Sustainable Pratt's Green Week 2010 takes place March 29- April 3rd at the Brooklyn Campus. Events are free and open to the public. Please go to Green Week for a listing of scheduled events.
One of the final Green…
Robin Mollincone, assistant fashion design chair, was quoted in an April 25 article in USA WEEKEND Magazine on spring denim trends. The magazine is printed in more than 700 newspapers with a circulation of 22.6 million and a…
Tula Giannini, Dean of Pratt's School of Information and Library Science, was interviewed for a public radio segment on how libraries are adapting to aid the unemployed in their job searches that aired internationally as part of American…
The New York Times reporter Cathy Horyn featured graduating Pratt fashion students Devin Cole, Timothy Kuzmeski, and Kasia Wisniewski in her weekly "On The Runway" column in the Sunday Styles section. Horyn was one of a panel of…
Pratt Institute will present Pratt Show 2010, an annual juried exhibition of exceptional design work by over 300 of Pratt's graduating students from May 11-14 at The Manhattan Center located at 311 West 34th Street. The show will be open…
Style.com recently covered Pratt's 2010 fashion runway show honoring renowned designer Catherine Malandrino, which was attended by leading members of the fashion industry, press, and members of the Pratt community, in its "Style File" blog. The show featured…
Portions of musician, poet, and performer Patti Smith's 2010 Pratt Commencement remarks were featured on mediabistro.com's UnBeige blog. Smith addressed approximately 1,400 degree recipients, their family, and friends at the Institute's commencement ceremony that took place at Radio…
Metropolis Magazine posted a favorable review of Pratt's International Contemporary Furniture Fair booth collaboration with Herman Miller titled "Empathy for Culture," which challenged graduate and undergraduate students to create modern and innovative furniture, lighting, ceramic, toy, and other…
The New Yorker magazine recently featured a story regarding Pratt's 121st commencement at Radio City Music Hall in its "Talk of the Town" section. The Institute awarded honorary degrees to former New York City Landmarks Commissioner Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel;…
The New York Times' The Local blog recently posted a story regarding graduating seniors from Pratt's fashion design department. The story examines student thesis work leading up to Pratt's annual fashion runway show, which took place May 13…
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, an award-winning arts and culture program from Public Radio International and WNYC, recently aired an interview segment with two recent Pratt master of fine arts graduates regarding their artwork that employs techniques from…
New Scientist Magazine recently featured the work of math and science department faculty member and physicist Ágnes Mócsy, who helped to calculate the sound that may have pervaded the universe just after the big bang. The sound, an…
Acting Fashion Design Chair Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman was quoted in a recent USA Weekend story regarding textural embellishments in fashion. For the full story, please click here.
The Washington Post featured recent industrial design department graduate Sarah Waxman in a Sunday, June 13 article about consumerism and design. Waxman was featured for a project titled "Momento Comburo (Reminder of Consumption)" that was exhibited…
The Wall Street Journal Magazine quoted Pratt Industrial Design Professor Bruce Hannah on the impact of Swatch brand watches in the watch industry in an article on Swatch Group chairman Nicolas Hayek.
The New York Times featured an excerpt of Patti Smith's 2010 commencement remarks in an article on college graduation speeches that were delivered by noted thinkers, artists, authors, journalists, and politicians. The article also features video of Smith's…
Interior Design Magazine online recently highlighted Pratt Institute and North Carolina-based furniture manufacturer Cabot Wrenn's "The Pratt Institute Chair," a design that was created by a four-person faculty-student team to celebrate Pratt's reputation as one of the nation's…
A Fast Company blog post highlights 2010 Pratt architecture graduate Danielle Pecora's be-B: Braille Education Ball design, which recently was selected by DESIGN 21 as the first place winner in its Game Changers Competition. The competition challenged participants…
Communication Arts Magazine featured a Pratt MFA student in a column on motivation titled "In Response to 'Just Do It.'" The student, whom column author Wendy Richmond met at this past spring's M.F.A. Open Studios, shares her thoughts on what…
Pratt and Barnes & Noble's 2010 "Back to Campus" collection is featured in the "Best Bets" section of the August 2 issue of New York Magazine. This is the second year in a row that Pratt has partnered…
Fashion Week Daily highlighted Legends 2010, a scholarship benefit honoring fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger; artist and alumnus Ellsworthy Kelly, who graduated from Pratt in 1944; and philanthropist and patron of the arts Emily Fisher Landau; in an August 9
Pratt recently teamed with modern home furnishings retailer west elm to introduce the Pratt Home Office collection, an eco-friendly office collection created in collaboration with the Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation. To check out TreeHugger.com's coverage of the collaboration,…
The Hollywood Reporter recently featured Rob O'Neill, Acting Director of Pratt's Digital Arts Lab, in an August 20 article on animation professors who provide mentorship to the next generation of animators at their home institutions. O'Neill teaches an undergraduate studio…
Pratt Math and Science Professor Eleonora Del Federico was featured in an August 26 Science News article on new techniques for identifying oil stains on old documents and art works.
