The Pratt Staff Council commissioned Jordan Moss, BFA ’16, to create a print celebrating the staff who worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic to ensure the continued success and safety of Pratt’s students and campus. Read more @prattinstitute.
The Daily Hub
A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Pratt is included in the 2022 Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges that features sustainability information from 420 schools.
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The New York Times covered a new book by Nick Relph, visiting assistant professor of photography, called Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax featuring his digitally stitched-together streetscapes: “I’m a walker. That’s how I make work.”
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The New York Review of Books featured The Chastity Plot by Lisabeth During, associate professor of social science and cultural studies. The book examines the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity.
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Derrick Adams, BFA Art and Design Education ’96, created a multimedia mural and sculptural installation for the Milwaukee Art Museum that is inspired by Victor Hugo Green’s traveler’s guide for Black Americans during the Jim Crow era. As he stated, the Our Time Together mural highlights “Milwaukee by representing commercial and civic gathering spaces known within the Black community, where people are united in ways that may go unnoticed.”
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Yaokun Wu, BID ’21, was featured in the recent Lexus Design Award 2020/2021 Finalists Exhibition held in Tokyo. Wu was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Lexus Design Award for Flash Pak, a project aimed at protecting primary to high school students in parts of the world that experience flash floods.
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Alexander Wilde, MID ’22, is exhibiting material explorations of plywood in Launch Pad at WantedDesign Manhattan, happening November 14 to 15. The platform at the design fair highlights emerging designers who are exploring new concepts and ideas in their work. See more @prattindustrial.
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A stamp designed by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, MFA Communications Design ’15, will be issued by the US Postal Service in 2022. It honors the late Eugenie Clark, aka the “Shark Lady,” a marine biologist who shared sharks with the world through books, articles, and TV specials.
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A team including Michael Morris, visiting associate professor of undergraduate architecture, and five architecture students working with members of Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+) have been named phase one winners in the Deep Space Food Challenge presented by NASA in coordination with CSA. Their project RADICLE-X employs a passive smart modular growing system to produce nutritious and variable fresh food for deep space missions.
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Through November 30, Lisa Bateman, adjunct associate professor-CCE of fine arts, is exhibiting “A Very Public Monument” in Manhattan’s Abingdon Square Park. Presented on an untitled sign, it asks visitors to consider the identity of the anonymous white male soldier depicted in a statue. The site-specific audio installation can be accessed in the park or online.
