The Daily Hub

“Mixed Reality Inhabitation” by Elodia Wei, BFA Interior Design ’22, inspires an exploration of historical architecture and artifacts through digital technologies. See more @prattinteriors.

“Learning by Landscape” by undergraduate architecture student Gabrielle Del Rosario uses various window shapes to bring landscapes into a classroom so they become part of students’ educational experiences. Read more @prattsoa.

John Powers, BFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’98, was featured in a segment on the PBS NewsHour. Powers discussed how his art transformed after losing or injuring multiple fingers in an accident: “I had a sense of my hands as characters in my life. What I didn’t have the sense of was how much they shape the way I think.”

The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership is celebrating ten years of installing custom tree guard benches that now feature work by over 45 local artists. The program was started through a collaboration with Pratt’s Design Incubator. Read more @myrtleavebklyn.

Jeremy Scott, BFA Fashion Design ’95, was interviewed by Vogue about his new book for Moschino. He mentioned why he ends it with a tuxedo tandem jacket: “It’s very significant to me personally because the original concept of these two tails that are connecting and looping and not separating was a design I did for my student show graduating from Pratt.”

Queer Pratt’s Drag Race returned to Memorial Hall this spring! See photos from the annual event @prattinstitute.

Literary Hub explored the career of Pratt alumna and comic book creator June Tarpé Mills who in 1941 created the first female superhero: Miss Fury.

This summer’s Pratt in Venice program is underway! Follow @prattinvenice for updates, such as the Art History of Venice class’s visit to the Torcello island to consider what makes the Italian city a special place for the study of art.

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, MFA Communications Design ’15, is featured in a Harper’s Bazaar story that explores her practice, including several participatory installations at Lincoln Center this summer called GATHER: A series of monuments and rituals: “We need to remind ourselves to hold onto the hope and the joy; we live the grief and the pain every day.”

Hannah Fink, MID ’20, was interviewed on the Inventors Helping Inventors podcast about her work to improve the home Pilates reformer.