Campus shops, labs, lawns, and libraries, and even New York City itself have been sites of making for generations of Pratt students. From the studio to the streetscape, woodshop to robotics lab, what was your favorite place to make work while you were at Pratt?
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Drawing from classical sculpture in Main Building.
Architecture students make wooden models in what is likely the woodworking lab in the Science and Technology Building, which is now East Hall.
Engineers forge, most likely on the first floor of the East Building.
Students working in a chemistry lab at Pratt.
Students among large-scale works in progress, most likely in Pratt Studios, third floor.
Industrial designer and ceramic artist Eva Zeisel’s students work off-campus at the Bay Ridge Specialty Company in Trenton, New Jersey.
In Harlem, Pratt student Aaron Garrett painted this mural in the summer of 1978 for the Children’s Art Carnival.
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A life-drawing class on the roof of South Hall. 