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07-01-2009

PrattCard to Expand to Myrtle Avenue this Fall

 

07-01-2009

Pratt to Hold Community "Design Jam" on July 11

 

06-15-2009

Pratt to Celebrate its First Ever Endowed Professorship

 

06-15-2009

Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman Named Acting Fashion Design Chair

 

05-22-2009

2009 Fine Arts Graduates Win Joan Mitchell Fellowship Awards

 

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Pratt Institute and the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership (the Partnership) recently announced a collaboration to expand the reach of PrattCard, Pratt’s student and faculty identification card, to businesses on the Myrtle Avenue commercial corridor at the start of the Fall 2009 semester. Once in place, Pratt students, faculty, and staff will be able to put a cash balance on their cards similar to a debit card that can be used to shop or dine at participating Myrtle Avenue businesses.

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Pratt Institute Center for Sustainable Design Studies (CSDS) and the Pratt Incubator for Sustainable Design Innovation will partner with Pratt Towers housing cooperative to hold a community “design jam” on Saturday, July 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Pratt Towers located at 333 Lafayette Avenue. Members of the community are invited to brainstorm possible residential uses for 60 square feet of unused space behind the towers that has remained empty for 15 years.

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Pratt Institute President Thomas F. Schutte and The Board of Trustees of Pratt Institute will hold a dinner to celebrate the establishment of The Marc Rosen Distinguished Visiting Chair in Design on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at The Gramercy Park Hotel Roof at Two Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. The event will include a cocktail reception at 7 p.m. followed by dinner, and will celebrate the first endowed professorship in the history of Pratt Institute.

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Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, a Pratt alumna and fashion design executive with over 15 years of experience, has been named acting chair of the Institute’s Fashion Design Department. Pailes-Friedman, who has taught in Pratt’s fashion and industrial design departments since 1998, will begin her appointment July 1, 2009. She replaces Rosie DePasquale, who is stepping down after serving as chair of the Fashion Design Department since 2000 to work on the launch of her yoga accessories and clothing line. DePasquale will return in the spring 2010 semester as a full-time professor.

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Pratt Institute department of fine arts graduate students Charlotte Meyer and Kris Scheifele won 2009 Joan Mitchell Fellowship Awards for their accomplishments in sculpture and painting, respectively. Through this award program, Meyer and Scheifele will each receive a $15,000 grant and will also participate in a group exhibition at the Cue Art Foundation in Chelsea, New York in spring of 2010.

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Josephine Abbenante

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Beate Becker

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Josephine Abbenante

Adjunct Assistant Professor

East Hall 3

(718) 636-3428

jabbenan@pratt.edu

Personal Biography

Josie Abbenante, ATR-BC, LPAT, has taught and practiced art therapy for the past 25 years. She added the practice of sandplay to her work ten years ago. She has presented nationally and internationally on topics including archetypal art therapy, transition, art therapy with Deaf culture, art therapy and feminist theory, sandplay and art therapy, work across cultures, and the language of aesthetics and metaphor.

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Claudia Bader

Visiting Instructor

East Hall 3

(718) 636-3428

cbader@pratt.edu

Personal Biography

Claudia Bader, MPS, ATR-BC, NCPsyA, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Licensed Psychoanalyst. Executive Director Emerita, Institute for Expressive Analysis ( 2002-2008). Board member 1993-2002, IEA; Faculty, Training Analyst: IEA. Faculty, Pratt Institute of Design, New School for Social Research, School of Visual Arts. Courses: Art Diagnosis, Symbolism in Art Therapy, Alchemy, Symbolism and Creativity, Dream Analysis, Mandala. MARI certification. Projective Drawing Institue Certification. Private practice, Manhattan.

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Donna Bassin

Visiting Associate Professor

East Hall 3

(718) 636-3428

dbassin@pratt.edu

Beate Becker

Adjunct Associate Professor

East Hall 3

(718) 636-3428

bbecker@pratt.edu

Personal Biography

Beate Becker, Adjunct Associate Professor. B.A., Smith College; M.A., Columbia University (Teacher's College); M.S., Hunter College; certified psychoanalyst, New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training; certfied movement analyst, Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies; advanced training in Somatic Experiencing. Private practice, Manhattan and Westchester; staff, Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; co-editor, American Journal of Dance Therapy; presenter at national professional conferences; published in American Journal of Dance Therapy, American Dance Teacher, and A Moving Journal; former choreographer, performer lighting designer. ADTR, CMA, LCAT, LP, LMHC.

Joachim Boenig

Adjunct Assistant Professor

East Hall 3

(718) 636-3428

jboenig@pratt.edu

Corinna Brown

Visiting Instructor

East Hall 3

(718) 636-3428

chiller@pratt.edu

Personal Biography

Visiting Instructor B.A., State University of New York at Albany; M.A., State University of New York at Albany; M.S., Hunter College City University of New York; Certified Alcoholism Counselor; Certificate in Neo-Reichian Psychotherapy; current vice president and former editor of the New York State Chapter of the American Dance Therapy Association newsletter; ADTA Research Subcommittee; experience in addictions, adults with multiple sclerosis, adult inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, geriatrics and men with AIDS/HIV; private practice; ADTR, CASAC, LCAT.

Kimberly Bush

Visiting Instructor

East Hall 3

(718) 636-3428

kbush@pratt.edu

Personal Biography

Kimberly Bush, MFA, ATR-BC, LCAT, CCLS has been working creatively with children, teachers, and parents for over 20 years. She is a visual artist, a NYS licensed Creative Arts Therapist, and Certified Child Life Specialist. In addition, she is completing her 4th year as psychoanalytic candidate at the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Her education includes Sarah Lawrence College, Parsons School of Design, and Pratt Institute. She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Pratt Institute´s Creative Arts Therapy Department.

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Angela Cooper

Visiting Instructor

East Hall 3

(718) 636-3428

acooper5@pratt.edu