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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

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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

Daily Hub

A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

Check out photos from 1976 and 1980 on @prattischool from when the School of Information was the Graduate School of Library & Information Science.

July 6, 2022

The 58th Carnegie International opening September 24, 2022, at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh includes work by Carlos Motta, associate professor of interdisciplinary practice in fine arts, and Félix González-Torres, BFA Photography ’83. Titled Is it morning for you yet?, the exhibition features historical and contemporary work to examine how artists respond to critical questions in the world.

July 6, 2022

Juan Camilo Osorio, assistant professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), was named Brooklyn representative on the City Planning Commission by Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. Read more in the report from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

July 5, 2022

Through August 20 in the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, The Work of Love, the Queer of Labor is exhibiting drawings, photography, video, posters, and installations reflecting on queer and left activism. Read more @prattexhibits.

July 5, 2022

“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.

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