Keira Phillips, BFA Painting ’23, shared a day in the studio as part of Student Takeover Week on the @PrattInstitute Instagram. See more @PrattInstitute.
The Daily Hub
A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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The film Habitually written, directed, and edited by Ama Buzo, Film ’24, was nominated for best thriller at the Paris Film Festival, won best thriller at the Florence Film Awards, and was an official selection in the Cannes World Film Festival. The short film examining the ways habits shape our lives can be viewed on YouTube.
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The School of Information is organizing events to get their community offline and out in NYC, with a recent trip featuring foraging in Central Park with naturalist Steve Brill. See more @prattischool.
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Interior Design magazine interviewed Alexandra Barker, assistant chair of Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD), about her work on projects like City Kids, a new Brooklyn preschool, and Design Advocates, which helped design outdoor retail and learning spaces, that have promoted wellness through design during the pandemic: “With public projects, you can’t know every single person who will experience a space, but hopefully there’s something in the design that will resonate.”
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Jennifer Wen Ma, MFA ’99, has an installation at the New Britain Museum of American Art through October 24 that examines the experience of the past months through firsthand stories narrated over a dark ocean of waves above which a pendulum swings. The exhibition was reviewed by the Brooklyn Rail.
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Pratt Libraries’ Iron & Glass blog highlighted the picture file collections at Pratt and the New York Public Library: “Both the Pratt and the NYPL picture collections arose in the early twentieth century out of growing demand for images that could be browsed and circulated, due largely to innovations in printing and photography that allowed for more accessible and reproducible images.”
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Dezeen featured the work of Charlotte Böhning and Mary Lempres, both MID ’23, who designed a collection of water filters using kitchen waste. Called “Strøm,” their project recently received the School of Design’s Material Lab Prize. As Lempres told Dezeen: “By utilizing an existing waste stream, we can reduce the negative lifecycle impact of water filtration.”
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The Ascendant Heritage Apartments in East Harlem that were preserved by Ascendant Neighborhood Development (AND) led by Chris Cirillo, visiting assistant professor of construction/facilities management, in co-development with MDG Design + Construction and Forsyth Street Affordable Housing, were named the Preservation Winner in the Affordable Housing Finance’s Readers’ Choice Awards.
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For a studio led by Jason Vigneri-Beane, architecture student Grace Soliman created a tea room designed to be placed in Tokyo Bay in response to rising water levels due to climate change. Read more @prattsoa.
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Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, is featured in a New York Times Magazine profile that explores the evolution of her work, including her time at Pratt and her approach to painting: “I’m thinking of Romare Bearden, Faith Ringgold, at the same time while thinking of Picasso and Matisse and Andy Warhol and all of these different ways that they’ve painted, and how you can bring that in.”
