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Pratt Institute’s 2016 Fashion Show Captivates Crowd and Attracts National Media Coverage

Pratt Institute presented its 117th runway show to nearly 400 guests from the fashion industry, who gathered to see curated looks by graduating senior fashion students on May 5 at Spring Studios in Manhattan. The show received coverage and acclaim…

Fashion

Pratt Participates in NYCxDESIGN from May 3–17

Pratt is participating in NYCxDESIGN, New York City’s official citywide celebration of design, through a variety of exhibitions and presentations of student, faculty, and alumni work. Highlights are listed below. Pratt Design
 2016 May 12–16 Pratt Design 2016: This exhibition,…

Fashion

Video: Fashion Senior Addresses the Concept of Fast Fashion in Final Thesis Collection

Fashion design student Margaret Burton (B.F.A. Fashion Design ’16) created a senior thesis collection that offers a thought-provoking response to “fast fashion,” the fashion industry phenomenon that involves expediting the production of clothes in order to move catwalk trends…

Pratt to Divest from Its Investments in Fossil Fuels

Pratt Institute has officially announced that it will divest from its investments in fossil fuels to reinforce the Institute’s overall commitment to environmental sustainability. The divestment decision was reached at a Board of Trustees meeting in March. “Pratt’s commitment to…

Pratt Celebrates Accepted Students Day for Class of 2020

Congratulations to Pratt Institute’s Class of 2020. The Institute is welcoming hundreds of students to its campus for Students Accepted Day on Saturday, April 16 and Sunday, April 17. Background on the exciting…

Student Union Renovation to Bring Enhanced Space for Student Use

Pratt students will soon have a newly redesigned space at the Institute for building community and holding events. The Student Union on the Brooklyn campus is undergoing renovations to enhance the facility and improve the environment for student club meetings…

Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Women of the World Poetry Slam Tournament and Festival Held on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus

The 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWps), a poetry tournament and festival, was held on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus from March 9-12. Mahogany Browne (M.F.A. Writing ’16) brought WOWps to the Pratt campus as part of her fieldwork residency…

Graduate Interior Design

Interior Design Students Create Installation for DIFFA’s Dining by Design New York Event

Students from Pratt Institute’s Interior Design Department created a unique tabletop installation for Dining by Design 2016, an event held by the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) from March 17-21. The annual event, which runs concurrently with the Architectural…

Architecture

Pratt Shows 2016 to Celebrate Best Work of Graduating Students

Pratt Institute will display graduating students’ best work in a series of year-end events and exhibitions this spring. Pratt Shows 2016 will allow the general public an exciting opportunity to view the outstanding work of Pratt’s talented students. Pratt Shows…

Graduate Fine Arts

Fine Arts Students Complete Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Installation on Campus

{exp:slideshowpro id=”868″ type=”album”} Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #990 has been installed in Pratt’s Brooklyn campus library after a 10-month-long process that was completed in February. The project was spearheaded in spring 2015 by the six students in Visiting Assistant Professor…