Alumni Archives

First Looks, Final Thoughts from Pratt Students

At Pratt’s Orientation 2023 and Grad Fair 2024, Prattfolio spoke with students about their first impressions and parting memories of Pratt.

Students and administrators pose smiling with President Frances Bronet on the Brooklyn Bridge at sunrise

A Time for Coming Together

This is a moment when we come together. It’s a season of beginnings and thinking about how we move within and shape our society, our culture, and the life we imagine for ourselves and our communities.

Behind the Scenes with Costume Designer Emilio Sosa

The Tony-nominated designer answers Prattfolio's questions on inspiration, work, and practice.

Cover of Edel Rodriguez's book Worm, with a French subtitle

What’s Inspiring Edel Rodriguez ’94, “America’s Illustrator in Chief”

For the award-winning artist-author, highlights include an exhibition on Mexican printmaking, an intensifying palette, and meeting a growing international audience.

To the left of frame, a horse grazes on campus grass; to the right, three students with notebooks sketch the scene in front of them

Ways of Seeing

Traditions, clubs, spaces, places, events, happenings, and hidden gems that make Pratt our place.

A portrait photograph of two people, one sitting and the other standing, between shelves of 3D printing gear and behind a dog.

Different Lanes, Same Speed

Christina Perla, BID ’14, and Manny Mota, BID ’02, Founders of Makelab, on Leading a Growing 3D-Printing Business

A photograph of two people sitting on a couch in a large, crowded workspace. There is a bookshelf above them and to their right, and a working desk with a window facing the woods to their left.

A Marriage of Art and Words

Author-Illustrator Duo James Ransome, BFA Communications Design (Illustration) ’87, Lesa Cline-Ransome, BFA Fashion Merchandising ’87, on Making Books Apart and Together

A photograph of a film set with a bearded man in a hat facing the camera.

Following the Heat

The filmmaking duo John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, both BFA Film ’91, were “serious students doing little joke things on the side.” They turned that into a career.

An installation view of three paintings in a row depicting abstract nudes of women with geometric pops of color; in the foreground, varied green foliage

Alumni Notes Fall 2024

Alumni Notes is Pratt alumni news highlights compiled from class notes submissions, newsletters, items shared by faculty and staff, and media mentions. Submit your notes for Spring 2025 now—here are our submission guidelines: Pratt alumni, we want to know what…

A man in a black suit and woman in black mock-neck blouse and suit pants pose behind a table with an architectural model, surrounded by organized materials, tools, and models in a canvas-and-wood lined studio space.

Two Architecture Alumni Shift Fluidly Between Roles

Architecture Alumni Duo Neda Kakhsaz, BArch ’16, and Zabie Mustafa, BArch ’13, on Collaboration and a Holistic Approach to Design