A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
Lillian Benson, BFA Art Education ’70, received Black Public Media’s 2025 Trailblazer Award for her work editing films including American Masters – Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, Beyond the Steps: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Dancing: New World, New Forms.
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Information Pamela Pavliscak has a chapter about how teens use chatbots as a way to rehearse difficult conversations in the new book Foundations in Cyber-Ethnography: A Cross-Cultural Approach (Bloomsbury, 2026). Pavliscak also has a new book coming out on June 9: All the Feels: How to Stay Human in the Digital World (Hachette, 2026).
Stefan Sagmeister, MS Communications Design ’88, was selected as a member of the Adobe Creative Collective, “a group of exceptional creative leaders whose work reflects the innovation, diversity, and imagination driving the future of creativity.”
Isabelle Brourman, MFA Fine Arts ’19, is featured in a Los Angeles Magazine profile after she created the cover for the latest issue. “The multidisciplinary artist’s profile rose when she began capturing high-profile court cases through an abstract lens as a courtroom sketch artist, first starting with Depp v. Heard in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2022. Since then, she has crafted pieces from The People v. Donald Trump and The People v. Danny Masterson, and at Nicolás Maduro’s arraignment at immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, among others.”
Adjunct Professor – CCE of Writing Anna Moschovakis was invited by The Booker Prizes to reflect on her experience translating the International Booker Prize-winning novel, At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop. “Each book I take on becomes an obsession of sorts, one that bleeds into my life and, naturally, my writing.”
Myrsini Aristidou, BFA Film ’13, won an audience award at Sundance Film Festival 2026 for her feature, Hold Onto Me.
Edel Rodriguez, BFA Painting ’94, and Visionary Awardee 2019, created a recent cover illustration for TIME Magazine.
An exhibition showcasing work by graduate planning and undergraduate architecture students imagining alternative visions for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal was featured in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
TheyDream, a new film by William David Caballero, BFA Digital Arts ’06, received the NEXT Special Jury Award for Creative Expression from the Sundance Film Festival. The film was also reviewed by the International Cinephile Society. “Gentle but life-affirming, TheyDream is an inventive, delicate tribute to family and creativity, understanding that art is not an answer to grief, but rather the vessel through which those harrowing emotions can finally be spoken.”
The Pratt Center for Community Development’s Made in NYC team reflected on their 2025 achievements, noting, for example, that more than 115 companies signed up for member benefits and more than 630 members joined their learning labs over the course of the year.
From Pratt Institute News
From Pratt Institute News
