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Renowned Artist Kara Walker to Speak September 19 at Pratt Institute

Renowned artist Kara Walker will speak on her work and career at Pratt Institute at 6 p.m. on Monday, September 19, in Memorial Hall Auditorium on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus. The event is free and open to the public, however, seating…

School of Architecture to Present Exhibition on New Latin American Architecture

Pratt Institute School of Architecture and Latin Pratt, a student research organization, will present “Breaking Borders: New Latin American Architecture,” an exhibition highlighting contemporary architecture of the past 10 years from 45 firms representing more than 10 countries in Latin…

Architecture Faculty Members Honored with 2011 Architectural League Prize

Pratt Institute alumni and Undergraduate Architecture department faculty members Ajmal Aqtash (B. Arch ’01) and Richard Sarrach (B. Arch ’01), along with their partner and Pratt alumnus Tamaki Uchikawa (B. Arch ’01), received the 30th annual Architectural League Prize for…

Cultural Theorist and Literary Scholar Andrew Barnes Named Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Cultural theorist and literary scholar Andrew Barnes has been named dean of Pratt Institute’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Barnes, who had been serving as the interim associate dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at William…

Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation Supports Nine New Companies

The Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation has added nine new companies to its existing roster in the areas of fashion design, home furnishings design, and clean energy technology. The Incubator supports the entrepreneurial talents of designers, artists, and architects…

Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents Exhibition of Video Works Selected by 35 International Curators

Pratt Manhattan Gallery is presenting “Project 35,” an exhibition of video works selected by 35 international curators in commemoration of exhibition producer Independent Curators International’s (ICI) 35th year now through July 30, 2011. Each of the curators was invited to…

Architectural Digest Names Pratt Among Top Ten Colleges in the Country with the Best Architecture

Architectural Digest named Pratt Institute among the top 10 colleges nationwide with the best architecture, making it the only campus in New York City and the only specialty college of art, design, and architecture to make the list. The…

Pratt Hosts Young Artist from Port-au-Prince to Expand His View of the Art World

Two months ago, 19-year-old Haitian artist and high school student Alex Louis was living on Grand Rue in a small makeshift house in his home town of Port-au-Prince, a city still recovering from an earthquake that devastated Haiti in January…

Digital Arts Graduate Zach Hyer Winner of Gold Student Academy Award

Pratt graduate Zach Hyer (M.F.A.’10) received a Gold Medal at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 38th annual Student Academy Awards® ceremony for his M.F.A. thesis animation Correspondence, the concept of which was born during a Pratt Digital…

Award-Winning Filmmaker and Videomaker Leighton Pierce Named Chair of Film/Video Department

Award-winning filmmaker and videomaker Leighton Pierce has been named chair of Pratt Institute’s Film & Video Department. Pierce, who has been heading the Film and Video Production Program of the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of…