Artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris will speak as part of Pratt Institute's Department of Digital Arts Lecture Series at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, in Lecture Hall E2 in the ARC Building,…
Pratt's Department of Fine Arts will present new work by Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) candidates as part of M.F.A. Open Studios 2010 held on Friday, April 9 from 5 to 9 p.m. and Sunday,…
Pratt Library and Information Science alumni Gretchen Caserotti, Lisa Chow, and Sonja Sajonas were included on Library Journal's list of 50 librarians who are shaping the future of libraries. Those included on…
Pratt Manhattan Gallery will enliven and encourage participation in the fall 2010 election process by presenting a public art competition to design mobile voter registration centers that will tour New York City from September 15…
Pratt Institute Assistant Chair of Fine Arts Sheila Pepe and Visiting Assistant Professor and alumna Mickalene Thomas won 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grants and $25,000 for their accomplishments in sculpture and painting, respectively. Alumna Carrie…
Pratt Institute ranks second among the country's colleges of art and design in terms of its appearances in global print and electronic media, on the Internet, throughout the blogosphere, and in social media outlets, according…
Pratt's graduate program in interior design was recently ranked first in the country for the second year in a row, based on surveys completed by industry professionals and made available through monthly architecture and design…
Pratt senior fashion design student Kasia Wisniewski was honored by the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund with one of four $25,000 Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF) Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship Awards at the 2010 FSF Geoffrey Beene…
Pratt's Department of Industrial Design has partnered with the Folkwang Academy, a college of art and design in Germany, to exhibit chair designs as part of the renowned international furniture and interior design fair imm…
Pratt Institute's Board of Trustees has named Dr. Susan Hakkarainen as its newest member. Hakkarainen's appointment was effective in October 2009.
Hakkarainen is a lighting industry expert whose career includes creating and leading international lighting…
Pratt Institute Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies Samantha Hunt was awarded the Bard Fiction Prize for 2010 and $30,000 for her second novel The Invention of Everything Else (Houghton Mifflin, 2008). Hunt will…
Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present "Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion," the first American exhibition to investigate the sustainable practices of American fashion designers, many of whom are based in New York City. The exhibition…
Renowned artist Eric Fischl will speak as part of the sixteenth annual Pratt Institute President’s Lecture Series at 6 p.m. on Thursday, December 3, 2009 in Memorial Hall Auditorium on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus. Fischl’s lecture…
Artist Mary Kelly will speak at Pratt Institute about her influences, artwork, and career as part of the 2009-2010 Visiting Artists Lecture Series, from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m., Tuesday, November 10, in the Engineering…
Eva Frederiksen, Assistant Director, Architecture and Design, of the Denmark International Studies (DIS) program will deliver a lecture titled "New Spaces in Scandinavian Architecture" at Higgins Hall auditorium at 61 St. James Place in Brooklyn…