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Jean Shin, adjunct professor-CCE of fine arts, installed a temporary sculptural fountain at Philadelphia’s Cherry Street Pier that uses freshwater mussels to clean the river water. Shin told WHYY: “My fountain at the pier is envisioning an ecosystem that is possible if freshwater mussels could happily cohabitate in the Delaware River.”

The 2022 Pratt in Venice students have been working on etching projects at Scuola Internazionale Grafica. Follow @prattinvenice for ongoing updates from the summer program.

Jin-Young Choi, MFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’20, was awarded the Gold prize at the AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards. His work is on view through June 30 in the winners’ exhibition—Brave New World—at the AHL Foundation in Manhattan. The AHL Foundation supports visual artists of Korean ancestry living in the United States.

Harriet Harriss, dean of the School of Architecture, joined the A is for Architecture podcast to discuss her writing, educational practice, and academic advocacy.

Through July 17, Alexander Gray Associates in Germantown, New York, is exhibiting work by Professor of Fine Arts Steve Locke. Homage to the Auction Block revisits the work of Josef A. Albers through the abstracted form of a slave auction block. Read more @prattfineart.

The Robotics Lab in the Pratt School of Architecture houses two robotic arms to aid students in architectural model making. Visit @prattinstitute to see an arm in action.

The New York Times featured alumnus Duke Riley’s new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum that involves materials collected from beaches in the northeastern United States: “As artists, we’re going to have to start thinking differently about the materials that we use.” The article includes a quote from former faculty member Ernesto Pujol.

Each spring, the MFA Graduate Foundations Core Design Studio course in the Department of Interior Design asks students to draw inspiration from Isamu Noguchi’s work. This year they explored the retail sales experience at the Noguchi Museum through the design of a new Noguchi Showroom. View their work, including the winning and finalist projects, in an online exhibition.

Rebekah Morris, senior program manager at the Pratt Center, was interviewed for a PIX11 story on the state assembly looking at ways to legalize and improve basement apartments. With the Basement Apartments Safe for Everyone Campaign, she helped start a pilot program in the East New York-Cypress Hills area of Brooklyn in 2019.

“Wetwork” by Ross Cameron, MID ’22, is a door system anticipating climate change that enables escape, rescue, and survival in extreme urban flooding situations. Read more on the Pratt MID site.