Assistant Professor of Film and Video Matías Piñeiro’s film, Viola, is recommended by Condé Nast Traveller as the film to watch if you’re going to Argentina. “Beyond the Shakespeare-inspired entanglements that push the plot, the film takes viewers through the breadth of Buenos Aires, tracing the city’s bohemian bones—from its boulevards to its bedrooms.”
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Pratt Institute’s Communications and Marketing Creative Services team was awarded the Graphis Silver Award in the 2025 Poster Awards Competition for the Pratt School of Architecture’s “Cohabitations” event series poster. The poster was also voted second place in a competition held by Archinect.
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Michael Brennan, adjunct professor (CCE) of fine arts, reported from the Venice art scene for Two Coats of Paint.
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Pratt faculty and alumni are featured in City & State New York’s inaugural 2024 Trailblazers in Building and Real Estate. The list, which highlights leaders reshaping New York’s landscape, includes Jerrod Delaine, visiting assistant professor of construction management, facilities management, and real estate; Rebecca Gillman Crimmins, MS City and Regional Planning ’15; and Elizabeth Crowley, MS City and Regional Planning ’08.
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Professor of Fine Arts Steve Locke’s new exhibition at MASS MoCA, The Fire Next Time, was reviewed in WBUR, The Boston Globe, and Observer. Locke was also featured in Upstate Diary.
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A gallery show considering the “role of the artist-as-educator, and vice versa,” co-curated by Timothy Simonds, adjunct associate professor of humanities and media studies, was featured in Document Journal.
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The Brooklyn Museum is kicking off its 200th anniversary with a major group show spotlighting Brooklyn artists. The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition features a number of Pratt alumni, faculty, and staff, including Jazmine Catasús, Lisa Corinne Davis, Alanna Fields, Nancy Grossman, Fay Ku, Yaw Owusu, Jamaal Peterman, Leslie Roberts, Hiba Schahbaz, Jane South (Fine Arts Chair), Monica Srivastava, and Michelle Wen. Artists were selected by a committee led by esteemed artists Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Pratt Fine Arts graduate Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli.
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The Regional Plan Association (RPA) published the thesis of former RPA New York Advocacy Intern Nadav Bigelman, MS City and Regional Planning ‘24. The research considers the strengths and weaknesses of Local Law 1065, which aims to increase New York City’s canopy coverage.
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Mackie Mallison, BFA Film ‘23, was announced as one of ten members of the 2024 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship. His short films were also recently added to the Criterion Channel’s collection. He was also announced as a finalist for 2024 FLA Artists Academy and FLC Critics Academy.
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Dean Levin, BArch ‘12, was profiled in Wallpaper*, and named among the The Wallpaper* USA 400, which recognizes the people defining America’s creative landscape.
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