Pratt seeks to instill in all graduates aesthetic judgment, professional knowledge, collaborative skills, and technical expertise.
With a firm grounding in the liberal arts and sciences, a Pratt education blends theory with creative application in preparing graduates to become leaders in their professions.
Pratt enrolls a diverse group of highly talented and dedicated students, challenging them to achieve their full potential.
Industrial Design Alumni Speak at BKLYN Designs May 9
Pratt's 119th Commencement To Be Held May 9
2008 Pratt Show to be Held May 6-8 at Manhattan Center
Two Pratt Professors Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
Annual Manhattan Runway Show of Senior Fashion Designs May 7
Pratt Institute will present “Breaking In,” a panel of five Pratt alumni discussing how they are making their mark on the design world, led by Julie Taraska, a contributor to Interior Design, at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 9 at St. Ann’s Warehouse on 38 Water Street in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. The event is part of the sixth annual BKLYN DESIGNS™ show presented by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and featuring designers and manufacturers of contemporary furnishings.
Pratt Institute will present degrees to approximately 1,000 bachelor's and master's degree candidates during its 119th Commencement at 10 a.m. on May 9 on The Grand Mall of the Brooklyn campus. The Institute also will award honorary degrees to architect Zaha Hadid, dancer/choreographer Judith Jamison, and arts administrator Thomas J. Cahill, who will deliver Pratt’s Commencement address at approximately 11 a.m. It will also honor 2008-2009 Distinguished Teacher Floyd Hughes, adjunct associate professor, Communications Design.
Pratt Institute will present 2008 Pratt Show, an annual juried exhibition of exceptional design work by 300 of Pratt’s graduating students from May 6 - 8 at The Manhattan Center, located at 311 West 34th Street. The show is free and open to the public and will be open on Tuesday, May 6 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wednesday, May 7 from 9 a.m.-9 p.m; and Thursday, May 8 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Pratt Institute professors Joe Fyfe and Thad Ziolkowski were recently selected as two of 190 to receive 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Fyfe is a Brooklyn-based painter who is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting in the Fine Arts Department. Ziolkowski, a Brooklyn-based writer, is Associate Professor of English and Humanities and Director of the Writing Program.
Pratt Institute will present to the fashion world the creative talents of its senior class during the annual Pratt Fashion Show on May 7, 2008. There will be two shows – one at 2 p.m. and one at 5:30 p.m. – at The Altman Building located at 135 West 18th Street in Manhattan. The 2008 Pratt Fashion Show is sponsored by the Importer Support Program of the Cotton Board and Cotton Incorporated.
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Broaden your design education through exposure to contemporary design in Spain and France.
The Pratt Design from Barcelona to Paris program provides a unique opportunity for 15 students to explore two of Europe's most legendary design cultures and to meet and work with designers from around the world at an estate in the midst of the hills of Charente, centered between the towns of Poitiers, Limoges and Angouleme in the south of France.
The program consists of guided tours of design studios, ateliers, museums and key design sites in Paris and Barcelona. In addition, students will spend two weeks at the Domaine de Boisbuchet, an 18th century country estate which has been transformed into a meeting place for the international design scene. The design collaborative between Pratt Institute, the Vitra Design Museum, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, offers interdisciplinary workshops led by Pratt design faculty and world-renowned designers. The aim of these courses is to offer insight into the design process and to challenge students to work conceptually. This year's workshops will be led by product and furniture designer Asye Birsel of Olive Design and exhibition and experience designer Tom Hennes, of Thinc Design.
Application and Deposit Deadline: TBA
Full Payment Deadline: TBA
Undergraduate per credit $659
Graduate per credit $750
Pratt Study Abroad fee will apply
International Student fee $45
Housing $1305
(includes housing in Paris, Barcelona, Limoges & Boisbuchet; meals not included outside Vistra (Boisbucher))
Airfare $500
In-Country Travel $165
(includes train from Paris to Vitra and museum admissions)
Deposit amount** $500
* Prices subject to change.
** Deposits are non-refundable unless otherwise noted.
For additional information contact Debera Johnson at (718) 636-3581
A vibrant, hospitable city, Copenhagen is northern Europe's best kept secret. Enjoy cutting-edge Scandinavian design. Study with masters in their fields in a curriculum that combines challenging interdisciplinary design studio work with investigation and analysis of contemporary Danish society, politics and environment.
Choose from the Interior Design/Architecture, Furniture Design, Ceramics or Textile Design programs taught by faculty members of the Royal Academy, the Danish Design School, and the University of Copenhagen. All classes are taught in English and the studios are located in the heart of Copenhagen within easy access to the entire downtown area. Includes: trips to Sweden, Finland and Western Denmark. The 7 week program offers 9 graduate or undergraduate credits. For Interior Design/Architecture students only, another 2 week studio intensive is available for 3 additional credits.
