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Samantha Black, BFA Fashion Design ’05, collaborated on a collection for Target timed with Black History Month. The Sammy B X Target collection was covered by Black Enterprise.

Ann Gillen, BFA ’59, was featured in the New York Times for her long career creating public sculpture, including 30 commissions around New York: “You want light that shifts, you want to see how it works with people.”

Samantha Kalinowski, BFA Writing ’22, Sav Hampton, BFA Writing ’18, and Alysia Slocum-Laferriere, MFA Writing ’20, recently published micro-essays about music on Wendy’s Subway’s Endless Playlist.

The fall 2022 Nostalgia issue of The Prattler, the student-run literary arts magazine, is now online. It includes an article on the Franklin Furnace Archive at Pratt, a reflection on the death of the MetroCard, and a digital collage of suburban nostalgia.

School of Information student work from the fall 2022 Programming for Cultural Heritage class is available to explore online, including SLAPDASHBOT: Curating Art with a Random Word Generator, Library Social Media Use by State, and Forsaken Bones: The Neglect of African American Burial Grounds.

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, MFA Communications Design ’15, created illustrations and animations for Bravespace, a compilation released this month by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. It includes original songs, sounds, and meditations created by Asian American women and non-binary artists and musicians.

​​Students in Projects in Information Experience Design led by Hasan Hachem, visiting assistant professor in the School of Information, paired with nonprofits to research and redesign their sites. See their collaborative work with Made in Chinatown, Transportation Alternatives, and the Fibromyalgia Care Society of America.

Lilian Thomas Burwell, who studied art education at Pratt from 1944 to 1946, was featured in a New York Times article on the oldest one percent of the workforce. At 95, she recently had an exhibition and discussed her long career as an art teacher: “I said to myself, ‘I’m really somebody.’ Not because of who I am. But because of who I made.”

Nick Higgins, MSLIS ’08, Karen Keys, MSLIS ’07, and Leigh Hurwitz, MSLIS ’13, are Library Journal Librarians of the Year for their work at the Brooklyn Public Library to fight book banning efforts across the country. Higgins, the chief librarian, said: “We wanted to resituate that conversation about freedom to read and intellectual freedom where it belongs, in public libraries and in schools.”

Madelen Nyau, BFA Fashion Design ’21, was named a 2023 Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Fellow in the Launch Pad Program, which provides support and mentorship to early-phase brand BIPOC female founders.