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    Internship Program Prepares High School Students with Disabilities for Success

    New York City students completed an internship at Pratt as part of Project SEARCH, a national program that helps prepare individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities for the workforce.
    June 29, 2022

    Cinema Studies Scholar and Educator Gina Marchetti Named Chair of Humanities and Media Studies

    Arriving at Pratt Institute from the University of Hong Kong, she will assume the role on August 1, 2022.
    June 24, 2022

    Mellon Foundation Awards $600,000 to Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network

    The grant supports the preservation of digital content that is in danger of disappearing or becoming inaccessible.
    June 22, 2022

    The City as Campus: Pratt Students Learn at NYC’s Cultural Destinations

    From world-class art museums to an incredible gem and mineral collection, these sites offer opportunities for first-hand engagement across disciplines.
    June 13, 2022

    Pratt Institute Names Helio Takai Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    The educator and physicist has served as interim dean since 2019 and assumed the new role on June 6, 2022.
    June 10, 2022

    Animation Career Review Ranks Pratt One of Country’s Top 10 Colleges for Animation in 2022

    Pratt moved up this year in the online professional resource’s rankings, which considered nearly 200 schools with animation programs in the United States.
    June 10, 2022

    2020 Alumni Exhibit Diverse Art Made in a Time of Uncertainty

    ‘Chromotherapy in an Age of Doubt’ at Pratt Manhattan Gallery features 29 MFA graduates from the Class of 2020.
    May 31, 2022

    Industrial Designer and Educator Ignacio Urbina Polo Named Chair of Industrial Design

    The Pratt Institute professor of industrial design assumes the role on July 1, 2022.
    May 31, 2022

    NYCxDESIGN Brings Student Work to the Center of Times Square & Across the City

    The 2022 edition of the design event included an interactive inflatable installation, designs for mental health, and more.
    May 25, 2022

    Toshiko Mori, Byron Lars, and Carter Burwell Emmart Honored at Commencement 2022

    Pratt’s Class of 2022 was celebrated in an exuberant gathering at Radio City Music Hall.
    May 20, 2022

    Animation Career Review Ranks Pratt One of the Nation’s Top 10 Schools for Graphic Design in 2022

    The online professional resource’s eighth annual rankings for graphic design considered more than 700 schools with graphic design programs from across the United States.
    May 24, 2022
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    Daily Hub

    A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

    “Interplay” by Chen Zhong, MFA Interior Design ’22, reimagines an interior as an incubator for spontaneous encounters and unexpected interplay between strangers, seeking to re-establish interpersonal relationships lost during the pandemic.Read more @prattinteriors.

    July 1, 2022

    Ekam Singh, MArch ’23, contributed chapters on two queer spaces in New Delhi, India—one a nightclub and the other an elapsed community theater—to the newQueer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Storiespublication by RIBA Books. In conjunction with its publication and Pride Month, Singh spokeat the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

    July 1, 2022

    DDA animation students created mini-bios of LGBTQ+ heroes in collaboration with VideoOut’sThe Scope. See their work online, including Shane Cagney and Mali Javadi’sanimation for Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

    June 30, 2022

    兼职副教授美术珠宝David Butler fabricated a platinum necklace designed by artist Michele Oka Doner for the Queen’s 70th Jubilee. It was part ofan exhibition at David Gill Gallery in London.

    June 30, 2022

    TheTextile Dye Gardenon the Brooklyn campus recently hosted a clay resist indigo event, with more programs planned for the coming weeks.Learn more @prattdyegarden.

    June 29, 2022

    Prattfolio

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    A Gift to New York When New York Could Use It

    The landscape brings the magic to a public park for all city dwellers

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    Johnson City Press

    Five Questions with Artist James Griffin

    Johnson City Pressinterviewed Pratt alum James Griffin about his career and method as an artist.

    The Chestertown Spy

    Top Story Looking at the Masters: Mickalene Thomas

    The Chestertown Spyfeatured an article on the work of Pratt alum Mickalene Thomas, BFA ’00. In her work, Mickalene Thomas, a gay African-American woman artist, celebrates and challenges the classical canons of style and creates a new contemporary canon depicting African-American women.

    Delaware Today

    Don’t Miss Stan Smokler’s “Steel in Flux” at The Delaware Art Museum

    Stan Smokler’s, MFA ’75, exhibition “Steel in Flux” will be held at the Delaware Art Museum from June 25 to September 11.

    PIX11

    State Assembly Looks for Ways to Legalize and Improve ‘Unsafe’ Basement Apartments

    丽贝卡•莫里斯,屁股的高级项目经理t Center, was interviewed for a PIX11 story on the state assembly looking at ways to legalize and improve basement apartments. With the Basement Apartments Safe for Everyone Campaign, she helped start a pilot program in the East New York-Cypress Hills area of Brooklyn in 2019.