A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
Through April 3, Georgetown University’s Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery is exhibiting work by photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode who attended Pratt from 1980 to 82. Influenced by fellow Pratt alumnus Robert Mapplethorpe, he created stylized portraits of Black men before his death at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Ellery Washington, associate professor in the Writing Department, was named one of the inaugural Baldwin-Emerson Fellows as part of the “I See My Light Shining” Oral History Project. The initiative to capture oral histories and artifacts from hundreds of elders from across the country is organized by the Emerson Collective and Columbia University.
Follow @prattphotography for ongoing selections from this semester’s senior thesis exhibitions, such as Thomas Kohler’s Litter.
On the Pratt Institute LinkedIn, women leaders making positive change are being highlighted for Women’s History Month. Read recent features on alumna Hiroko Nakamoto who is a leader in advocating for peace and environmental protection and Trustee Kathryn Chenault who is dedicated to supporting educational institutions, the arts, and improving opportunities for young people.
Pamela Colman Smith is best known as the illustrator behind the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck, but the Pratt alumna also illustrated books, compiled collections of Jamaican folklore, edited magazines, and ran Green Sheaf Press which focused on women writers. Read more about her extraordinary life @prattinstitute.
The Hauser and Wirth Institute nonprofit announced a gift of $280,000 for the full tuition of two graduate students entering Pratt’s dual-degree master’s program in library and information science and history of art and design. The support to diversify the archival field through scholarship was covered by the Art Newspaper and ArtNews.
Jean Shin, adjunct professor-CCE of fine arts, was interviewed by Artnet about sustainability in her art, from turning a fallen hemlock tree into sculpture to an upcoming work with Philadelphia Contemporary involving living mussels: “As opposed to the so-called blank canvas, these leftover materials had such a richness of stories and histories, traces of former owners that had abandoned them and of the society that had cast them off.”
Pratt was included among the 2021-22 Fulbright Top Producing Institutions announced by the U.S. Department of State. The list recognizes over 125 higher education institutions that sent the most Fulbright U.S. Students and U.S. Scholars abroad in the 2021-22 academic year.
This week alongside International Women’s Day, the Center for Equity and Inclusion is inviting the Pratt community to stop by and share their thoughts on womanhood. Read more @prattcei and see artwork by student Khushi Shah @prattinstitute.
Pratt is in the 2022-23 First-gen Forward cohort announced by the Center for First-generation Student Success, an initiative of NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and the Suder Foundation. The recognition is for higher education institutions that have demonstrated a commitment to improving experiences and advancing outcomes for first-generation college students. Pratt has been committing time and resources to its first-generation student population through the First-Generation Pratt committee established in spring 2020. To learn more, view the press release here.
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