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Cisco and Tybalt made it to @abcnews 🐴✨ Thank you to everyone from @prattinstitute and the community who came out to sketch together on the Rose Garden for this adored annual tradition! Our gratitude to the superb @prattequestrian team who made this event possible! @prattfoundation @jorgeaoliver @prattosi @prattfineart @prattinstitute @prattphotography @prattarted @prattdigitalarts @prattphotography @prattfilm_video

Spring is finally here, and we are excited to welcome our horse friends back to campus!🐴 Get ready for a day of creativity and connection as @soartpratt and @prattequestrian bring you Horses on Campus 2026! This event is open to the entire Pratt community. Join us to celebrate the season by sketching, painting, or simply enjoying! 📍 Rose Garden 📅 Monday, April 13 ⏰ 10 AM – 3 PM #prattinstitute #goprattgo @prattinstitute @jorgeaoliver @prattfoundation @prattfineart @pratt_sod @prattsoa @prattslas @prattosi

APPLY TO THE 2026 SCHOOL OF ART STUDENT EXHIBITION! 🔗 Link in bio to apply! Pratt’s School of Art Dean Jorge Oliver is pleased to invite all School of Art students to submit their work for consideration to be included in a group exhibition curated by Pratt alum Rachel Vera Steinberg (BFA Fine Arts, Drawing ‘08) and artist and writer Avram Finkelstein. The exhibition will take place in August and September 2026 in Steuben Gallery, in partnership with Pratt’s Department of Exhibitions and in collaboration with the Department of Fine Arts, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Alumni Relations, the Learning Access Center, and Pratt Presents. The 2026 School of Art annual student show invites reflection on disability, access, and the diverse ways people relate to their minds and bodies. Submissions are open to all Pratt School of Art students, including undergraduates, graduate students, and the Class of 2026. The exhibition will feature work engaging with themes of access, disability, and neurodiversity, including visible and invisible disabilities, mental health, chronic illness, sensory, cognitive, emotional, and mobility experiences, and conditions shaped by environment and context. You are not required to label or disclose any diagnosis or identity to submit to this exhibition. We hope you will consider applying and look forward to creating a platform for expansive dialogue between various experiences and perspectives within the Pratt community. The exhibition is an excellent opportunity for you to showcase your work and build a relationship with professional curators and artists in the context of a group exhibition. We look forward to seeing your work! Thank you for applying! @prattcei @jorgeaoliver @prattinstitute @prattfineart @prattdigitalarts @prattfilm_video @prattphotography @pratt_associate_degrees @pratt_cel @prattarted @prattalumni @prattexhibits @pratt.dei

Join Pratt's School of Art and School of Design for the opening of the exhibition "The Work of Holding" by faculty Jessica Caldwell and Sam Vernon. This exhibition is a product of the annual faculty residency at the KinoSaito Arts Center. Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 24th, 5-7 PM Gallery Talk: Thursday, March 5th, 5 PM The School of Art and the School of Design are pleased to present The Work of Holding, a two-person exhibition of new work by Jessica Caldwell, Visiting Assistant Professor in Interior Design, and Sam Vernon, Assistant Professor in Fine Arts. Guided by the principle of Sankofa—reaching back to move forward—the exhibition treats historical material as living evidence carrying Black knowledge, memory, and survival. At the core of the exhibition, page and thread function as parallel systems of knowledge, holding time as layered and nonlinear. Caldwell and Vernon participated in the Pratt/KinoSaito Artist-in-Residence Fellowship Program last summer. The works on view were produced during their simultaneous four-week residencies at KinoSaito in Verplanck, New York. Displaying archival images from Hampton and Tuskegee Universities, along with a loom, embroidery, video, and garments, Caldwell reconstructs the architecture of Black textile education and holds space for remembrance and ancestral transmission. Vernon will be presenting three new large-scale works on paper with an accompanying reader. Vernon’s project involves reworking archival imagery from The Black Scholar and other publications—involving collage and text to explore language as visual, sonic, and shaped by inheritance.

We’re excited to share that 𝙀𝙭𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 has been featured on Pratt News! 📰✨ Read the full story through the link in bio! Presented at the Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, this exhibition brought together 16 students and recent alumni whose work explores the queer aesthetic and the LGBTQIA+ experience. The exhibit was curated by @prattinstitute alums Olli Toppeta (History of Art and Design ‘22) and Dylan Kaleikaumaka Hill (History of Art and Design ‘23), with guidance from faculty supervisor @cassilsartist , Associate Professor of Sculpture and Integrated Practices in Fine Arts. Through painting, sculpture, film, photography, and performance, the artists engaged in dialogue around visibility, intimacy, transformation, and the power of community. We’re proud to see this exhibition and its artists recognized for their thought-provoking and heartfelt work. 💛 #PrattSchoolOfArt #PrattInstitute #ExquisiteRelations @jorgeaoliver @prattfineart @prattphotography @prattfilm_video @prattdigitalarts @prattarted @prattexhibits @prattcei @prattalumni

