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Archival Fashion by Legendary Designer Mary McFadden Arrives at Pratt

A portion of the iconic fashion designer’s world-renowned archive has officially relocated to Pratt’s Brooklyn campus. A generous gift from the McFadden family will support ongoing scholarship, preservation, and the promotion of the collection.
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Capturing Light in Fort Greene Park

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Pratt students took a stroll to paint serene fall scenes.
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Biocircuits Wins 2025 Material Lab Prize

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The winner of the 6th annual prize tackled the growing problem of e-waste.
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Fashioning New Pathways for Incarcerated Women

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The innovative program launched by Pratt Institute and the New Jersey Department of Corrections expands access to creative disciplines and workforce development.
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Building ‘Cradle-Through-Career’ Pathways in Newark

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A new public high school in Newark, New Jersey, is opening pathways to careers in the building industry with academic guidance from Pratt faculty.
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Building More Than Just Structures

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Elijah Rayford, BPS Construction Management ’25, turned his passion for problem-solving into a full-time role in New York’s construction industry.
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Honoring the Life of President Emeritus Dr. Thomas F. Schutte

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The Pratt community gathered on campus to remember the life and legacy of President Emeritus Dr. Thomas F. Schutte, who passed away in March 2025.
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  • Pratt Institute has earned a STARS Gold rating in the 2025 Sustainable Campus Index by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). For the second consecutive year, Pratt earned gold for its overall performance, with especially high scores in curriculum, research, campus engagement, and innovation and leadership. STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System) measures and encourages sustainability in all aspects of higher education.

    Oct 20, 2025

  • Pranav Dawar, Film ’25, earned the Audience Choice Best Documentary at the Tasveer Film Festival for his film Karnama (Well of Death).

    Oct 17, 2025

  • Associate Professor and MFA Program Faculty Director Katherine Hubbard will exhibit her work with New York-based gallery Company at Frieze London. “I believe deeply that photography is a form of sociality and a way of being in the world,” said Hubbard. “Photography transforms [my mom’s] home from a space which overwhelms me into a stage where the accumulation of her life’s collections and a perverse sense of composition become the world of the image.” 

    Oct 16, 2025

  • Hanna Pennington, MSLIS ’22, archivist and associate director at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, has co-curated an exhibition, The Guggenheim Fellowship at 100, on view through November 30, 2025, at The New York Historical. The exhibition is marking the centennial of the Guggenheim Fellowship program and exploring its impact on American cultural and intellectual history through the mission of supporting exceptional scholars, scientists, and artists to pursue their work “under the freest possible conditions.” [image from SoI newsletter]

    Oct 16, 2025

  • Poet Mahogany L. Browne, MFA Writing ’16, posits a future for New York’s art scene in 2050 for The New York Times. “We will exchange languages, recipes, resistance tactics and survival stories. History will not be handed down but braided in: song, story, dance. We’ll defend the old, hold space for the silenced and dream the new.”

    Oct 15, 2025

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Change Your Gaze

An MFA Communications Design class explores new ways of thinking and making, finding collaborators in the natural world.

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