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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-…

Giving

Video Spotlight: Megan Lighty (B.I.D. ’17) Designs Legends 2016 Award

Earlier this year, Megan Lighty (B.I.D. ’17) was selected to design the award for Legends 2016, Pratt Institute’s annual scholarship benefit honoring icons of art and design whose works have helped shape the cultural landscape. Pratt’s…

Graduate Interior Design

SOFA CHICAGO Art and Design Fair Features Work by Interior Design Students and Faculty

Graduate and undergraduate interior design students and faculty from Pratt participated in the SOFA CHICAGO (Sculptural Objects Functional Art + Design) CONNECT competition this fall for the fourth consecutive year. The annual art and design fair, which draws more than…

Graduate Industrial Design

Dubai Design Week Showcases Work by Industrial Design Students and Recent Graduates

The second annual Dubai Design Week, an event held in Dubai from October 24-29, featured designs from Pratt students and recent graduates for its Global Grad Show, the world’s largest gathering of student innovators. The Global Grad Show is an…

Fashion

Fashion Alumna Camerin Stoldt Shows Thesis Collection during New York Fashion Week 2016

Recent Pratt Institute alumna Camerin Stoldt (B.F.A. Fashion Design ’16) presented her 2016 thesis collection during New York Fashion Week at Ralph Pucci International Showroom in Manhattan. Her 10-piece collection was displayed on mannequins, creating a still-life runway in the…

School of Continuing and Professional Studies

More than 400 High School Students Attend Pratt’s 2016 Summer PreCollege Program

Pratt Institute’s summer PreCollege program welcomed more than 400 high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors to the Brooklyn campus in July for four weeks of college-level studies in art, design, architecture, and creative writing. This year’s program attracted students from…

Graduate Communications Design

Pratt Celebrates Marc Rosen Scholarship and Education Fund for Packaging by Design at Gala

At its 2016 Art of Packaging Award Gala, a glamorous event that celebrates excellence in packaging design, Pratt Institute honored Jean Madar, chairman of the board and CEO at Inter Parfums, Inc., and introduced the recipient of the new Marc…

Architecture

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Features Mars Transit Habitat Designed by Students

A Mars transit habitat project designed by Pratt architecture and industrial design students was on view at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan from July 13–18. The project was the result of a challenge presented by NASA,…