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Faculty

New Ralph Lauren Collection Explores Collegiate Style On Historically Black Campuses
Grace Farms Will Host the Inaugural Design for Freedom Summit on March 31
Equitable Pathways to Small Business Recovery: An All-Hands Approach
An interview with Bryan Wizemann, writer-director of You Mean Everything to Me: “There’s another ‘underserved’ population … and that’s people without money”
SUNY Alums Discuss Racism, Healing at Conference
Founders Forum 2022: Women Who Break the Bias
Sculptor Jean Shin on Using Live Mussels, Old Clothes, and Mountains of Dead Cell Phones to Force the Question of Sustainability in Art
The Case for Natural Dyes
Giving

A Pioneering Digital Artist Supports a New Generation of Innovators

A member of the Pratt Institute School of Art faculty since 1987, Michael O’Rourke was named Professor Emeritus in the Department of Digital Arts in 2019. He is a pioneering digital artist, having exhibited digitally generated artwork around the world…
A Gift to New York When New York Could Use It

Outdoor space has been central to the vitality of New York City through these past two challenging years, from car-free streets to parklets to swaths of public green space that form city dwellers’ big back yard across the five boroughs.