Queer Pratt’s Drag Race returned to Memorial Hall this spring! See photos from the annual event @prattinstitute.
The Daily Hub
A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Literary Hub explored the career of Pratt alumna and comic book creator June Tarpé Mills who in 1941 created the first female superhero: Miss Fury.
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This summer’s Pratt in Venice program is underway! Follow @prattinvenice for updates, such as the Art History of Venice class’s visit to the Torcello island to consider what makes the Italian city a special place for the study of art.
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Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, MFA Communications Design ’15, is featured in a Harper’s Bazaar story that explores her practice, including several participatory installations at Lincoln Center this summer called GATHER: A series of monuments and rituals: “We need to remind ourselves to hold onto the hope and the joy; we live the grief and the pain every day.”
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Hannah Fink, MID ’20, was interviewed on the Inventors Helping Inventors podcast about her work to improve the home Pilates reformer.
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“Fresh Fuel” by Liuyi Ding, BFA Interior Design ’22, rethinks urban sustainability by transforming gas stations into markets for fresh food and automobile charging. Read more @prattinteriors.
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Mónica Santos Gil, BID ’15, was interviewed for Marie Claire’s Small Business Spotlight. She discussed leaving corporate fashion to start her own brand using cactus leather to make sustainable handbags: “My priority was to create bags that were long-lasting—something you could wear everyday and for years to come.”
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Visit @prattfoundation to see work by students from this year’s Foundation FOLIO awards, including Joy Han who received the honor for Outstanding Portfolio in 2D Design: “My biggest takeaway from my foundation year is all the new techniques and mediums I have been able to not only learn about but also take part in.”
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Fashion design alumnus Emilio Sosa is nominated for a Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play for Trouble in Mind. Ahead of the June 12 ceremony, he shared with Broadway World what the nomination means to him.
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Jie Yu, BFA Interior Design ’22, designed “The Potential of Cultural Coexistence and Hybridization” taking philosophical principles from traditional Chinese scholar stones as a design methodology to create a space under the Manhattan Bridge with fluid experiences to remove the traditional barriers between cultures. Read more @prattinteriors.