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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.

A story in the Believer explored the art systems of clothing and food used by Susan Cianciolo, assistant professor of fashion, in her work. The article includes coverage of her teaching at Pratt where she gives “the students her awareness, which is a great lesson for any student, since awareness is the primary medium for any artist.”

Students and faculty are working together to get ready for Foundation Expanded on Myrtle Avenue Plaza, opening on September 24. @PrattFoundation shared their progress on student Shu Cheng Liu’s “Joy” that will be one of the public art installations.

Alanna Fields, MFA Photography ’19, created artwork for “The Dark Underside of Representations of Slavery” in the Atlantic, part of the publication’s “Inheritance” project about American history and Black life. The work is also on view in a presentation by the Atlantic at Photoville, now on view in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Students in the Design for Wellbeing studio led by Karol Murlak, professor of industrial design, explored how to support physical and mental health through products rooted in everyday existence. See examples of their projects @PrattIndustrial.

Brownstoner highlighted the Pratt Institute Archives Negatives Collection which has recently digitized materials taken between 1957 and 1973 on and around campus. A two-year project resulted in thousands of images being newly accessible online.

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion published a Latinx and Undocumented Resource Guide with links to resources, articles, books, films, podcasts, and other materials for the Pratt community.

Rebekah Morris, senior program manager at the Pratt Center for Community Development, joined the Brian Lehrer Show for a discussion on “How to Prevent More Deaths in NYC’s Basement Apartments”: “There is a need now to really reassess and look at what the safety measures are that can be done to keep these places safe during floods but the idea of not doing anything and just trying to keep people out, I think, is unrealistic because people live there, there’s just not enough housing in New York City.”

Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, joined Whoopi Goldberg in a conversation on artistic freedom for Interview magazine: “I like to put Black women in the same positions as the subjects in Old Master paintings, because it’s about having that freedom to just be in the moment, to recline without doing work. Can’t we just recline?”