Heaven Is a Place On Earth: Searching for an American Utopia by Adrian Shirk, adjunct assistant professor in the Writing Department, was excerpted on Literary Hub and reviewed by the Indypendent. The book exploring American utopian experiments was published this month by Counterpoint Press.
The Daily Hub
A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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amNewYork covered Pratt’s collaboration with the Weeksville Heritage Center on a publicly-accessible oral history project about the past and future of the Black community in Weeksville, Brooklyn. Read the full story on the Pratt Weeksville Archive in the latest issue of Prattfolio.
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This Saturday, March 26, join the Political Intimacy exhibition closing and collage session at Recess Art with Pratt Fine Arts. Come chat and make with State Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest and State Senatorial Candidate Maya Contreras. The event is organized by Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow Amy Khoshbin with Camilo Godoy, a Recess: Assembly artist.
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Architecture students Jason Zeng and Morgan Ye designed the “Post Pandemic Quick Respond City” examining how coastal cities like New York can be more resilient to future crises of health and natural disasters. Read more @prattsoa.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing Sofi Thanhauser spoke with Krys Boyd of Think podcast about the research behind her book Worn: A People’s History of Clothing, where Thanhauser looks at how linen, cotton, silk, synthetics, and wool have shaped civilization: “It’s not really a neutral story; it’s a story about domination.”
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As New York City marks the two-year anniversary of its first COVID-19 death, here’s a look back at a fall 2021 Pratt.edu story on how Pratt students are considering how to memorialize those lost in the pandemic. Shirley Chen, BFA Interior Design ’21, reimagined the New York State Pavilion as a healing path of mourning and connection.
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Clara Ha, visiting assistant professor of undergraduate architecture, spoke with Passive House Accelerator’s podcast about ChoShields Studio where Ha works on sustainability projects with a balance between the natural and built environment.
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Through April 3, Georgetown University’s Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery is exhibiting work by photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode who attended Pratt from 1980 to 82. Influenced by fellow Pratt alumnus Robert Mapplethorpe, he created stylized portraits of Black men before his death at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Ellery Washington, associate professor in the Writing Department, was named one of the inaugural Baldwin-Emerson Fellows as part of the “I See My Light Shining” Oral History Project. The initiative to capture oral histories and artifacts from hundreds of elders from across the country is organized by the Emerson Collective and Columbia University.
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Follow @prattphotography for ongoing selections from this semester’s senior thesis exhibitions, such as Thomas Kohler’s Litter.
