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Rudy Gutierrez, professor of undergraduate communications design, was commissioned by MTA Arts & Design for its Poster Program to create work on view in New York City subway stations, subway cars, and buses.

Kadir Nelson, BFA Communications Design ’96, contributed an Independence Day-themed cover to The New Yorker. It depicts a young woman on roller skates in Times Square: “It’s iconic New York City, a unique spectacle that should be experienced by everyone at least once in a lifetime.”

The 2023 Core77 Design Awards honored several students and faculty, including Lauren Haag, MPS Design Management ’23, Peter Harvey, BID ’23; MArch ’26, fashion design and industrial design faculty member Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, and Xiner Zhang, MID ’23, for two projects. A team entry from an Arts and Cultural Management course won a Design for Social Impact Award.

MoMA Magazine featured an interview on trans politics and visibility over the last decade with Carlos Motta, associate professor of sculpture and integrated practices, who has an installation in the current exhibition Signals: How Video Transformed the World: “I will always retain hope in intergenerational organizing.”

Pratt alumna and 2023 commencement address speaker Cheryl D. Miller contributed the story “Living History: Connecting the Threads Between Juneteenth and the Story of Black Graphic Designers” to Print magazine: “Centuries after emancipation, I am dedicated to decolonizing the design canon for a more fair, just and equitable history we all can freely embrace.”

Duff Norris, MFA Fine Arts ’20, discusses how an expansive view of masculinity shapes his interdisciplinary work in an interview with Hyperallergic. “Through the journey of coming out, transitioning, and living as a trans fella, there has always been a natural curiosity, criticality, and experimental aspect to my perspective which also guides my artistic practice,” Norris said.

Edel Rodriguez, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ‘94, recently displayed a selection of his drawings, posters, book covers, acrylic paintings, and more at the County College of Morris in Randolph, New Jersey. The show, Apocalypso, examined “the state of the world in the past thirteen years,” he told the New Yorker in a profile of his career.

Graduate Communications Design Visiting Instructor John Chaich, MFA Communications Design ‘11, curated Queer Threads, a textile-based exhibition exploring contemporary LGBTQ+ experiences on display through Aug. 20 at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. “As queer people we have this resilience and industriousness, and creativity and spirit, and a kind of vibrancy, to really fight forward,” Chaich told KQED.

Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow Mary Mattingly’s new exhibition Ebb of a Spring Tide, on display at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens through Sept. 10, features work exploring our relationship to water, including the 65-foot living sculpture Water Clock. “Water Clock is a tribute to the power of water, time, and the life force of this riparian edge,” Mattingly said.

Ashely Kuo, BFA Interior Design ’14, shared with Dwell magazine how an heirloom mah-jongg set inspires the work of the design studio she co-founded, A+A+A: “There’s never a hierarchy in the game, which relates to how we approach design projects.”