Accomodations are provided in a Kollegium (Dormitory) or with a Danish family or you can arrange for your housing independently. In the Kollegium, kitchens are available, but you must provide your own food. The Danish families will provide most meals.
All programs run from mid June to the end of July. Pratt tuition fees apply, and students make their own travel arrangements.
For additional information regarding fees and the program calendar contact:
Gus Rohrs and Meri Bourgard, at
(718) 625-5875, 9am-9pm only.
Venice has been chosen as the site for Pratt's summer program in fine arts and art history because of its artistic importance, its extraordinary visual richness, its sea breezes and its serene character. Whether you are admiring Tintoretto's paintings at the Scuola San Rocco, evaluating Giorgione's Tempest at the Accademia or simply exploring alleys and archways, Venice provides a unique atmosphere conducive to learning.
Pratt Institute holds its 24th summer program in Venice from June 11 to July 23 in collaboration with the Università Internazionale dell'Arte and the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica. It is open to undergraduates who have completed two full years of study, graduate students, and other qualified individuals. The courses in painting, drawing and printmaking, materials and techniques, and art history inform each other and may be taken in various combinations that total 6-8 credits.
The program is fully accredited and is intended for the serious student. Enrollment is limited to 25 students. Four or five Pratt faculty members participate, ensuring careful attention to the development of each student. The faculty work closely together, committed to the idea that the practice and the history of art inform each other.
Travel
Students are expected to make travel arrangements, but we are glad to offer assistance. Many economical fares are available to students through organizations such as CIEE and STA. Round-trip tickets from New York to Venice start at around $900 (taxes included). At orientation sessions held at Pratt in March and April, students have the opportunity to meet each other and can plan to travel together. Minutes from these sessions as well as a list of student telephone numbers and addresses are mailed to all participants. A student handbook that contains detailed information will be distributed prior to departure. The book will serve as a survival guide and will contain details ranging from what to pack, to how to get from the airport to Venice. Students should feel free to call Pratt's Art History Department at (718) 636-3598 with any inquiries, or they can contact the director Diana Gisolfi directly at (718) 636-3600 x 2300 or via email at Venice@pratt.edu or dgisolfi@pratt.edu.
When students are not busy with research or working in the studio, they will have opportunities to take weekend trips to Florence and Rome, 3 and 5 hours away by train. Students often plan day trips to cities in the Veneto, such as Verona and Vicenza, or even a bit further to Parma or Ravenna.
Initial Applications Deadline: February 15, 2008
Scholarship Deadline: February 15, 2008
March 7: $500 Deposit Due
April 16: Balance Due
June 11: Arrival date
June 12: Orientation
July 18-19: Feast of the Redeemer
July 23: Program Concludes, check out
7 undergrad credits - $6776
6 undergrad credits - $5808
7 grad credits - $7490
6 grad credits - $6420
non credit 3 week program - $3200
Pratt Studios Piazza S. Apollonia, #3
Roma, Italia 00153
Phone/Fax:011 39 6 581 3053
For more info:
• Enrollment will be limited to 36 qualified students based on seniority.
If necessary, there will be a waiting list.
• To qualify, a student should be enrolled in an accredited undergraduate architecture major or professional degree program. Their academic record should satisfy a minimum 3.0 GPA (No incomplete or failing grades.)
Additional criteria:
72 credits completed toward B-Arch degree
Completed and passed ARCH 302 Structures (Steel), ARCH 303 Structures (Concrete), ARCH 302 Design, and have passed at least one semester of Italian language study (Italian 101)
(The second semester of Italian language study (Italian 102) will take place in Rome.)
• This program is offered for both intermediate and advanced students; Pratt students must be in their fourth academic year, other students should consult with the program coordinator.
• In order to be better prepared for the artistic, intellectual & socio-political context of Italy and the Rome Program, Pratt students are required to take the Pre-requisite course ARCH 420 Legacy of Rome Form taught by Prof. Frederick Biehle. One additional elective course on Italian culture, art or architecture history in the fall semester is encouraged.
(Visiting students are advised to take one or two similar courses in the preceding fall semester.)
• Students interested in participating in the Rome Program should submit a completed Application Form with Statement of Interest and faculty references. Portfolio interviews of all applicants will take place by appointment.
