Jennifer Minniti

Jennifer Minniti is a designer, curator, and the inaugural Jane B. Nord Professor of Fashion at Pratt Institute. From 2011 to 2024, she served as Chair of Pratt’s Fashion Department, where she led transformative curricular initiatives, including the launch of the MFA in Fashion Collection + Communication. Her academic work centers on creating inclusive, collaborative learning environments that bridge design practice with cultural theory and critical inquiry. Through both her creative and scholarly practice, Minniti frames fashion as a dynamic form of cultural messaging — a vehicle for challenging dominant narratives and engaging with questions of power, identity, and social meaning. Since 2013, she has collaborated with artist Beverly Semmes under the label CarWash Collective, producing garments, installations, and image-based works that examine the politics of clothing and visibility. Extending these themes into curatorial work, she recently co-curated The New Village, a critically acclaimed exhibition investigating fashion’s role in shaping communal experience and aesthetic discourse.

B.S. Fashion Design, Philadelphia University; M.A. Costume Studies, New York University.

https://www.artforum.com/columns/ada-ohiggins-the-new-village-552341/