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The first half of the MFA thesis exhibition was reviewed by Hyperallergic: “Spanning both traditional and new media, the works explored and restructured collective and personal narratives within the scope of race and culture, sex and gender, language and geography, and beyond.” Part two opens on April 24.

The Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative (SAVI) contributed to a report on New York City “soft sites,” which are lots that are eligible—and vulnerable—to redevelopment based on land use and zoning criteria. The report and companion website are available online. The faculty collaborators included Sara Eichner, Sara Hodges, Can Sucuoğlu, and John Shapiro.

“Double Cultura” by Yessenia Sanchez, BFA Film ’21, is an HBO Max Latino Short Film Competition winner. The honor includes having her film stream on HBO Max for a year.

Four School of Art students were selected as 2023 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Summer Residents: Mateo Arciniegas Huertas, BFA Photography ’23; Alexander Brewington, MFA Fine Arts ’23, Katie Croft, MFA Fine Arts ’20; MPS Art Therapy and Creativity Development ’23; and Matthew Del Carmen, BFA Fine Arts ’23.

Jiahao Chen, MPS Design Management ’24, received an Emerging Scholar Award at the 2023 International Conference on Design Principles & Practices in Lisbon, Portugal. Chen presented a paper on “non-material design,” examining the opportunities and challenges of digitalization across various industries and its impact on sustainable development.

The 2023 Research Open House People’s Choice Award has been awarded to Greg Sheward and Jason Vigneri-Beane in the School of Architecture for Cephalic Structures: Robotically Printed Eco-Composites. The ongoing design research project explores robotically printed fabrication processes for ecological micro-infrastructures

On view through April 21 in the Siegel Gallery in Higgins Hall is Re:Play, a project by an interdisciplinary team organized by Deborah Gans, professor of undergraduate architecture, and including faculty and students from the School of Architecture. It was previously exhibited at the AIA Center for Architecture in Reset: Towards a New Commons, which was covered by Curbed, The Avery Review, and Metropolis.

Pratt Trustee and alumnus Derrick Adams, BFA Art and Design Education ’96, and alumna Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, shared their insights for the New York Times story “10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence.”

James Hannaham, professor of writing, is on the shortlist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards for his book Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta. The finalists in the prestigious LGBTQ+ publishing awards will be celebrated at an awards ceremony on June 9.

The Harper’s Bazaar article “Can Clothes Be ‘Extremely Offline’?” profiles the work of Sophie Andes-Gascon, BFA Fashion Design ’15, and Visiting Instructor Claire McKinney, BFA Fashion Design ’15, of SC103 and the influence of their mentor Susan Cianciolo, assistant professor of fashion design. It includes quotes from Chair of Fashion Design Jennifer Minniti.