Little Wing Lee, MS Interior Design ’06, was featured in Elle Decor. The story highlights how she creates spaces that center compassion, community, and collaboration: “The goal is to make functional, beautiful spaces that people feel good in.”
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Pierina Sanchez, previously a visiting assistant professor of architecture and a senior fellow for policy at Pratt Center, was recently elected to New York City Council and was highlighted in Curbed’s Group Portrait marking the first time in city history that the City Council has a majority of seats occupied by women.
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Milly & Chilly by William David Caballero, BFA Digital Arts ’06, will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival which is taking place virtually from January 20 to 30. The animated documentary on a father’s chronic health problems and a mother’s role as his stalwart caretaker will be part of the Shorts Documentary section.
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Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, MFA Communications Design ’15, was featured in a story by NBC News on “art created by Asian Americans in a year of anti-Asian hate.” The article highlighted her “I Still Believe In Our City” public art series created in partnership with the New York City Commission on Human Rights: “Art can speak in an instant what written words would take people much longer to absorb.”
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As part of the Places journal Summer Writing Fellows program, Carlos J. Balza Gerardino, MS Arch ’21, published the essay “New Old New York City” examining new construction in the city and how through good design “Beauty becomes a civic value, free for everyone.”
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The second fall 2021 semester issue of the student-run literary magazine The Prattler is now available to read online. Called The Histories Issue, it includes stories on the legacy of Pratt’s kindergarten program, the symbolism of yellow raincoats in horror, and finding belonging in Little Manila, Queens.
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Eva Díaz, associate professor of history of art and design, has an article in the Latinx winter 2021 issue of Aperture magazine. The story explores the work of mixed media artist Sofía Córdova.
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Ahead of the launch of Pratt’s new graduate program in landscape architecture, @prattsoa is revisiting recent student studio projects that engage with landscapes and constituent issues. Hunter Tran’s “Take My Hand” involves mixed-use infrastructure and pedestrian access to connect visitors to salt marsh ecology.
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The new book Pilot Impostor by James Hannaham, professor in the Writing Department, was featured in the Washington Post. The review called the author “one of America’s most inventive writers.”
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The 2021 growing season of the Textile Dye Garden on the Brooklyn campus was chronicled in handmade swatch books as a resource and archive for students to browse through the color range of the plants. See more @prattdyegarden and read about the initiative on the Pratt.edu news page.
