Opening Reception: “In This Moment: Pratt Students + W.E.B. Du Bois”
February 12, 2026 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
The Rubelle & Norman Schafler Gallery, Chemistry Building, 1st Floor 200 Willoughby Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
Join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 12, from 5-7pm!
IN THIS MOMENT: PRATT STUDENTS + W.E.B. DU BOIS
February 12–March 14, 2026
Opening reception: Thursday, February 12, 5–7 pm
Amira Chowyuk
Skye Little Cloud
Nia Crutcher
Amira Dughri
Xinran Fan & Chaoran Wang
Louis Fontenot
Chuyoun Hughes
Lewis James
Sarah Jang
Zhengzhu Jin
Grant Kelly
Jiyoon Koo
Mary Lam
Keongbok Lee
Asriel Lehman
Brigette McKnight-Sur
Gabriela Mestriner
Dinne Miro van Abshoven
Matsuura Mizu
Sajjad Musa
Ariana Oh
Arturo Moya Osorio
Vicky De Leon Palacios
Vasishth Rajcoomar
Pravit Reddy
Karin Schoen
Samson Shofoluwe
Navya Shroff
Montaysia Yuneek Sims
Redmond Stehlik
Danny Sudberry
Alex Wang
Weiman Wang
Kyra Wolfenbarger
Haidong Yang
“In This Moment: Pratt Students + W.E.B. Du Bois” is the next step in a lineage of exhibitions featuring artists reckoning with the legacy of one of the most profound and influential African American intellectuals of the 20th century, W.E.B. Du Bois. The exhibition pushes the conversation forward to engage the newest generation of emerging artists. The Exhibitions Department published an open call for the Pratt student body to create new artworks that connect back to Du Bois’s ideas and themes in any way they saw fit, echoing the artworks recently on display in “In Our Time: Eleven Artists + W.E.B. Du Bois” at Pratt Manhattan Gallery. What we got back from the students is wide ranging in medium, from painting to sculpture to film; and major, as students from all across campus submitted work. Each artist chose to interpret that initial prompt in a way that felt fresh and exciting. Despite the wide variety in mediums, majors, and responses, the artists are all connected by one core thing – that W.E.B. Du Bois and his ideas inspired, impacted, and moved them to create artworks that engage the legacy he left behind.
In 2013, the artist Carrie Mae Weems named a new variety of peony “The William E.B. Du Bois Peony of Hope” as part of her contribution to the exhibition at Pratt Manhattan Gallery. The idea of planting hope is an apt metaphor for this exhibition. While we are at a difficult intersection of history and future, these artists, current Pratt students, are engaging with both the dark moments of our past and present, but are able to imagine a different and better future despite it all. And the resulting artworks seen here are blooming with hope.
The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery
200 Willoughby, Chemistry 101
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Gallery Hours:
Monday–Saturday, 10 AM–5 PM
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This event is open to public.