Pratt School of Architecture Dean Thomas Hanrahan was quoted in an August 30 Wall Street Journal article regarding planned skyscraper development near the Empire State building and its impact on the Manhattan skyline.
Pratt's Graduate Design Guild and Barnes & Noble will present an exhibition of student design work, including Pratt student-designed items from Barnes & Noble's 2010 and 2009 "Back to Campus" collections, from September 8 through October 7, 2010…
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This Spring, Pratt's Planning Program celebrated its 50th year. Intractable Democracy: Fifty Years of Community-Based Planning celebrates Pratt’s role in the evolution of community-based planning. It features practitioners, activists, students, academics, and enthusiasts—each approaching the field from a different…
Pratt fashion design professor Adrienne Jones was quoted in a September 10 article in USA Weekend Magazine regarding the high-waisted Fall fashion trend. To read the full article, please click here.
The print edition of USA Weekend is…
News12 Brooklyn will feature a report from Pratt's Rose Garden in their 5:30, 6, 6:30, 7, and 7:30 p.m. newscasts regarding The Office of International Affair's first annual barbecue held today in celebration of Chuseok, the Korean "Thanksgiving," and the…
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(project) PL works to retrofit shipping containers with solar powered wi-fi antennas, shipped with modular…
Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents "You Are Here → Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City," an exhibition of work by a selection of contemporary artists that will map the emotional…
News12 Brooklyn will feature a report on a collaboration between Pratt Institute and modern home furnishings retailer West Elm to design an eco-friendly home office collection in its 8 and 10:30 p.m. newscasts. Pratt industrial design faculty member Robert Langhorne,…
Fine arts department faculty member Robbin Ami Silverberg was featured in a September 18 Wall Street Journal article regarding her work as a book artist. Silverberg, who teaches papermaking at Pratt, is also exhibiting her work in a…
Academic Director of Sustainability Debera Johnson and recent communications design graduate Susana Galarza are featured in a column on "design thinking" in the September/October issue of Communication Arts Magazine. Johnson is featured for her role in arranging a summit to…
NYPIRG and the Community Engagement Board have teamed up to make registering to vote this year incredibly easy! Stop by the table in front of the cafeteria between 12:30PM and 3PM to get information as to how to register. It's…
Cool Hunting blog recently highlighted Pratt Manhattan Gallery's "You Are Here → Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City" exhibition, which includes work by a selection of contemporary artists that map the emotional terrain of the world's most…
Pratt Institute celebrates a quarter century of The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, a forum for student and faculty shows and a center for visits by guest critics, with an anniversary exhibition highlighting six memorable and influential past shows. "Schafler@25"…
Mary D. Edwards Adjunct Professor with CEE published an article entitled, "On Duccio's Christ and the Woman from Samara, Painted for the Maestà," in Source: Notes in the History of Art, XXIX, No. 4 , pp.10-15. In it she…
Singgih Kartono, an award-winning industrial designer from Indonesia, will speak about his work in the industrial design department. The lecture will take place on Thursday, October 14th at 5:00PM in…
Surface Magazine has featured work by recent Pratt graduates in its December "Avant Guardian" issue, which is on newsstands now. Recent graduates from Pratt's architecture, fashion design, and industrial design programs are represented in the magazine's annual "Thesis Guide" and…
The New York Times recently featured Pratt's "1702 -- Living Laboratory" project in its quarterly Education Life section. Please click here to view the feature online.The Times featured images of a typical residence hall room in…
The Making Connections team from La Guardia Community College will be visiting the Pratt Brooklyn campus to meet with staff and faculty members regarding the ePortfolio initiative. The meeting will take place on Wed, Nov 8th at
The Environmental Systems Management program is very excited to collaborate with New York City Soil & Water Conservation District to offer a Low Impact Development Workshop focusing on the costs and maintenance of Green Infrastructure.At home in the…
History of Art and Design Chair Steven Zucker was featured in a Huffington Post article on the technological developments in the field of art history. In 2005, Zucker, along with fellow art historian Dr. Beth Harris, developed an art history…
“I want to create clothes for a good reason. Not for fame or money, but to produce art for art's sake, free from the mechanisms of fashion. I want to design clothes, which the customer recognises as an art…
The New York Times' November 18 Streetscapes column featured The Caroline Ladd Pratt House with regard to its historic status as a former residence of the Pratt family. The column detailed the move of a younger generation of Pratts during…
The New York Times recently interviewed Pratt film program alumni Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who served as co-directors of the feature film "I Love You Phillip Morris" starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. Ficarra and Requa dedicated the film…
