Karina Sharif, BFA Fashion Design ’08, was featured in Curbed. “Her peacock-like chair is captivating; it fans out dyed cotton paper along its solid steel frame; those delicate shell shapes in deep blues allude to the water that the artist (a former fashion designer) wanted to reference.”
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A new report by the Pratt Center for Community Development was cited in an article about public housing repairs in The City. “Real estate investors flipped nearly 12,000 New York City homes between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from the Pratt Center for Community Development. Flipping is a practice in which investors buy properties, sometimes fix them up, then sell them for a profit. Pratt’s analysis considers a flip to happen in two years, from purchase to sale.”
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Speedy Romeo, a short film by Owen Matson, BFA Film ’25, was selected for the Crystal Camera competition and the Chicago Horror Fest.
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Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Information Claudia Berger, MSLIS ’21, has been selected as the virtual artist-in-residence at the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Libraries. Berger is also co-leading the working group session on “DH in Libraries” and is part of the panel “Crafting Digital Humanities: Data Physicalizations with Textiles,” at the 2024 virtual conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Gabby Evergreen, MSLIS ’24, is also on the aforementioned panel.
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An excerpt from An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth, a new novel by Adjunct Associate Professor – CCE of Writing Anna Moschovakis, was featured in Literary Hub. The book was also reviewed in the LA Times.
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Associate Professor of Film/Video Eliza Hittman is listed among the 10 movies that define contemporary America by Far Out Magazine. Her film Beach Rats was featured on Collider’s list of “10 Queer Movies That Are Perfect From Start to Finish.” She is also set to direct a new series on Peacock.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Madame Architect Founder Julia Gamolina was featured in the 2024 Wallpaper* USA 400.
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Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Information Madhava Tankha co-presented at this year’s MCN conference. The presentation was titled MoMA’s Visitor Guide: Building a Digital Product to Assist in Discovery, Wayfinding, and Interpretation.
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Chicken Killer by Christina Sancho-Spore, BFA Film ’24, is an official selection of the Raw Science Film Festival, among others.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Architecture Meg Kalinowski was named a 2024 Forefront Fellow by the Urban Design Forum. Over the next year, the Forefront Fellow for Urban Design Forum’s Lifelong cohort will explore how to build a more age-friendly city and imagine a New York City where older adults can thrive with support and dignity.
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Archival Fashion by Legendary Designer Mary McFadden Arrives at Pratt
From Pratt Institute News
A portion of the iconic fashion designer’s world-renowned archive has officially relocated to Pratt’s Brooklyn campus. A generous gift from the McFadden family will support ongoing scholarship, preservation, and the promotion of the collection.