For the Brooklyn Rail, Assistant Dean in the School of Art Marcus Civin reviewed a new monograph on artist and musician Lonnie Holley. “The highlight is his assemblages of cast-off objects installed in his backyard or other outdoor spaces—often stacks of rusty or busted-up furniture, tools, and wood,” writes Civin. “Collectively, these sculptures represent a kind of archaeology, history unearthed from the junkyard, combinations that appear as improvisational as the artist’s singing.”
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Professor of Writing James Hannaham’s Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta was included on Michelle Tea’s top ten list of favorite gay books for Literary Hub. “Is this perhaps the best book in the world?,” writes Tea. “This is a funny book about a serious subject—my fave—and it features one of the very best characters I’ve ever loved, Carlotta, and I happen to give a very serious shit what happened to her, from the electric first page til the last.”
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Nasreen Alkhateeb, BFA Fine Arts ’07, was awarded second place in the Getty Image award for creators advancing disability awareness. Alkhateeb also served as the cinematographer for She Runs the World, a feature-length documentary that premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival and was selected as Audience Choice 1st Runner Up.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of GA/LA/UD Po-Yao Shih’s installation proposal, “Floating Field,” was shortlisted for the Shaping Water Competition, alongside fifteen other designs. Learn more from the School of Architecture News.
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Chair of Fine Arts Jane South spoke with The New York Times about the state of New York City. She noted that applications to Pratt’s Fine Arts program are up, indicating that artists still see the city as a place of hope. “[Artists] generate opportunities for themselves, for others. There’s a tremendous amount of that going on.”
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Associate Professor in the School of Information Nancy Smith is presenting at the Data | Art Symposium at Harvard. Her presentation, “Environmental Data & Fiber Arts: Experiments in Stitching, Quilting, and Sculpture,” explores her recent work in data physicalization and slow technology.
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Ananda Ray, BFA Digital Arts ’24, presented on the Apollo Theater’s Career Panel, “Beyond the Algorithm: New Voices in AI & AR.”
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Agnes Questionmark, MFA Fine Arts ’25, was featured in Art in America. A work by Questionmark titled Draco Piscis is also being presented at the Banca Ifis International Sculpture Park at Villa Fürstenberg.
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Assistant Professor in the School of Information Kathy Carbone presented “Amplifying Refugee Voices: Art, Memory, and Collective Interventionist Archiving” at the Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, she published an essay in the inaugural issue of perhaps magazine, “Art Against Erasure: The Amplification Project’s Digital Archive of Forced Migration.”
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Siwoo Kim, BFA Film ’25, was accepted into the 2025 Sundance Institute Ignite X Adobe Fellowship. The fellowship, which is awarded to ten emerging filmmakers, “identifies and supports new voices and talent from the next generation of filmmakers and fosters fresh audiences for independent storytelling.”
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Building More Than Just Structures
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Elijah Rayford, BPS Construction Management ’25, turned his passion for problem-solving into a full-time role in New York’s construction industry.