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Pratt in Venice: Forty Years of Opening Doors

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

From Pratt Institute News

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.
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A Centralized Hub for Student Wellness Opens on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus

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The newly opened Student Wellness Center at Pratt Institute brings a wide range of health, counseling, and student support services together under one roof, creating a more accessible, welcoming hub at the heart of campus.

In the Press

The Daily Hub

A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

  • Summer in the City, the current Pratt × Blick exhibition at Blick Art Materials on Myrtle Avenue, features work by Associate Degrees students responding to New York City and what summer in the city means to them. The show grew out of the ongoing partnership that Visiting Associate Professor of Associate Degrees John De Santis developed with Blick to give students in his classes another place to show their work and to connect class projects with a real-world exhibition. De Santis works with Blick on each show, from the initial idea through production and installation. Each show has its own website where all of the student work can be seen and visitors can vote for their favorite. This fall, De Santis and Blick will continue the partnership with From Brooklyn: Walt Whitman, the third exhibition in the series.

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing Hannah Lillith Assadi was longlisted for the National Book Award for her novel Paradiso 17. The novel is “a study in inheritance, in the afterlife of ideology, in the way history seeps into every curated idyll,” writes Zain Khalid in The New York Times. “Paradiso 17 is not merely about Palestine, but about the stubborn fact that your past, however aestheticized, refuses to remain background. It might just kill you.”

  • Assistant Dean of the School of Information Jonathan Williams was recently featured in the article “Don’t Start with Policy, Start with Purpose,” which appears on page 20 of the September/October “AI Issue” of Connect to Northern Westchester.

  • Sophomore goalkeeper Hayden Pettit, BArch ’29, was selected as the Atlantic East Conference Men’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for games played September 7–13. Learn more on Pratt Athletics.

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