Made in NYC, an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development, is sharing holiday gift ideas from its Made in NYC members. See more @madeinnewyorkcity and support local makers this season.
The Daily Hub
A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Several Pratt student architecture teams were honored in the 2021 SARA NY Design Awards, including Sara Brandt and Priyashi Galiawala for “Carving a Community,” Man Hin Ivan Yan and Max Sopher for “Trash Machine,” Katie Gaines and Ekta Patel for “Waste-to-Energy Facility + Recycling Center + Nightclub + Bathhouse,” Benjamin Smithers for “We are nature | Flower Meadow for an Apiary,” and Sohhee Oh for “Ship Breaking Yards.”
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John Pai, BID ’62; MFA Sculpture ’64, and Pratt professor emeritus is featured in The Unseen Professors on three Asian American sculptors who taught in New York in the 1960s and ’70s. The exhibition at Tina Kim Gallery in Manhattan was covered by Ocula Magazine and the Guardian, with Pai telling the publication: “This show harkens back to a time when people from all walks of life strove to integrate all the arts towards a dynamic and creative society.”
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Alex Schweder, adjunct associate professor of industrial and interior design, is part of the December 9 to 11 Land of Broken Dreams series at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan. The conversations, presentations, and performances coincide with the opening of the Carrie Mae Weems exhibition The Shape of Things.
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Over the past year, Pratt students studying with Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow Amy Khoshbin have worked together with peer leaders from the Recess: Assembly program to create art in response to social issues like housing, environmental justice, corporate greed, and education reform. An exhibition of their latest work will open at Recess this Saturday, December 11.
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Joanna Reynolds, associate director of Made in NYC, an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development, was interviewed for the New York Times story “How These N.Y.C. Companies Are Skirting the Supply Chain Crisis.” Reynolds discussed how new businesses have been focusing on local manufacturing with Made in NYC adding 171 new members during the pandemic.
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Kumru Toktamis, associate professor of social science and cultural studies, was interviewed by the Peace in Kurdistan Campaign with the conversation highlighting her work with Human Rights Watch in Turkey.
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Toni Shi, BFA Art and Design Education ’21, created a tunnel book for the Curating Learning capstone in which students research a topic of their choice. Read more @prattarted.
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Vogue highlighted the work of the late artist Richard Bernstein, BFA Communications Design ’61, whose celebrity portraits evoked the glamor of Old Hollywood.
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The virtual INTtalks biweekly dialogue and presentation series that started in fall 2020 in response to the pandemic is available to view online. Led by students, faculty, and others in the Pratt Interior Design community, its recent topics have included Spatial Exploration of Indigenous Architecture and Urban Settlements in Taiwan, Self-Discovery and Expression through Academia and Design, and Teaching Sustainability.