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Sustainable Architecture and Design Show to Open May 19
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
Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present “Manufactured Surfaces: Three Pratt Institute Sponsored Research Studios for Sustainable Architecture and Design,” from May 19-30, 2008. The exhibition features full-scale prototypes, material demonstrations, and project proposals of three sponsored studios from Designtex, Hunter Douglas, and VELUX that took place within Pratt’s Undergraduate Architecture Department and Interior Design Department. The exhibition and opening reception are free and open to the public. The reception coincides with the closing day of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, which runs from May 17–20.
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.
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