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Pratt Daily Hub: A Roundup of Ideas & Projects from around the Institute
Tuesday, April 07, 2020Be 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...
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How Two Pratt Sisters-in-Law Helped Sustain the Long Fight for Women’s Suffrage
Wednesday, August 12, 2020“Mrs. George D. Pratt: A patroness of the Suffrage Meeting,” from the March 19, 1914, Brooklyn Daily Eagle (via Brooklyn Newsstand) Before the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on August 18,...
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A Special 2020 Edition of Pratt’s Alumni Achievement Awards Honors Paleontologist Jerry Case
Monday, August 10, 2020Gerard “Jerry” Ramon Case (photo by Clare Berlin) In a special 2020 edition of Pratt Institute’s annual Alumni Achievement Awards (AAA), Gerard “Jerry” Ramon Case is being honored for his six decades of work in...
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Pratt Mourns Legendary Journalist Pete Hamill
Friday, August 07, 2020Pete Hamill, photographed by Deirdre Hamill, Quest Imagery Pete Hamill, New York City journalistic icon, literary luminary, and Pratt Legend and alumnus, passed away on August 5, 2020. He was 85. Hamill grew up in...
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Solved: Pratt Alumna Margaret Burton Is on a Mission to End Fashion Waste
Wednesday, July 29, 2020From the pages of Prattfolio, this article is part of a series highlighting the problem-solving process in the real world, from the perspective of alumni in the field. The Spring/Summer 2020 issue features the work...
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Trustee Kathryn Chenault Commits $1M in Scholarships to Support Diversity in School of Architecture
Tuesday, July 28, 2020Trustee Kathryn Chenault, together with her husband Kenneth, have committed $1 million to establish scholarships to support diversity in the School of Architecture. Kathryn Chenault has been a member of Pratt Institute’s Board of Trustees...
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With Pratt Launchpad, Students Anywhere Can Access Creative Digital Tools on Any Computer
Tuesday, July 28, 2020This fall semester, a full suite of the creative digital tools that Pratt Institute students need will be accessible on any computer, no matter its hardware. Through Launchpad, students can use a range of cloud-based...
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Art Activated: Pratt Fine Arts Fosters Open Exchange with Communities on Campus and Beyond
Tuesday, July 21, 2020By Diana McClure Shaun Leonardo’s Long Table at Pratt Institute, fall 2018. In a one-room art studio, young men gather around a table to make stone carvings—representations of “defense objects” used for physical, emotional, or...
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Critiques at a Distance: Pratt Faculty Members Rethink Reviews in the Digital Space
Wednesday, July 15, 2020Teaching and learning at Pratt Institute changed rapidly this spring as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic forced a move off the physical campus, and into digital spaces. Among the classroom and studio practices that...
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UN Publishes Book with Pratt Student to Help Children Stay Positive During COVID-19
Tuesday, July 07, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic can be particularly isolating for children who have to spend much of their day at home, unable to play with friends, see grandparents, or interact in ordinary ways with family members who...
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Crit: Student Work Explores Intimacy Over Distance
Wednesday, July 01, 2020From the pages of Prattfolio, this article is part of a series of conversations among faculty and students on the subject of work that students have made individually or collaborated with others to create. This...
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New and Noteworthy: 2020 Alumni Books Roundup
Friday, June 26, 2020Prattfolio presents the annual roundup of recently published books by and about Pratt Institute alumni, in time for summer reading. From a poetry collection to empower young activists, to a photographic reverie in summertime light...
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Students Race Against Time to Digitize Archives of 1970s and ’80s LGBTQ+ Radio and TV Programs
Tuesday, June 23, 2020During the rise of the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the 1970s and ’80s, visibility and community were crucial, and some leaders took to radio and television to elevate their voices and showcase culture. This spring...
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Pratt Institute Names Jorge Oliver New Dean of the School of Art
Monday, June 22, 2020Pratt Institute has named Jorge Oliver as the new dean of the School of Art. A Puerto Rican filmmaker, actor and educator, he is the first male filmmaker in the history of Puerto Rican cinema...
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Digital Preservation Initiative Receives $600,000 Grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Monday, June 22, 2020The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Pratt Institute $600,000 to support the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network (DPOE-N) in collaboration with New York University (NYU). Pratt and NYU website images from July 1997...
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Voices of a Generation: Pratt Students Act for the Change They Imagine for the World
Wednesday, June 17, 2020For civically engaged students today, the years surrounding their college careers have held their share of challenges. As they began to chart the course of their lives—as high schoolers, undergraduates, and young professionals preparing to...
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Pratt Mourns the Passing of Richard Bove
Wednesday, June 17, 2020Richard Bove with student work in 1959. From the Pratt Institute Archives Negatives Collection. Richard Bove, BFA Illustration ’42, emeritus faculty member of fine arts, passed away in May. Born in Brooklyn in 1920, Bove...
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Research Open House 2020 Awards Recognize Work in Morphology, Sustainability, Bees, and More
Wednesday, June 17, 2020This year Pratt Institute’s Research Open House (ROH) went virtual, with more than 60 projects featuring around 200 participants showcased online. Organized by the Office of Research and Strategic Partnerships in the Provost’s Office, the...
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Pratt Mourns the Loss of Nancy Ai-Tseng Miao Twitchell
Tuesday, June 16, 2020Nancy Ai-Tseng Miao Twitchell, FAIA, pioneering architect and former professor in Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture, passed away on May 29, 2020. In the remembrance below, Alex Schweder, BArch ’93, adjunct associate professor of interior...
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Interior Design Students Envision Noguchi Museum Viewing Rooms for a Time of Social Distancing
Tuesday, June 16, 2020How to view art when the usual experience of visiting a museum is impossible is a question that institutions are now confronted with around the globe. Pratt Institute interior design students in the MFA Graduate...
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