Recognizing his outstanding rookie campaign, Pratt Institute first-year guard Thomas Graetz, BID ’28, was named the 2024-25 Atlantic East Conference Men’s Basketball Rookie of the Year, one of the league’s most prized awards.
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Visiting Associate Professor of Fine Art Shervone Neckles created an installation for the MTA. “The Land Between Open Water” is located at the Westchester Sq-East Tremont Av station. Composed of painted steel panels, the artwork “honors the indigenous Siwanoy population, a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape, who lived for centuries in the area now known as The Bronx.”
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Alexandra Amon, BFA Communications Design ’06, stars in Eternal, a new film on Amazon Prime.
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Associate Professor of Film/Video Matías Piñeiro’s acclaimed film You Burn Me (Tú me abrasas) opened in North America and was reviewed in Slant Magazine. “You Burn Me shows how desire, as palpable and unchanging as thirst, makes itself felt through the metaphors of ancient gods and modern plumbing alike.”
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Pratt Student Affairs was awarded a 2025 NASPA Excellence Award. The New Student Orientation program received Silver in the “Enrollment Management, Financial Aid, First-year, Other-year, Orientation, and related” category.
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Kate Gavino, BFA Writing ’11, discusses her decision to move to Paris, her career trajectory as an author, and her love of New York in an interview with The New Paris Dispatch. “In 2022, my third book came out shortly after my second kid was born. At the time, I felt like I had been a shut-in for so long, having spent most of lockdown and the pandemic twice pregnant and too scared to leave the hermetically sealed bubble of our apartment. I had forgotten how to be out in the world.”
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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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An award-winning scholar and professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment’s Urban and Community Planning program, Knapp will assume the role on July 1, 2025, succeeding Eve Baron, who is stepping down to join the full-time faculty.
Alumni Harvey Fierstein and Paul Tazewell Shine at the Tony Awards
From Pratt Institute News
Esteemed writer and actor Harvey Fierstein was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the theater; Oscar-winning designer Paul Tazewell won for Best Costume Design in a Musical.