Interim Chair of GAUD and Adjunct Associate Professor – CCE in Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design Alexandra Barker was mentioned in The Spin Off about Kings Of Indigo’s Impact Report. “The company’s first Impact Report marks a significant milestone for the company as it sets some of the first new sustainable goals it has achieved and indicates its future objectives under the guidance of the brand’s sustainability manager, Alexandra Barker.”
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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Gabriela Collins-Fernández was appointed the Art in Odd Places Thinker in Residence. She was also included on East Village Radio.
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Stephanie Naut, MSLIS ’26, has a poster “Review of Tree.fm” based on their work from Digital Humanities presented at the 2024 virtual conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of History of Art and Design Greg Lindquist was featured in Mountain Journal.
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Adjunct Professor – CCE of Fine Arts Michael Brennan published two new gallery show reviews in Two Coats of Paint.
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Pratt Institute’s Mindfulness Collaboratory received a grant from the Frederick P. Lenz Foundation to expand its leadership training for BIPOC women. This groundbreaking initiative aims to empower BIPOC women with contemplative leadership skills, building on the Collaboratory’s long-standing mission to advance arts workforce development.
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Akua Amponsah, MSLIS + MA History of Art and Design ’28, has been awarded the ALA Spectrum Scholarship and has received a matching scholarship from the School of Information. Awardees were evaluated on their “commitment to community building, leadership potential, and planned contributions to making social justice part of everybody’s everyday work in LIS.”
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Professor of Fine Arts Steve Locke was featured recently in Art in America and on the David Zwirner Podcast. He was also listed among Helen Molesworth’s Artforum Top Ten Best of 2024.
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A project by Gans and Company, founded by Deborah Gans, professor of undergraduate architecture, was featured in The Architect’s Newspaper and Time Out. The firm designed a new planned garden for Brooklyn Children’s Museum. The outdoor space will “bring the play and interactive elements the museum is known for outdoors,” reports The Architect’s Newspaper.
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The EnergyFit program, co-created by the Pratt Center for Community Development, Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, and IMPACCT Brooklyn, was featured in The City for helping Brooklyn homeowners make energy-efficient and long-overdue repairs. “A lot of these households are in communities that have been disinvested in for a long time, where people are house-rich, cash-poor, and have fallen so far behind on maintenance that to even be able to start moving towards electrification and efficiency, you’ve got to solve these other home maintenance problems,” said Rebekah Morris-Gonzalez, director of climate initiatives at Pratt. “The benefits that will accrue are not just around carbon reductions. It is really about health improvements to households and comfort.”
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Pratt’s annual MFA Open Studios were complemented by the first-ever Open Fields artist resource fair, making for an electric day of events celebrating artistic practice and the resources that sustain it.