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Media Arts Professors Awarded Prestigious Arts Grants
2008 Alum Wins BKLYN Designs Best of Show Award from Target
Pratt Alum Selected As Official Artist of Summer Olympics
Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents Naomi Leff Exhibition
Media Arts Professor Receives Prestigious Arts Writers Grant
Pratt Institute media arts professors Lisa Crafts and Ellen Wallenstein were recently both awarded unrestricted $7,000 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grants for their film and photography work. NYFA awarded 136 fellowships to 144 New York artists representing eight artistic disciplines that cover the visual, performing, and literary arts. The fellows were selected from over 4,500 applicants by peer panels assembled according to each artistic discipline.
Recent Pratt industrial design alumnus Gregory Buntain received the Target Design Award for his ingeniously designed side table, titled “(intension),” as part of the sixth annual BKLYN DESIGNS™, presented by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce on May 9. This first time award celebrates exceptional talent and promise in the field of design and its winner was judged among all exhibitors of the show. As part of the award, Buntain has been invited to join an assembly of the country’s top designers in an event at the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum during National Design Week in October.
Pratt alumnus and Miami-based painter Mark T. Smith was one of ten artists selected by the U.S. Olympics Committee to be an official artist of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. His winning work depicts a vibrant blue dragon breathing fire onto the Olympic torch.
Pratt Institute President’s Exhibition Series will present “Naomi Leff: Interior Design,” the fourth in a series that honors distinguished alumni and faculty, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery from June 19 – September 13, 2008. The exhibition will be the first to explore the work of Naomi Leff (1938–2005), and will include photographs, furniture, and objects from her personal collection and video presentations devoted to signature projects for companies such as Polo/Ralph Lauren and Giorgio Armani. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Pratt Institute adjunct professor Jim Supanick recently received a prestigious Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation for his article Windsock Navigation: eteam’s International Airport Montello, an in-depth investigation of artist collective eteam’s International Airport Montello, an elaborate art project staged near a defunct airstrip in the remote desert town of Montello, Nevada.
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