Subway mosaic artist and Visiting Instructor of Social Science and Cultural Studies Jackie Chang was featured in The New York Times. “Next semester I will be teaching art, culture and community development,” she said. “It’s not about acquiring skills to make art, but it’s acquiring skills, knowledge as to why you would make art, like how to apply it—not just as a decorative item to be sold on the market.”
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Ulster County named Carmen Lizardo, BFA Photography ’97 and MFA Digital Arts ’00, the recipient of the Arts in Public Places Award as part of the Arts Mid-Hudson 2024 awards.
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Terrence Howard, who studied civil engineering at Pratt, portrays Arthur Hardwick, Jr., the first African American from Erie County to be elected to the New York State Legislature, in the film Shirley, available for streaming on Netflix.
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Sylvia Morse, senior program manager for research and policy at Pratt Center for Community Development, has been selected for Urban Design Forum’s 2024 class of Global Exchange Fellows. “Over the next nine months, they will build bridges between New York City and its peer cities, uncover cutting-edge projects and demand courageous public policy to address New York City’s housing crisis.”
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Alanna Fields, MFA Photography ’19, was honored with the Washington Award for Visual Arts.
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Students Brianna Casas, MS Museums and Digital Culture ’24, Katherine Duval, MS Museums and Digital Culture ’24, and Nicolas Lord, MS Museums and Digital Culture ’25, published an article on the Museum Next blog about how museums do audience research and evaluation.
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Assistant Professor of Fashion Susan Cianciolo was featured in Vogue and Frieze. “This has been the most enjoyable time for me,” she told Vogue. “I don’t want to ever stop or sleep or eat, because there’s nothing I love more in the world than making clothing. It’s just truly my craft.”
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Hilary Cheung, BFA Communications Design (Graphic Design) ’24, contributed designs for Megan Thee Stallion’s tour poster and magazine.
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Assistant Professor of History of Art and Design Jennifer Babcock received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching, which “recognizes and honors the expertise, dedication, and commitment of outstanding adjunct faculty members.”
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Yield, a sculpture by alumnus Roxy Paine, was included in Art & Object’s list of “10 Must-Sees At Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art,” among works by Louise Bourgeois, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Keith Haring. Reaching “curling silver branches towards the sky,” Paine’s sculpture “appears to have grown in some alternate reality where trees are made of metal.”
More Pratt Institute News
Pratt Institute Ranked in Top 10 of Art & Design Universities
The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 also place Pratt in the top five universities for art and design in the United States. Pratt was also ranked in the Top 10 for History of Art.
Pratt Drives Innovation at Brooklyn Navy Yard
From Pratt Institute News
New York City Council Member Lincoln Restler celebrates Pratt’s partnership with the Brooklyn Navy Yard in an op-ed for Crain’s New York Business.
Graduate Architecture Student Quinn Gregory Named 2025 Fulbright Semifinalist
From Pratt Institute News
Pratt Institute was also named a Fulbright Top Producing Institute for the sixth consecutive year.