Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice, Fine Arts, Carlos Motta has collaborated with performance artist Tiamat Legion Medusa, continuing his investigation into queer counter-histories with a two-channel video installation that centers Medusa’s life and work as an interspecies, body-modified transexual. The work is on view until April 22 at OCDChinatown.
The Daily Hub
A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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In the Design Systems class, graduate communications design student Poyu Chen worked on visibility for migrant workers in Taiwan with ideas for art, events, and a mobile app. Read more @prattgradcomd.
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All Pratt students are invited to submit designs for the Pratt Institute Distinguished Teacher Award (DTA) Medal by March 20. Visit the Pratt Senate site for more details.
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Follow @prattphotography for highlights from the ongoing photography thesis exhibitions, such as Jacky Liang’s A Drive.
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Grand Panorama by Art and Design Education Professor Theodora Skipitares is being performed at La MaMa through March 6. Using pre-cinema techniques the show explores Frederick Douglass’s belief in the power of photography.
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Check out this throwback to the early 1990s on the Pratt Brooklyn campus shared by Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’91, on @prattinstitute.
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Adrienne Jones, professor of fashion design, was interviewed for an NBC News story on Black-owned clothing brands and how the industry has changed in recent years.
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Works from the Student Choice Exhibition are being shared on @prattfoundation. The pieces were selected by students as their favorites from their Foundation year.
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Dezeen interviewed Stephen Slaughter about his plans as the new chair of undergraduate architecture at Pratt: “I hope that we’ll be graduating smart, intelligent, caring, compassionate activist students.”
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Student work from the 3D design class led by Adjunct Professor – CCE Kathryn Filla is on view in the Engineering Building. See more @prattindustrial.