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  • Laura Kim, BFA Fashion Design ’04, was featured in Bustle. “While enrolled at Pratt Institute, she racked up internships at Donna Karan, Jeremy Scott, and Carolina Herrera before landing a life-changing gig at Oscar de la Renta in 2003.“

  • Taeler Braithwaite, MFA Communications Design ’24, was interviewed in Bold Journey. “In May, I graduated from Pratt Institute with an MFA in Communication Design, a milestone that furthered my professional and creative growth,” she said. “While at Pratt, I collaborated with the Van Alen Institute on service design projects for the Gowanus neighborhood and worked with Stephen T. Mather High School to create a grower’s space for students.

  • Professor of Writing Samantha Hunt reviewed Mariana Enriquez’s A Sunny Place for Shady People for the New York Times. The review was listed among Book Mark’s 5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week. Hunt was also mentioned in a Collider article about short film The Yellow, which was “adapted from author Samantha Hunt’s short story of the same name, that intimately dissects suburban dread and existential absurdity.“

  • Visiting Professor of Fine Arts Karen Bachmann was quoted in the New York Times about the history of the horn motif in jewelry. “The horn shape is representative of a vessel,” she said, “and one of the earliest representations of the horn shape can be seen in a Paleolithic limestone in the Dordogne called the Venus of Laussel.”

  • Pratt was recognized for co-founding Archipelago Agenda, which “brings together stakeholders to develop scalable, nature-based solutions for water scarcity and safety in urban archipelagos.” The article highlights the Anant Fellows who presented proposals  at Singapore International Water Week 2024. “India’s Daman/Diu Islands were added to the agenda through Anant National University, the only Indian University partner in the initiative.”

  • Two faculty members from the School of Architecture received 2024 Independent Projects Grants from The Architectural League and The New York State Council on the Arts. Laura Salazar-Altobelli, assistant professor of undergraduate architecture, received a grant for the upcoming exhibition In-Process: Alternative Methods in Reading Evolving Buildings; and Dragana Zorić, adjunct associate professor – CCE of undergraduate architecture, received a grant for the upcoming exhibition Jugoplastika: Women, Plastics and a Factory that Defined a Nation.

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