Edel Rodriguez, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’94, was selected as a PRINT Awards Jury Member for Hand Lettering, Illustration, Graphic Novels, and Invitations. The jurors were chosen because they possessed the “insight and experience needed to recognize standout work across these creative categories.” Rodriguez has also been chosen as The Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence for the spring 2025 semester at Baruch College, and he recently presented his book, The Mango Tree, at the Miami Book Fair.
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Laurie Cumbo, who was a visiting assistant professor from fall 2001 to fall 2009 in the Arts and Cultural Management program at Pratt Institute, was listed among 2024’s Leading Culturepreneurs: Pioneers of Cultural Transformation by Elucid Magazine. “As New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner, Cumbo oversaw significant cultural grants, expanded public art installations, and championed arts institutions, ensuring the city’s vibrant arts scene remained valued by residents and visitors alike.”
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Devin B. Johnson, MFA ’19, was interviewed for the Fall 2024 issue of Gagosian Quarterly. During his first semester at Pratt, he says he was challenged to think “more in depth about the ideas and concepts of my practice, the whys and the scaffolding of what my practice was based on.” He remarks on the “influential professors,” including Greg Drasler, Torkwase Dyson, and Cullen Washington Jr, who “challenged their students to think and talk about their work in a more philosophical manner.“ A painting of Donald Glover by Johnson was also featured in TheWrapBook.
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Former Dean of the School of Architecture, Dr. Harriet Harriss, professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, was featured in Building Design and on Dezeen’s top 10 architecture and design books of 2024 for 100 Women: Architects in Practice, co-authored with Naomi House, Monika Parrinder, and Tom Ravenscroft.
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An exhibition by Visiting Associate Professor of Fine Arts Nat Meade was included in Cultured’s 10 must-see gallery shows in LA this month.
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Three short films by Mackie Mallison, BFA Film ’23, will be streaming on Vimeo starting today, January 9.
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Pratt Center and its partners in the Basement Apartments Safe for Everyone (BASE) coalition won a victory with the recent enactment of legislation that will enable the creation of a basement and cellar apartment legalization program in NYC. “These zoning and building code reforms, following the State legislation won earlier this year, represent the key regulatory changes needed for safe basement apartment conversions.”
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Here: Where the Black Designers Are by Cheryl D. Miller, MS Communications Design ’85, was included in Fast Company’s best design books of 2024.
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Christina Perla, BID ’14, and Manny Mota, BID ’02, were interviewed about their 3D-printing company Makelab. “Perla and Mota both studied industrial design at Brooklyn’s prestigious Pratt Institute, which is more or less the whole rationale behind why the duo started an additive manufacturing (AM) service bureau in the unlikely location of one of Manhattan’s five boroughs.”
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