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Today the Painting Center in Manhattan opens Straight Forward, Image Driven, an exhibition featuring Pratt alumni curated by Izzy Nova, BFA Drawing ’16. The artists include Beth Barry, Melody S. Boone, Nancy Elsamanoudi, Susan Luss, and Shira Toren. A catalogue of the show is available to explore online.

20 Pratt 2021 graduates are shortlisted in the Global Design Graduate Show presented in collaboration with Gucci. The projects can be explored online with public voting open through October 13 and the winners announced on October 18.

This past weekend, PrattMWP celebrated the 20th anniversary of its affiliation with Pratt Institute. The milestone event and its accompanying exhibition of alumni work were covered by WUTR television news and the Observer-Dispatch.

Sarah Owens, chair of Graduate Communications Design, joined the interview spotlight series on @prattgradcomd to share her thoughts on the impact of design and how to find inspiration: “I very much recommend looking for situations and experiences that will allow you a change in perspective, alongside granting yourself the time necessary to reflect on and develop your own creative viewpoint.”

Reflections: Work from Isolation 2020-2021 is on view in the Fine Arts Office Gallery and online, featuring recent work by members of the Pratt Institute Painting Club.

Pratt’s Latinx community members are being highlighted on @PrattInstitute for National Hispanic Heritage Month, including Estefania Velez Rodriguez, visiting assistant professor of fine arts, who creates dreamlike large-scale paintings based on her photography of nature and architecture in Puerto Rico. The Brooklyn Rail recently reviewed Velez Rodriguez’s exhibition at Praxis Gallery, describing how with “fluorescent oil and spray paint, the pattern-rich paintings strip away the surface of the natural world to reveal the inner life of nature and of the artist.”

The Victory Garden artist collective, whose members include Louise Eastman, MFA Painting/Drawing ’14, is featured in Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Revolution, Resistance, and Activism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition on the role of art in revolutions, protests, and social activist movements includes their “Miss 2017” sashes designed to be worn by participants in the Women’s March on Washington.

Made in NYC Week 2021 kicks off today! The annual celebration runs through October 9 and is organized by Made in NYC, an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development. It celebrates NYC’s vibrant manufacturing and maker community with this year’s event featuring pop-up markets and digital dialogues spotlighting locally made products and the stories of the people who make them. Find the full schedule online.

Salman Toor, MFA Painting ’09, is one of the artists featured in the Frick’s new Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters project that pairs new works in conversation with Old Master paintings. As The Art Newspaper reported, Toor’s “Museum Boys” will be installed alongside Johannes Vermeer’s “Mistress and Maid” and “Officer and Laughing Girl” through January 2022.

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) launched the inaugural issue of its journal, iteratio /i.te’ra:.ti.o/. The publication can be explored online, with stories highlighting creative approaches to the scholarship of teaching and learning at Pratt.