• Students visiting from other (not-Pratt) Institutions or programs should consult the program coordinator, Frederick Biehle @ 212 227-5832 for application & registration procedures or email at fbiehle@pratt.edu
• Download the Application in printable PDF Format and mail it to the attention of the coordinator, Frederick Biehle at Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
Pratt in Venice is a six-week summer program that takes place in June and July. Graduate and undergraduate students enroll for six to eight credits. Students study painting, drawing/printmaking, art history, and/or materials and techniques of Venetian art on site in Venice. The program integrates studio art with art history and welcomes the interaction of the disciplines. Pratt collaborates with Università Internazionale dell’Arte and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice. Group visits to Padua and Bassano/Maser are included. Students from any department at Pratt may apply; outside applications are also considered.
The Gomar Village Computer Project is a fundraising effort sponsored by students and staff of the Tibet Study Abroad 2007 Program. Inspired by our desire to make a meaningful contribution to a community in which we lived and learned for several weeks in July 2007, we intend to raise money for computers for the students at Gomar’s local elementary school.
Gomar village, in Tongren (Rebgong) county of Qinghai Province in the People’s Republic of China, is an ethnically Monguor-Tibetan community, located within the cultural and artistic center of the Tibetan Amdo region. There are 450 households in the village, with an agricultural-based economy, and the local school is a simple, government institution.
During our stay in Gomar, Program Directors Sue Costello, Galen Murton, and Cheryl Stockton had the opportunity to meet with the village leader, Uncle Lembum, and inquired as to what we could do to ‘give back’ to the Gomar community. In consideration of the 350 students at the local school, he explained to us that the children’s future was the future of the village, as well as the future of the village government and the village monastery. Only with the foundation of a broad education would future village and monastic leaders be able to make wise decisions, and thereby lead effectively. He further explained that technological improvement is what would most benefit the Gomar village school-that is, computers. Previously, the village had requested and received money from the local government for building a computer laboratory (which has now been constructed), but there has been no money for the computers themselves. Furthermore, Uncle Lembum also explained that other villages in the valley had been more fortunate in finding donors for educational development, as their monastery’s lamas were evidently well connected in wealthier, ethnically Han Chinese areas of China. The Gomar community may not have solid connections with Chinese donors, but they do have a deep relationship with our Pratt-Global LAB group. As such, speaking as the voice of the village, Uncle Lembum’s earnest request was for us to help the village assemble a computer lab for the school (eventually totaling 20-30 computers).
Following this preliminary discussion, Sue, Galen, and Cheryl had a formal meeting with administrative leaders of the regional board of education to clarify technical and bureaucratic details. This included: Uncle Lembum; our good friend, thangka teacher, and local coordinator, Aku Drukwa; the Nyentok Township Education office leader, Namshamjya; and the Tongren County Education Bureau leader, Kambumjya (fortuitiously, Sue has known Kambumjya for more than 10 years, as he was vice-principle of the local Tibetan high school where Sue lived when she started her dissertation fieldwork research). As a result of this meeting, we not only gained permission, on the administrative level, to set our proposal in motion, but Sue’s long-standing relationship with Kambumjya, and their many mutual friends, assures a smooth, honest, and accountable project implementation (and one clear of red-tape).
Students will be selling select prints and artwork at the Exhibit opening on October 12th, where the proceeds will benefit the Gomar Village Project.
For any further information please contact:
Cheryl Stockton at Pratt or Galen Murton at G-Lab.
October 12 – November 7
Opening Reception Friday Oct. 12
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Pratt Manhattan
144 West 14th Street
2nd Floor Lobby
New York, NY
phone: 212-647-7199
Mon-Thurs 10 am-8 pm
Fri-Sun 10 am-4 pm
Pratt’s Study Abroad Tibet 2007 showcases the artwork, videos, photography and writings from student travels and study of the artistic traditions of Amdo.
This program took students on a forty-day pilgrimage over the Tibetan plateau to the northeast grassland region of Tibet.
We flew into Beijing, spending two days to tour and see the city, then traveled by hi-altitude train from Beijing to Lhasa. After a brief stay in Lhasa, the ancient Tibetan capital, we continued to the cultural center of Amdo, the town of Repkong, in the village of Gomar, where we entered into home stays. There students began studies with Tibetan artists who are responsible for keeping this region's rich artistic heritage alive and well. Students were given the option to study the following media: thanka- (scroll) painting, stone carving, metal work, jewelry making, and woodcarving. Excursions to cultural sites as well as participation in local festivals supplemented these studies. The trip also included a 5 day trek through mountainous grasslands with 16 donkeys, 5 handlers, a cook and his helper and adventurous encounters with nomads and their herds of yaks and sheep.
Tibet Study Abroad is a collaboration between Pratt and Global Learning Across Borders with support from the Rubin Museum of Art.
For more information Contact: Cheryl Stockton email:stockton@pratt.edu
phone: 212-242-6259
There are two graduate assistantships each summer which include housing and $1,000 stipend. Students who receive financial aid should check with their own financial aid offices.
