Students

Student Union Renovation to Bring Enhanced Space for Student Use

Pratt students will soon have a newly redesigned space at the Institute for building community and holding events. The Student Union on the Brooklyn campus is undergoing renovations to enhance the facility and improve the environment for student club meetings…

Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Women of the World Poetry Slam Tournament and Festival Held on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus

The 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWps), a poetry tournament and festival, was held on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus from March 9-12. Mahogany Browne (M.F.A. Writing ’16) brought WOWps to the Pratt campus as part of her fieldwork residency…

Graduate Interior Design

Interior Design Students Create Installation for DIFFA’s Dining by Design New York Event

Students from Pratt Institute’s Interior Design Department created a unique tabletop installation for Dining by Design 2016, an event held by the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) from March 17-21. The annual event, which runs concurrently with the Architectural…

Architecture

Pratt Shows 2016 to Celebrate Best Work of Graduating Students

Pratt Institute will display graduating students’ best work in a series of year-end events and exhibitions this spring. Pratt Shows 2016 will allow the general public an exciting opportunity to view the outstanding work of Pratt’s talented students. Pratt Shows…

Graduate Fine Arts

Fine Arts Students Complete Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Installation on Campus

{exp:slideshowpro id=”868″ type=”album”} Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #990 has been installed in Pratt’s Brooklyn campus library after a 10-month-long process that was completed in February. The project was spearheaded in spring 2015 by the six students in Visiting Assistant Professor…

Fashion

Pratt Fashion Show + Cocktail Benefit to Be Held May 5

On May 5, the 2016 Pratt Institute Fashion Show + Cocktail Benefit will spotlight inventive student designs from graduating seniors in its 117th runway show. At this year’s event, Pratt Institute will honor Harold Koda, former curator in charge of…

Fashion

U.S. News & World Report Runs Feature Story on Wearable Technology Studio at Pratt

U.S. News & World Report has published a significant feature article about the wearable technology studio class taught by Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, adjunct associate professor of industrial design and fashion, and Pratt’s ongoing wearable technology collaboration with NASA. The article, “Designers,…

Architecture

Video: Students Explore New Physical Structures and Technologies in Undergraduate Morphology

Believed to be the first programs of their kind anywhere, the Minor in Morphology and Concentration in Morphology at Pratt leverage the long history of morphology study at the Institute dating from the early 1970s. Morphology is the study…

Graduate Interior Design

Graduate Interior Design Students Win CONNECT Competition at 2015 SOFA CHICAGO Fair

Graduate interior design students and faculty from Pratt Institute competed for the third consecutive year at the SOFA CHICAGO (Sculptural Objects Functional Art + Design) CONNECT competition and won first place for the second time, tying with the University of…

Graduate Communications Design

Fourth Annual Pratt/Hennessy V.S Competition Displays Student Work in Pop-Up Gallery

Christiana Theophanopolus (M.F.A. Communications Design ’16) was named the winner of the fourth annual Pratt Institute/Hennessy V.S competition for her work entitled, “Meraki.” As part of an ongoing collaboration between Pratt Institute and leading cognac brand Hennessy V.S, 15 students from…