Nat Mesnard, visiting instructor of associate degrees, describes how they developed the role-playing card game Assemblage in an article for Edge Effects. “Beginning with archetypes, Dream Askew invites players to develop the game’s narrative foundation through emergent conversations on character relationships. Assemblage, I decided, would be similar: in conversation, my players would define not just single characters, but entire species—a collection of simultaneous, overlapping ‘we’ voices.”
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Edel Rodriguez, BFA Painting ’94 and Visionary Awardee 2019, created the most recent cover of The New Yorker entitled “Mayor Mamdani,” depicting incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani smiling on a crowded subway. For more examples of Pratt alumni and faculty who have contributed to the magazine, see the recent story “Pratt and a Century of the New Yorker”.
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Swarali Karulkar, MS Dance/Movement Therapy ’16, is premiering her documentary film, Body Unveiled, at the upcoming New York Documentary Film Festival, with its world premiere to follow at the Awareness Film Festival. Body Unveiled explores how trauma is stored within the body and how the key to reclaiming agency and healing lies within. Karulkar produced the film to raise awareness—especially within the South Asian community—about the powerful role movement and the body can play in healing deep-rooted trauma.
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Fine Arts alumnus Mario A. Robinson was selected as the first-ever Save Ellis Island artist-in-residence. “Mario Robinson is the perfect artist to interpret the south side of Ellis Island. His sensitivity to American history is beautifully told through the stillness found in his paintings,” said Jim Dessicino, museum creative director for Ellis Island.
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Four Pratt faculty and alumni were featured in the 40 Under 40 North America list by the World Architecture Festival (WAF), in collaboration with The Architect’s Newspaper: Laura Salazar-Altobelli, assistant professor of undergraduate architecture; Erik Martínez, BArch ’10; Juan Sala, BArch ’16; and Isaac Michan, MArch ’13.
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Kay Moon, BFA Fine Arts ’25, received the Sculptors Guild Roosevelt Scholarship. Their work Beings of Light and Fire is on view at the MORA Museum of International Art in Jersey City, NJ, through December.
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Isabelle Brourman, MFA Fine Arts ’19, received a New York Press Club “Continuing Coverage – National Magazine” award for her illustrations for the series “Trump on Trial” in New York Magazine.
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Gabrielle Nicole, BFA Fine Arts ’13, launched her new jewelry collection, Ruveil, at an event hosted in collaboration with GEM X. The collection is inspired by her work as a sound meditation specialist.
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Assistant Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies Jan Dutkiewicz wrote an article for Vox about a recent consumer safety report regarding lead in protein powder. “The bottom line is that Consumer Reports’s protein lead scare is—pardon the pun—a big nothingburger. But the questions still remain: Are protein supplements completely safe?”
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The Architect’s Newspaper’s Top 50 Architects and Designers in North America list features seven Pratt faculty and alumni, including Tania Chau, MID ’05; Little Wing Lee, MS Interior Design ’06; Mark Lee, visiting assistant professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design (GALAUD); Dean Levin, BArch ’12; Jing Liu, senior researcher at the Center for Climate Adaptation and former GALAUD professor; Annabelle Selldorf, BArch ’85; and Michael Yarinksy, BArch ’11.
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