President Frances Bronet wrote an op-ed for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on how the Pratt community has responded to Hurricane Sandy by preparing for the future: “The next generation of students—supported by each other, their teachers, and mentors—has an incredible opportunity to problem solve with their neighborhoods, form unexpected partnerships across fields, and imagine new and restorative futures.”
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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Kadir Nelson, BFA Communications Design ’96, discusses his forthcoming illustrated book Basketball and his love of the game in an interview with Rolling Out. “I begin with an idea, I create a sketch. Sometimes I do studies if it’s a very complex painting, and then I’ll transfer my sketches to a canvas, and I create the canvas, so it’s very traditional. I really enjoy the medium of oil painting because it’s something that the old masters used and it stands the test of time. Working with it is a bit more familiar to me than working with other mediums.”
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Art and Design Education faculty members Borinquen Gallo, adjunct professor – CCE, and Katherine Huala, associate professor, will be workshop presenters at the NYSATA Region 8 Inaugural Winter Symposium at the MoMA Cullman Education Center this January. This is a full day of professional development for art educators centered on the Ruth Asawa exhibition.
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TheyDream, the most recent feature film by William D. Caballero, BFA Computer Graphics ’06, was selected to premiere at Sundance 2026 in the NEXT category. The film, a mix of live action and animation, was also highlighted as a standout in Filmmaker Magazine and Deadline.
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The Associate Degree Department hosted the Fall 2025 XYZ Playtest, an ongoing game dev showcase and playtesting event. Students and alumni from the AOS Game Design program, BFA Game Arts program, and other neighboring university game programs got together to showcase games they’ve been developing throughout the fall semester. From a library book sorting video game to a tabletop game about lucid dreaming, there was a lot of creativity and talent on display.
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SC103, the clothing brand founded by Sophie Andes-Gascon and Claire McKinney, both BFA Fashion Design ’15, opened a “Jewel Box of a Store” in New York City, reports Vogue.
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Tomokazu Matsuyama, MFA Communications Design ’04, was featured in Whitehot Magazine on the occasion of his new exhibition Liberation Back Home at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. “Liberation Back Home isn’t just an exhibition; it’s a proposal for how identity might operate in a world where purity myths are collapsing and hybrid life is the norm,” writes Emann Odufu. “Matsuyama offers a model of cultural perception that feels increasingly urgent in an America struggling over belonging.”
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Film/Video Chris Radcliff’s film We Were the Scenery has been shortlisted at the 98th Academy Awards® for Best Documentary Short Film. “When we started this project, we had no way of knowing where it would take us. We only hoped that in the year 2025, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, we’d be able to find a way to share Cathy’s family’s remarkable, yet until now, untold story with an audience. We never could have imagined how far it would go, or how deeply their story would resonate with people around the world.”
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Emilio Sosa, BFA Fashion Design ’89, talks about his process for designing costumes for the Rockettes’ 100th anniversary in a video for InStyle.
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Adjunct Associate Professors – CCE of Writing Anna Moschovakis and Adrian Shirk received 2026 New York State Council on the Arts grant awards to continue working on their forthcoming books, The Seventh Book, or, Prudence and Elektra by Moschovakis and Squandered by Shirk.
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This fall in New York City, students went to the newly renovated Frick, explored innovative materials at a circular design brand, and heard from famed director Spike Lee.
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