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  • Loren Daye, MID ’06, provided expert lighting advice in Architectural Digest, such as installing dimmers on everything: “After 6 p.m., I turn the light level down in our house to allow for a more regulated circadian effect,” she tells AD. 

  • Mary Carothers, BFA Photography ’91, was featured in LEO Weekly about her artwork and artificial intelligence. “AI simultaneously fascinates and terrifies me,” she said.

  • Mark Grattan, BID ’06, is named among the The Wallpaper* USA 400, which recognizes the people defining America’s creative landscape. He was featured on Wallpaper* in a recent profile of the artist, as well as in an article about Milan Design Week 2024. He was also dubbed “The Builder” by Robb Report in a round-up of nine creative innovators. 

  • Nancy Grossman, BFA Graphic Arts and Illustration ’62, was awarded the National Arts Club’s Medal of Honor. “I’m so grateful and fortunate to have this time to still keep learning, to still keep showing, to be collected, to still be relevant and influential after all these years,” she said. 

  • Greer Lankton, BFA Sculpture ’81, was featured in an article for the Art Institute of Chicago. “Whether paying homage to real-life individuals or fictitious characters, Lankton aspired to animate each of her creations with a unique vitality.” 

  • The School of Design’s 4th annual Social Justice and Sustainability Award winners were announced, recognizing students for leadership, scholarship, activism, and sustainability.

  • For Cultured, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore picked his five favorite images by accomplished New York photographer James Hamilton, who studied painting at Pratt. Hamilton is also the subject of the documentary Uncropped, which was reviewed in the New York Times. “We depend on history to recount what is vanished, what is missed, dreamed of, mythologized,” Moore tells Cultured. “In James Hamilton’s photographic archives I encounter a universe of sweetness, of salaciousness and a spell-binding grace.”

  • Professor of Undergraduate Communications Design Rudy Gutierrez, BFA Communications Design (Illustration) ’79, captured the courtship of Cicadas in his signature illustration style for the New York Times.

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Pratt Institute Ranked in Top 10 of Art & Design Universities

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Pratt Drives Innovation at Brooklyn Navy Yard

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Graduate Architecture Student Quinn Gregory Named 2025 Fulbright Semifinalist

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Pratt Institute was also named a Fulbright Top Producing Institute for the sixth consecutive year.