Longtime industrial design faculty member Scott VanderVoort, BID ’98, has a solo show at Art Cake in Brooklyn. On view through April 20, it includes the artist’s recent paintings and sculptures.
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Through September 3 in Reset: Towards a New Commons at the Center for Architecture in Manhattan, design teams that include several School of Architecture faculty members and students are exhibiting ideas for how spaces could be designed for all. Faculty David Burney, Caitlin Cahill, Jerrod Delaine, and Deborah Gans, and students Catherine Chattergoon and Jared Rice, worked on Re:Play Reclaiming the Commons Through Play. Faculty Karen Kubey worked on Aging Against the Machine.
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Madelen Nyau, BFA Fashion Design ’21, won the second annual Season Zero design competition. The initiative by the LA-based retailer Fred Segal and Black in Fashion Council supports emerging Black designers. See more @prattfashion.
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Today is the last day to catch the Emergency Housing exhibition in the Juliana Curran Terian Design Center Gallery. The class led by Visiting Associate Professor Kevin Walz explores housing modules for victims of natural disasters caused by global warming and climate change. See more @prattinteriors.
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Joanna Yuan Gong, BFA Jewelry ’16, was featured in a New York Times story about five leading women in the jewelry industry. After studying jewelry design in New York City, metal art in Tokyo, gem mining in Myanmar, the emerald trade in Columbia, and gemstone-cutting in Thailand, she joined Sotheby’s in 2019 as a private sales director and jewelry specialist.
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Pratt students swept the 2022 IESNYC Student Lighting Competition, with Joanne Wu, BID ’24, winning the grand prize; Shuhao Xuanyuan, BID ’25, winning second prize; Mehul Bhargava, BID ’25, winning third prize; and Cass Carl, BID ’24, Hae Ji Nam, BID ’23, Constantina Tzanides, BID ’24, and Siyu Xiao, BID ’24, receiving honorable mentions.
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Latoya Kamdang, visiting associate professor of interior design, was featured on NBC’s segment “Positively Black,” which highlighted how she is paving the way for young designers, building on her success.
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In collaboration with Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership, Pratt’s Preserving Activism initiative is sponsoring a photography installation in seven Myrtle Avenue storefronts. The installation features student research on Pratt’s summer youth programs and the involvement of the Black Student Union and Horace Williams, Pratt’s first African American Vice-President.
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The annual Pratt Shows celebration of creative work by the graduating students has returned to in-person events. Public presentations and exhibitions run from now through May. Explore a schedule of in-person and online happenings, including the weekly Fine Arts and Photography openings at Mondays at Pratt.
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Earlier this month, the Brooklyn Public Library presented an event highlighting the Ronald Shiffman collection on the Pratt Center for Community Development at the Center for Brooklyn History. The panel discussion featured Ron Shiffman, professor emeritus in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), and was moderated by Michael Kimmelman. Read more about the collection on Pratt.edu.
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