This past academic year, Pratt Institute marked 135 years of educating creative leaders to shape the future. At a milestone such as this, it is natural to reflect on the foundations of the work we do and cultivate at Pratt.
Generations of students have come to Pratt to hone the unique skills and sensibilities necessary to engage with emerging modalities and media, to collaborate and problem solve, to meet the pressing issues of the day.
Though the challenges of our time are in many ways different from those that defined the era of Pratt’s founding, a throughline remains.
Pratt continues to be a place where artists and creative professionals, visionaries and systems thinkers, collaborators and questioners find fertile ground, infused with a history of social responsibility, inspired making, and community action, to write the next chapters of our collective story.
A Practice Rooted in Imaging Black Life
50 Years of Drawing the Eternal City
Studio: Collaborative Futures at Lefferts Historic House
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Hamid Rahmanian’s Boundless Adaptation of an Iranian Epic Poem
Hamid Rahmanian ’96, who majored in Computer Animation at Pratt, has not bound himself to a single discipline in his pursuit of adapting the Shahnameh for modern audiences. -
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The Threads That Connect Us
Pratt Institute Alumni and Faculty Explore Community and Heritage Through Weaving -
Move First
Elissa Queyquep White, visiting professor of dance/movement therapy and an originator of the field, shares the fundamental, transformative power of dance across generations. -
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Practice: One Lovely Hour with Industrial Designer Amanda Huynh
With the project One Lovely Hour, Assistant Professor of Industrial Design Amanda Huynh considers mealtime as a form of care for elders. -
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Illuminating a History of Action
An interdisciplinary research initiative brings visibility to the Pratt community’s historical work toward equity, access, and just futures.
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