Design firm A+A+A — co-founded by Visiting Assistant Professor of Interior Design Ashley Kuo, BFA Interior Design ’14; former Taconic Fellow Andrea Chiney, and Arianna Deane — has been honored as a 2025 “New Practices New York” emerging firm by AIANY. The winners were recognized for their “distinctive voice in engaging the critical issues that are relevant now.”
The Daily Hub
A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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An exhibition by Jen Mazza, visiting associate professor of Fine Arts, was reviewed in Dart Magazine. “Mazza’s poetic conceptualism works like poetry itself, placing one image adjacent to the next, and allowing their energetic conjunction to conjure something new in our consciousness,” writes John Mendelsohn. In conjunction with her exhibition, Mazza will be in conversation with Eric Dean Wilson at Ulterior Gallery.
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Associate Professor in the School of Information John Lauermann, along with graduate assistants Yuanhao Wu, MS Data Analytics and Visualization ’25, and Nathan Smash, MS Data Analytics and Visualization ’24, produced statistics and maps focused on housing data for the exhibition Collective Mobilities by Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow Alex Strada. The exhibition runs through March 9 in DeKalb Gallery on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus.
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Visiting Professor of Art and Design Education Theodora Skipitares is mentioned in a recent New Yorker article about the gallery 15 Orient and the sculptor Jilaine Jones. Hilton Als describes Skipitares as “masterly” and notes that her “gothic puppets, stage designs, and other creations seemed to enhance the building’s gorgeous erosion.”
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PCOMM partnered with New York City Council Member Lincoln Restler where he wrote an op-ed in Crain’s New York Business celebrating the partnership between Pratt Institute and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation as “an exciting example of how academic institutions can continue driving innovation, leading to the creation of new businesses that help fuel our local economy.” In the article, Restler explores the creative synergies at the Research Yard and Dock 72, writing that “by linking young creatives directly to the businesses that can help bring their ideas to life, Dock 72 is not only nurturing the next generation of creatives, but modeling how research institutions and businesses can collaborate to generate real-world impact on a local and potentially global scale.”
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Cameron Windt, BS Construction Management ’27, has been selected as the Atlantic East Conference men’s basketball Player of the Week, the first time a Cannoneer has received a weekly basketball award in the Atlantic East Conference. For the men’s volleyball team, Wallace Hallot, BFA Film ’25, was selected as the United East Conference Defensive Player of the Week, the team’s first award this season.
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SC103 founders Sophie Andes-Gascon, BFA Fashion Design ’15, and Claire McKinney, BFA Fashion Design ’15, were featured in Vogue Runway for their Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear collection.
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Professor of History of Art and Design Eva Díaz reviewed The Brutalist for Art Review.
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School of Information Professor Cristina Pattuelli and Adjunct Assistant Professor Matt Miller, along with alumni Ava Kaplan, MSLIS ’23, and Calista Donohue, MSLIS ’24, have published a paper titled “Knowledge Graphing Art Archives: Methods and Tools from the Semantic Lab’s E.A.T. Project” in the Journal of Open Humanities Data. The project is funded by Pratt’s 2023 Faculty Development Fund and the 2023 SI Faculty Innovation Fund.
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Former Civic Engagement Fellow Mary Mattingly’s new exhibition, Night Gardens, was featured in The New Yorker and msn. “Fantasy comes in the saturated artifice of these glamorously lit, nocturnal compositions that have the mythical allure of dioramas at the Natural History Museum,” writes Kendra Wilson.
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