Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller, MS Communications Design ’85, was interviewed for PRINT Magazine.
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Allegra Burnette, visiting assistant professor in the School of Information, has been appointed the first Chief Strategy and Growth Officer at the Museum of the American Revolution.
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Pratt is included in the Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2025 Edition that features sustainability and other information from 511 schools.
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Kaimin Wang, BFA Interior Design ’24, participated in and won the UNI Moon Base competition 2024 with his entry Future City of Mars Colonization.
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Suzanne Vanderbilt, BID ‘55, was featured for her design work at GM. “Suzanne was inspired by an instructor at Pratt Institute to pursue automotive design,” writes Jonathan Lopez. “She became one of the so-called Damsels of Design, working alongside several other women to create a variety of iconic pieces of GM design work.”
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Jonell Joshua, assistant to the chair of art and design education, was a featured artist for the sixth annual Schomburg Literary Festival and gave a talk about her debut memoir at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She also spoke on a panel at San Diego Comic-Con, and the The Brooklyn Book Festival.
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Marilyn Nance, BFA Communications Design (Graphic Design) ’76, headlined “The Fabric of Courage,” a multidisciplinary arts exhibition that celebrated the historic Festival of Arts and Culture, or FESTAC ’77. “While serving as the photographer for the US contingent of the North American delegation, Nance documented more than 1,500 images, which has become one of the most comprehensive photographic accounts of FESTAC 77.”
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Ashvin E. Rajagopalan, BFA Fine Arts ’02, was interviewed for Art Plugged about art, curating, and his latest project, “Bhakti: The Art of Krishna.”
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Preservation manager at the Weeksville Heritage Center, Zulmilena Then, BArch ’09, was interviewed for Black Enterprise about Brooklyn’s Weeksville houses. “Growing up in Brooklyn, I didn’t know about Weeksville until I was an adult,” Then said. “These buildings are an anchor to our people and connection to … our past. [They] add to the pride that one feels about the neighborhood itself.”
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J.E. Molly Seegers, MA/MS History of Art and Design/Library and Information Science ’16, was selected as a member of the 2024 Archives Leadership Institute. Seegers also attended the Archives Leadership Institute at UVA in June.
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