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Pratt Daily Hub: A Roundup of Ideas & Projects from around the Institute

Tuesday, April 07, 2020

Be sure to tag @PrattInstitute and #PrattInstitute on social media or email dailyhub@pratt.edu to share your own tips, creative actions, and innovative ideas. Throughout the Institute, students, faculty, and staff are developing new ideas and solutions during...

Pratt Mourns Visionary Architect William Katavolos & his Legacy as a Faculty Member & Alumnus

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Courtesy of the Center for Experimental Structures Longtime Pratt Institute faculty member William Katavolos, BID ‘49, has died at the age of 96. An architect, designer, and teacher, Katavolos served since the 1970s on the School of...

Pratt Remembers Former Faculty Member John N. Berry III

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

John N. Berry III, library science educator and editor, passed away on October 10, 2020. He was 87. Berry served as faculty of Pratt Institute’s School of Information from 2004 to 2014. Among the courses...

The Pratt Community Rallies Voter Awareness as the 2020 Election Approaches

Monday, October 19, 2020

With the US presidential election just weeks away, members of the Pratt Institute community have been finding creative ways to get out the vote and rethink how elections can be more inclusive and accessible. From...

Prattfolio Fall/Winter 2020: About the Covers

Friday, October 16, 2020

For the cover of this exclusively digital edition of Prattfolio, we highlight a selection of works that speak to themes of adaptation, transformation, and response to change, which run throughout the Fall/Winter 2020 issue. These...

Connecting with… President Frances Bronet and Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow Amy Khoshbin

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Pratt President Frances Bronet connects with Pratt’s inaugural Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow Amy Khoshbin for a short, lively video discussion on creating social change through art, through voting, and being civically engaged at this...

Legends Annual Scholarship Benefit to Highlight “Legends in Action” in Virtual Celebration

Friday, October 09, 2020

On October 29 at 7 PM EDT, Pratt Institute will highlight dynamic “Legends in Action” in an exciting online celebration that will raise funds for Pratt student scholarships that support diversity across the Institute. This...

Practice: A Visit to Writing Professor Claire Donato’s Creative Sanctuary

Thursday, October 08, 2020

Prattfolio looks inside the serene home studio of Pratt writing professor Claire Donato. This is part of Practice, the magazine’s series of visits to the spaces where Pratt Institute faculty maintain their professional practice, to...

Pratt Announces 20 Full Scholarships to Further Diversity, Honors One of Its First Black Alumni

Thursday, October 08, 2020

Systemic inequality and underrepresentation continue to persist in the creative and design professions. A vital step along the path to meaningful change in these areas lies in increasing access to education in these fields, which...

Balenciaga and The Black Alumni of Pratt Partner on Full Scholarships to Diversify Art and Design

Wednesday, October 07, 2020

Balenciaga and The Black Alumni of Pratt (BAP) have partnered to establish two full undergraduate scholarships for Pratt Institute students in the School of Design, School of Art, and School of Architecture. These scholarships, funded...

Pratt’s Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: A Look at Two Years of Collaborative Action

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has released Pratt Institute’s first Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Progress Report. The extensive document, now available to explore online, chronicles the past two years of cultivating a...

US News & World Report Ranks Pratt’s Fine Arts MFA Program among Top 15 in the Nation

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

In its 2020 listing of Best Arts Schools, US News & World Report ranked Pratt Institute’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program among the top 15 of over 200 programs from across the country. The...

HOME NOW: Pratt Photography Students Reflect on Intimate Spaces Through a New Lens

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

This feature from the Fall/Winter 2020 issue of Prattfolio highlights students adapting approaches to their photographic work as the experiences and sensations of home transformed through the changes of the last year. Photo by Audrey...

Students Reclaim Waste by Transforming Plastic Bags, Lint, and Avocado Pits into New Materials

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Plastic grocery bags, the lint that collects in a dryer, the pits of avocados, and old newspapers usually all end up in the same place: the trash. Pratt Institute students are revealing their untapped possibilities...

Crit: Designing for Nourishment of People and Communities

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

This is the Fall/Winter 2020 installment of Crit, Prattfolio’s series of conversations among faculty and students on the subject of student work. In this issue, Prattfolio features Industrial Design professor Amanda Huynh’s capstone studio Nourishment...

Pratt Faculty Reimagine Teaching and Learning with New Tools and Approaches

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Faculty are embracing new learning tools and methods this year, taking advantage of technology and the flexibility of different modes of course delivery to achieve academic goals, and fostering collaboration among their students in novel...

Best Counseling Degrees Ranks Pratt’s Art Therapy Program Among Top Five in the Nation

Monday, September 14, 2020

Creative Arts Therapy students (from the Pratt Institute Graduate Bulletin 2019-20) Pratt Institute is ranked fourth in the country in the Top 10 Best Master’s in Art Therapy Programs list recently released by Best Counseling...

SAVI Maps Brooklyn’s History of Environmental Toxicity as an Advocacy Tool for Cleanup & Change

Tuesday, September 08, 2020

Looking at the glittering condos along the Williamsburg waterfront, it's hard to imagine that North Brooklyn was once a hotbed of factories and manufacturing including polluting industries like oil refineries and shipbuilding. Those factories propelled...

Connecting with… A Conversation between President Frances Bronet and SGA President Danni Qu

Thursday, September 03, 2020

Pratt President Frances Bronet connects with the new Student Government Association President Danni Qu for a short, lively video discussion on challenges and opportunity at this moment of disruption all around us. The video is...

How First-Year Foundation Courses Are Being Reimagined as a Virtual Collaborative Experience

Wednesday, September 02, 2020

Work by Foundation student Elizabeth Vasquez completed in the spring Space, Form, Process class led by Visiting Instructor Matthew Northridge. Students were asked to recreate an image with available objects. In rethinking a pivotal first-year...