There has never been a more important time to explore and learn beyond our cultural and political borders and boundaries. This study abroad program is designed to cultivate in small groups of global learners a genuine appreciation for the increasingly interconnected and interdependent nature of our world community, both human and natural.
The Global Learning Artistic Traditions of Amdo program will begin in New York, with students studying and preparing for their trip at the Rubin Museum of Art. There, we will have two class visits to learn about the Himalayan art traditions in the Museum galleries and to meet with Mr. Pema Rinzin, artist in residence at the museum, who will give students a talk about traditional painting techniques and materials. After this preparation, the participants will begin a forty-day pilgrimage over the Tibetan plateau and to the northeast grassland region of Amdo where we will visit and study with many of the finest master artists in Tibet who keep the rich cultural and artistic heritage alive and well.
Our program will begin in the ancient capital of Tibet, Lhasa, where we will stay in the former Nepalese Consulate in the old quarter of town. Here, close to the Barkhor and just around the corner from the Jokhang Temple, the holiest of all Tibetan temples, we will witness and join the center of urban activity both spiritual and secular. We will spend several days in Lhasa, adjusting to the 12500 ft elevation and touring some of the legendary monastic universities and palaces for which the city has been known for centuries-these may include Drepung, Ganden, and Sera monasteries, and the Potala and Norbulinka palaces. During our time in Lhasa we will also study Tibetan Buddhist iconography and discuss the foundational philosophies of this esoteric but accessible religion with teachers from local monasteries and universities.
Following our orientation and acclimatization time in Lhasa, we will travel by train or plane to Xining, a modern Chinese city of the edge of the Tibetan cultural region in the modern-day province of Qinghai. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was born only 40 miles from Xining, and one of the largest of Tibet’s monastic universities, Kumbum Jampeling, is nearby. We will then continue to the cultural center of Amdo, the town of Repkong (also known by its Chinese name of Tongren). After touring the elaborate temple complexes at the Rongpo Gonkhar Monastery, we will enter into home stays in the tranquil village of Gomar. During our week-long stay in Gomar, students will have the opportunity to study with some of the finest tangka (Tibetan Buddhist devotional painting) painters alive today. Gomar, as well as Repkong itself, has long been known for its exceptionally fine painting style, and virtually every single household in the valley has at least one artist in the family. Two famous painting schools, Sengeshong Yagotsang and Magotsong are literally across the river from Gomar, and we’ll have ample opportunity to tour their exquisitely decorated temples and work alongside many of the accomplished monastic artists who practice there. During our time in Gomar, students will also have the opportunity to learn other traditional media of Tibetan art, including woodcarving, stone carving, jewelry making, as well as textile weaving and design.
After one week in and around the Repkong / Gomar Valley, we will make an excursion to visit the important cultural center of Hor, located in the heart of Amdo, Golok. The Terton Chogar Gompa in Hor is known for its large population of ascetic Buddhist practicioners, ngakpas or tokdens, non-monastic, modern-day yogis, many of whom have spent literally decades of their lives in solitary retreat. Moreover, Terton Chogar is famous for its exceptional stone carving tradition, continued today under the tutelage of octogenarian master-carver and monk, Gonpo Tsetan. He and his younger apprentices have recently completed a masterpiece mani-wall; over one hundred meters in length, this ten-foot high stone wall includes a complete version of the Buddhist canon, the Kangyur and Tengyur, carved into slate, as well as flag-stone-sized iconographical pieces likewise intricately carved in Gonpo Tsetan’s inimitable style. Our time in Hor will also be our first experience in the true nomadic Golok Region of Amdo, as we will arrive alongside tractor and truck-loads of nomad families coming to town to shop and socialize. Never sure who is more curious of the other, it’s always a fun exchange to share a pot of tea with many of the hardy and friendly people whom call the grasslands home.
Following our time in Hor, we will continue our tour of the nomadic and settled regions of Golok, which together compose the cultural center of Amdo. First we will go to Taktsang Lhamo and visit the sacred cave and high-volume spring for which the town is revered, learning the story of a sacred tigress and also Guru Rinpoche (or Padmasambhava) a Buddhist saint, both of whom occupied the caverns in centuries past. Next we’ll visit two of the important monasteries adjacent to the village and the mandalas on display there, one in sand and one in a three-dimensional palace-style model (the monasteries, incidentally, are located on either side of the White Dragon River and in turn, one is in Sichuan province and the other in Qinghai). From Taktsang Lhamo we’ll then go to Tso Dzong (Hezuo) in order to visit the nine-story temple of Tsogon Geden Choling Monastery. This tower is a replica of the devotional building which Milarepa, a legendary historical figure in the Tibetan tradition, built for his teacher. The murals, sculptures, and carvings which adorn the walls and altars of all nine stories are some of the most celebrated artistic accomplishments in the modern Tibetan world. From Tso Dzong, we will continue on our way to Labrang (Xiahe), where we’ll tour the massive Labrang Tashikyil Monastery before commencing a five-day trek through the Amnye grasslands-the way we’ll return to Repkong and Gomar. By morning we’ll walk through beautiful valleys and over moderate passes and in the afternoons we’ll sit amidst tent colonies with the nomadic families who settle in this area every summer, grazing their herds of yak and flocks of sheep.
