Basement Apartments”: “There is a need now to really reassess and look at what the safety measures are that can be done to keep these places safe during floods but the idea of not doing anything and just trying to keep people out, I think, is unrealistic because people live there, there’s just not enough housing in New York City.”

Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, joined Whoopi Goldberg in a conversation on artistic freedom for Interview magazine: “I like to put Black women in the same positions as the subjects in Old Master paintings, because it’s about having that freedom to just be in the moment, to recline without doing work. Can’t we just recline?”

For Hispanic Heritage Month, the Latinx Student Alliance will be showcasing member’s work. See @PrattInstitute for a preview.

Jess deCourcy Hinds, MSLIS ’09, was featured in a segment of WNYC’s On the Media about bias in the library and the Dewey Decimal Classification System: “Books on Obama were in the 300s. They were separated from books on other presidents. And that was very disturbing to me. That was the beginning of changing Dewey, of rebelling against Dewey.”

The School of Architecture’s Interviews with Esteemed Faculty series featured a conversation with Meta Brunzema, adjunct associate professor in Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD), covering sustainability in the curriculum, community-based architecture, and working collaboratively: “I believe now that architecture has to be a collective, instead of an individual act.”

The 2021 Film/Video Senior Showcase is on view through October in Pratt Manhattan Gallery. Members of the Pratt community can stop by to view 39 film/video projects from the 2021 Film/Video graduates.

Maryam Turkey, BID ’17, was featured in Architectural Digest’s One to Watch series. Turkey creates mirrors, lamps, and tables inspired by the earth structures of homes she grew up seeing in Baghdad as well as the towering architecture of Lower Manhattan: “I’ve really developed a relationship with these buildings.”

In his new book Coney Island Waterdance, Peter Kayafas, adjunct associate professor of photography, explores the New York summer days spent on the Brooklyn beach. The photographs were featured on LENSCRATCH with Kayafas stating: “These images are, for me, like passages from some primal, beautiful ballet—the energy, gesture, and emotion of the narrative rising and falling with the subjects on the waves.”