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Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, joined Whoopi Goldberg in a conversation on artistic freedom for Interview magazine: “I like to put Black women in the same positions as the subjects in Old Master paintings, because it’s about having that freedom to just be in the moment, to recline without doing work. Can’t we just recline?”

For Hispanic Heritage Month, the Latinx Student Alliance will be showcasing member’s work. See @PrattInstitute for a preview.

Jess deCourcy Hinds, MSLIS ’09, was featured in a segment of WNYC’s On the Media about bias in the library and the Dewey Decimal Classification System: “Books on Obama were in the 300s. They were separated from books on other presidents. And that was very disturbing to me. That was the beginning of changing Dewey, of rebelling against Dewey.”

The School of Architecture’s Interviews with Esteemed Faculty series featured a conversation with Meta Brunzema, adjunct associate professor in Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD), covering sustainability in the curriculum, community-based architecture, and working collaboratively: “I believe now that architecture has to be a collective, instead of an individual act.”

The 2021 Film/Video Senior Showcase is on view through October in Pratt Manhattan Gallery. Members of the Pratt community can stop by to view 39 film/video projects from the 2021 Film/Video graduates.

Maryam Turkey, BID ’17, was featured in Architectural Digest’s One to Watch series. Turkey creates mirrors, lamps, and tables inspired by the earth structures of homes she grew up seeing in Baghdad as well as the towering architecture of Lower Manhattan: “I’ve really developed a relationship with these buildings.”

In his new book Coney Island Waterdance, Peter Kayafas, adjunct associate professor of photography, explores the New York summer days spent on the Brooklyn beach. The photographs were featured on LENSCRATCH with Kayafas stating: “These images are, for me, like passages from some primal, beautiful ballet—the energy, gesture, and emotion of the narrative rising and falling with the subjects on the waves.”

Students in the Conscious Home studio led by Meredith Erickson, visiting assistant professor of industrial design, explored thoughtful home decor, from a working tray for creative individuals to customizable music amplifiers. See more @PrattIndustrial.

Emiko McCoy, MPS Design Management ’10, is part of the Serena Williams Design Crew, a platform established by the tennis star to involve young designers from communities of color to design pieces for her Nike collection. As McCoy told FastCompany: “To see the greatest athlete of all time—someone who looks like me and has brought so many young girls into sport—inspired me to finally pursue my own crazy dream of becoming a Nike designer.”

The photography BFA and MFA students are on campus learning how to use large format cameras. See more @prattphotography.