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.
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Nancy Grossman, BFA Graphic Arts and Illustration ’62, was awarded the National Arts Club’s Medal of Honor. “I’m so grateful and fortunate to have this time to still keep learning, to still keep showing, to be collected, to still be relevant and influential after all these years,” she said.
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Greer Lankton, BFA Sculpture ’81, was featured in an article for the Art Institute of Chicago. “Whether paying homage to real-life individuals or fictitious characters, Lankton aspired to animate each of her creations with a unique vitality.”
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The School of Design’s 4th annual Social Justice and Sustainability Award winners were announced, recognizing students for leadership, scholarship, activism, and sustainability.
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For Cultured, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore picked his five favorite images by accomplished New York photographer James Hamilton, who studied painting at Pratt. Hamilton is also the subject of the documentary Uncropped, which was reviewed in the New York Times. “We depend on history to recount what is vanished, what is missed, dreamed of, mythologized,” Moore tells Cultured. “In James Hamilton’s photographic archives I encounter a universe of sweetness, of salaciousness and a spell-binding grace.”
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Cocreated with alumni, faculty, and students across the Institute, a recent exhibition presented by Pratt’s School of Art embodied mentorship, collaboration, and support for the LGBTQIA+ community.