In the Press

• Wirecutter

  The Best Advice We’ve Found on Preserving, Storing, and Digitizing Family Memories

  Feature citing Anthony Cocciolo, dean of the School of Information, on the importance of preserving original order and material integrity when organizing and digitizing family archives; highlighting Pratt’s expertise in archival practice, conservation, and digital curation to safeguard personal histories for future generations.

• HuffPost

  Here’s Why You Wear A Different Size Clothing For Every Brand You Wear

  In a HuffPost feature on the lack of standardized clothing sizes, Pratt visiting assistant professor Keena Hudson explained that mass production ushered in a “try to fit as many people as possible” approach to sizing, rooted in outdated data.

• Teen Vogue

  Meet Kristin Mallison, the Sustainable Indie Designer Loved by Millie Bobby Brown, Lisa and More

  Teen Vogue spotlights Pratt alumna Kristin Mallison for her viral, sustainability-driven fashion brand and high-profile celebrity clients. Mallison credits Pratt’s fashion program with “really push[ing] for recycling,” shaping her upcycling approach and long-term commitment to waste reduction.

• SURFACE

  Designer of the Day: Chen Chen & Kai Williams

  Surface spotlights Pratt alumni Chen Chen and Kai Williams as “Designer of the Day,” highlighting their Brooklyn studio’s material-driven practice spanning furniture, lighting, and collectible works, including their recent show Basic Instinct at The Future Perfect.

• The New York Times

  Overlooked No More: Pamela Colman Smith, Artist Behind a Famous Tarot Deck

  A New York Times Overlooked obituary revisits the life of Pratt trained artist Pamela Colman Smith, the long-uncredited illustrator of the best-selling Rider-Waite tarot deck, highlighting her expansive career as an author, publisher, suffragist, and mystic.

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• Curbed

  39 Reasons to Love New York

  New York Magazine’s “39 Reasons to Love New York Right Now” spotlights a citywide rise in art-school enrollment and notes that Pratt’s drawing and painting programs hit their highest enrollment levels in nearly 15 years, underscoring strong demand for a creative education.

• Brooklyn Rail

  Alex Strada with Gaby Collins-Fernández

  In this Brooklyn Rail conversation, artist Alex Strada discusses Public Address, her citywide public art project formed through deep interagency collaboration and informed by her broader socially engaged practice—including her role as the Fine Arts’ Civic Engagement Fellow at Pratt Institute, where she previously developed the community-centered project Collective Mobilities.

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  Back to the Roots

  The article highlights a collaborative experimental dining project, “Farm is Table,” co-created by visiting Interior Design professor Allan Wexler, in which the table is literally embedded into the earth to explore hyperlocal food, ecology, and the blurring of art, agriculture, and architecture.