Adjunct Associate Professor – CCE of Writing Sofi Thanhauser was included on a list of The Verge’s favorite books from 2024 for her 2022 book Worn: A People’s History of Clothing. “This book isn’t just for fashion people (though they should be the first to read it); it’s for anyone curious about the labor that goes into the luxuries they take for granted,” writes Mia Sato, a features reporter at The Verge. “You will never look at a T-shirt the same way again.”
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April Maxey, BFA Film ’12, was interviewed in Shoutout LA. “My work is very personal, and it always feels risky to write about myself, my fears, my mistakes, my deepest wounds and desires—it’s an incredibly vulnerable process,” said Maxey. “But I think as artists that is the task, to risk exposing our depths and being rejected, but doing it anyway.”
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Pratt Institute was awarded two Honorable Mentions in Ragan’s 2024 PR Daily Awards, which highlight exceptional campaigns from top brands and agencies across the communications and marketing space. The Pratt Transit Art Tour was recognized for “PR on a Shoestring Budget,” and The New Village: 10 Years of New York Fashion PR campaign was recognized in the category of “Event PR or Marketing Campaign.” The initiatives were led by Pratt Communications and Marketing’s PR and Editorial Communications team.
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William T. Williams, BFA ’66, received the 2024 Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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The Gothamist paid homage to the Pratt Steam Whistle, “a legendary New York New Year’s tradition last marked a decade ago,” on its list of NYC New Years’ Eve parties. “It is gone but not forgotten, just as 2024 soon will be.”
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Emma Stern, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’14, was featured in Interview Magazine on the occasion of her solo show The Rabbit Hole. “I’ve been thinking a lot about magic as I’ve been making the show,” she said. “AI was the kernel that got me thinking about magic, but I also think artists are magicians. You think of something and then it exists. And that kind of makes me feel like a god.”
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The Cannoneers received a shoutout in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. At the last men’s basketball game of 2024, senior Ace Bibbs played his “final game in a Pratt uniform” and was honored in pregame ceremonies, before making a “team-high nine rebounds and three steals.”
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Alaina Claire Feldman, BFA Art History and Critical Visual Studies, was appointed as the inaugural chief curator at U.C. Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA).
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Professor Emeritus and alumnus John Pai was featured in The Korea Times and Colossal about his solo exhibition Shared Destinies at Gallery Hyundai.
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Charlotte Böhning, MID ’23, creator of OriVa (formally called the Gutsy Port) was interviewed for Design World about her process, applying for a patent, and designing in the medical field. “The goal is to get the port into the hands of people and on people’s bodies at a commercial scale. Through the past year, I’ve learned that it’s a long runway with medical devices. When I feel a little discouraged at times, I think back to the process of designing the port—to the bodystorming and interviewing people—and it instantly reminds me that this is such a real problem and that a device like this could make a big difference in people’s daily lives.”
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