The New York Times feature article “New Graduate Program Takes a Critical Approach to Fashion” spotlights Pratt’s new Fashion Collection + Communication MFA, a trailblazing graduate program redefining fashion education through critical analysis, sustainability, and innovative design practices.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Film/Video Dana Reilly; Assistant Technical Director of Film Video and Visiting Instructor of Film/Video Tray Tsui; and Assistant Professor of Film/Video Justice Whitaker each received a 2025 NYSCA Grant.
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Harlem Renaissance poet and artist Gwendolyn B. Bennett, who graduated from Pratt in 1924, was featured in the New York Times’ “Overlooked No More” series. “Though she never gained the wide audience she desired, Bennett left a rich legacy through her writing and art, and her passion and fortitude helped the Harlem Renaissance grow, through her own work as well as her fostering of young talent.”
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Brett Purmal, BFA Computer Graphics ’02, was interviewed for befores & afters about the process of creating a CG character.
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The Writing Department’s 2024–2025 Writer at Large Eugene Lim published fiction in The Baffler.
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Undergraduate architecture students Ana Bulacovschi, Ellis Donahue, Viktor Nakev, and Martin Parra received honorable mention at the 2024 ACSA “Timber in the City 5: Urban Habitats” competition for their project bq.we. Adjunct Associate Professor – CCE of Undergraduate Architecture Philippe Baumann at Baumann Architecture Gowanus Operations served as their faculty sponsor. The project is unique, noted the jurors, because it “highlights the importance of common infrastructure in the functionality of urban spaces and imagines how mass timber can contribute in a central way.”
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Mark Reyes, BFA Film ’20, won 2024 Best Animated Film by Krampus Film Festival for House of Weird. He also won Best Budget to Production from Buried Alive Film Festival for Tales from the End.
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Rhonda Evans, MSLIS ’15, director of the LuEsther Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden, is working with the Morgan Library to organize the exhibition on Belle da Costa Greene. da Costa Greene worked with J.P. Morgan and formed the collection that is now the Morgan Library.
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Pratt was ranked number 4 on a list of 10 Best Art Schools by Academia Magazine.
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Chen Chen, BID ’07, and Kai Williams, BID ’06, were featured in Dezeen among thirteen independent designers standing out in New York City. Their work was also recently included in Dwell and on New Atlas’s list of the best multitools and blades of 2024.
