Pratt Trustee and alumnus Derrick Adams, BFA Art and Design Education ’96, received a $1.25 million award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Black Baltimore Digital Database. The new archive will catalog important achievements in Black Baltimore culture.
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An illustration by Jeff Deng, AOS Graphic Design ’23, entitled “Distress” was chosen to appear in the online archive for AI-AP’s American Illustration 41 juried competition. Deng is one of 99 students whose work was selected from 7,000 submitted images.
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Pratt fashion alumna Mo Glover was featured by the BK Reader in a story on her children’s fashion line that highlights her time at Pratt and the support from Made in NYC, an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development.
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Gaeun Jeong, AOS Graphic Design ’22, was awarded the Graphis Silver Award for New Talent 2022 for three posters created in the Posters for a Cause project that was part of the fall 2021 Typography III class. Her work raises awareness for endangered species by representing the Nature Conservancy.
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Brook Boughton, MArch ’22, is included in the 2022 Metropolis Future100. It recognizes some of the top graduating architecture and interior design students in the United States and Canada as nominated by their instructors and mentors.
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The spring 2022 issue of Aperture features work by Marilyn Nance, BFA Communications Design ’76, from 1977 when she traveled to Nigeria and photographed the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC). The images will be featured in a forthcoming book called Last Day in Lagos.
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“Hyperbolic Sericulture” by undergraduate architecture student Ellis Donahue takes inspiration from arachnid and lepidoptera silk spinning to create a landscape of traversable thresholds upon which visitors can climb, hang, and rest. See more @prattsoa.
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Follow @pratt_institute_jewelry for updates from the ongoing Pratt Shows, such as Jaeil You’s functional “Lamp Ring 1 (LR-01)” from the recent BFA Jewelry Thesis Exhibition.
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Film/Video student Mackie Mallison is screening the experimental documentary Chuu Chuu as part of the Documentary Shorts lineup at the Atlanta Film Festival, available to watch virtually through May 1.
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The spring 2022 issue of the student-run literary magazine The Prattler is now available in print and online. Themed on “Education,” it includes stories on the depth of resources in Pratt Libraries, a comparison between students studying art and medicine, and a student’s experience coming to New York from Puerto Rico.
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