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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.

A rendering of an exhibition space shows figures stooping and kneeling to look at Noguchi lamp images and sculptural objects set on low wood slabs, beneath a ceiling made of folded paper-like material

The Museum Experience, Reimagined

Interior Design students envision immersive, multi-sensory exhibition spaces in a collaboration with The Noguchi Museum.

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 Prattler newspaper cover demonstrating student activism at Pratt. The cover features white lettering on a black background, showing its title (The Prattler), location, volume number, publication date, and issue number in the header, a large and all-caps and rendering of the word “STRIKE” in the center, and a description of the student strike against Pratt administration due to increased tuition, the institutions take over of surrounding middle-class housing projects, and the firing of concerned faculty, as well as a vision for the future of Pratt, below.

The Voice of Pratt’s Student Body

Pratt's student publication The Prattler has been a platform for generations of Pratt students.

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All Inky Hands on Deck

For over 15 years, Big Damn Prints has fostered community through printmaking.

A close-up photograph of a small purple and yellow fish next to a purple coral

An Unlikely On-Campus Oasis

For over 20 years, Pratt Reef has offered a space of tranquility and connection on the Brooklyn campus.

Inside the Studio with WPIR Pratt Radio

Pratt's student-run station brings together radio lovers of all kinds.

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Advice for New Pratt Students, from 2024 Grads

“Trust that you’re here for a reason, and that you’re talented and amazing.”

Author James Hannaham reads from a red book in a narrow venue lit in orange-red tones

Discovering Our Literary City

A Look at Nine NYC Reading Series and Venues