April Maxey, BFA Film ’12, was interviewed in Shoutout LA. “My work is very personal, and it always feels risky to write about myself, my fears, my mistakes, my deepest wounds and desires—it’s an incredibly vulnerable process,” said Maxey. “But I think as artists that is the task, to risk exposing our depths and being rejected, but doing it anyway.”
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Pratt Institute was awarded two Honorable Mentions in Ragan’s 2024 PR Daily Awards, which highlight exceptional campaigns from top brands and agencies across the communications and marketing space. The Pratt Transit Art Tour was recognized for “PR on a Shoestring Budget,” and The New Village: 10 Years of New York Fashion PR campaign was recognized in the category of “Event PR or Marketing Campaign.” The initiatives were led by Pratt Communications and Marketing’s PR and Editorial Communications team.
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William T. Williams, BFA ’66, received the 2024 Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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The Gothamist paid homage to the Pratt Steam Whistle, “a legendary New York New Year’s tradition last marked a decade ago,” on its list of NYC New Years’ Eve parties. “It is gone but not forgotten, just as 2024 soon will be.”
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Emma Stern, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’14, was featured in Interview Magazine on the occasion of her solo show The Rabbit Hole. “I’ve been thinking a lot about magic as I’ve been making the show,” she said. “AI was the kernel that got me thinking about magic, but I also think artists are magicians. You think of something and then it exists. And that kind of makes me feel like a god.”
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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.”
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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).
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Professor Emeritus and alumnus John Pai was featured in The Korea Times and Colossal about his solo exhibition Shared Destinies at Gallery Hyundai.
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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.”
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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.”
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