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  • Devin B. Johnson, MFA Fine Arts ’19, was interviewed for Frieze. “I believe that urban spaces possess a memory, much like the body,” Johnson says. 

  • Academic Director of the Landscape Architecture Program and Associate Professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design Rosetta S. Elkin was featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine for an article about landscape architects seeking novel solutions in the face of difficult regulations.

  • Assistant Professor of Film and Video Matías Piñeiro’s film, Viola, is recommended by Condé Nast Traveller as the film to watch if you’re going to Argentina. “Beyond the Shakespeare-inspired entanglements that push the plot, the film takes viewers through the breadth of Buenos Aires, tracing the city’s bohemian bones—from its boulevards to its bedrooms.”

  • Pratt Institute’s Communications and Marketing Creative Services team was awarded the Graphis Silver Award in the 2025 Poster Awards Competition for the Pratt School of Architecture’s “Cohabitations” event series poster. The poster was also voted second place in a competition held by Archinect

  • Pratt faculty and alumni are featured in City & State New York’s inaugural 2024 Trailblazers in Building and Real Estate. The list, which highlights leaders reshaping New York’s landscape, includes Jerrod Delaine, visiting assistant professor of construction management, facilities management, and real estate; Rebecca Gillman Crimmins, MS City and Regional Planning ’15; and Elizabeth Crowley, MS City and Regional Planning ’08.

  • A gallery show considering the “role of the artist-as-educator, and vice versa,” co-curated by Timothy Simonds, adjunct associate professor of humanities and media studies, was featured in Document Journal.

  • The Brooklyn Museum is kicking off its 200th anniversary with a major group show spotlighting Brooklyn artists. The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition features a number of Pratt alumni, faculty, and staff, including Jazmine Catasús, Lisa Corinne Davis, Alanna Fields, Nancy Grossman, Fay Ku, Yaw Owusu, Jamaal Peterman, Leslie Roberts, Hiba Schahbaz, Jane South (Fine Arts Chair), Monica Srivastava, and Michelle Wen. Artists were selected by a committee led by esteemed artists Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Pratt Fine Arts graduate Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli.

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