Alexandra Amon, BFA Communications Design ’06, stars in Eternal, a new film on Amazon Prime.
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Associate Professor of Film/Video Matías Piñeiro’s acclaimed film You Burn Me (Tú me abrasas) opened in North America and was reviewed in Slant Magazine. “You Burn Me shows how desire, as palpable and unchanging as thirst, makes itself felt through the metaphors of ancient gods and modern plumbing alike.”
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Pratt Student Affairs was awarded a 2025 NASPA Excellence Award. The New Student Orientation program received Silver in the “Enrollment Management, Financial Aid, First-year, Other-year, Orientation, and related” category.
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Kate Gavino, BFA Writing ’11, discusses her decision to move to Paris, her career trajectory as an author, and her love of New York in an interview with The New Paris Dispatch. “In 2022, my third book came out shortly after my second kid was born. At the time, I felt like I had been a shut-in for so long, having spent most of lockdown and the pandemic twice pregnant and too scared to leave the hermetically sealed bubble of our apartment. I had forgotten how to be out in the world.”
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Canada Council for the Arts selected School of Architecture graduate student Fabio Lima, MS Historic Preservation ’26, for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Fellowship. “Venice offers a rich case study that illuminates early biopolitical strategies of bodily categorization and surveillance, from the bubonic plague of the mid-14th century to the covert sexual subcultures of the late Renaissance,” Lima told the School of Architecture News Page.
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Mindy Kaling shone at the Oscars in the work of Laura Kim, BFA Fashion Design ’04, and co-creative director of Oscar de la Renta.
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Skidmore, Ownings, and Merrill released updated renderings for The New York Climate Exchange, of which Pratt is a founding member. The renderings show two mass timber buildings that will generate solar power and be open to the public in 2029.
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David Burney, academic director of urban placemaking management and visiting associate professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, explores the emergence and state of the field of placemaking in a new article for Common Edge. “Placemaking sets out to understand social needs and identify the best way to organize space in service of those needs.”
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Fine Arts Fellow in Civic Engagement Alex Strada’s exhibition Collective Mobilities is reviewed in Hyperallergic. “With Collective Mobilities, Strada argues that aesthetic care and dignity are not rewards for attaining basic needs, but something to be found in that dispensation. That art is capable of carrying out that responsibility, and it’s a beautiful thing.” The exhibition was also covered on television by PIX11 and syndicated to several northeast stations. Additionally, Strada was recently named a Headlands 2025 Artist in Residence and a Triangle Winter 2024/2025 Artist in Residence.
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Black Dress II: Homage at Pratt Manhattan Gallery was listed among “7 things to do in NYC this weekend.” “New York Fashion Week may be over but the passion for fashion lives on with this exhibition celebrating famous Black fashion designers and contributions to beauty, journalism and celebrity culture.”
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