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Made in NYC, an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development, is spotlighting Latinx-owned businesses on social media and their website for Hispanic Heritage Month. A recent feature highlighted the work of Catalina Parra, MS Urban Environmental Systems Management ’13, who through her Base Ceramics studio creates mugs, vases, and planters that explore form, color, materiality, and a fusion of aesthetics and functionality.

The Pratt Foundation Expanded program installed a temporary “Mulch Mural” on Myrtle Avenue created by students Sarah Schneider, Jennifer Kim, Rose Moon, Haesung Hwang, and Avery Balcazar. Read more about the project @PrattInstitute.

More Or Less magazine featured the work of Dina Knapp, Graphic Art and Design ’70, who was one of the Pratt students who in the late 1960s helped launch the Art to Wear movement. The article includes photographs of Knapp’s crochet and quilted garments as well as an interview with the late artist’s daughter Astra Dorf: “For her, everything had a cause. It wasn’t just something that looked pretty. If you are thinking about natural elements in your work, you’re obviously thinking about the greater whole of the planet.”

PBS featured the recent exhibition by Coby Kennedy, BID ’00, at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn that with an eight-by-ten-by-six-foot sculpture replicated the dimensions of a solitary confinement cell on Rikers Island. Kennedy’s installation, which is named for Kalief Browder who died by suicide after three years in the prison including over 700 days in solitary confinement, is now on view in Philadelphia as part of the Monumental Tour, as covered by WHYY.

Students in the Light & Space studio led by Michael Sarno, visiting assistant professor of industrial design, engaged in a cut paper project inspired by the lessons taught by Josef Albers at the Bauhaus to create sculptural forms with light and shadow. See more @PrattIndustrial.

For National Hispanic Heritage Month, @prattinstitutearchives is highlighting Pratt’s Latinx community members, such as alumnus José López Gutierrez whose innovations include the development of plastic material formulations for art.

On Thursday, October 7, Pratt Institute will present Legends 2021. For a second year, Legends raises funds for student scholarships that support diversity. Legends 2021 will celebrate architect Sir David Adjaye OBE and artist, author, and educator Deborah Willis, MFA ’79. The event is virtual and registration is free and open to the public.

President Frances Bronet joined the ArtMovez podcast for a conversation on Pratt’s role as an anchor institution in Brooklyn making a difference in the community, from its ongoing initiatives in the Navy Yard to the 19th-century roots of Saturday Art School, as well as her career and the potential for creativity to change the world. Listen online.

For Hispanic Heritage Month, Made in NYC, an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development, is spotlighting Latinx-owned businesses on social media and on their website. A recent feature highlighted the work of industrial design alumnus Manny Mota of Makelab, a 3D printing company based in Downtown Brooklyn that enables anyone to create, iterate, and prototype faster.