Sofi Thanhauser, adjunct associate professor – CCE, was awarded a 2025 Whiting Award for Nonfiction. The Whiting Committee wrote that Thanhauser displays a “uniquely elegant intelligence…[Her] curiosity is a gift to the reader; her sentences are as layered as her investigations, which look with a devoted intensity at the objects around us that might otherwise escape our attention.”
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Tomokazu Matsuyama, MFA Communications Design ’04, will have a new light installation on display in Times Square beginning April 1. Morning Again features 96 massive LED screens that will “pulse with Matsuyama’s vibrant, cross-cultural aesthetic,” every night in April for three minutes, according to Hypebeast.
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Illya Azaroff, MArch ’97, president of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), joined Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED podcast to discuss “disaster mitigation, global action through architecture, and the role of the AIA within the design community.” “As a profession, we should be looking at ourselves in the mirror and recognizing the agency and leadership that we already have and embody that in our work—whether you’re a sole practitioner or a large firm—because [climate-vulnerable] communities need us.”
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Artist Alanna Fields, MFA Photography ’19, is speaking with Kiesha Scarville at an event hosted by Aperture and Printed Matter today, March 4. The artists will “center on the artists’ shared interest in notions of memory that survives across generations.” Fields will also discuss her recent publication Unveiling (Meteoro Editions, 2025).
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The Pratt Center for Community Development shared an update on three of the 2025–2026 Taconic Fellows.
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Alyssa Fanning, BFA Fine Arts ’07, has been awarded a 2026 Individual Artist Fellowship in Painting from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts.
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Adjunct Professor – CCE of Fine Arts Jean Shin discussed her approach to art in a video for her Artist-in-Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) 2025–2026 AIRIE Fellowship.
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Inside My Worn Out Drawer, is an Ocean by Siwoo Kim, BFA Film ’25, will premiere at the 2026 National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) in the “Pedal to the Mettle” block on Friday, March 27. The animated short follows Jooni, who, after running out on a suicide pact, wanders around Seoul and meets a classmate from elementary school.
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Sydney Lipner, Emily Morillo, Mikey Rodriguez, and Vicky Zhang, all BFA/MA Art and Design Education ’26, have been awarded a Graduate Student Engagement Fund (GSEF) grant for their proposal, “Accessible Culturally-Responsive Art Education in Puerto Rico.”
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