SCPS PRODUCTION CORNER
Mission
More than classes: Production Corner is a hub for creative expression where a global community of makers, thinkers, and builders converge. Featuring works by Pratt SCPS students/alumni, faculty, and staff, Production Corner aims to build a pipeline that accurately reflects the emerging and established art and design practices of our thriving community members.
A place to find inspiration, talent, and collaboration, we invite you to check Production Corner regularly for new posts.
Pratt SCPS courses merge tactile learning with discourse and technology, producing a ripe environment for creative output. Every semester, participants of all walks of life enroll in project-based classes to hone contemporary and classical skills that are readily transferable to industry for career, or personal growth.
SCPS Summer Kick Off
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET
Pratt Manhattan Center
RSVP Required
ADAR: Architecture Summer Intensive
Dr. Christoph a. Kumpusch, SCPS Instructor
Light Pavilion
The Light Pavilion is a public space. It is an urban structure that arises from opportunity to balance the geo-political specificity that comes at the intersection of public space, real estate development and architecture.
Location: Chengdu, China
Project Year: 2013
Medium: ADAR: Architecture Summer Intensive
Project Team: Christoph a. Kumpusch, Lebbeus Woods, Jackie Luk, Tz-Li Lin 7,000 SF Structural Engineering: China Academy of Building Research MEP & Fire Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners Developer: Raffles City, Singapore Client: CapitaLand Development Light Consultant: L’Observatoire International
Website/Social: www.kumpusch.com;
www.detail-kultur.com;
www.mutating-cities.com
www.xtr-lab.com
Adobe After Effects
Sebastian Sagastume, SCPS Instructor
Adobe After Effects Project Showcase
I made this promo video to get my students excited about the project’s we’d be working on throughout the course. I walk my students through how to make them from scratch. Not all projects featured in this video are made during class, depending on how I gauge the class is performing overall, and whether or not time allows for some of the bonus projects. That being said, students have access to all of the project files which they can dig into and learn by example.
Medium: Adobe After Effects
Website/Social: sebsaga.com
linkedin.com/in/sebastian-sagastume
@seb.saga (Instagram)
Book Illustration: Picture Book
Steve Henry, SCPS Instructor
Illustrations for FRIENDS ARE FUN
Book Illustration: Picture Book
Illustrations for FRIENDS ARE FUN, by Steve Henry. The book was named a Best Book of 2025 by SLJ (School Library Journal).
Book Illustration: The Picture Book class is the art of illustrating a story, and learning how to create a picture book. The artwork in this book is created with ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic paint. All art media and technique is accepted in this class.
Website/Social: stevehenryillustration.com Instagram: @stevehenryart
Cosmetics Visual Merchandising Design
Allen Wilpon, SCPS Instructor
Lipstick Launch Tester/Display
This class provides an overview of the cosmetics and beauty industry, focusing on visual merchandising design principles and techniques. Students will learn about the importance of creating visually appealing displays, understanding consumer behavior, and how to effectively communicate brand messages through visual merchandising. Enjoy and have Fun.
Create Your Own Comics: Get Started with Sequential Storytelling
John Hazard and Lisa Burdige, SCPS Instructors
Aurora Borealis
A Background Noise Comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard
This is a poetic piece that connects the cosmic with consciousness.
John Hazard and Lisa Burdige have made Background Noise Comics for almost a decade. A social media favorite, soon to be published in “Love Letters, Every Day”, their first collection. John and Lisa are narrative storytellers who use their personal adventures as fodder for their art. In their work you can see the seeds of all their interests; pop culture, mental health issues, politics, family drama and of course romance. From fun to fabulist they love to help others develop their ideas into graphic stories and are excited to be doing so in their upcoming class, Create Your Own Comics: Get Started with Sequential Storytelling.
Website/Social: https://www.instagram.com/background_noise_comic/
Drawing Intensive
Scott Williams, SCPS Instructor
Big Black S.U.V
In the Drawing intensive you will learn how to draw from life, work with point of view and perspective, learn to analyze form and express complex subjects, learn about light and shadow and surface, and learn to channel your own vision and interests into powerful works of art.
Medium: Oil on Panel, 14 x 21″, 2022
In the Collection of Marcy Rosewater
Website/Social: www.scottwilliamspaintings.com, #scottnwilliamsstudio
Editorial Illustration
John Hazard, SCPS Instructor
Brand Loyalty
John Hazard for Marketing Dive
Editorial illustrations and comics are fun assignments, involving humor, style and engagement. For two years (until Covid cutbacks) I created weekly single panel editorial comics for Marketing Dive, a marketing trends newsletter and website, under the title “Comic Dive”. This one for an article about the ubiquitous presence of corporate branding in pop culture.
Website/Social: https://thehazmat.com/
Experimental Media Lab: Remix
Faith Holland, SCPS Instructor
Touchscreen: Circle, 2020
Fashion Design Intensive
Adrienne Jones, SCPS Instructor
The Black Dress Project
Website/Social: https://www.blackdressexhibit.com/
Graphic Design Summer Intensive
Scott Santoro, SCPS Instructor
Maya Land Registry Poster
18″ x 24″ poster design for an organization in Belize helping indigenous tribes retain their land rights. This piece is about form, concept, typography, production tools, graphic devices, and composition, which are all important for creating a successful design. This is an example of how a work can not only draw the viewer in, but also convey relevant information.
