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Aura Rosenberg, adjunct professor-CCE of photography, discusses her work and career in a wide-ranging interview with writer and filmmaker Veronica Gonzalez Peña for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Rosenberg and Peña also talk about the film that they have been working on for the past year and a half.

Alexandra Barker, interim chair of Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD), will have her project, City Kids Education Center, toured as part of the upcoming Archtober series. The two-story, 11,000 square-foot learning center provides preschool and after-school programs.

Little Wing Lee, MS Interior Design ’06, shares her thoughts on five of her most important works in advance of the Dezeen Awards, for which she will serve as a judge. “My designs are always informed by context, location, and function,” she said. “I always think about the project’s story and connect that to the design decisions I make.”

This year’s New York Film Festival, which is presented by Film at Lincoln Center, includes a short film by Mackie Mallison, BFA Film ’23. Live From the Clouds, which was Mallison’s senior thesis film, will be screened on October 7 and 8 as part of the Currents lineup.

Amanda Huynh, assistant professor of industrial design, received the IDSA Young Educator Award for 2023 for her “noteworthy impact on industrial design education within the early years of [her] academic career.” Huynh said she hopes to inspire students to “pursue industrial design as your whole selves, the same way I have come to.”

Maggie Brennan, MFA Digital Arts ’19, wrote and animated a new show as part of The Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim SMALLS program. Agoraphilia follows a woman named Brenda working as a nonprofit street canvasser. “This was the first time I had to think about making the animation process more streamlined and iterative while balancing my own preferences for how things look and move,” Brennan said. 

Pratt Trustee and alumnus Derrick Adams, BFA Art and Design Education ’96, has a new installation on display at the National Mall as part of Beyond Granite: Pulling Together. America’s Playground: DC “reflects the story of desegregated public spaces in the nation’s capital” and is open to the public through September 13.

Audrey Schultz, chairperson of construction management, facilities management, and real estate practice, has been awarded the 2023 CMAA Mark Hasso Educator of the Year honor. This award acknowledges excellence in teaching and “recognizes a full-time educator for outstanding professional accomplishments and a commitment to construction management education.”

Reid Davenport, former visiting assistant professor of film and video, is featured in GW Today in a profile of his career as a documentary filmmaker and efforts to advance the rights of people with disabilities. “The idea that disability isn’t an individual medical diagnosis but rather a political class of marginalized people with shared experiences. It’s about removing systemic barriers in society,” Davenport said.

Marland Backus, BID ’15, speaks with Vogue about her career trajectory and her love of wearables that reimagine what’s possible. “I like to be a little bit controversial and push the boundaries,” she said. “What’s jewelry? What’s fashion? What’s wearable?”