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Beyond Pratt: Where Students Go After Graduation

New data reveals the success of recent Pratt graduates.

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Stop Motion Renaissance: 5 Films to Watch

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Students are embracing an early mode of cinema with fresh ideas and technology.

Pratt in Venice: Forty Years of Opening Doors

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The unique program provides exceptional access to cultural and artistic experiences, and is made possible in part through scholarship support.

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A Second Act in Creative Arts Therapy

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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.

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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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The New York Times

A Panorama of Design

The New York Times spotlighted alumnus Harry Allen and his return to ceramics, tracing the acclaimed designer’s creative roots back to his industrial design studies at Pratt.
Gothamist

What does NY Fashion Week mean to Pratt students just entering the industry?

Gothamist spoke with fashion students about what New York Fashion Week means to them as emerging designers entering the industry, highlighting their perspectives, ambitions, and experiences at the start of their careers.
Fast Company

What should the future look like? Inside the tech-funded program to create a new aesthetic

Fast Company explores a tech-funded initiative seeking to define a new aesthetic for the 21st century, with Sarah Lichtman, chair of the History of Art and Design department, offering historical perspective on how patrons, technological change, and social upheaval have helped spark major design movements.
No Kill Magazine

Wear Plastic: Eliza Corderman’s Satire of Synthetic Activewear

Wear Plastic, a satirical activewear brand developed by Eliza Corderman as part of her MFA thesis in Pratt’s Fashion Collection + Communication program, uses the polished visual language of real fitness brands to expose the fashion industry’s overlooked reliance on synthetic, petroleum-based fabrics.
Resident

Pratt Institute Turns 14th Street Into an Open-Air Gallery

Resident Magazine highlighted “Pratt Institute x The Village West: Windows on 14th Street,” the public art installation transforming vacant storefronts along the 14th Street corridor into a street-level gallery featuring work by 36 students across the Institute’s six schools.
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Good Architecture Happens in Dialogue

Acclaimed architect and alumna Annabelle Selldorf reflects on her career and design philosophy in a new interview, noting that studying at Pratt Institute helped her find her own path in architecture.
The New York Times

A Moth Hole Hates to See Them Coming

A New York Times feature highlights Pratt’s student-led Mending Circle, where fashion students are reimagining clothing repair as both a creative practice and a sustainable response to fast fashion.
Spectrum News 1

Report says home flipping is driving up costs in the city

Pratt Center for Community Development’s Sylvia Morse discussed a new report on NY1 highlighting how home flipping is driving up housing costs and accelerating displacement in New York City communities of color.
AARP
At 76, Meryl Streep Is Making a Statement. The Clothes Are Just Part of It

Pratt fashion professor Adrienne Jones is quoted in AARP on Meryl Streep’s headline-making style, offering expert insight into fashion, aging, and the visibility of women over 50.
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The New York Times
The Artist Who Gives Me Joy

A New York Times guest essay by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Robin Givhan reflects on artist and Pratt alumnus Derrick Adams, highlighting his exploration of Black joy, leisure, and the fragility of everyday life.
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ABC 7

Pratt Institute brings horses to Brooklyn campus for annual event

Pratt’s School of Art was featured on ABC7 for its annual Horses on Campus drawing event, where students and community members sketch live horses as part of a unique, decades-long approach to figure drawing.

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The Daily Hub

A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

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Program Faculty Director of MFA Photography Katherine Hubbard’s project to photograph her ailing mother was featured in The Guardian. “Finding herself suddenly in the role of a ‘caretaker under duress,’ Hubbard decided to photograph her housebound mother and her environment. ‘The camera fails us in so many ways,’ she says, ‘and the absurdity with dementia is that I was constantly making lots of images of things that can’t be shown in an image. But I make images because of how they feel, not how they look.’”

Oct 09, 2026
Athos Argue-Hassanein, BID ’27, received Honorable Mention in the 2026 Material Lab Prize for his project, Slow Light. “A floor lamp activated through the placement of hanging of stones on plates, Slow Light evokes the deliberate nature of pre-electrical illumination to challenge our contemporary disconnection from energy. Rather than relying on the modern convenience of a light switch, Hassanein introduces a ritualistic, mechanical interface in the stones, each closing the circuit and incrementally increasing the luminosity within the inflated light vessel. The jury admired the professional execution and its ability to defy expectations.”

Oct 09, 2026
Adjunct Professor – CCE of Foundation Corinne Ulmann and Professor of Film/Video Jim Finn organized a student mural project, which has recently been revealed outside the Film/Video Building on Myrtle Avenue. The foundation students used material from a film/video class and created proposals for the mural. One was selected by a panel of film students and faculty and installed over the summer.

Oct 08, 2026
The 2026 Material Lab Prize was awarded to Caleb Callahan, BFA Fashion Design ’26, for his collection Cork, Kerala. “Callahan draws inspiration from Irish and Indian anti-colonial resistance, incorporating a range of craft traditions into an explicitly political, layered collage… The jury recognized the collection for its authentic synthesis of craft traditions, striking visual execution, and cohesive storytelling, particularly for its ability to transform recycled materials into a compelling language of resistance.”

Oct 07, 2026
Chair of Creative Arts Therapy (CAT) Valerie Hubbs was invited to participate in Project Healthy Minds’ World Mental Health Day Festival, taking place on Saturday, October 10, 2026, at Spring Studios in Manhattan. The Festival is the largest community event dedicated to World Mental Health Day, bringing together leaders from policy, media, culture, sports, business, and clinical care to help shape the future of mental health. Pratt CAT will present two back-to-back experiential workshops that introduce participants to creative arts therapy and our distinctive approach to mental health and well-being through creative expression, embodied experience, relational connection, and the therapeutic process. Selected CAT students will copresent, providing them with an opportunity to earn alternative clinical training hours while gaining valuable experience.

Oct 07, 2026
The City University of New York’s Brooklyn News Service reported on the “Big Problems v Bigger Solutions: Data Centers & Clean Energy Transition,” public workshop hosted by the Sustainable Environmental Systems (SES) program at Pratt Manhattan. “We’re here today to talk about energy, which as an issue is really scary,” said Summer Sandoval, academic coordinator of MS in SES and visiting assistant professor in GCPE. Speakers at the event discussed issues such as pollution, how information about AI is shared, energy usage, and the financial impacts of AI.

Oct 07, 2026
Dezeen’s favorite lighting and furniture from September includes a floor lamp from Adjunct Assistant Professors of Integrative Courses Loney Abrams and Jonathan Stanish, both MID ’13. “The designers split their practice between making lamps and mirrors out of sharp, interlocking fragments of laser-cut metal; and beautifully textured lighting and wallhangings crafted from stainless steel chainmail, woven to reflect the style of American folk art tapestries.”

Oct 06, 2026

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