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A large artwork on a white canvas features an abstract red structure with geometric shapes and lines. The canvas is located outdoors, surrounded by greenery, with light and shadow playing across the scene. Trees are partially visible on the left side of the image.

At Pratt, our students, faculty, and alumni are experimenting across domains, from the tactile to the digital, from materials to structures, in the studio and in the field. They are imagining new futures. As Pratt announces World Makers | The Campaign for Pratt Institute, this issue of Prattfolio looks at the ways their work shapes our world.
Read more in the President’s Letter.

About the Cover
Forrest Gill-Ehlen, BArch ’26
Untitled 001, 2025, acrylic and pen on canvas, 59 x 48 inches

This piece from Forrest Gill-Ehlen’s extracurricular student projects explores architectural ideas in a painterly form, installed above among other works on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus. In Gill-Ehlen’s METROPOLIS Future100–winning portfolio, he describes how his personal projects “operate on a parallel track” to his architecture work, sometimes weaving into his studio projects. Read our About the Cover Q&A.

Photo by Sofia Narvaez, BArch ’26

A stone bridge spans a serene body of water, surrounded by lush greenery. In the background, a tall, ornate building rises above the trees, featuring a distinctive golden-topped spire. The scene captures a tranquil moment in a park setting, with soft lighting illuminating the landscape.

Making the City

For generations, Pratt Institute alumni have played a part in shaping the place where they lived, studied, and created, and that many still call home.
Two silhouetted individuals are positioned in front of a vibrant green screen in a studio setting. One person is adjusting a camera mounted on a tripod, while the other appears to be instructing or assisting. Various softbox and spotlight lighting equipment are set up around the scene, enhancing the studio atmosphere. In the foreground, there's a box and a fan, with additional tripods visible to the side.

Art of the Film

Prattfolio talks to seven Pratt grads about how they’ve made their lives in film. 
A cozy library interior featuring wooden bookshelves filled with various books. In the foreground, a book with a cover image depicting a person holding a cat is partially visible. The shelves have an ornate design and the background shows more books and a window with natural light coming in.

Shelf Life

Pratt alumni spoke with Prattfolio about their multifaceted careers as authors, illustrators, designers, and independent publishers.
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How a Pratt Alumnus Designed the Plane that Made History

When Donald A. Hall ’19 engineered the Spirit of St. Louis nearly a century ago, he made aviation history. He did it in just 60 days.

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Alumni News and Events

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Issues

Portals

Spring 2026
A soft-focus image of an interior space featuring a window with a view of city buildings. Sunlight casts a warm glow on the walls and a small table lamp sits on a light-colored surface nearby. The wall beside the window is adorned with textured wooden panels. The atmosphere is calm and inviting.

Methods & Materials

Fall 2025
Detailed close-up of a weave made of glass strands in gray, red, and purple tones forming an undulating pattern along a transparent warp.

Perspective Shifts

Spring 2025
A painting with 3D geometric forms and objects resembling a table and stairs arranged in unexpected angles

Looking at Us

Fall 2024
A person sits in a chair covered with multicolored plushes looks up into a VR headset, amid an art installation that also includes a pink rotary phone hung on a wall, with its receiver dipped in a fishbowl of toys atop a small vintage color TV

Mentorship

Spring 2024
Color blocked scene with stacked square and triangular buildings in the background and figures of woman and child in foreground, without hands or heads

Housing / Home

Fall 2023
Blackout curtains open slightly to a residential urban streetscape

Origins

Spring/Summer 2023
Four people model woven and sewn garments in an orange, ocher, red, and green color palette, some featuring repeating graphic motifs

Futures

Fall 2022

Power of Place

Spring 2022

Care

Summer 2021

Adaptation, Transition, Response

Fall/Winter 2020

Action

Spring/Summer 2020
Painting of two gloved hands, one green and one blue, interlaced with one another