Joanna Reynolds, associate director of Made in NYC, an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development, was interviewed for the New York Times story “How These N.Y.C. Companies Are Skirting the Supply Chain Crisis.” Reynolds discussed how new businesses have been focusing on local manufacturing with Made in NYC adding 171 new members during the pandemic.
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Kumru Toktamis, associate professor of social science and cultural studies, was interviewed by the Peace in Kurdistan Campaign with the conversation highlighting her work with Human Rights Watch in Turkey.
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Toni Shi, BFA Art and Design Education ’21, created a tunnel book for the Curating Learning capstone in which students research a topic of their choice. Read more @prattarted.
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Vogue highlighted the work of the late artist Richard Bernstein, BFA Communications Design ’61, whose celebrity portraits evoked the glamor of Old Hollywood.
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The virtual INTtalks biweekly dialogue and presentation series that started in fall 2020 in response to the pandemic is available to view online. Led by students, faculty, and others in the Pratt Interior Design community, its recent topics have included Spatial Exploration of Indigenous Architecture and Urban Settlements in Taiwan, Self-Discovery and Expression through Academia and Design, and Teaching Sustainability.
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“Bio Maze” by architecture student Luiza Dos Santos offers a spiraling experience for human, vegetal, and water bodies through position, circulation, and sound. See more @prattsoa.
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Patricia Madeja, professor of fine arts and jewelry coordinator, and Maya Rose Weiss, BFA Fine Arts (Jewelry) ’18, are exhibiting in MAD About Jewelry 2021 at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan. The show featuring more than 40 emerging and acclaimed US-based jewelry artists will be on view December 6 to 11.
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Sound artist Sheryl Cheung, BFA Fine Arts ’05, was interviewed by the Creative Independent about the creative potential of active listening: “I like manipulating sound and mediating its energy as a way to ease the very strict structures we find ourselves in, structures that frame the way we are situated in this world.”
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In America: A Lexicon of Fashion now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features several members of the Pratt community in its exploration of fashion in the United States. They include Sophie Andes-Gascon, BFA Fashion Design ’15, and Visiting Instructor Claire McKinney, BFA Fashion Design ’15, of SC103; Jeremy Scott, BFA Fashion Design ’95; fashion alumnus Norman Norell; Susan Cianciolo, assistant professor of fashion; and Mike Eckhaus, visiting associate professor of fashion design, of Eckhaus Latta.
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The Pratt Institute Interior Design BFA and MFA digital exhibition that looks at how interiors can impact the world was highlighted in the “Ten most popular Dezeen School Shows of 2021.”