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Graduate Digital Arts

Pratt to Host Free Public Festival Celebrating Digital Arts

The Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute will host a daylong festival on Saturday, October 18 in Myrtle Hall on the Brooklyn campus entitled, “Pratt Upload: Meme, You, and Everyone We Follow,” to celebrate and explore digital culture…

Graduate Digital Arts

Brooklyn Museum Exhibition Features Work by Digital Arts Instructor Bryan Zanisnik

A site-specific installation by Bryan Zanisnik, visiting instructor, Digital Arts, is on view at the Brooklyn Museum as part of the exhibition Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond, which will be on display through January 4, 2015. The…

Undergraduate Art and Design Education

Pratt Young Scholars Reception Celebrates New Class of High School Scholarship Recipients

The Pratt Young Scholars program welcomed its second class of students with a reception at the Caroline Ladd Pratt House on September 23. The 15 students, all sophomores attending Brooklyn public high schools, will receive three-year scholarships to attend the…

Jewelry

Museum of Arts and Design Show to Feature Pratt Jewelry Designers

Three recent graduates from Pratt Institute’s studio jewelry program in the undergraduate Fine Arts Department will sell their thesis work alongside celebrated jewelry designers from around the world at LOOT: MAD About Jewelry at The Museum of Arts and Design…

Graduate Fine Arts

Alumna Jennifer Wen Ma Creates Public “Portrait Garden” in Washington, D.C.

Renowned interdisciplinary artist Jennifer Wen Ma (M.F.A. ’99) has created a public art installation titled Alpha Lillstrom Portrait Garden for the 5×5 Project Nonuments, an exhibition in Washington, D.C., which opened to the public on September 6. Ma created the…

Graduate Fine Arts

Student Work From Pratt and Wall Street Journal Show Selected for Dow Jones’ Office

A portrait series by Michael Levin (M.F.A. ’15) has been selected to go on permanent display in Dow Jones’ corporate office in New York as a result of an initiative to create work that celebrates the rich history and future…

Undergraduate Photography

Distinguished Speakers Offer Insights on Garry Winogrand

{exp:slideshowpro id=”759″ type=”album” play=”true”} The Photography Department kicked off its fall lecture series on September 10 with a lineup of prominent speakers who came together in Pratt Institute’s Higgins Hall to discuss the cultural legacy of Garry Winogrand, the renowned…

Graduate Fine Arts

Beyonce’s Video Music Awards Wardrobe Designed by Alumna Dawn Mostow

A number of high-end latex designs by Pratt alumna Dawn Mostow (M.F.A. New Forms, ’08) were featured prominently at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs). Acclaimed pop star Beyoncé and her crew of dancers donned designs from Mostow’s latex…

Undergraduate Fine Arts

Video: Alumna Swoon’s Installation Transforms the Brooklyn Museum Rotunda

Brooklyn-based artist and Pratt alumna Swoon (Caledonia Curry, B.F.A. ‘02) has been described by The New York Times as someone who “has inspired a lot of wonderment” (Melena Ryzik, August 6, 2014). She is widely known for distinctive prints that are…

Jewelry

New York Times Features Jewelry Professor Karen Bachmann in Morbid Anatomy Museum Article

Pratt jewelry professor and alumna Karen Bachmann is featured in a New York Times article about an exhibition at the newly opened Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, which includes pieces from her private collection of Victorian mourning jewelry. “The…