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Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, created the show set for Dior’s haute couture collection presented this month in Paris. Thomas’s portraits of pioneering Black and mixed-race women complemented the fashion inspired by Josephine Baker. The work was covered by Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Wallpaper.

Spring semester means it’s time for Pratt Shows, the annual celebration of creative work by Pratt’s graduating students that runs through May. Pratt Shows 2023 kicks off with the opening of the first BFA in Photography thesis exhibition on January 30. Check out the work on campus and stay tuned for more Pratt Shows to come!

Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation by Rosetta S. Elkin, the academic director of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program, was reviewed by Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Samantha Black, BFA Fashion Design ’05, collaborated on a collection for Target timed with Black History Month. The Sammy B X Target collection was covered by Black Enterprise.

Ann Gillen, BFA ’59, was featured in the New York Times for her long career creating public sculpture, including 30 commissions around New York: “You want light that shifts, you want to see how it works with people.”

Samantha Kalinowski, BFA Writing ’22, Sav Hampton, BFA Writing ’18, and Alysia Slocum-Laferriere, MFA Writing ’20, recently published micro-essays about music on Wendy’s Subway’s Endless Playlist.

The fall 2022 Nostalgia issue of The Prattler, the student-run literary arts magazine, is now online. It includes an article on the Franklin Furnace Archive at Pratt, a reflection on the death of the MetroCard, and a digital collage of suburban nostalgia.

School of Information student work from the fall 2022 Programming for Cultural Heritage class is available to explore online, including SLAPDASHBOT: Curating Art with a Random Word Generator, Library Social Media Use by State, and Forsaken Bones: The Neglect of African American Burial Grounds.

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, MFA Communications Design ’15, created illustrations and animations for Bravespace, a compilation released this month by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. It includes original songs, sounds, and meditations created by Asian American women and non-binary artists and musicians.

​​Students in Projects in Information Experience Design led by Hasan Hachem, visiting assistant professor in the School of Information, paired with nonprofits to research and redesign their sites. See their collaborative work with Made in Chinatown, Transportation Alternatives, and the Fibromyalgia Care Society of America.