Website/Social: http://www.worksight.com
Interiors for the Beginner
Ximena Sanchez, SCPS Student
Design is never static; it’s an evolving conversation between inspiration, vision and rigor. Pratt Institute cultivates a design philosophy where the process is seen as an ongoing journey, where a student can build their creative DNA, fully exploring and strengthening their creative abilities to create impactful projects. – Paulette Pascarella, SCPS Instructor
Introduction to Graphic Design
Patricia Childers, SCPS Instructor
Domination and Desire
This artist book, presented as a fold-out map, describes a walk on NYC’s Broadway. Broadway, and its significance as the Wickquasgeck Trail of the Lenape people, traverses the vast geographies of the island of Manahatta. The 13-mile-long trade route was a vital link for trade and communication between Lenape communities. Its current state contrasts sharply with the former path of gathering and exchange amongst diverse nations.
Website/Social: https://pchildersdesign.com/
Introduction to Photoshop
Clément Careddu, SCPS Student
Unknown Portal
This piece was created by student Clement Careddu for our assignment in Introduction to Photoshop, with a focus on shape layers and the pen tool. The shapes and textures in this piece were designed and modified by Clement using the fundamental tools explored in the course – Jessica Reisch, SCPS Instructor
Metalworking
Adam Apostolos, SCPS Instructor
Untitled
Medium: Metalworking
Photoshop Advanced
Sonya Shannon, SCPS Instructor
Civil War
Who among us doesn’t spend their early adult life coming to terms with values, identity, purpose … who has not gone through inner struggle?
HOW CIVIL WAR BEGINS
I became someone I wasn’t, in order to survive.
I hid. Shut down. Disappeared under the veneer of who I suspected “they” wanted me to be—they being all of them—others, authority figures, haters. They being family, friends, lovers. Known and unknown.
ONE-ON-ONE INNER CONFRONTATIONS
The solar goddess against the wolf-torch / stiletto dagger warrior.
The torch-bearer and rock-thrower against the keeper of the womb.
She of the moon cycle against she of pitchfork and sword.
A contest of pre-ordained creativity versus the freedom to wreck whatsoever we choose.
You might think depicting a civil war is a violent process. Quite the opposite.
Every subtle detail holds messages from the Great Beyond: of complexity that cannot be cleaved from the simplest germ.
Ultimately, all war ends in surrender. Ceasefire. Peace.
ABOUT ‘CIVIL WAR’
This artwork depicts advanced selection and masking of figures, seamless integration through lighting and cast shadows, retouching, special visual effects, world-building, and storytelling,—all of which are covered in the course, supported by intensive group critique.
Medium: Civil War is 18 megapixels, 3 gigabytes, and 194 layers of pictorial data. All computed to a pixel-color veneer by my intrepid iMac, Maha Akal, whose name means “Great Timeless One.”
Model: Valeriia Sergeieva
Website/Social: https://sonyashannon.substack.com/, https://sonya-shannon.com, https://www.etsy.com/shop/SonyaShannonArt, https://transformation-oracle.com, https://www.facebook.com/sonyashannonartist/
RHINO
Michael Stefan Leoniak, SCPS Instructor
RHINO: Computer Aided Design and 3-D
Here is one of the in-class builds that I made for the students on (Week-9)
They in turn follow my lecture/build/video and make a version of their own
Medium: RHINO
THE FUTURE OF FOOD: DIGITALLY LED EXPERIMENTS TO INFORM EATING
Raina Wellman, SCPS Instructor
Networks of Dining
Something as common and casual as eating, particularly with other people, is full of connectivity, networks, and collaboration. By extension, it is also true that every activity people participate in is just as full. I chose to explore the many networks and systems that can be exposed and extended through dining together.
By creating this project, the “Networks of Dining” event, I aimed to create a space for thoughtful, creative conversation and to foster a sense of community and intimacy. The graphic and artistic elements of the project included the design of a tablecloth, a menu, and a series of serving dishes created in collaboration with Maria Gerdyman. For the graphic imagery on both the tablecloth and the menu I chose to create a special kind of diagram, one that represented the complicated, interwoven, and extensive system of networks that go on behind the scenes.
We will explore similar subjects in class, while building skill sets in Adobe Creative Suite-led fabrication. Students will create design solutions that respond to wicked problems (as they relate to food) or develop art pieces that engage with the practice of eating (privately or communally).
How we eat and look at food is influenced by our cultural backgrounds, tastebuds, time, and curiosity. Students are encouraged to bring their own perspective to the table, with the goal of re-thinking ways of eating and preparing food. Projects might take the form of publications, performances, animations, or edible experiments.
The dinner was created in collaboration with local Rhode Island farmers and the Met Dining Staff as well as Chef David Gould
Website/Social: https://rainawellman.com// Instagram: @unnff
Painting and Drawing (Credit and NonCredit)
Melanie Kozol-Carney, SCPS Instructor
Portal 2024
Accomplished in plein air painting and studio practice, I work with visual documentation and memory to create interpretive paintings of the environment. I traverse the relationship between tangible physical characteristics and my emotional response to the environment. In the studio, I create paintings with layers of wash, mark making and scraping to reveal a pentimento of color, line, and form. In the classroom, I bring my personal history of painting to the students through slide shows of historical and contemporary artists. We look at the diverse ways to create a painting, focusing on representation through still life, interiors, figure and landscape.
Website/Social: https://www.instagram.com/melaniekozol/, https://melaniekozol.com/home.html
Latika Sridhar, SCPS Student
Fragmented Faces
The Fine Art Intensive motivated me to turn my occasional painting hobby into a full-time practice. The classroom environment felt like a safe space to explore my creative voice while still challenging me to develop my skills as a painter.
“Strange Mirror” by Latika Sridhar is opening May 9th, 2025, at Established Gallery in Brooklyn, NY