Prattfolio is the magazine of Pratt Institute, published biannually by Pratt’s Communications and Marketing division. The magazine illuminates and amplifies the work and ideas of the diverse Pratt community, from our bold students, to our expert faculty, to our innovative alumni. Beginning in fall 2020, the magazine is accessible as a fully digital publication.
Prattfolio Issues
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Prattfolio Fall/Winter 2020: About the Covers
Friday, October 16, 2020For 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...
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Practice: A Visit to Writing Professor Claire Donato’s Creative Sanctuary
Thursday, October 08, 2020Prattfolio 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...
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HOME NOW: Pratt Photography Students Reflect on Intimate Spaces Through a New Lens
Wednesday, September 30, 2020This 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...
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Crit: Designing for Nourishment of People and Communities
Wednesday, September 23, 2020This 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...
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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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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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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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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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Practice: From Professor Theodora Skipitares’s Retelling of a Science Legend’s Story at La MaMa
Wednesday, June 10, 2020From the pages of Prattfolio, this article is part of a series exploring the professional practice of Pratt faculty through visits to the places where they do their work. In the Spring/Summer 2020 issue, Prattfolio...
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Turn, Turn, Turn
Tuesday, June 02, 202050 Years Ago in May, a Flashpoint of a Volatile Era Unified Young People across the Nation, and for Pratt’s Class of 1970, Punctuated Their Final Days as Students at the Institute By Andy P....
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Research Accelerates: Pratt Fosters an Ecosystem of Investigation
Friday, January 10, 2020Throughout its history, Pratt Institute has been a fertile site for research—from the earliest drawing classes that helped students explore the visible world through their own hands, to technological study that shaped emerging manufacturing fields...
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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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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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Crit: Pratt Industrial Design Faculty and Students Create Instrument for Public Celebration
Wednesday, December 04, 2019From 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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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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Prattfolio Asked Pratt Students: What Question Can You Not Stop Thinking About?
Wednesday, October 30, 2019Prattfolio Asked Pratt Students: What Question Can You Not Stop Thinking About? As last academic year came to a close, Prattfolio interviewed dozens of students around the Brooklyn campus to find out what questions were...
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Practice: From the Site of RETI BlueCity Lab, a Pratt Faculty-Designed Climate-Research Vessel
Wednesday, October 23, 2019From the pages of Prattfolio, this article is part of a series exploring the artistic and professional practice of Pratt faculty through visits to their studios and workspaces. Here, Prattfolio visits the site of RETI...
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