Canada Council for the Arts selected School of Architecture graduate student Fabio Lima, MS Historic Preservation ’26, for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Fellowship. “Venice offers a rich case study that illuminates early biopolitical strategies of bodily categorization and surveillance, from the bubonic plague of the mid-14th century to the covert sexual subcultures of the late Renaissance,” Lima told the School of Architecture News Page.
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Mindy Kaling shone at the Oscars in the work of Laura Kim, BFA Fashion Design ’04, and co-creative director of Oscar de la Renta.
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Skidmore, Ownings, and Merrill released updated renderings for The New York Climate Exchange, of which Pratt is a founding member. The renderings show two mass timber buildings that will generate solar power and be open to the public in 2029.
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David Burney, academic director of urban placemaking management and visiting associate professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, explores the emergence and state of the field of placemaking in a new article for Common Edge. “Placemaking sets out to understand social needs and identify the best way to organize space in service of those needs.”
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Fine Arts Fellow in Civic Engagement Alex Strada’s exhibition Collective Mobilities is reviewed in Hyperallergic. “With Collective Mobilities, Strada argues that aesthetic care and dignity are not rewards for attaining basic needs, but something to be found in that dispensation. That art is capable of carrying out that responsibility, and it’s a beautiful thing.” The exhibition was also covered on television by PIX11 and syndicated to several northeast stations. Additionally, Strada was recently named a Headlands 2025 Artist in Residence and a Triangle Winter 2024/2025 Artist in Residence.
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Black Dress II: Homage at Pratt Manhattan Gallery was listed among “7 things to do in NYC this weekend.” “New York Fashion Week may be over but the passion for fashion lives on with this exhibition celebrating famous Black fashion designers and contributions to beauty, journalism and celebrity culture.”
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Black Public Media is honoring film editor Lillian Benson, BFA Art Education ’70, with the Trailblazer Award. “[Her] career has helped pave the way for so many and whose commitment to mentoring is shaping a new generation of artists,” said Leslie Fields-Cruz, executive director of Black Public Media.
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Pratt has been recognized as a Fulbright Top Producing Institute for 2024–2025, marking the sixth consecutive year that it has ranked in the top ten of four-year special-focus institutions.
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Associate Professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Founding Director of the Center for Climate Adaptation David Erdman gave a lecture titled “Archipelagic Infrastructures; a planetary perspective” for the spring 2025 public lecture series The Good Life, organized by architecture faculty at the University of Hong Kong and the US Consulate in Hong Kong.
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Jaye Moon, MFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’94, and former Visiting Assistant Professor of Arts and Cultural Management Laurie Cumbo will be honored at the 2025 NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit, celebrating their induction into the NYFA Hall of Fame.
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