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Media Arts Professors Awarded Prestigious Arts Grants
2008 Alum Wins BKLYN Designs Best of Show Award from Target
Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents Naomi Leff Exhibition
Media Arts Professor Receives Prestigious Arts Writers Grant
Sustainable Architecture and Design Show to Open May 19
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 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.
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.
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