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Pratt alumna and 2023 commencement address speaker Cheryl D. Miller contributed the story “Living History: Connecting the Threads Between Juneteenth and the Story of Black Graphic Designers” to Print magazine: “Centuries after emancipation, I am dedicated to decolonizing the design canon for a more fair, just and equitable history we all can freely embrace.”

Duff Norris, MFA Fine Arts ’20, discusses how an expansive view of masculinity shapes his interdisciplinary work in an interview with Hyperallergic. “Through the journey of coming out, transitioning, and living as a trans fella, there has always been a natural curiosity, criticality, and experimental aspect to my perspective which also guides my artistic practice,” Norris said.

Edel Rodriguez, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ‘94, recently displayed a selection of his drawings, posters, book covers, acrylic paintings, and more at the County College of Morris in Randolph, New Jersey. The show, Apocalypso, examined “the state of the world in the past thirteen years,” he told the New Yorker in a profile of his career.

Graduate Communications Design Visiting Instructor John Chaich, MFA Communications Design ‘11, curated Queer Threads, a textile-based exhibition exploring contemporary LGBTQ+ experiences on display through Aug. 20 at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. “As queer people we have this resilience and industriousness, and creativity and spirit, and a kind of vibrancy, to really fight forward,” Chaich told KQED.

Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow Mary Mattingly’s new exhibition Ebb of a Spring Tide, on display at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens through Sept. 10, features work exploring our relationship to water, including the 65-foot living sculpture Water Clock. “Water Clock is a tribute to the power of water, time, and the life force of this riparian edge,” Mattingly said.

Ashely Kuo, BFA Interior Design ’14, shared with Dwell magazine how an heirloom mah-jongg set inspires the work of the design studio she co-founded, A+A+A: “There’s never a hierarchy in the game, which relates to how we approach design projects.”

Aracelis Girmay, associate professor of writing, was part of the recent “Hear Us Now: Poets Respond to Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina” event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A video of the poetry readings is available online.

Anton Ginzburg, visiting assistant professor of graduate communications design, and John Monti, professor of fine arts, were selected for Pratt and KinoSaito’s new partnership artist in residence fellowship program. Ginzburg and Monti worked onsite at KinoSaito, a nonprofit interdisciplinary art center in Verplanck, New York, through June 14.

Mario Naves, adjunct assistant professor-CCE of fine arts, reviewed an exhibition by Clare Grill, MFA ’05, for the New York Sun. At the Soft Stages is on view through June 30 at Derek Eller Gallery in Manhattan.

Emmet Sutton, BArch ’23, was selected for the Institute for the Public Architecture’s 2023 Summer Fellow cohort. The fellows will live and work on Governors Island for 11 weeks, focusing on public design projects.