Professor of History of Art and Design Eva Díaz’s new book After Spaceship Earth, which recently launched with a panel talk at Cabinet magazine, was reviewed in The Arts Fuse. “The author focuses on a wide range of politically engaged artists from around the world who are addressing the space race begun in the Cold War era and the burgeoning ‘NewSpace’ industrial revolution in which entrepreneurs compete to provide private spaceflight services.”
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Associate Professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Founding Director of the Center for Climate Adaptation David Erdman participated in a High-Level Celebration of the World Day for Glaciers & World Water Day 2025 at UN Headquarters in NYC. He also recently gave a Public Keynote lecture at Chulalongkorn University, as well as a presentation to the Hong Kong Institute of Architects Belt and Road International Symposium at Asia Society on Co:existence: Urban-rural Integration and Eco-urbanism.
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Aarushi Agni, MFA Writing ’19, was featured in Time Out New York for her upcoming solo show EMOJI: The Hieroglyphs of Our Time, or how I learned to stop worrying and send the risky text 🤷🏾♀️. The show, which is part of the New York City Fringe 2025 festival this April, is a “sharp and funny mix of music, comedy and multimedia explores risky texts, emoji semiotics, and how we navigate love, longing and global crises through connections both digital and deeply human.” A poster of the show along with all the other acts will be displayed on a billboard in Times Square for the length of the festival.
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Static Fish Comic Club tabled at MoCCA Arts Fest 2025, organized by the Society of Illustrators.
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The 2025 Alumni Achievement Awards luncheon celebrated the Pratt alumni community, the class of 1975, and distinguished honorees Emilio Sosa, BFA Fashion Design ’89, Little Wing Lee, MS Interior Design ’09, Neda Kakhsaz, BArch ’17, and Zabie Mustafa, BArch ’13.
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Academic Director, Landscape Architecture Program and Associate Professor of GA/LA/UD Rosetta S. Elkin presented her J.B. Jackson Book Prize Lecture on Landscapes of Retreat at UVA’s School of Architecture. Learn more at the School of Architecture News page.
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Dorothy Howard, MSLIS ’26, was awarded a travel grant from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections conference in May in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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2017 Nobel Prize-winning organization ICAN invited Dr. Mary McBride, creative enterprise leadership chair and professor at Pratt, to deliver a talk at the United Nations on “The Arts, Youth Advocacy, and Fashion for Nuclear Disarmament” with Runa Ray, founder of Fashioning Social Environmental Justice. The event explored “how creativity serves as a catalyst for activism, inspiring global audiences and policymakers to engage in peacebuilding efforts.”
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Work by Pratt Institute Editions (PIE), Trudy Benson, MFA ’10, and MFA/BFA Printmakers will be shown at the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair 2025 at Powerhouse Arts. PIE is the publisher of Pratt Fine Arts Department’s edition multiples. PIE invites artists to campus to produce an edition together with Printmaking Technician and Visiting Instructor of Fine Arts Caitlin Riordan, PIE co-director and Adjunct Associate Professor – CCE of Fine Arts Grayson Cox, and printmaking students at Pratt.
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The Master of Science in Library and Information Science program was re-accredited by the American Library Association. The multi-year process was made possible by the ALA Accreditation Task Force, including Professors in the School of Information Irene Lopatovska, Leanne Bowler, and Cristina Pattuelli; Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Information Shawnta Smith-Cruz; Assistant Dean of the School of Information Quinn Lai, Assistant Director of Academic Programs and Service in the School of Information Meredith Brull, and St John Karp, MSLIS ’24, as well as all faculty, students, and staff that met with the ALA external review panel.
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