This Friday, December 17, at Cinéma Village in Manhattan, Bryan Wizemann, director of interactive services and visiting assistant professor of film and video, is premiering his feature film You Mean Everything to Me. The film was part of the Sundance Institute Film Music and Sound Design Lab and received a grant from the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program. It was recently covered by MovieMaker magazine.
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MFA students in the Artist as Curator class created the online exhibition Revolt on rebellious art from minority creators around the world. Explore the show online.
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Joan Semmel, BFA Art Teacher Education ’63; MFA ’72, was profiled by the New York Times. The story explores her artistic practice and highlights her first retrospective that is on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: “Women are essentially chattel in so much of the history of Western art. That’s what I rebelled against.”
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Emma Stern, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’14, was featured by W Magazine as “the painter redefining ‘internet art’”: “I’m doing my own little Book of Genesis: you start off with nothing, then put objects into the frame, and then you render it out, it’s still black, because there’s no light, and then you put the light on.”
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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.
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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.
