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Make: magazine with Newsweek included Pratt Institute on their list of the Best Maker Schools in Higher Education. The 200 schools were nominated by a global community of makers, educators, and Maker Faire leaders for their maker-focused programs and on-campus makerspaces.

Curbed’s story on librarians, archivists, and staff returning for the reopening of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street features several Pratt alumni and faculty, including Tal Nadan, MSLIS and MS History of Art and Design ’09, Elizabeth Rutigliano, MSLIS ’10, Deirdre Donohue, MSLIS ’97, Carolyn Vega, MSLIS ’08, and Philip Sutton, visiting assistant professor in the School of Information.

Katrin Zimmermann, visiting associate professor of fine arts (jewelry), was part of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Scholarship Fund Selection Committee and shared why it was important to empower the next generation of designers: “This year more than ever before, I feel the need to lift the students up … we have a chance to really push forward important new ways of looking at this country and fashion overall, of telling stories that matter in such a true and fundamental way.”

An exhibition by Carrie Moyer, BFA Painting ’85, and Sheila Pepe is on view at the Museum of Arts and Design through February 13, 2022. Called Tabernacles for Trying Times, it was highlighted by the New Yorker for a collaborative installation that offers a place to lounge and reflect “beneath an extravagant, genre-defying canopy of clouds.”

In a recent Q&A, Alisa Zamir, professor of graduate communications design, shared advice for students and reflected on her long career in design: “Love what you do. Never say it is good enough. Stay curious, keep experimenting and expand your horizons.” Read more @prattgradcomd.

Uzma Z. Rizvi, associate professor of social science and cultural studies, and Murtaza Vali, visiting instructor of social science and cultural studies, co-curated the Pavilion of Saudi Arabia at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. Called Accommodations, it reflects on the Biennale’s theme of How Will We Live Together? by examining spaces of quarantine.

Annabelle Selldorf, BArch ’85, was selected to lead the restoration of London’s National Gallery: “Our work is quietly resonant. It is not an architecture, first and foremost, of a loud bang. I’d rather do less than more.”