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Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design Alvaro Uribe, BID ’10, is introducing the Coliseum Chair at the Salone del Mobile during the 2024 Milan Furniture Fair. The Coliseum Chair, created in collaboration with Italian furniture company SLIDE, “reverently honors [the Rome Colosseum’s] majestic arches and grandeur.”

Assistant to the Chair of Art and Design Education, Jonell Joshua, was interviewed for Print Magazine about her new graphic memoir How Do I Draw These Memories? The book, which knits together the story of her childhood and her mother’s mental illness, is about “faith, the preciousness of life and unconditional love,” Joshua says. “I’m glad I was able to make this book come to life, not only for myself, but for my family as well.”

Agnes Questionmark, MFA Fine Arts ‘25, is one of the 12 artists selected for the 2nd edition of the Biennale College Arte 2023/24 on the occasion of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Questionmark’s work Cyber-Teratology Operation (2024), on view now at the Arsenale, “addresses the transgender body as one that is often pathologised, mechanised, and hospitalised, illuminating the patriarchal biopolitics at play in science and healthcare,” writes Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Interim Chair of Graduate Architecture and Urban Design, Adjunct Associate Professor-CCE, and founder of the Brooklyn-based studio BAAO Alexandra Barker is featured in a New York Times article about her renovation of an Upper West Side home. From major architectural changes like moving staircases to design details like bold wallpaper, “the renovation infused the home with a new sense of style,” reports the Times. 

Hyperallergic featured Swoon (Caledonia Curry, BFA Fine Arts ’02) as a highlight in their coverage of Dumbo Open Studios, organized by Art in Dumbo. “Dozens of artists and project spaces opened their doors across six stories of the multi-use building, inviting the public into a whirlwind of contemporary creative output through both polished presentations and behind-the-scenes views.”

Based on data from the 2022 SNAAP (Strategic National Arts Alumni Project) Survey on arts and design graduates and their careers, a recent SNAAP special report focusing on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic notes that 81% of arts and design graduates in the creative workforce who responded to the survey maintained the same kind of work in fall 2022 as they were doing before the onset of the pandemic. Pratt Institute participated as an institutional sponsor of the 2022 SNAAP Survey.

Director of the Pratt Sustainability Center Carolyn Shafer has been named a 2024 Notable Leader in Sustainability by Crain’s New York Business, with the publication stating that “the 56 honorees on Crain’s Notable Leaders in Sustainability list are redefining corporate commitment by overseeing decarbonization policy, designing environmentally-conscious housing, heading sustainable investing and more.”

Interim Executive Director of Bronx River Alliance Elena Conte, MS City and Regional Planning ’14, was interviewed by Gothamist about the cleanup efforts following Con Edison’s recent oil spill in the Bronx River. “‘The information to the public was not as quick or as clear as we would have liked,’ Conte said, adding the public wasn’t notified about the spill until her organization shared the news days afterwards.”

Parker Ewen, BFA Fine Arts ’24, Vidhu Kota, BFA Film/Video ’24, and John Quinn, BFA Digital Arts ’24, were selected for the Byrdcliffe Artist Residency in Upstate New York this summer. The residency offers selected artists “uninterrupted creative time within the serene natural setting of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony.”

Jo Livingstone, visiting assistant professor of graduate communications design, speaks with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics, a limited series from the New York Review of Books and Literary Hub, about Old English, anachronism, and writing criticism. “It’s very monastic,” she says. “It’s all about being alone but still reaching out to find the other people through the cave.”