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Pratt Graduate Student Bridges the Digital Access Divide with Community-Run Internet
August 4, 2021

Seven Vibrant Murals from the Pratt Community to See This Summer
July 14, 2021

Architecture Students Explore How Aquaculture Could Transform Industrial Brooklyn with Oysters and Algae
June 28, 2021

Pratt Institute Names Delmy M. Lendof Vice President for Student Affairs
July 14, 2021

How Pratt Students Met the Pandemic with Creativity and Reshaped their Practices for the Future
May 12, 2021

Alumna Sarah Grace Holcomb Leads High School Students to Success as Part of Pratt’s Vibrant Art & Design Education Network
June 14, 2021

Pratt Fine Arts Launches a New Mentorship Program to Empower Emerging Artists
July 23, 2021

Quinn Lai Announced as School of Information Assistant Dean
July 13, 2021

Quilian Riano Announced as School of Architecture Assistant Dean
July 2, 2021

The Art of Holding
July 1, 2021

A Personal Politics
July 1, 2021
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Daily Hub

A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

Anashwara Mandalay, MFA Interior Design ’21, proposed a plan to activate spaces in New York City’s Garment District to foster collaboration and create awareness about the neighborhood’s culture of making. See more @PrattInstitute.

August 5, 2021

UPROSE and its partners, including Pratt’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), have been awarded a $600,000 Kresge Foundation, Climate Change, Health and Equity grant. The work will support the implementation of the community’s plan for the green reindustrialization of the Sunset Park waterfront. Read more.

August 5, 2021

Kayla Newnam, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’15, was featured by the Phoenix Independent for her project to paint a mural in all 50 states, beginning with her home state Arizona: “I just kicked off the project at Desert Ridge Marketplace in Phoenix and will be moving onto Colorado and Utah next. The goal for the project is to connect with different communities in a creative way.”

August 4, 2021

The School of Architecture Pi-FAB fabrication shops welcomed their latest addition: a large format pellet extruder robot that offers new possibilities for student model making. See more on @pi_fab.

August 4, 2021

The Pratt.edu story “How Pratt Students Met the Pandemic With Creativity and Reshaped Their Practices for the Future” was included in the Coronavirus Pandemic Creative Responses Archive organized by Cultural Programs of the National Academy Sciences. The archive is chronicling how creativity has flourished in a time that has demanded innovation.

August 3, 2021

Prattfolio

The Magazine of Pratt Institute

Architecture for Rapid Response in a Health Crisis

How can architecture draw on technology and deep empathy to improve the clinic as we know it?

Press

Architect

Quilian Riano: Question the Status Quo

Quilian Riano, who was recently appointed the new assistant dean within the School of Architecture, contributed to Architect Magazine’s “One Year Later” series reflecting on what has changed over the past months of pandemic and protests.

Patch

SEE: Public Art Installations Transform Brooklyn’s Myrtle Avenue

A story on public art to see this summer on Myrtle Avenue highlighted the “Watching” installation by student Jack Ketteler that covers the utility boxes in Myrtle Avenue Plaza with colorful eyes.

CityLimits

Opinion: NYC’s Next Mayor Needs to Revamp City Planning for Equity

Elena Conte, senior fellow at the Pratt Center for Community Development, co-authored the City Limits op-ed “NYC’s Next Mayor Needs to Revamp City Planning for Equity.”

Black News Channel

Mahogany L. Browne Named as Lincoln Center’s First Poet in Residence

Alumna Mahogany L. Browne was named Lincoln Center’s first-ever Poet-in-Residence. Her residency includes curating monthly virtual and in-person events from July to September, with the programming drawing on her extensive experience as a poet and activist.