Carlos Motta, associate professor of interdisciplinary practice in fine arts, is featured on Artsy as an LGBTQ+ artist to celebrate this Pride Month. Léuli Eshrāghi, curator of Indigenous practices at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, says that Motta’s practice “situates a profoundly queer intersectional critique of imperialism and binarism in relation to futurities of queer wellness and fulfillment, which we all need more of!”
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Poet Mahogany L. Browne, MFA Writing ’16, posits a future for New York’s art scene in 2050 for The New York Times. “We will exchange languages, recipes, resistance tactics and survival stories. History will not be handed down but braided in: song, story, dance. We’ll defend the old, hold space for the silenced and dream the new.”
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Architecture Annie Coombs is featured in The New York Times for her work developing an innovative form of housing for the Lakota people of South Dakota. Read more at the School of Architecture News Page.
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Dean of the School of Architecture Quilian Riano discussed the School’s increasing focus on housing with Archinect. “We have a particular interest in co-housing and understanding how models of living are shifting, as many of our studios and seminars postulate, people become more willing to share more spaces for social and environmental impact.”
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Pratt Munson celebrated its 25th anniversary. “For 25 years, our unique partnership with Pratt Institute has brought emerging artists to Utica,” Pratt Munson President and CEO Anna D’Ambrosio told the Daily Sentinel. “Each fall over 100 students, the next generation of creatives, join our community, honoring a legacy while creating their own.”
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The Pratt Center for Community Development received a grant from The New York Community Trust that enables its research and policy team to conduct community-engaged research and policy advocacy to address the threat of small homes speculation on housing affordability and stability in NYC low- and moderate-income neighborhoods of color, building off of the recent Pratt Center report, Flipping Out. Through this partnership, the Pratt Center will be able to provide community partners and policymakers with the data they need to develop sound policy interventions and the tools to demonstrate their need and impact.
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Open House New York is returning to Pratt again on Sunday, October 19. As in years past, the History of Art and Design Department will lead two walking tours of the Pratt campus and surrounding neighborhood and provide booklets, etc. for a self-guided tour of the Sculpture Park.
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Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Information Ken Soehner, Arthur K. Watson Chief Librarian at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was quoted in the recent announcement about the renovation of the museum’s Nolen Study Room. “The renovation and design project is an exceptional opportunity for the library. The plans evoke optimism for the future and reflect our commitment to providing a more welcoming, comfortable, and inspiring environment for library researchers and staff.”
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Unveiling by Alanna Fields, MFA Photography ’19, was shortlisted for the First PhotoBook prize at the 2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, which celebrate this year’s achievements by publishers and artists.
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Mackie Mallison, BFA Film ’23, was chosen for the inaugural 2025 Sundance Institute Filmmakers Fund, which awards grants to emerging artists working on feature-length films. Mallison’s film, Everything Must Go, is about “a Japanese-American family united by anxiety disorders and vivid daydreams struggles to let go of their dying matriarch.”
More Pratt Institute News
Archival Fashion by Legendary Designer Mary McFadden Arrives at Pratt
A portion of the iconic fashion designer’s world-renowned archive has officially relocated to Pratt’s Brooklyn campus. A generous gift from the McFadden family will support ongoing scholarship, preservation, and the promotion of the collection.
Biocircuits Wins 2025 Material Lab Prize
From Pratt Institute News
The winner of the 6th annual prize tackled the growing problem of e-waste.
Fashioning New Pathways for Incarcerated Women
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The innovative program launched by Pratt Institute and the New Jersey Department of Corrections expands access to creative disciplines and workforce development.