The Environmental Systems Management program is very excited to collaborate with New York City Soil & Water Conservation District to offer a Low Impact Development Workshop focusing on the costs and maintenance of Green Infrastructure.At home in the…
Pratt alumna and Park Slope artist Martha Walker's metal sculptures will be featured in an upcoming movie titled "The Art of Love," according to The New York Daily News. The sculptures will be featured as the work of…
Women's Wear Daily recently featured Pratt and Ralph Pucci International's collaboration to adorn Pucci's new "GIRL 2" mannequins in designs made entirely of paper. The "Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci" presentation in Pucci's Gallery Nine Showroom was enhanced by…
WNBC featured the Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci project on its fashion news program "Thread NY" that airs on New York Nonstop, a 24-hour entertainment-oriented news service broadcasting on a digital television subchannel of the station. The designs were…
The New York Times recently quoted Industrial Design Professor Bruce Hannah in a front page Home Section story on coffee tables injuries suffered by small children. Hannah discussed properties of the typical coffee table and provided examples of…
Pratt's new six-story, 120,000-square-foot green academic and administrative building was recently featured as a linked story on BusinessWeek's Business Exchange website. The building, named Myrtle Hall, is located between Grand Avenue and Steuben Street and houses the college's…
Pratt Institute is featured in a New York Daily News real estate section on the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. The section, titled "Your Home," is published on Fridays and details various neighborhoods throughout the city.
Within the section, Pratt…
Women's Wear Daily recently ran a story in its "Fashion Scoops" section on Pratt's announcement of its 2011 Fashion Icon Award Honoree Hamish Bowles. To read the story, please click here.
Bowles, who serves as Vogue's European Editor…
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently highlighted Pratt student work that was on display in the windows of Macy's Herald Square on Broadway between 34th and 35th Streets. Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, acting chair of the the Fashion Design Department,…
A recent New York Times Sunday Styles section featured a photograph of Pratt fashion design senior Ruby Gertz at the Young Menswear Association Fashion Scholarship Fund awards dinner. Gertz was one of four students out of eight finalists and…
The Architect's Newspaper highlighted Pratt's new six-story, 120,000-square-foot green academic and administrative building in a January 25 post. The building, named Myrtle Hall, is located between Grand Avenue and Steuben Street and houses the college's Department of Digital…
Deb Johnson, Pratt's academic director of sustainability, was recently interviewed about the latest developments at Pratt's Center for Sustainable Design Studies and Research and in sustainability education in The Living Principles blog.
The Living Principles framework weaves environmental,…
The New York Times recently cited Pratt faculty member David Kim as one of 12 to take part in an ongoing performance art piece, titled Identical Lunch, which has been performed internationally and documented since 1968. The lunch, which took…
Graduate communications/package design student Ekta Mody and undergraduate communications design student Liz Yam and Jeremy Alan Pinsonneault were included in GDUSA's feature “Students to Watch in 2011.” To read more about Ekta, click here. To read more about…
The Financial Times magazine recently quoted Pratt Fine Arts Professor Frank Lind on the work of courtroom sketch artist and Pratt alumna Marilyn Church. Church studied fine arts at Pratt and started working as a courtroom sketch artist…
Student works from Pratt's Film/Video & Photography Department will screen as part of the College Art Association's Media Lounge program at the Big Screen Project, from February 9th - 12th. For more details, please visit http://www.bigscreenproject.org/
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A film by Kimi Takesue (72 minutes) A journey through Uganda that offers unexpected images of a complex country, encouraging us to abandon pre-conceived notions of where we are going and…
The Boston Globe profiled Pratt fashion design student Ruby Gertz in its Thursday, February 24 edition. Gertz, a native of Melrose, Mass., spoke about her work and receiving one of four prestigious $25,000 Fashion Scholarship Fund Geoffrey Beene…
A School of Information and Library Science (SILS) project led by faculty member David Walczyk was mentioned in a recent Huffington Post article. Walczyk and students researched ways redesign a searchable database of world-changing ideas submitted by an…
The New York Times features Pratt in a February 15 story about the Institute's new green building, Myrtle Hall, and its role in the revitalization of Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn. The story focuses on Pratt's role in investing in the commercial strip and quotes Pratt…
WHO: Pratt Institute Office of International Affairs (OIA) and members of the Pratt community. The OIA anticipates 300 members of the community will attend the annual event, where student volunteers represent their countries by cooking a national dish. The event…
Costume historian Daniel James Cole, who teaches fashion history at Pratt, was quoted in a March 1 China Daily article about the use of political symbols such as images of Che Guevara and Mao Zedong in fashion.
