The New Brick – From Automatic to Robotic now at the Hudson Valley’s Haverstraw Brick Museum features prototypes from an advanced undergraduate architecture studio led by Jonathan A. Scelsa, associate professor of undergraduate architecture. The students examined the use of robotic ceramic printing for producing new volumetric porous bricks that could support flora and fauna habitat restoration in urban ecologies. The exhibition is on view through March 1, 2022.
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Professor of History of Art and Design Eva Díaz’s new book After Spaceship Earth was included in Art Review.
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Jimmy & The Demons, a new feature-length documentary about Pratt alumnus and former Pratt faculty James Grashow, BFA ’63; MFA ’65, is premiering at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival, with a final screening on Sunday, June 15. The film follows Grashow, who taught art at Pratt from 1969 to 1982, on a multiyear journey to complete a large and detailed wood sculpture titled The Cathedral. The film was recently reviewed in The New York Times.
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Rachel Genito and Jimmy Li, both BFA Communications Design ’26, were selected as finalists for scholarships from the Society of Illustrators. Genito was selected as a Zankel Scholarship finalist, while Li was selected as a Will Eisner Scholarship finalist.
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Dashiell Schaeffer, BID ’28, is profiled in Core77 for his project “Curvesse Rocker,” a rocking chair he designed and built out of a single sheet of plywood.
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The New York City Department of Transportation cites the Pratt Center for Community Development’s report Better Buses for Flatbush Avenue: Participatory Action Research with Riders Alliance in a proposal for new bus lanes along Flatbush Avenue.
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Adjunct Professor of Undergraduate Communications Design Tim O’Brien was included in American Illustration 44 for his illustrations Reality and He’s Back.
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Zhiwei (Johnny Xie), BID ’25, won the ICFF Best of Students 2025 Award, sponsored by Haworth, for his Flat Pack Chair. Image courtesy of ICFF (Jenna Bascom Photography).
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Insectopolis: A Natural History, a new graphic novel by Fine Arts alumnus Peter Kuper, was featured in PRINT magazine, Comics Beat, and The Nation. “One of the things I hope to accomplish with Insectopolis is for readers who are not big enthusiasts of insects to recognize how hugely important they are in our day-to-day life and for the sustenance of our planet,” Kuper told The Nation. “Without pollinators, we wouldn’t have chocolate or coffee, and grocery store shelves would be mostly empty.”
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Mark Fingerhut, BFA Digital Arts ’15, is featured in Artnet in a review of his “4D software poem,” Halcyon.exe: The Ride. “Most of the work’s recurring imagery—birds in the sky, boats at sea, storm-swept streets, and walks on sunny days—could be different symbols for the idea of “touching grass,” getting offline and into the world, even as the work captures the feeling of being pulled deeper and deeper into a digital wonderland, as one fascinating oddity clicks on to the next.”
More Pratt Institute News
Alumni Harvey Fierstein and Paul Tazewell Shine at the Tony Awards
Esteemed writer and actor Harvey Fierstein was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the theater; Oscar-winning designer Paul Tazewell won for Best Costume Design in a Musical.
Designer, Educator, and Writer Andrew Holder Named Chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design
From Pratt Institute News
Holder will assume the role of chair on July 1, 2025.
Graduate Architecture Student Quinn Gregory Named 2025 Fulbright Finalist
From Pratt Institute News
Gregory will spend nine months in Europe to study how bicycle theft undermines collective efforts to increase urban cycling.