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Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund Honors Industrial Design Alumni Everardo Jefferson & William Cotton
Friday, August 21, 2020The 2020 Rowena Reed Kostellow Awards honorees: Everardo Jefferson, BID ’68, & William Cotton, BID ’07 For the 30th anniversary of the Rowena Reed Kostellow Awards, Everardo Jefferson, BID ’68, and William Cotton, BID ’07,...
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2020 Black Alumni of Pratt Scholars Cultivate their Creative Passions in a Virtual PreCollege
Friday, August 14, 2020The 2020 Black Alumni of Pratt (BAP) PreCollege Summer Program Scholars: Carissa Blackwell, Danna Garcia Moreno, and Jordan Anderson This July, the 2020 Black Alumni of Pratt (BAP) PreCollege Summer Program Scholars joined high school...
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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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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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Team Featuring Writing Alumna Lina Misitzis Awarded Pulitzer Prize for This American Life Episode
Wednesday, May 13, 2020This American Life, The Out Crowd, episode 688, by Lola Dupre Lina Misitzis, BFA Writing ’11, produced a story for “The Out Crowd,” an episode of public radio program This American Life that won the...
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Guggenheim Fellowship Awarded to Alumnae Danna Singer and Cyrilla Mozenter
Monday, May 11, 2020Danna Singer, “A Future,” from the series If It Rained an Ocean (courtesy the artist) Danna Singer, BFA Photography ‘10, and longtime former faculty member Cyrilla Mozenter, BFA Art Education ‘70; MFA ‘72, have been...
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A Look Back: How Pratt Students and Faculty Designed for Deception in World War II
Tuesday, May 05, 2020Pratt Institute students building a model of a waterfront and dock area to use in their camouflage studies (via Popular Mechanics, 1942) This year marks 75 years since World War II’s end in 1945. As...
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Fine Arts Alumna Ali Shrago-Spechler Awarded Fulbright Grant for Research Project in Germany
Tuesday, April 28, 2020Courtesy of Itamar Dotan Katz Ali Shrago-Spechler, BFA Painting ‘11, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award for the 2020-2021 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign...
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How Five 1960s Pratt Students Launched an Art Movement through a Shared Passion for Crochet
Wednesday, April 08, 2020Jean Williams Cacicedo, Sharron Hedges, Marika Contompasis, and Janet Lipkin as students and at Off the Wall: American Art to Wear at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (courtesy Jean Williams Cacicedo) In the late 1960s,...
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Members of the Pratt Community Sew Masks and 3D-Print Face Shields to Combat COVID-19
Tuesday, April 07, 2020Luba Drozd, BFA Computer Graphics ‘06, making face shields with the 3D printer in her apartment (courtesy Luba Drozd) This is the first in a series of posts exploring how the Pratt Institute community is...
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Pratt Alumna & Student Design First-Ever Lena Horne Prize Honoring Solange Knowles’ Social Impact
Monday, March 09, 2020Nala Turner and Imani Shanklin Roberts working on the design for the Lena Horne Prize for Artists Creating Social Impact (courtesy the artists) In collaborating to design the Town Hall’s inaugural Lena Horne Prize for...
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Pratt Pairs: Valentine’s Day 2020
Wednesday, February 12, 2020This Valentine’s Day, the Office of Alumni Relations is sharing the stories of alumni who fell for each other while they were students at Pratt. Read about the couples’ magical moments, their favorite date spots,...
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Films by Pratt Faculty and Alumni Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival
Wednesday, January 15, 2020Two films by members of the Pratt Institute community will premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, being held from January 23 to February 2. The annual event is considered the largest showcase of independent...
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Solved: Pratt Alumna Blends Art, Design, and Science to Connect Viewers with the Natural World
Wednesday, December 18, 2019From the pages of Prattfolio, this article is part of a section highlighting the problem-solving process in the real world, from the perspective of alumni in the field. The Fall/Winter 2019 issue features the work...
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Pratt Alumni Push the Boundaries of Painting at UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach
Wednesday, December 11, 2019At this year’s 2019 UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach held from December 4 to 8, Pratt Fine Arts presented an exhibition exploring and challenging conventional boundaries in art and society through the work of seven Pratt...
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New and Noteworthy: 2019 Faculty Books Roundup
Thursday, December 05, 2019From artist books, to cultural surveys, to collections of neighborhood histories and poetry, Pratt faculty have contributed notable works to several corners of the literary landscape this year. Read on for New and Noteworthy’s annual...
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NY Times Features Alumna Mickalene Thomas and How She Uses Artistic Success for Positive Change
Tuesday, November 26, 2019With celebrated solo shows at major museums and work in the collections of leading institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, continues to be recognized for her powerful...
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Local Seniors Share Their Stories and Neighborhood History in Pratt Oral Histories Project
Monday, November 25, 2019As the current wave of gentrification rapidly transforms the New York City landscape, a team of Pratt faculty, students, and Writing Program alumni have responded with a project that will outlast the dizzying transformations. Maria...
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Pratt Kicks off 2019 NYC Jewelry Week with Talks and Exhibitions on the Art of Adornment
Monday, November 25, 2019Wearing jewelry can express self-empowerment, identity, culture, and a love for the craft, with the materials themselves conveying an attention to sustainability, innovation, and tradition. Pratt Institute kicked off the second annual NYC Jewelry Week,...
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Habitat for the Bees: Pratt Professor Explores Post-Human Architecture for Native Pollinators
Wednesday, November 20, 2019By Steve Neumann Think bees and one familiar set of images, habits, and behaviors likely comes to mind. But this is scratching the surface of all that could be understood about some of nature’s most...
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