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This Wednesday, the statue of Robert E. Lee was removed from its pedestal in Richmond, Virginia. Back in 2019, Pratt students in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) explored how this statue and the surrounding avenue of Confederate monuments could be reimagined as community space. Revisit the story on their proposals for inclusivity in places of collective memory.

Nan Zhou, MID ’21, is exhibiting work in the The Lost Graduation Show – Class of 2020/21 at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Zhou designed a set of storytelling toys to help Chinese children living overseas learn Chinese characters. See more @thelostgraduationshow.

Matthew Leifheit, visiting assistant professor of photography, was recently interviewed on the photography podcast Nearest Truth. The discussion explored his boundary-pushing photography of the LGBTQ+ community as well as his work on the magazine Matte.

Rebekah Morris, senior program manager at the Pratt Center for Community Development, was interviewed for “Those Flooded Basement Apartments are a Deadly Part of the Housing Crisis” on Curbed: “These units are a key part of the housing ecosystem in New York City. They’re not going to go away, so we need to test and pilot and figure out a pathway to make them safe.”

Pratt Young Scholars Taffy and Peiqi received first place in the Asian American/Asian Research Institute’s “This Is Where I Belong” High School Art Contest. See their work @prattyouth.

Sean Kim, MID ’21, was honored with a Student Notable in the Furniture & Lighting category of the 2021 Core77 Design Awards for his Wavy Lamp. As he told Core77, it is reminiscent of an Akari lamp but is 3D-printed from corn plastic.

Helen Oh, MFA Communications Design ’22, shared advice for incoming students on @prattgradcomd: “We are here to learn from one another. This is not a place for winning or losing. There’s only work.”

Steve Locke, professor of fine arts, wrote about alumna Mickalene Thomas’s art for Frieze: “Far from the cut-up constructions and ravenous male gaze that mark the cubist nude, Thomas’s woman is somehow more intact despite the attempts to divide her.” On September 9 in Manhattan, Lévy Gorvy gallery is opening the first of four presentations of Thomas’s work that will include exhibitions in New York, London, Paris, and Hong Kong.

NaviGrips by Hector Brignone, MID ’22, was highlighted in the NYCxDESIGN Student Spotlight. The project is a haptic navigation tool that guides the user through the city with vibrations and lights. See more @nycxdesign.