Adrian Koenigsberg, BFA Communications Design ’16, was featured in a New York Times story on skateboarding in New York and its rise during the pandemic. Koenigsberg is the founder of the media outlet Quell Skateboarding which focuses on nontraditional skaters: “The landscape is changing. I think that companies started to see the financial value of women-owned businesses, and the skateboarding industry kind of had to get on board—no pun intended—with figuring that out themselves.”
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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.”
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Librarian Adeeba Rana, MSLIS ’13, will discuss the trend of censorship with author and activist George Takei at the Brooklyn Public Library’s event Unscripted: A Night Against Censorship at Central Library on October 6.
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Dean of the School of Architecture Quilian Riano reflected on the recent past and the year ahead for The Architect’s Newspaper. “The Pratt Institute School of Architecture celebrated its 70th anniversary this past academic year with events and two exhibitions: one about recent student work and the other about our history. This coming year, we are building on the excitement around this work to host programs that look at the role of our fields in shaping the public sphere and to support faculty and students as they continue to tackle the challenges communities are facing, such as dealing with the climate and housing crises.”
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Three Pratt students were chosen as Atlantic East athletes of the week: Pallavi Verghese, BArch ’28, for Women’s Tennis; Coralie Norenberg, MFA Communications Design ’27, for Women’s Cross Country; and Liam Reilly, BFA Film ’27, for Men’s Cross Country.
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