Pratt Institute's Center for Sustainable Design Studies will host a series of exhibitions, films, forums, and lectures as part of Green Week 2011 now through Friday, April 2. All Green Week events take place on the Brooklyn Campus and are…
History of Art and Design Chair Steven Zucker was featured in a New York Daily News article on the technological developments in the field of art history. In 2005, Zucker, along with fellow art historian Dr. Beth Harris,…
The New York Observer quoted Pratt Professor Anthony Caradonna in a March 22 story on the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS gala, which celebrates elaborate dining environments created by interior designers, event planners, architects, and fashion designers. Caradonna led…
Part II of the Darkroom Monitor photo show, opening March 11, at Pratt Institute-Manhattan explores themes of day and night and the quiet narratives that transcend the definitions of diurnal and nocturnal.
An opening reception for the artists will be…
Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh will speak as part of the 17th annual Pratt Institute President's Lecture Series at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 24, 2011 in Memorial Hall Auditorium on Pratt's Brooklyn Campus. Soderbergh's lecture, titled "Fresh Direct," will be…
Interior Design Magazine highlighted a panel discussion with renowned designers Todd Bracher (B.I.D. '96), Mark Goetz (B.I.D. '86), and Dror Benshetrit titled "After Class: The First Steps of the American Designer" in a March 14 post. The panel…
USA Today quoted Sheila Pepe, a professor of fine arts and installation artist as well as a special assistant to the Dean in the School of Art and Design, in a March 16 article on visual artists who are exploring…
The Creative Arts Therapy Department will present "Senses," an art and dance show designed to explore how art and dance therapists-in-training employ the senses, on Friday, April 29 in East Building, 3rd Floor on the Brooklyn campus. The show will…
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indieWIRE recently highlighted a talk delivered by acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh as part of the 17th Annual Pratt Institute President's Lecture Series. Please click here to read the full story.
Pratt's new green building, Myrtle Hall, was featured in the March 2011 education issue of Contract magazine, a commercial interior design and architecture publication. The story focuses on New York-based architecture firm WASA/Studio A's building design and quotes Pratt President…
The New York Times featured photos of Pratt Institute students who participated in a Pratt Fashion Round Table Event in the Education Life section of its Sunday, April 17 print edition and on The New York Times website. The Fashion…
WHAT: Industrial Design master's degree candidates from Pratt Institute's Department of Industrial Design will present over 20 thesis projects to the public in an exhibit that will be celebrated with an opening reception from 6-8 PM on May 7th at…
NBC came to Pratt's Brooklyn campus and toured Pratt's green residence hall room in Willoughby Hall with Anita Cooney, chair of the Interior Design department, and toured Myrtle Hall with Jaime Stein, who spoke about the School of Architecture's Urban…
The Wall Street Journal featured an article that chronicled Pratt's annual 12-hour drawing marathon event in its Monday, April 18 edition. Please click here to read the full story.The Draw-A-Thon, which is hosted by the Foundation Art…
Pratt industrial design students Selim Benhabib and Taehoon Kim were recently featured on MSN Autos in a post on innovative student automotive designs, titled "Cars of the Future." The post details Benhabib and Kim's senior thesis project, which envisions an…
Women's Wear Daily quoted 2011 Pratt Fashion Icon Award recipient and Vogue European Editor at Large Hamish Bowles in an April 29 article. The article quoted Bowles on how it felt to receive the award and included quotes from Diane…
Thread NY, WNBC's fashion news program and blog, previewed the 2011 Pratt Fashion Show by featuring interviews with graduating students from the Department of Fashion Design during the final fittings that took place at Pratt's Manhattan Campus. The program revisited…
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