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Incoming writing student Lily Burgess and a Pratt print sale held near campus were included in the New York Times Magazine feature “NYC Wakes Up” on how the city has reopened with increased vaccination.

Elise Kaufman, adjunct associate professor of foundation, was profiled in a Provincetown Independent story on her mixed media work that involves photography, printmaking, drawing, and collage: “So much of what I think about is light and trying to capture its relationship to remembrance.”

Former Pratt creative writing student Lisa Hagen was recognized with a 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting for a story on National Public Radio (NPR) about gun rights activists. The series, No Compromise, is available online.

Taylor McGinnis, who recently joined the Pratt Center for Community Development as the democratizing data researcher, joined Ben Dodd, communications specialist/planner at the Pratt Center, for a conversation on data and this new role: “I am taking a lot of methods that are similar to what software development companies use in terms of user research and user centered design, and I’m trying to merge those methods with a community based approach, a public resource approach.”

The United Arab Emirates Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is featuring photographs by Farah Al Qasimi, visiting assistant professor of photography, that visualize the tension between urban development and nature in the UAE’s sabkha salt flats.

The Historical Society of Cheshire County’s current exhibition Ghost Army: Combat Con Artists of WWII features artifacts, photographs, and a video interview from Pratt alumnus Mickey McKane, a longtime Cheshire County resident. McKane was one of several Pratt alumni who served in the Ghost Army Unit during World War II and used visual and sonic deception in the European Theater of Operations.

School of Information student projects from Programming for Cultural Heritage can be explored online, with work from this past academic year led by Adjunct Assistant Professor Matthew Miller including “Harvard Art Museums Color Palettes” by Jack Patterson, “Understanding the Plants of Central Park” by Claudia Berger, and “Orchid Fever in the American Press” by Vella Voynova.