This is the time of care. As so many of us emerge from the intensity and fatigue of the year behind us, carrying the call to reckon with staggering injustices and crises both social and ecological, there is an urgency to make our world anew. What we have collectively endured exposed the fissures, places where care had fallen by the wayside—areas ripe for the response of builders and innovators working in the space of compassion. That reimagining begins at Pratt.
I hope the stories in this issue begin to connect you to the network of your colleagues doing just that—imagining and preparing a thriving future together. (Read more)
—President Frances Bronet
New York Reimagined
Seven Pratt Architecture and Interior Design Students Propose Models to Nourish and Cultivate Our City
Working with Care
How Pratt Students and Faculty Are Creating in the Space of Compassion
A Personal Politics
Pratt Students Make Art to Humanize the Leaders and Issues That Shape Our Communities
The Art of Holding
How Pratt Creative Arts Therapy Activated During a Time of Trauma, and Began to Change the Field for the Future
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With Keiron de Nobriga, BFA Fine Arts ’16
Keiron de Nobriga, who majored in Sculpture and Integrated Practices at Pratt, pursues a life of ideas and the conditions for others to access the same. -
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Sophia Kayafas Finds Flow in a Cloistered Studio
A look inside the Brooklyn painting studio of Pratt foundation instructor Sophia Kayafas. -
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Tarot for Care
From Pamela Colman Smith’s iconic deck to contemporary reimaginings, Pratt alumni have continued to give fresh life to tarot as a tool for reflection, discovery, and creative thinking. -
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Notes from the Field with Jenni Graham LCAT, ATR-BC, MPS Arts Therapy and Creativity Development ’13
As part of our feature “The Art of Holding,” Prattfolio asked Jenni Graham, the final presenter in this year’s Creative Arts Therapy BIPOC Lecture Series, about her experiences and insights from this past year and a half, with an eye to the future. Here are highlights from her observations, with wisdom for creative arts therapists and the rest of us. -
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Extra Bold: Farah Kafei and Valentina Vergara, both BFA Communications Design ’18
Farah Kafei and Valentina Vergara advocate for more women in positions of influence in design—as educators and mentors, and in the history books.
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Director of Web and Digital Communications
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