Assistant Professor of Fashion Susan Cianciolo was featured in Vogue and Frieze. “This has been the most enjoyable time for me,” she told Vogue. “I don’t want to ever stop or sleep or eat, because there’s nothing I love more in the world than making clothing. It’s just truly my craft.”
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Hilary Cheung, BFA Communications Design (Graphic Design) ’24, contributed designs for Megan Thee Stallion’s tour poster and magazine.
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Assistant Professor of History of Art and Design Jennifer Babcock received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching, which “recognizes and honors the expertise, dedication, and commitment of outstanding adjunct faculty members.”
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Yield, a sculpture by alumnus Roxy Paine, was included in Art & Object’s list of “10 Must-Sees At Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art,” among works by Louise Bourgeois, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Keith Haring. Reaching “curling silver branches towards the sky,” Paine’s sculpture “appears to have grown in some alternate reality where trees are made of metal.”
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David Burney, academic director of urban placemaking management and visiting associate professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, published two pieces in Common Edge, explaining NYC’s planning and approval process and how to fix NYC public housing.
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Visiting Assistant Professor and Temporary Department Coordinator of Fine Arts Yasmeen Abdallah, MFA Fine Arts ’15, was featured in Hyperallergic’s “A View From the Easel” series.
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Loren Daye, MID ’06, provided expert lighting advice in Architectural Digest, such as installing dimmers on everything: “After 6 p.m., I turn the light level down in our house to allow for a more regulated circadian effect,” she tells AD.
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Fine Arts alumnus Peter Kuper is honored with a 2024 Cartoon Award from The RFK Human Rights Organization.
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Mary Carothers, BFA Photography ’91, was featured in LEO Weekly about her artwork and artificial intelligence. “AI simultaneously fascinates and terrifies me,” she said.
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Mark Grattan, BID ’06, is named among the The Wallpaper* USA 400, which recognizes the people defining America’s creative landscape. He was featured on Wallpaper* in a recent profile of the artist, as well as in an article about Milan Design Week 2024. He was also dubbed “The Builder” by Robb Report in a round-up of nine creative innovators.
More Pratt Institute News
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