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Check out @PrattLibraries for a sneak peek at artists’ books and zines that are being added to the collection, such as Houseplants by Daniel Gordon that involves pop-up animation engineering by alumnus and Visiting Instructor of Communications Design Simon Arizpe.

Jean Shin, adjunct professor-CCE of fine arts, is featured in 8 Americans on view through January 22 at Chart gallery in Manhattan. The exhibition of work by eight multi-generational Asian American artists explores ideas of shared identity and histories and was reviewed by Artsy, Cultured Magazine, and the New York Times.

The spring semester is now underway! @PrattInstitute shared a couple of recent studio images in anticipation of the next months of creative study.

I Didn’t See You There by Reid Davenport, visiting assistant professor of film and video, is premiering in the US Documentary Competition section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The film explores how as a visibly disabled person the filmmaker is often either the subject of an unwanted gaze or rendered invisible.

Pratt’s Semantic Lab received a 2022 Equity in Action grant to work with the Asian American Arts Centre in New York (AAAC) to ensure online access to the resources documenting its work including a collection of around 100 exhibition flyers that will be available on Wikimedia Commons.

Architecture student David Tucker’s “Disclosed” combines the usually insular police station with an open and public library to challenge the way police stations have been designed in the past. See more @prattsoa.

The 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 features artist Devin Johnson, MFA ’19, and co-founders of hyperlocal social network OneRoof Nikos Georgantas, BID ’16, and Selin Sonmez, BID ’16.

With the potential for more wintry weather ahead, here’s a look back at the recent snow on the Brooklyn campus from @prattinstitute.

In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism by faculty members Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff received the 2022 Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Book Award. The award recognizes state-of-the-art research in architecture and related design fields.

Emma Hastil, BFA Fashion Design ’13, was featured in the New York Times story “For One Rockaways Couple, Lockdown Was a Creative Windfall” on the apparel and housewares brand she co-founded during the pandemic.