Students

The Importance of New York’s Urban Ecology Shared through Technology and Storytelling

High school student Karissa with the Urban Ecology Pavilion on Governors Island A curving structure containing personal stories of connecting with local nature and considering the future of this ecology in a time of climate change…

Film/Video

In Mentoring Programs Students Learn to Support Each Other Now and in the Future

Mentorship can offer guidance, connections, and encouragement for students to go forward with their ambitions and visions for the future. Across Pratt Institute, students are taking leadership roles in creating and developing mentoring programs that support their needs, whether it’s…

Foundation

Students Bring Public Art to Myrtle Avenue with an Oversized Welcome Mat, Animations, and More

Pratt Institute students rolled out a colossal welcome mat for the kickoff weekend of the fall 2021 Foundation Expanded, an ongoing initiative to bring public art to Myrtle Avenue. With “Keep Going!” spelled out in large letters, the 15-…

How Will We Remember the Lives Lost in the Pandemic?

In September 2020, Linda Lauro-Lazin, assistant chair of digital arts, released 28 lanterns that floated down the Wallkill River in Rifton, New York. The number represented the weeks that New York State had been on pause, each lantern carrying with…

Working with Care

How Pratt Students and Faculty Are Creating in the Space of Compassion

Pratt Welcomes Students Back to Campus

After an academic year when many members of the Pratt Institute community did not step foot on campus, it was a momentous event to welcome students for the fall semester. Along with the incoming first-year students, second-year students who may…