The Daily Hub
A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Film/Video Sunita Prasad, was named a 2024 NYC Women’s Fund recipient by Made in NY and New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).
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Taeler Braithwaite, MFA Communications Design ’24, was interviewed in Bold Journey. “In May, I graduated from Pratt Institute with an MFA in Communication Design, a milestone that furthered my professional and creative growth,” she said. “While at Pratt, I collaborated with the Van Alen Institute on service design projects for the Gowanus neighborhood and worked with Stephen T. Mather High School to create a grower’s space for students.
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Professor of Writing Samantha Hunt reviewed Mariana Enriquez’s A Sunny Place for Shady People for the New York Times. The review was listed among Book Mark’s 5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week. Hunt was also mentioned in a Collider article about short film The Yellow, which was “adapted from author Samantha Hunt’s short story of the same name, that intimately dissects suburban dread and existential absurdity.“
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Matthew Quejada, MID ’24, designed an e-bike charging station for garages, which was sponsored by GM and featured in Core 77. Quejada also received the 2024 IDSA Graduate Student Merit Award (GSMA).
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Visiting Professor of Fine Arts Karen Bachmann was quoted in the New York Times about the history of the horn motif in jewelry. “The horn shape is representative of a vessel,” she said, “and one of the earliest representations of the horn shape can be seen in a Paleolithic limestone in the Dordogne called the Venus of Laussel.”
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A poem by Adjunct Assistant Professor – CCE of Writing Anselm Berrigan was published by The Baffler.
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Pratt was recognized for co-founding Archipelago Agenda, which “brings together stakeholders to develop scalable, nature-based solutions for water scarcity and safety in urban archipelagos.” The article highlights the Anant Fellows who presented proposals at Singapore International Water Week 2024. “India’s Daman/Diu Islands were added to the agenda through Anant National University, the only Indian University partner in the initiative.”
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Marland Backus, BID ’15, was featured in Vogue and HighSnobiety. Her heart necklace was also worn by superstar Chappell Roan.
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Two faculty members from the School of Architecture received 2024 Independent Projects Grants from The Architectural League and The New York State Council on the Arts. Laura Salazar-Altobelli, assistant professor of undergraduate architecture, received a grant for the upcoming exhibition In-Process: Alternative Methods in Reading Evolving Buildings; and Dragana Zorić, adjunct associate professor – CCE of undergraduate architecture, received a grant for the upcoming exhibition Jugoplastika: Women, Plastics and a Factory that Defined a Nation.
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