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Olivia Meehan, MLIS ’22, contributed a guest post to the Library of Congress blog the Signal on “Diving into Digital Ephemera: Identifying Defunct URLs in the Web Archives.” She is a 2022 Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress where her work has been overseen by Lauren Baker, MSLIS ’18.

Emily Ridings, BFA Fashion ’18, was featured in Garden & Gun magazine for her use of basket weaving in her designs. The story relates how she started experimenting with weaving while a student at Pratt: “I weave my heart through everything.”

Chloe Evangelista, BFA Digital Arts ’22, is a finalist for the 2022 Student Academy Awards in the Alternative/Experimental category for the film “Ask Again Later” which was made in the senior projects class led by Adjunct Assistant Professor Caitlin Craggs.

Leonel Ponce, acting academic director of Sustainable Environmental Systems, was interviewed for the story “How business owners can prepare for flooding and climate change” in Crain’s New York Business.

Visit the new Notes On… blog from the Pratt Center for Community Development for ongoing insights and observations on community-based planning and the built environment. Recent posts include Notes on Nighttime Governance by Senior Planner Tara Duvivier and Notes on the L Train by Communications Associate Elmo Tumbokon.

Several School of Architecture faculty members received 2022 Architecture + Design Independent Projects Grants from the Architectural League of New York and the New York State Council on the Arts. They include Caitlin Blanchfield, Duks Koschitz, Robert Lee Brackett III, Gita Nandan, and Elliott Maltby. Read about their projects here.

This summer in an SCPS class led by Jewelry Technician Korey Burns, students learned the basics of wax carving, mold making, stone setting, and how to cast nature. See highlights of their work @pratt_institute_jewelry 

“Constancy: Combating Food Insecurity Among Pregnant Women”  by students Grace Morales, Jade Carter, Sabrina Casilla, Fumika Iwasaki, Richa Verma, and Tito Nawat is the grand prize winner of the 2022 Core77 Design Awards Community Choice Prize. The team in the Creative Enterprise Leadership international graduate program that is part of Design Management and Arts and Cultural Management was coached by Adjunct Assistant Professor Denise Tahara.

This summer, Made in NYC, an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development, is highlighting companies in Manhattan’s Garment District that are contributing to the neighborhood’s historic role as the city’s apparel manufacturing sector. Explore their stories on the Made in NYC site and @madeinnewyorkcity on Instagram.

Filmmaker Nasreen Alkhateeb, BFA Sculpture ’07, was announced as a 2022 Disability Futures Fellow. The fellowship from the Ford and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations provides disabled American artists, filmmakers and journalists with unrestricted grants. The news was covered by the New York Times, NPR, and the Los Angeles Times.