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This Friday, May 13, join the Pratt Fine Arts Civic Engagement Series for the opening of Political Intimacy: The Return. The event includes an evening of creative programming and dialogue at Recess in Brooklyn, as well as an afternoon BBQ in Fort Greene Park.

Kadir Nelson, BFA Communications Design ’96, illustrated the May 9, 2022, cover of the New Yorker. In an interview about the basketball-themed art, he recalled his time playing with the Pratt Cannoneers: “We would travel to play within the tri-state area. I loved it.”

“Ritual of Learning” by Wenjing Cheng, BFA Interior Design ’22, transforms a residential complex occupying an ancient Buddhist monastery in Lhasa, China, into an unconventional place of edification. See more @prattinteriors.

Jamie Powell, adjunct assistant professor in the Associate Degree Programs, was interviewed on the I Like Your Work podcast. The conversation explored her practice as an educator and artist who involves fiber techniques in her three-dimensional paintings.

A recent article on Slate highlighted the work of Karen Chapple, MS City and Regional Planning ’94. Chapple was a researcher on a major study published by the Urban Displacement Project, which examined the impact of new apartments on displacement in San Francisco. Chapple and fellow researcher Jackelyn Hwang wrote about the study in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Fashion Design students upcycled materials from Housing Works for the Met Opera costume competition at the recent People’s Ball at the Brooklyn Public Library. See more @prattfashion.

Chairperson of Photography Shannon Ebner’s recent fret scapes exhibition at Kaufmann Repetto in New York  was reviewed by Art in America, Frieze, and Artforum. Ebner’s photographic text-based works were created with paper letters pasted inside a building with water.

Portlyn Houghton-Harjo, BFA Writing ’25, read a poem at the Library of Congress as part of a celebration for the conclusion of U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s laureateship. The event is available to watch online.