Upon our return to Gomar we will rejoin our home stay familes and our individual artistic studies. After a final week living and studying in Gomar, we will travel northward again to Xining and then by overnight train to Beijing. We will then have a couple of days to spend in China’s modern capital, touring the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, and the Great Wall before our departure and return to the United States.
In the Fall of 2007 students will exhibit their art in a show entitled “Global Learning Across Borders, Artistic Traditions of Amdo” on the 2nd floor at Pratt Manhattan.
During the program, students and leaders will be in continual contact with both Pratt and Global Learning Across Borders offices. Participants in the group will also create their own blog site with regular written updates and photos from the field. Upon return to New York, students will return to the Rubin Museum of Art and have discussions about what they learned while in Tibet while seeing the collection through a new lens.
Costs: $5525 not including airfare plus credit costs. Please download app
This is a non-credit program offered through The Pratt Center for Continuing and Professional Studies. Graduate or undergraduate credit is available through Pratt's Fine Arts Department. Contact your department chair or advisor for approval.
In order for this Program to be covered by financial aid you must register for an additional 3 credits.
For more information email Cheryl Stockton or call 212-242-6259.
The eighteen credit curricular structure consists of seven professional credits in Architectural Design & Urban Studies. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of an urban area of historic significance, and the development of an architectural response or intervention within an existing, ancient context.
The program also includes a three credit course in sketching which extends drawing, this time of urban form, as a means of "seeing" in a more intense way; a three credit course in Italian which treats not only language but also issues of history, culture, and film; two courses in the history of art and architecture, one dealing with the antique and medieval monuments and the other with Renaissance and Baroque; and a two credit course in the history of modern Italian architecture "from Piranesi to the Present".
For more information:
Call the Rome coordinator, Frederick Biehle for Pratt Institute at(718) 399-4307 or email him using the link below.
The Pratt Institute School of Architecture offers an intermediate and advanced undergraduate program for the study of architecture and culture in Rome.
The encounter with the city, a place foreign and yet familiar, profound and contradictory, is intended to site a reconsideration of design priorities. The investigation of the remains of antiquity and Rome's urban artifacts can offer a unique lesson; the interaction of physical cause and cultural effect on the built environment and its cumulative presence through time.
The program undertakes an intensive study of the city's architectural and cultural history, providing the student with experiential insight into the precedents that have had an enormous impact on the development of architecture in the western world.
Special field trips to the regions of the Veneto, Tuscany, Napoli and Puglia expand on the depth and range of historical sites and subjects studied during the semester.
3rd & 4th year students in a 5-year professional Degree (B.Arch) Program; 3rd & 4th year students from a Liberal Arts Program that offers architecture or similar major.
Rosie De Pasquale has a degree in fashion from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She is an associate professor in the Fashion Department at Pratt Institute. She has taught at Pratt for 12 years and also taught at Fashion Institute of Technology. She is a freelance designer in the lingerie/loungewear industry.
Enrollment is limited and payments must be received on time to insure a place in the program.
17 day/3 credit program
Graduate Tuition per credit: $750.00
Undergraduate per credit: $659.00
Non-credit $1,200.00
Pratt fee & study abroad fee will apply
Air & Hotel Accommodations $3,999.00
International student fee $45
Housing $3999
(included in ths price are: daily
breakfasts at hotels, 3 dinners in London,
3 dinners in Paris, 2 dinners in Milan)
Deposit amount $500
* Price subject to change
** Deposits are non-refundable
For Pratt Students:
Pay at the bursars office, drop off a copy at the School of Professional Studies or bring all bursars statements to the School of Professional Studies.
For Non-Pratt Students:
The application form and all payments (check or credit card) should be made out to Pratt Institute and mailed to:
School of Professional Studies
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Ave.
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11205
or faxed ( credit cards only) to: (718) 399-44l0
All students must have a valid passport prior to departure. For international students, a visa is required.
