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  • Sixty-five projects were presented at this year’s InfoShow, representing the work of over 100 students, with over 350 attendees. You can find the program here with detailed information on each presentation. Awards were presented to Jocelyn Fung, MS Data Analytics and Visualization ’26, (School shootings and the manosphere: spatially correlated or moral panic?); Jeffrey Delacruz, MSIXD ’25, Chieh Lei, MSIXD ’25, Qasim Malik, MSIXD ’26, Yuri Minami, MSIXD ’25, Indrani Thool, MSIXD ’25, and Pete Wise, MSIDX ’25, (Internet of Things (IoT) Class project demos); Simran Kaur, MSIXD ’26, (Beyond the Western Gaze); and Shreedhar Verma, MSIXD ’25, (Visualizing Cognitive Health: Data Viz in Healthcare).

    Jun 20, 2025

    Three people smiling and laughing in front of a design presentation featuring app interface mockups.

  • James Garrison, adjunct professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design (GA/LA/UD), was interviewed in Gothamist for an article on whether modular housing can address New York City’s housing crisis. “One of the great benefits of modular construction is that it assembles very rapidly, sometimes in half the time of a conventional building,” he said. “So that means that that 10%, 12% construction loan that you’re paying now is cut in half.”

    Jun 20, 2025

  • Twenty-two students in the School of Information are receiving nine-month fellowships beginning this fall to engage in projects with NYC institutions, including The Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, MoMA, The Frick, and Museum of the City of New York. The fellowship program supports two-semester practicum internships designed to provide students exceptional professional-level experience in NYC’s world-class institutions.

    Jun 20, 2025

  • Kate Evans, MFA Fine Arts (Printmaking) ’25, received the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Award. “Her work explores the self-importance that saturates society—whether through social media, political corruption, or daily chaos. By highlighting these themes, she pokes fun at our perceptions of ourselves, revealing the gaps between reality and self-image.”

    Jun 17, 2025

  • Rosetta S. Elkin, academic director of Landscape Architecture, received Pratt Institute’s Research Recognition Award for her “varied contributions to the field of landscape architecture across architectural practice, pedagogy, and scholarship. Her research often takes her into the ground, as plant life develops underfoot. In writing and scholarship, she aims to experiment with the ways in which we compose our worlds, blurring the traditional boundaries in the research process.”

    Jun 17, 2025

  • Alumnus Paul Tazewell and Pratt Trustee and alumnus Derrick Adams were among those to be honored at the 2025 Native Son Awards, which celebrates “mavericks and Black gay excellence.” Tazewell told The Hollywood Reporter, “This organization is incredibly close to my heart, and to be acknowledged by a community that celebrates the brilliance and resilience of Black queer and gay men is truly humbling. Thank you for seeing me.” Derrick Adams is also one of four artists featured in The New York Times Style Magazine’s 2025 Art Issue.

    Jun 17, 2025

  • Pratt Fine Arts Ox-Bow summer 2025 awardees include Giovanna Lisa, BFA Fine Arts (Drawing) ’26, Isaiah Robinson, BFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’26, Jack Catlett, MFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’26, and Associate Professor of Fine Arts Laurel Sparks, who will be teaching Material Abstraction in Painting.

    Jun 16, 2025

  • Pratt women’s tennis excelled in the 2024–2025 academic year with an impressive combined GPA of 3.566. Special recognition goes to Kayla Abraham, BFA Critical and Visual Studies ’28, and Julia Ognibene, BFA 2D Animation ’25, who both achieved a 4.0 GPA this semester.

    Jun 16, 2025

  • Jimmy & The Demons, a new feature-length documentary about Pratt alumnus and former Pratt faculty James Grashow, BFA ’63; MFA ’65, is premiering at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival, with a final screening on Sunday, June 15. The film follows Grashow, who taught art at Pratt from 1969 to 1982, on a multiyear journey to complete a large and detailed wood sculpture titled The Cathedral. The film was recently reviewed in The New York Times.

    Jun 13, 2025

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