Liam Monaghan, MID ’25, was awarded 2nd place in the nationwide Bienenstock Furniture and Interior Design Competition for his entry R-Chair, which he designed as a hybrid between “an upright dining or deck chair and a full pool recliner.”
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Sydney Lipner, Emily Morillo, Mikey Rodriguez, and Vicky Zhang, all BFA/MA Art and Design Education ’26, have been awarded a Graduate Student Engagement Fund (GSEF) grant for their proposal, “Accessible Culturally-Responsive Art Education in Puerto Rico.”
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Claudia Bitrán was featured in artnet. Her show, Claudia Bitrán: Titanic, A Deep Emotion, on view at Cristin Tierney Gallery, “marks the New York premiere of [her] reimagining of the James Cameron film, crafted with a variety of disciplines from drawing and painting to performance and sculpture.”
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Associate Professor of Writing Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts will present her work at the launch of The Device, a new publication focused on the archives and history of the Poetry Project.
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Chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design Andrew Holder’s firm, The Los Angeles Design Group, has been chosen to construct a public installation for the 2026 Coachella Valley Music Festival. “‘Visage Brut’ reimagines the logic and mythology of a totem pole through the language of contemporary construction.”
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The Pratt Center for Community Development released an EnergyFit Toolkit, “a new resource for communities, organizations, and policymakers to create programs that will help small homes be healthier and more energy efficient.” They will also be hosting a webinar walkthrough of the new toolkit on March 11 to help organizations jumpstart retrofit programs for 1-4 family homes.
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Qinyan (Doris) Liu, MFA Communications Design ’23, was profiled in Our Culture Mag. The article focuses on her photobook series Distant Flash. “Driven by a commitment to crafting sophisticated, layered visual narratives, Liu has expanded her experimentation to include mediums such as risograph printing and polaroid transfers.”
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Sophie Andes-Gascon, BFA Fashion Design ’15, and Claire McKinney, BFA Fashion Design ’15, were featured in Vogue Runway for their Fall 2026 Ready-to-Wear collection. “With their fall collection, as with all their work, the designers invited people to enter their world, where imagination flourishes and there is room to play. ‘We invite people to wander there on their own, whether it leads them to a place of familiarity or somewhere new. In either case it’s a place of discovery and calm,’ the designers said.”
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Raísa Lin Garden-Lucerna, MS Sustainable Environmental Systems ’24, was chosen as a 2026 Forefront Fellow by Urban Design Forum. “This year’s interdisciplinary cohort will explore how to transform public spaces into living, adaptive, and sustaining landscapes of care.”
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Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies Cisco Bradley discusses his book I Hear Freedom with Columbia University Press. “Since 2013, I have conducted over 500 oral history interviews with jazz artists. Around 2018, I began to focus on the elders of the community, in particular, to preserve their vital perspectives on this profound American artform.”
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