The expense of this 3 credit program covers the cost of tuition, all air fare, land travel between cities, private buses for travel to various places visited , and back to the hotel. Also inclusive is a private tour for each city visited. Students will reside at hotels in a highly central location in each city. Breakfast and three dinners in each city are also included.
The Fashion in Europe Program is open to undergraduate and graduate students , as well as non-students.
The group will meet at J.F.K., New York City and will be flying British Airway for additional information call the School of Professional Studies at (718) 636-3453 or the Fashion in Europe Coordinator, Rosie De Pasquale at (718) 636-3465.
Pratt's new program, "Fashion in Europe" takes you to Europe's three greatest fashion domains, London, Paris and Milan. The course is a unique one - students get a thorough overview of the fashion industry in the most important cities in Europe.
Through on-site visits to the famous couture designers ateliers, ready-to-wear houses, couture fabric mills, accessory houses, couture beading houses, and visits to fashion institutions in each of these cities, students will become familiar with how fashion is created in those countries. City tours are also a part of this program to enable students a greater cultural understanding.
The prospective fashion visits , by appointment only, within each city include the following; in London, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Julien McDonald, Hussein Chalayan, Matthew Willliamson, and Antonio Berardi. Paris designers may include Jean Charles Castelbajac, Lanvin, Christian Dior, Thierry Mugler, Givenchy, Hermes, and Lesage. Milan visits, Dolce and Gabbana, Gianfranco Ferre, Missoni, Byblos and Ratti fabrics.
The 17 day program offers 3 graduate or undergraduate credits, or non-credits.
Students will be responsible to meet with the instructor, professor Rosie De Pasquale, from airport departure in New York and travel as a group throughout the trip to the scheduled fashion visits. There will be much "free time" for students to explore Europe on their own as well.
The Tuscany program is open to undergraduate and graduate students at Pratt and other American colleges. Students not matriculated at Pratt will be accepted on an individual basis.
All students are encouraged to take advantage of our enrichment opportunities including:
A free evening lecture will be given by a History of Photography professor at the University of Florence. This lecture will provide a better understanding of contemporary Italian history and culture.
Weekly free film screenings will be offered by the video instructor.
An Italian course at a local language school may be taken in addition to the regular curriculum. The fee will be dependent on the number of students interested in the course. This course may enable students to pass a proficiency exam later at Pratt.
This course of study takes students on a 17 day trip through Europe with a 5-day stay over in each of the following fashion capitols: London, Paris and Milan. Each city will include on-site visits (by appointment only) to couture fashion designer ateliers, ready-to-wear houses, couture fabric mills, beaders, fashion businesses and visits to fashion institutions. Private city tours would also be a part of this program to provide students with a greater cultural understanding. Students will reside at either three or four star hotels in a highly central location in each city.
This visit through Europe will acquaint students to three major fashion domain, London, Paris and Milan and educate students with the special climate and expertise of creative fashion indigenous to those countries. The presentation of on-site visits to fashion businesses, ateliers, couture fabric houses, accessory firms, boutiques, museums, cultural institutions, and city tours, will give students a broader range of learning. It should also encourage their own unique sense of style.
It is mandatory that students enrolled in this course to receive credit must write an "experience paper" to include all aspects of knowledge acquired throughout this course. This paper may contain pictures and should be 10 to 15 pages.
For six weeks in June and July, Pratt Institute offers the chance to study in the great Tuscan city of Lucca.
In the summer 2008, Pratt in Tuscany will offer undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in Fine Arts. This program is designed to ensure that students will interact directly with the people and cultural life of Lucca.
Located in the hills of Tuscany in Central Italy, Lucca is convenient to Florence, Siena, and Assisi— cities with outstanding examples of Italian Renaissance art and architecture. The region is renowned for its food, wine, and luminous pastoral landscapes. A typical walled city of the Middle Ages, Lucca offers numerous opportunities for wandering, exploring, tasting and enjoying rich cultural traditions as well as contemporary Italian life.
This course will involve studio work (outdoors as well as in), lectures, special projects, individual critiques and instruction, with particular emphasis on the interaction of light and color. Sketchbooks and journals will be required.There will be portfolio reviews in Venice, and work submitted for the Pratt in Venice Show will also be reviewed. The course will be supported by and integrated with courses in drawing/printmaking, art history, special studies and materials and techniques.
