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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

  • Jean Shin, adjunct professor – CCE of fine arts, was included in the “Dogue” issue of Vogue. Dogs are “a reminder of how we all as a species need fresh water or air or a break,” she told Vogue. “We, as artists, often think of just the work, and in the flow, hours pass and we realize we haven’t moved our bodies or taken a break. Seeing him take pleasure in watching birds or chasing things or smelling—to be aware of our surroundings, to play, those are all things we all need but sacrifice for our work.”

  • Anselm Berrigan, adjunct assistant professor – CCE of writing, has been named a current lecturer for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry, “in which contemporary poets explore their thinking on poetry and poetics, and give a series of lectures resulting from these investigations.” Berrigan will give a lecture at the Fireside Room at Hotel Sorrento in Seattle, Washington, on October 10.

  • Sara Cedar Miller, MFA Photography ‘83, is retiring after 40 years as the Central Park historian and photographer. “It has never been an ordinary job—because, of course, the Park is extraordinary,” she told the West Side Rag.

  • Designer Ludovico Bruno, who studied fine arts at Pratt, was profiled in Vogue about his menswear brand Mordecai. 

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Fashion Claire McKinney, BFA Fashion Design ’15, and Sophie Andes-Gascon, BFA Fashion Design ’15, were featured in Interview Magazine about their collaborations and exhibitions. “There’s a lot of the times when we are presenting things to each other, and it’s just an exercise in partnership. It’s like you’re trying to give someone else the confidence to build upon something that you know is going to be great,” said Andes-Gascon. “We’re each other’s biggest hype people.”

  • A solo exhibition by Jiwon Rhie, MFA Fine Arts ’19, at La MaMa Galleria in New York, “offer[s] a unique, thought-provoking probe into the lines between objectification and agency as an immigrant,” wrote Rhea Nayyar in her review for Hyperallergic