TheyDream by William David Caballero, BFA Digital Arts ’06, was featured in a list of “Latine Films to Look Out for at Sundance 2026” by Remezcla.
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Jean Shin, adjunct professor – CCE of fine arts, was named a 2026 Creative Capital awardee. The grants will provide $2.9 million to 109 artists in all 50 states.
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Kristin Mallison, BFA Fashion Design ’16, was featured in Teen Vogue. “I’ve always focused on upcycling and repurposing materials because I went to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and their fashion program really pushed for recycling,” she said.
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Pratt Athletics celebrated the academic achievements of student-athletes, noting that the cumulative GPA across teams was 3.52 for the fall semester.
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Zhihan Qian, MFA Communications Design ’23, was profiled in Design Scene. “Few designers use their commercial work as research material for cultural critique. Qian does. By day, she creates brand identities for fashion and retail clients. By night and on weekends, she makes books that dissect how designed systems encode power and exclusion. The approach is rare: treating professional practice not as separate from critical work, but as the evidence base for it.”
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The newest board members of ARLIS NY (Art Libraries Society of North America NY Chapter) are mostly Pratt alumni or work at Pratt, including Ann Bell, MSLIS ’25, Bridget O’Keefe, MSLIS ’23, Nicole Rosengurt, MSLIS ’23, Olivia Buck, MSLIS ’24, and Pratt Library Access Services Clerk Sal Tuszynski.
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Art and Design Education BFA/MA 5th-year students Sydney Lipner, Emily Morillo, Mikey Rodriguez, and Vicky Zhang have had their proposal, Accessible Culturally-Responsive Art Education in Puerto Rico, approved for funding by the Graduate Student Engagement Fund (GSEF).
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Kaylee Ann Johnson, MS Historic Preservation ’25, was named the director of preservation and historic properties at the Historic Savannah Foundation.
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Tomokazu Matsuyama, MFA Communications Design ’04, was awarded a 2025 Pen Creator Award and interviewed for Pen Magazine about his art practice. “I began working as a self-taught artist, and while painting murals in New York I found myself immersed in environments where culture and art intersect,” he said. “I was drawn to a free, physical mode of expression.”
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