2 or 3 credits, Tues 9AM - 1PM, Thurs 2PM - 6PM
Program dates:
Spring term one year before Rome semester
March 1
Initial presentation and student interviews
Week after spring break: Posting of list of accepted students
Pre-register Italian-arch 402
May 1
2nd posting of accepted students
25% Field Trip Fee Due to hold place
Fall term before Rome semester
September15 Posting of final revised List of Accepted Students
100%Field Trip Fee Due
October 15 Early Registration and Declaration of Housing
November 1 Visa materials Submitted
December 1 Full Spring Tuition and Fee Payments Due
Rome semester
Monday, January 14 Depart for Rome (JFK-NY)
Tuesday, January 15 Arrive Rome (Fiumicino- Leondardo da Vinci)
Friday, January 18 Initiation and Inaugural Dinner
Monday, January 21 Weekday classes begin
March 1-7 Southern field trip
March 8-16 Spring Break
March 25 Easter
March 26 Pasquetta Holiday
Monday March 17 Weekday Classes Resume
April 6-13 Northern field trip
Tuesday, Wed May 6,7 Studio final Reviews
Friday, May 8 Exhibition Opening and Last Supper
Sunday May 10 Early Departure from Rome
Saturday May 17 Final Departure Date for Apartments
On site study of mosaics, painting, architecture, and sculpture of Venice is the prime purpose of this course. Classes held on site will alternate with lectures and discussions that place material in its art historical context. Study of Ancient, Byzantine, and Gothic art in Venice will precede discussion of Renaissance art with its rich crosscurrents of influence from Byzantium, Northern Europe, and Central Italy. Technical innovations of Venetian Renaissance Artists and later developments in the Baroque will be considered. Undergraduate students will carry out visually based assignments including papers that analyze and compare art works in Venice. The Marciana Library will serve as resource. Graduate students will be expected to carry out research on one aspect of Venetian art for a report to fellow students in Venice and a written version that may be submitted upon return. In addition to the Marciana Library, graduate student s will have access to the Library of the Cini Foundation.
3 credits, Wed 9AM - 1PM, Tues 2PM - 6PM
Anthony Caradonna is a graduate of Pratt Institute and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is a former partner of AC2, and recipient of the 2004 ID Magazine furniture award. He has taught at Parsons School of Design, Columbia University, Cornell University, and since 1993 Pratt Institute, where he currently serves as full time professor specializing in interdisciplinary studies. Before that he was the school's Undergraduate Chairman.
This course will consist of studio and site work, independent projects, field trips to use landscape as subject and group and individual critiques. At least six sessions will be devoted to expanding drawing concepts through printmaking using drypoint, collagraph, monotype and relief print techniques. The world class print workshop of the Scuola Internazionale della Grafica near the Grand Canal is the location for this work. Individual development is stressed and a body of work comprised of drawings, prints and notations including a journal is required and will be submitted for the Pratt in Venice Show in Brooklyn in October.
2 credits, Wed 2PM - 6PM, Fri 9AM - 1PM
Students are housed in small hotels in Lucca. Most accommodations are doubles, although there are several singles available. Meals are not included in the housing plan.
The application, along with a $500 deposit, must be received by Feb 20, 2008. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by Feb 29, 2008. The application fee will be fully refunded if the applicant is not admitted to the program. A waiting list will be maintained and applicants notified immediately if space becomes available.
Full payment is due by April 11, 2008.
Graduate tuition per credit: $1,070
Undergraduate tuition per credit: $968
Pratt Study Abroad fee: $385
*Housing for students: $2,200
• Mail or bring application to the
Fine Arts Office - Pratt in Tuscany
200 Willoughby Avenue, South Hall
Brooklyn, NY 11205
• Mail or bring all payment to the
Bursar's Office.
• Mail or bring all Bursar's receipts
To: Fine Arts Office
Attn: Kelly Driscoll
* Subject to change.
Non-matriculated students must sign up for either undergraduate or graduate credit, and pay the same per credit fees as matriculated students. The application form and all payments (check or credit card) should be made out and mailed to:
Fine Arts Office - Pratt in Tuscany
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Avenue, South Hall
Brooklyn, New York 11205
All students and instructors are required to have a valid passport prior to departure. Be certain to allow plenty of time to obtain your passport. International students might need a visa, which takes time as well.
• The main cancellation fee is the $500 deposit, which is non-refundable after March 7, 2008.
• Additional cancellation fees may apply, should expenses be incurred to the program.
• For more information, please
contact Kelly Driscoll at 917-617-8610 or at
Fine Art students may earn six to eight undergraduate and graduate credits from the courses offered. Classes are held Monday through Friday. Our classes are a combination of independent work, lecture, demonstration, critique and field trips. Field trips will include Sienna (Palazzo delle Papesse and Pinacoteca), Arezzo (San Francesco-Piero della Francesca), Citta Di Castello (Fundazione Burri), and Florence (Uffizi, Pitti Palace and La Specola). Every student is required to keep a sketchbook that will be exhibited in our annual Pratt in Tuscany exhibition. Students who will benefit most from this program are those able to work independently and participate fully in a critique.
