The Daily Hub

Aracelis Girmay, associate professor of writing, was part of the recent “Hear Us Now: Poets Respond to Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina” event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A video of the poetry readings is available online.

Anton Ginzburg, visiting assistant professor of graduate communications design, and John Monti, professor of fine arts, were selected for Pratt and KinoSaito’s new partnership artist in residence fellowship program. Ginzburg and Monti worked onsite at KinoSaito, a nonprofit interdisciplinary art center in Verplanck, New York, through June 14.

Mario Naves, adjunct assistant professor-CCE of fine arts, reviewed an exhibition by Clare Grill, MFA ’05, for the New York Sun. At the Soft Stages is on view through June 30 at Derek Eller Gallery in Manhattan.

Emmet Sutton, BArch ’23, was selected for the Institute for the Public Architecture’s 2023 Summer Fellow cohort. The fellows will live and work on Governors Island for 11 weeks, focusing on public design projects.

Alumni Rakisha Kearns-White, MSLIS ’04, and Robert Weinstein, MSLIS ’14, were named Library Journal 2023 Movers & Shakers, highlighting their work shaping the future of libraries. Both work at the Brooklyn Public Library.

An exhibition by Theodora Skipitares, visiting professor of art and design education, at 15 Orient in Bushwick was featured in the New York Times roundup of “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June.” Views from the Miniature City is on view through June 18.

Students in the Wearable Technology studio led by fashion design and industrial design faculty member Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman worked to solve problems related to astronauts, including space travel, communication, and extra-terrestrial exercise. They presented their work to NASA at the end of the semester. See their projects @prattindustrial.

Maria Montes, BFA Photography ’25, is a recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation Scholarship for the 2023-24 academic year: “Using the camera as a weapon, as Parks once said, combats difficulties in today’s society.”

Jiayu Hu, BFA Communications Design ’25, and Visiting Instructor Sandra Erbacher were selected as Summer Artists-in-Residence at the Center for Book Arts. The program for one student and one faculty member is organized in collaboration with and sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Pratt.

Fashion design alumnus Emilio Sosa, who is nominated for two 2023 Tony awards, was featured in the New York Times for the five different Broadway productions he has created costumes for this season: “Listening to actors is 95 percent of my design. You need to have your actors actively involved in the costume they’re going to wear.”