Alumni

Fashion

Recent Fashion Design Graduate Features Collection for UK’s Graduate Fashion Week

Mila Sullivan, BFA Fashion Design ’17, shared her senior thesis collection during Graduate Fashion Week’s first American showcase, which took place in mid-January in New York City. Graduate Fashion Week is a UK-based charity organization that offers a platform…

Giving

Solved: Matthew Goodrich, MS Interior Design ’02

From the pages of Prattfolio, introducing a new section highlighting the problem-solving process in the real world, from the perspective of alumni in the field. In the Fall/Winter 2017 issue, Matthew Goodrich, MS Interior Design ’02, founder and principal…

Pratt Launches 12 Alumni Regional Networks and Young Alumni Program

Pratt alumni around the country are discovering new opportunities to stay connected to the Pratt community without making a trip to campus. The Institute’s Office of Alumni Relations is launching 12 regional networks nationwide, which will host local events…

President

Pratt Institute Welcomes Its 12th President Frances Bronet

Frances Bronet became Pratt Institute’s 12th president on January 2, 2018. She is the first woman president to lead Pratt Institute, one of the world’s most renowned art and design colleges. Bronet succeeds President Thomas F. Schutte who stepped…

Film/Video

Pratt Alumna Liz Hannah Pens Screenplay for Golden Globe-Nominated Film The Post

Liz Hannah BFA Film '07, screenplay writer for Stephen Spielberg's film The Post, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for “Best Screenplay/Motion Picture,” and a Critics' Choice Award for “Best Original Screenplay.” The film has received extensive media…

School of Design

MoMA Design Store Features Holiday Card by Recent Communications Design Graduate Risa Takeuchi

A pop-up card designed in 2016 by Risa Takeuchi, BFA Communications Design ’17, in the Pop-up Paper Engineering course at Pratt was selected as a winner of the Museum of Modern Art’s Holiday Card Program. The 3D laser die-cut…

Giving

Corice Canton Arman, George Kalinsky, and Wendy Kvalheim Honored at Legends 2017

Pratt Institute’s Legends 2017 gala was held at the Mandarin Oriental on November 16, celebrating icons of art and design whose works have helped shape the cultural landscape. The event honored art collector and educator…

Giving

Video Spotlight: Audrey Krumenacker (B.I.D. ’18) Designs Legends 2017 Award

Audrey Krumenacker, BID ’18, was selected earlier this year to design the award for Legends 2017, Pratt Institute’s annual scholarship benefit supporting Pratt students and honoring creative icons whose works have helped shape the cultural landscape. Each year, Pratt’s…

School of Information

Pratt Alumna and Colleagues Recognized for Commitment to Youth at NYC Neighborhood Library Awards

Pratt Institute alumna Rachael Wettenstein, MSLIS '15, and her colleagues at New York City’s Grand Concourse Library have been awarded the Heckscher Prize for Outstanding Service to Children and Youth for the library’s “proven commitment to this City’s…

Graduate Industrial Design

Pratt Industrial Design Alumni Use Technology to Help Blind Athlete Run New York City Marathon

Blind runner Simon Wheatcroft ran the 2017 New York City Marathon on November 5 with the assistance of Wayband, a wearable haptic navigation device by designed by Pratt alumni Kevin Yoo BID ’15, Keith Kirkland MID ’15, and Yangyang…