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A Second Act in Creative Arts Therapy

Pratt’s flexible Creative Arts Therapy Low Residency program helps nontraditional students, creatives, and working professionals pivot careers and find meaningful paths to the future.

Pratt in Venice: Forty Years of Opening Doors

From Pratt Institute News

The unique program provides exceptional access to cultural and artistic experiences, and is made possible in part through scholarship support.
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Pratt Welcomes New Faculty and Administrators This Fall

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A look at Pratt’s new full-time faculty members and academic leaders for 2026–27
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Behind the Runway: Pratt Fashion Students at New York Fashion Week

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From hand sewing and fabric manipulation to production files and factory shipments, Pratt fashion students are contributing to collections before they reach the runway.
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Prattfolio Wins 2026 Circle of Excellence Awards

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The magazine of Pratt Institute received honors from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
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Pratt Institute’s Board of Trustees: Recently Elected Members and Trustee Emerita

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Evan Akselrad, Iona Fromboluti, Zara Harris, and Michael Schafler have joined the Board of Trustees. Longtime Trustee Katharine L. McKenna became trustee emerita.
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Designing Regenerative Futures

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Following President Frances Bronet’s recent appearance at the UN for the Regenerative Communities Summit, explore some of the ways in which Pratt students, faculty, and alumni are developing design solutions that restore ecosystems, strengthen communities, and address climate change.

In the Press

The Daily Hub

A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

  • Professor of Undergraduate Architecture Lawrence Blough opened his exhibition and gave a lecture at Kent State University’s College of Architecture & Environmental Design on September 30, 2026. His exhibition and lecture is titled Domestic Mutations: New Households, New Paradigms. Read more on the School of Architecture News page. 

  • The Visual Arts Center and Department of Art and Art History named Taisha Carrington, BFA Fine Arts ’18, as a 2026–27 St. Elmo Arts Residency Fellow. “Carrington studies how humans migrate and adapt by observing how non-human organisms do the same in nature. Viewing materiality as both method and theory, she works with soil, ocean water, breath, sweat, sand, and plants to surface narratives embedded within their material properties. Her research takes the form of sculpture, performance, installation, painting, and video.”​

  • Grace Gerdes, Arvind Philipose, Styliani Rallis, and Shivam Sinha, all MPS Design Management ’27, have won the 2026 dmi: Student Essay Award. They were honored at the dmi: Design Leadership Conference and Design Value Awards Ceremony in Boston on September 24, 2026. The Design Management Institute’s awards recognize the impact of design and innovation management on business and society. As winners, the students attended the conference alongside design leaders, executives, and educators from around the world.

  • Professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) Harriet Harriss has been invited to share some of her research on how architecture reproduces inequalities in death—through the spaces in which people are buried, remembered, forgotten, maintained, or displaced—at the Cemetery Research Group workshop, The Everyday Heritage and Afterlives of Asylum Burial Grounds, hosted by King’s College London. The workshop brings together scholars, community historians, thanatologists, policymakers, and heritage activists to rethink asylum burial grounds, their memorialization, and their contested afterlives.

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Recent Pratt Institute alumni share their personal strategy guides for launching a creative career.