Peter Kayafas, adjunct associate professor of photography, was interviewed for a New York Times story on the Picture Collection of the New York Public Library and why he shares it with his Pratt students: “There is no substitute for that excitement of discovery around the physicality of something in a room that you hold in your hands.”
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Incoming first-year student Morrah Burton-Edwards completed a mural in New Orleans as part of the Adult Swim Mural Project in collaboration with the nonprofit Living Walls. The mural honors the resilience of her hometown’s residents. Burton-Edwards is one of the first awardees of the Balenciaga and The Black Alumni of Pratt (BAP) Full Scholarship and plans to study painting. See more @PrattInstitute.
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A team including School of Architecture faculty members David Burney, Caitlin Cahill, Jerrod Delaine, and Deborah Gans was selected to present their proposal “Reclaiming the Commons Through Play” in the early 2022 exhibition Reset: Towards a New Commons at the Center for Architecture in New York. The show is considering architecture’s role in envisioning new dynamics of living and community.
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In the Micro-Infrastructure and the Epidemiology Clinic studio led by Eunjeong Seong, adjunct associate professor of undergraduate architecture, Rachel Pendleton, BArch ’22, explored designs for an open-air clinic that could be installed rapidly in urban spaces. See more @PrattInstitute and read the full story in Prattfolio.
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Adrian Koenigsberg, BFA Communications Design ’16, was featured in a New York Times story on skateboarding in New York and its rise during the pandemic. Koenigsberg is the founder of the media outlet Quell Skateboarding which focuses on nontraditional skaters: “The landscape is changing. I think that companies started to see the financial value of women-owned businesses, and the skateboarding industry kind of had to get on board—no pun intended—with figuring that out themselves.”
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The Summer 2021 issue of Prattfolio is now online. Themed on “Care,” stories include how Pratt Creative Arts Therapy engaged with a time of trauma, architecture and interior design student projects reimagining New York, and the art made by Pratt students to humanize issues shaping our communities.
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Leslie Roberts, professor of foundation, is exhibiting work in Colored Pencil Redux at McKenzie Fine Art. The group show highlights the innovative ways artists are using colored pencil with a focus on abstraction.
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Make: magazine with Newsweek included Pratt Institute on their list of the Best Maker Schools in Higher Education. The 200 schools were nominated by a global community of makers, educators, and Maker Faire leaders for their maker-focused programs and on-campus makerspaces.
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Curbed’s story on librarians, archivists, and staff returning for the reopening of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street features several Pratt alumni and faculty, including Tal Nadan, MSLIS and MS History of Art and Design ’09, Elizabeth Rutigliano, MSLIS ’10, Deirdre Donohue, MSLIS ’97, Carolyn Vega, MSLIS ’08, and Philip Sutton, visiting assistant professor in the School of Information.
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As part of a Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) studio, students proposed adaptive reuse ideas for the Brooklyn Army Terminal, such as Charlie Verni, MArch ’21, who explored localizing food production in response to pandemic-related supply chain shortfalls.
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