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Last Seen by Nathan Ginter,  BFA Film ’23, is screening at the New York Indie Shorts Awards happening September 8-10 at Cinépolis Chelsea in Manhattan. 

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things by Minh-Ha T. Pham, associate professor of humanities and media studies, being published this month by Duke University Press, was featured in Vulture’s “Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall.”  The book explores the influence of social media on fashion, ethics, and property.

This year’s New York Film Festival includes the short film It Smells Like Springtime by Mackie Mallison, BFA Film/Video ’23, which will be part of the Currents lineup. White Noise, part of the Main Slate program, has post-production work by Morgan Miller, adjunct assistant professor of digital arts and animation, and Jennifer Klockner, BFA Digital Arts ’18. The festival presented by Film at Lincoln Center runs from September 30 to October 16.

As covered by Artnet, artwork for the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck by Pratt alumna Pamela Colman Smith is on view through February 26, 2023, in At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Smith enrolled at Pratt in 1893 and studied under artist Arthur Wesley Dow.

Through a Documentary Heritage Program grant from the New York State Archives, over 60 linear feet of records from the Pratt Center for Community Development have been processed and are now held and preserved by the Pratt Institute Archives. Pratt Center’s Archives Administration Fellow Jack O’Malley, MLIS ’22, wrote about the project on the Pratt Libraries Iron & Glass blog.

Olivia Meehan, MLIS ’22, contributed a guest post to the Library of Congress blog the Signal on “Diving into Digital Ephemera: Identifying Defunct URLs in the Web Archives.” She is a 2022 Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress where her work has been overseen by Lauren Baker, MSLIS ’18.

Emily Ridings, BFA Fashion ’18, was featured in Garden & Gun magazine for her use of basket weaving in her designs. The story relates how she started experimenting with weaving while a student at Pratt: “I weave my heart through everything.”

Chloe Evangelista, BFA Digital Arts ’22, is a finalist for the 2022 Student Academy Awards in the Alternative/Experimental category for the film “Ask Again Later” which was made in the senior projects class led by Adjunct Assistant Professor Caitlin Craggs.

Leonel Ponce, acting academic director of Sustainable Environmental Systems, was interviewed for the story “How business owners can prepare for flooding and climate change” in Crain’s New York Business.

Visit the new Notes On… blog from the Pratt Center for Community Development for ongoing insights and observations on community-based planning and the built environment. Recent posts include Notes on Nighttime Governance by Senior Planner Tara Duvivier and Notes on the L Train by Communications Associate Elmo Tumbokon.