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2026 Alumni Books

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Prattfolio’s 2026 Alumni Books highlights more than three dozen titles that Pratt alumni created across formats and disciplines.
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Legends 2026 to Honor Derrick Adams and Andy Cohen

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The renowned alumni and visionary leaders will be celebrated at the annual benefit for student scholarships that support the next generation of creative talent and makers.
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Summer in the City: Things to See and Do

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School is out! Explore exhibitions, public art, and activities by members of the Pratt community—all summer long.

These Entrepreneurs Jumpstarted Successful Careers at Pratt

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The School of Design’s Entrepreneurship Minor has become an engine of creative success for students starting their own businesses.

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  • Portrait of Fontaine and article excerpt reading

    Ray Fontaine, MID ’16, was named to Gambit’s 2026 40 Under 40, recognizing emerging leaders shaping the future of New Orleans. Fontaine shared, “Since graduating from Pratt, I’ve built a multidisciplinary career spanning design, communications, environmental advocacy, and community organizing. Today, my work through Bywater Branding, Climate Culture New Orleans, and BYMBO focuses on translating complex systems into public understanding and building partnerships that move ambitious ideas into action.”

  • From the Daily Hub

    Kaviar Collaborative, the architectural studio founded by Kasturi Wagh and Vineet Hingorani, both MArch ’20, is now featured in the Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2026, the annual round-up of emerging studios. “From characterful Mumbai coffee shops and restaurants, to home interiors balancing personality and practicality, you won’t find them following formulas or trends. Each project tells a context-led story of people, place, culture and climate.”

  • Textile embroidered with rolling pin, ladle, cheese grater and other kitchen implements with the German words for these implements in Gothic script nearby. In each corner of the textile is a small pink children's garment: a onesie, pajamas, a dress, a romper.

    Alexa Wheeler, BFA Fine Arts ’98, received the 2026 ARC Gallery Athena Fund Solo Exhibition Award. Her solo exhibition, kept + carried, is on view at the ARC Gallery in Chicago from September 3 to September 25, 2026, with an opening reception on September 4, 5–8 PM. Learn more at toastlab.com.

    Image: Alexa Wheeler ’98, gesandt.versorgt.genärt.immer

  • Painting of a black lab wading in water

    Nanci Hersh, BFA Fine Arts ’81, is featured in the two-person exhibition A Glimpse Elsewhere, on view by appointment from August 28 to December 12, 2026, at the National Apartments in Philadelphia. Learn more at nancihersh.com.

    Image: Nanci Hersh, Sonorous (revisited), 2017