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  • The Cannoneers received a shoutout in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. At the last men’s basketball game of 2024, senior Ace Bibbs played his “final game in a Pratt uniform” and was honored in pregame ceremonies, before making a “team-high nine rebounds and three steals.”

  • Alaina Claire Feldman, BFA Art History and Critical Visual Studies, was appointed as the inaugural chief curator at U.C. Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA).

  • Charlotte Böhning, MID ’23, creator of OriVa (formally called the Gutsy Port) was interviewed for Design World about her process, applying for a patent, and designing in the medical field. “The goal is to get the port into the hands of people and on people’s bodies at a commercial scale. Through the past year, I’ve learned that it’s a long runway with medical devices. When I feel a little discouraged at times, I think back to the process of designing the port—to the bodystorming and interviewing people—and it instantly reminds me that this is such a real problem and that a device like this could make a big difference in people’s daily lives.”

  • Kang Ik-joong, MFA Fine Arts ’88, is the first Korean artist invited to the ‘Forever Is Now’ international exhibition in Egypt, in front of the World Heritage Pyramids. Ik-joong also opened his 40th-anniversary retrospective in his hometown of Cheongju. “I will construct four rectangular prisms, each up to five meters high. The outer walls of these prisms will be inscribed with the lyrics of the Korean folk song ‘Arirang’ in Hangeul, English, Arabic, and hieroglyphics. The interior will be adorned with over 5,000 mural drawings of dreams created by children from around the world,” he said. “The pyramids symbolize the past, ‘Arirang’ the present, and the children the future.”

  • Lillian Ismail, BFA Fine Arts (Jewelry) ’17, was featured on a list of “12 Saudi Jewellery Designers We’re Simply Obsessed With” from Harper’s Bazaar Arabia. “In 2013, at only 17 years-old, Jeddah-based Lillian Ismail launched her namesake jewellery brand. Lillian blends Islamic-inspired concepts and modern contemporary elements into her designs, while using her artwork as a medium for expression.” 

     

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