Erika Hinrichs is a practicing architect and partner in her own firm. She is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and The Cooper Union. Before teaching she worked for seven years as a project architect with Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Architects. She has taught design studios at Pratt since 1999 and is a frequent critic for the Rome Program.
Frederick Biehle is an Architect practicing in New York City. He holds degrees from the University of Virginia and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 1986-8 he was the recipient of the Prix de Rome Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. In 1993 and 1994 he co-coordinated a design studio in conjunction with the archaeological excavation of the Palace of Herod the Great in Caesarea, Israel. He has taught studio design at Pratt Institute since 1994, and is now the New York Coordinator of the Program.
Jan Gadeyne is an archaeologist specializing in Ancient Roman and Early Christian art and architecture conducting extensive research as part of his dissertation at the Belgian Historical Institute of Rome. He has also studied at the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristina in Rome, The Westfalische Wilhelms Universitat Munster in Germany and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Guest lectures and Master Classes are an integral part of the program. Scheduled regularly and held at Pratt Studios, lecturers are selected from among important international historians, theoreticians, and practitioners, and have included, in recent years, Manfredo Tafuri, Christian Norberg-Schulz, and Aldo Rossi. In addition, office visits and discussions will be scheduled throughout the semester to introduce program participants to leading European architects and encourage interaction between our students and the Roman Architectural community.
This course gathers together the ancillary visits and sitework that supplement the design studio. Beginning with a survey of Rome (from its foundation through the thirteenth century) the architecturally, archaeologically , and historically significant sites are examined. It includes three organized filed trips intended to maximize the students exposure to critical sites and buildings, encompassing diverse historic periods.
• Northern Trip: Palladio and the Veneto (one week) Spoleto, Assisi, Urbino, Rimini, Modena, Mantua, Verona and Vicenza. Includes private tours of the work of Palladio (Villa Rotunda, Teatro Olimpico, Villa Emo) and Carlo Scarpa (Castle Vecchio, Brion Cemetary, Canova Museum).
• Florence Field Trip:Italian Renaissance (four days)
• Southern Trip: Naples and Puglia (one week) Naples, Pompeii, Paestum, Matera, Villa Franca and Bari.
In conjunction with the field trips there will be required reading, research, on-site analysis, observation, and presentation to the faculty and students by smaller groups.
This course is a continuation of ITAL 102 given in the fall. The course is designed to give beginners a good working knowledge of both written and spoken Italian. Conversation skills are stressed. The course also introduces and integrates aspects of Italian culture relative to the spring semester curriculum conducted in Rome. Aspects of literature, history, sociology and anthropology are introduced by visiting lecturers who will discuss issues of historic and contemporary Italian culture. A weekly film series introduces critical classic Italian Cinema feature and documentary films. Relevant museum visits are also scheduled as part of the course.
This course surveys of the history and theory of Italian modern architecture covering the period that begins with G.B. Piranesi and carries through to the present.
This course explores freehand drawing as a means for investigating and comprehending Rome's urban space. Various techniques and media are introduced including: figure and ground, shade and shadow, multiple perspective, collage, pen and ink, pastel and charcoal.
The studio will focus initially on an analysis of historic models to reveal distinct architectural patterns within Rome. The design process will explore the transformation of Roman conditions and prototypes. Critical issues include understanding urban form as an accommodation of the city's growth and accretive intervention within a fragmented historic context. Studies will conclude with formal propositions within the context of the city fabric.
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute; MFA City College. Exhibitions: Kristen Frederickson Gallery, NY; International Print Center, NY; PS 1-Institute for Contemporary Art, NY; Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland, Oregon. Artists Books: Masnavi, Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi, Published by Vincent FitzGerald & Co., NY;. The Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille, The Institute for Cultural Inquiry, CA. Collections: New York Public Library, NY; Columbia University, NY; Lirik Kabinett- Munich, Germany; Houghton Library Harvard University, MA: Wellesley College,MA. The Library of Congress.
Lives and works in Brooklyn NY. University of Georgia- Undergraduate, MFA Pratt Institute - 2005. Bibliography: New York Times, New Yorker Magazine, Village Voice, Art Papers, and Sculpture Magazine.
Artist-in-Residence in filmmaking at Fordham. Exhibitions: Museum of Modern Art, the Edinburgh Film Festival, and the Pompidou Center, Paris.
Studio courses will be offered in Painting and Drawing. The classes are structured to include demonstrations, seminar discussions, and individual and group critiques. Strong personal approaches to these media will be encouraged. All painting and drawing students will have 24-hour access to studios. Most spaces are shared by two or three students. Invited guest curators and art historians will give individual critiques of
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