Assistant Chair and Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing Claire Donato was interviewed for the Los Angeles Review of Books. “Marketing in the United States has divorced autofiction from its French roots,” she said. “If anything, I feel identified with the French origins of autofiction, and I’m teaching a course in fall 2024 on autofiction at Pratt Institute that will further explore its French origin.”
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Evan Paul English, MFA Fine Arts ’16, was featured in Hyperallergic’s Fall 2024 New York Art Guide for his show at the Alice Austen House in Staten Island.
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Jean Shin, adjunct professor – CCE of fine arts, was included in the “Dogue” issue of Vogue. Dogs are “a reminder of how we all as a species need fresh water or air or a break,” she told Vogue. “We, as artists, often think of just the work, and in the flow, hours pass and we realize we haven’t moved our bodies or taken a break. Seeing him take pleasure in watching birds or chasing things or smelling—to be aware of our surroundings, to play, those are all things we all need but sacrifice for our work.”
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Anselm Berrigan, adjunct assistant professor – CCE of writing, has been named a current lecturer for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry, “in which contemporary poets explore their thinking on poetry and poetics, and give a series of lectures resulting from these investigations.” Berrigan will give a lecture at the Fireside Room at Hotel Sorrento in Seattle, Washington, on October 10.
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Wen-Chi Hsueh, MS Packaging, Identities, and Systems Design ’24, won Gold in the Graphis New Talent 2024 competition for her project Air Shoes Packaging.
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Jennifer Babcock, assistant professor of the history of art and design, received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching, which recognizes and honors the expertise, dedication, and commitment of outstanding adjunct faculty members.
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Sara Cedar Miller, MFA Photography ‘83, is retiring after 40 years as the Central Park historian and photographer. “It has never been an ordinary job—because, of course, the Park is extraordinary,” she told the West Side Rag.
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Xuechen Chen, BArch ’19, won the 2024 Iron A’ Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design for “The Field of Uncertainty” and a Silver A’ Idea Design Award for “The Folding Boat.”
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Pratt Institute was ranked #6 on a list of best graphic design schools by Techopedia.
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Designer Ludovico Bruno, who studied fine arts at Pratt, was profiled in Vogue about his menswear brand Mordecai.
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The Pratt team earned national recognition and the honorable mention award for a project centered on food, culture, and connection in Kansas City.