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Graduate Communications Design Visiting Instructor John Chaich, MFA Communications Design ‘11, curated Queer Threads, a textile-based exhibition exploring contemporary LGBTQ+ experiences on display through Aug. 20 at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. “As queer people we have this resilience and industriousness, and creativity and spirit, and a kind of vibrancy, to really fight forward,” Chaich told KQED.

Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow Mary Mattingly’s new exhibition Ebb of a Spring Tide, on display at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens through Sept. 10, features work exploring our relationship to water, including the 65-foot living sculpture Water Clock. “Water Clock is a tribute to the power of water, time, and the life force of this riparian edge,” Mattingly said.

Ashely Kuo, BFA Interior Design ’14, shared with Dwell magazine how an heirloom mah-jongg set inspires the work of the design studio she co-founded, A+A+A: “There’s never a hierarchy in the game, which relates to how we approach design projects.”

Aracelis Girmay, associate professor of writing, was part of the recent “Hear Us Now: Poets Respond to Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina” event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A video of the poetry readings is available online.

Anton Ginzburg, visiting assistant professor of graduate communications design, and John Monti, professor of fine arts, were selected for Pratt and KinoSaito’s new partnership artist in residence fellowship program. Ginzburg and Monti worked onsite at KinoSaito, a nonprofit interdisciplinary art center in Verplanck, New York, through June 14.

Mario Naves, adjunct assistant professor-CCE of fine arts, reviewed an exhibition by Clare Grill, MFA ’05, for the New York Sun. At the Soft Stages is on view through June 30 at Derek Eller Gallery in Manhattan.

Emmet Sutton, BArch ’23, was selected for the Institute for the Public Architecture’s 2023 Summer Fellow cohort. The fellows will live and work on Governors Island for 11 weeks, focusing on public design projects.

Alumni Rakisha Kearns-White, MSLIS ’04, and Robert Weinstein, MSLIS ’14, were named Library Journal 2023 Movers & Shakers, highlighting their work shaping the future of libraries. Both work at the Brooklyn Public Library.

An exhibition by Theodora Skipitares, visiting professor of art and design education, at 15 Orient in Bushwick was featured in the New York Times roundup of “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June.” Views from the Miniature City is on view through June 18.

Students in the Wearable Technology studio led by fashion design and industrial design faculty member Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman worked to solve problems related to astronauts, including space travel, communication, and extra-terrestrial exercise. They presented their work to NASA at the end of the semester. See their projects @prattindustrial.