A tabletop cluttered with various crafting supplies, including colorful yarn, buttons, fabric scraps, and scissors. Two hands are visible: one holding a decorated piece of fabric, while another points towards a sock-like item with a blue pattern. A wooden tool and small containers with pins and sequins are also present on a vibrant plaid tablecloth.

Repair. Rest. Repeat. 

Mending Circle, one of Pratt’s newest student clubs, sets aside time for care and community.

Information Experience Design

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Designing Digital Interfaces for Real-World Clients

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Graduate student Shreesa Shrestha, MSIXD ’26, is making the most of every opportunity at Pratt as she balances client projects, community-building initiatives, and a prestigious Product Design Fellowship at The Museum of Modern Art.

Graduate Studies

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Open Studios, Endless Possibilities

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Pratt’s annual MFA Open Studios were complemented by the first-ever Open Fields artist resource fair, making for an electric day of events celebrating artistic practice and the resources that sustain it.

School of Architecture

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Architecture Students Make Strong Debut at Design Competition

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The Pratt team earned national recognition and the honorable mention award for a project centered on food, culture, and connection in Kansas City.

Giving

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Celebrating Creative Legends

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Legends 2025 raised vital funds for student scholarships and honored distinguished creative icons Jeremy Scott and Mavis Wiggins, with awards presented by Heidi Klum and Cindy Allen.

Graduate

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Nurturing Exquisite Relations

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Cocreated with alumni, faculty, and students across the Institute, a recent exhibition presented by Pratt’s School of Art embodied mentorship, collaboration, and support for the LGBTQIA+ community.
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Scary-Good Short Films by Pratt Alumni to Stream Now

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A Halloween-inspired watch list for the spookiest time of year.
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  • Chief Librarian at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University Christina Vortia, MSLIS ’15, was interviewed for Fine Books magazine’s Bright Young Librarians series. “One of the most beautiful aspects of this role is connecting these books, which I see as ancestors, to their descendants. It is deeply moving and spiritual work,” she said. 

    Dec 04, 2025

  • Pratt Center was named among the recipients of the first-ever NYC Nightlife Grant, provided by the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS). “The New York City Office of Nightlife is proud to award the first-ever NYC Nightlife Grants to nonprofits whose initiatives support safer, more inclusive, and sustainable nightlife businesses and communities,” said ONL Executive Director Jeff Garcia. “We are excited to see these ideas come to life across the city, helping New York City remain the world’s nightlife capital.”

    Dec 03, 2025

  • Sofi Thanhauser, adjunct associate professor – CCE of Writing, explores the history of the “war on cancer” in an essay for the Virginia Quarterly Review. “Buried beneath this evergreen drama of illness and cure, the promise of miracle biotech breakthroughs and heroic survivorship, is the story of how American business interests helped to steer politicians away from stopping the cancer epidemic at the source; how they helped to generate a mania for curing the disease and obstructed the analytic and moral clarity required to prevent it. Actually preventing cancer—far preferable to curing it, if less interesting—would mean asking why our cancer rates are so high in the first place.”  

    Nov 26, 2025

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