Students

Fashion

Mila Sullivan (B.F.A. Fashion ’17) Reinterprets Hollywood Glamour in Senior Thesis Collection

Fashion design student Mila Sullivan (B.F.A. Fashion Design ’17) combined her passion for nostalgia, vintage fabrics, and classic Hollywood films to create a final thesis collection that reinterprets glamour through modern silhouettes and deconstruction. For Sullivan, there is glamour…

Where Do Pratt Students Go after Graduation? Recent Survey Gives Insights on Post-Graduate Success

Pratt Institute graduates are consistently proving they are in demand in this creative connected economy. A new First Destination Survey conducted by Pratt’s Center for Career and Professional Development shows an 89 percent employment and enterprise rate within the first…

Pratt Institute Celebrates Best Work by Graduating Students in Pratt Shows 2017

Pratt Shows 2017, an annual series of year-end shows, offers the public an exciting opportunity to experience the work of Pratt Institute’s 2017 graduating class this spring. Pratt Shows 2017 features work from the Schools of Architecture, Art, Design, Information,…

Graduate Interior Design

Interior Design Students Create Installation for 20th Annual DIFFA Dining by Design Event

Graduate students from Pratt Institute’s Interior Design Department created a distinctive tabletop installation for the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) Dining By Design event, which was held March 16–20 at Pier 92 in Manhattan. This year marked the…

Graduate Digital Arts

Watch: Short Film by Digital Arts Student Mei Li—Winner of Asians on Film Festival Award

The Blue Butterfly, a six-minute short film directed and animated by Mei Li (M.F.A. Digital Arts ’17), was named the winner of the Best Animation category at the 2017 Asians on Film Festival held earlier…

Helena Duncan (B.F.A. Writing ’17) Wins Pratt Mascot Naming Contest

Helena Duncan (B.F.A. Writing ’17) has been named the winner of the Pratt Athletics mascot naming contest. Her winning submission was “Charlie,” a name meant to honor the legacy of Pratt Institute founder Charles Pratt as the school celebrates its…

Jewelry

Museum of Arts and Design Show to Feature Work by Recent Graduate Andrea Rosales-Balcarcel

Andrea Rosales-Balcarcel (B.F.A. Jewelry ’16) will sell works from her senior thesis collection alongside renowned jewelry artists from around the world at LOOT: MAD about Jewelry, an annual juried sale and exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in…

Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Video: I’ll Explain It Again If I Must… by Graduate Student Mx. JP Anne Giera

Graduate student Mx. JP Anne Giera (M.F.A. Performance and Performance Studies ’18) challenges perceptions in this short, powerful video performance about the trans body and identity. An emerging trans-femme, non-binary performance practitioner and academic, Giera seeks to use performance…

Architecture

Students Design and Build Machines to Inspire Architectural Ideas In Innovative New Studio

A new studio in the School of Architecture is giving undergraduate architecture students the opportunity to develop and build their own machines to use as tools for generating architectural ideas. Called Designing Machines that Design, the studio is unusual…

School of Design

Pratt Students Explore Innovative Problem-Solving in Lehigh University’s Mountaintop Program

Selected Pratt students from a range of disciplines are taking advantage of a unique opportunity to work collaboratively to solve challenging problems through the Institute’s recent partnership with Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Lehigh’s Mountaintop Program is an innovative 8-…