The Dean of the School of Art @jorgeaoliver is pleased to share that artist and advocate Viva Ruiz @chocolatinaruiz will present a workshop, EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING, next Tuesday Sept. 23 from 10 a.m.-noon, engaging students on the topic of reproductive justice and bodily autonomy through a queer lens. Ruiz’s collaborative practice expands across performance, film, writing, and music. This workshop will be a participatory exercise in drawing lines to each other and exploring how bodily autonomy is a place we can all meet, celebrating agency and the ways that art can generate joyous action. EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING will begin as a talk show performance with @losmithstudios Hushpuppy (MFA Fine Arts, Printmaking ‘26), followed by a performance facilitation by Ruiz culminating in an open invitation to participate in a group dance performance on the Quad.  Register through link in bio! In EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING, we will see how utilizing the framework of reproductive justice IS queer liberation, racial liberation, class liberation, a place to get activated as if it ALL is happening to us, because it IS ALL happening to us. How can we get people motivated and engaged? How can we get people to listen, when we have been conditioned to believe in borders that fracture our solidarity? You are invited to this unique opportunity to experience how “art” can be alive, sparking conversation, fighting disinformation, strengthening our coalitions, creating safety and influencing public policy. Date and time: September 23, 10 a.m.-noon, 2025. Location: Alumni Reading Room, Library, 3rd Floor. Participants will the. move outdoors to the Quad area for a performance finale. Please share any accessibility needs you might have so that we can support your participation.

The Dean of the School of Art @jorgeaoliver is thrilled to share that the incredible @dorianwoodmusic singer, composer and performance artist, will present a vocalization workshop, 𝒮𝑜𝓃𝑔, tomorrow, Sept. 3 on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus. This participatory performance will take place on the occasion of the 2025 School of Art exhibition Exquisite Relations, currently on view at Schafler Gallery through September 27, and was conceived by the faculty advisor to this year’s show @cassilsartist Please see workshop details below and we hope to see you tomorrow for what promises to be a joyful community chorus to kick start this fall semester! Register through link in bio! 𝒮𝑜𝓃𝑔 is a participatory vocal performance that explores presence as the root of vocalization. Singer Dorian Wood invites all types of voices, regardless of singing skill, to engage in a series of guided exercises and prompts, culminating in a roaming sonic infiltration on the campus of Pratt. Wood poses the following: as we each navigate ways to stay connected to our communities in times of oppression and uncertainty, feelings of discouragement may arise and thus impact the importance of “showing up”. But when we do, how do we each make ourselves known? What can our respective voices do when we are intentional in body and heart? Can a whisper, a sigh or a delicate hum reverberate as a thunderclap? Date: September 3, 2025 Location: Meet at the Rose Garden, behind the library at 2 p.m. Participants will make a path together through the Quad area, stopping at the Main Building Courtyard and finally at the Student Union. Time: 2 p.m.–5 p.m. Accessibility: Please share any accessibility needs you might have so that we can support your participation. Note that this workshop will begin outdoors and then move indoors. Image credit: Laura Pardo @prattinstitute @prattfineart @prattfilm_video @prattstudentunion @prattphotography @prattexhibits @prattdigitalarts @prattfoundation @prattarted @pratt_associate_degrees 🎶

NOW OPEN through Sept. 27! Visit 𝙀𝙭𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 at the Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus! Curated by @prattinstitute alums Olli Toppeta (History of Art and Design ‘22) and Dylan Kaleikaumaka Hill (History of Art and Design ‘23) Pratt’s School of Art Dean, @jorgeaoliver is pleased to invite you to 𝙀𝙭𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨. This exhibition showcases the work of 16 students and recent alumni whose work exists within and explores the queer aesthetic including the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, non-binary, pansexual, two-spirit, intersex (LGBTQIA+) experience. In selecting work for this year’s exhibition, and with the guidance of faculty supervisor, @cassilsartist Associate Professor of Sculpture and Integrated Practices in Fine Arts, the curators were inspired by the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and American author and theorist bell hooks to frame their vision—how queer identity is an unfurling site of becoming that invents and creates its own space to thrive. ✨CONGRATS TO ALL THE ARTISTS✨ Wei Yuan Chang (MFA Fine Arts Sculpture ‘25) Dani Coates (MPS Creative Arts Therapy ‘26)  Madison Dominguez-Norris (BFA Fine Arts, Drawing ‘26) Danninger Feng (BFA Fine Arts, Painting ‘25)  Tony Griego (MFA Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing ‘25)  Jalin London Alexander Kolen (BFA Photography ‘26)  Holland LaGarde (BFA Film/Video ‘26)  Onur Mavitas(MFA Digital Arts, Interactive Arts ‘25)  Nico McKible (BFA Fine Arts, Painting ‘28)  Mira Santo Tomas (BFA Film/Video ‘27)  Kianaz Shaterian (BFA Fine Arts, Painting ‘27)  Charlie Chayyim Shaw (BFA Photography ‘22, MS Library and Information Science ‘25)  Lo Smith (MFA Fine Arts, Printmaking ‘26)  Wren Stryker (BFA History of Art and Design ‘26)  Robin Theriault (BFA/MA Art and Design Education ‘25)  Eve Beatrice Weiner (BFA Photography ‘27) EXHIBITION RECEPTION  September 16, 5-7 p.m. GALLERY HOURS Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Thank you to our partners @prattexhibits @prattcei @prattalumni Visit in person and enjoy the show! #prattschoolofart @prattarted @prattfineart @prattfilm_video @prattphotography @prattdigitalarts

Thank you to everyone who came out for the opening reception of 'Lineage and Latitude' at The IW Gallery.Your presence brought so much energy and heart to the evening. We’re honored by the response and excited to announce that the exhibition has been extended through July 26. 'Lineage and Latitude' brings together artists who share a creative lineage through their studies at Pratt Institute, yet whose practices span continents and cultures. The exhibition reflects on how shared educational roots can grow in distinct directions , shaped by geography, experience, and personal evolution. Now, on view through July 26 Featuring works by : Aileen Schretzmayer @aileen.schretz Avery Schuster @avepaints Claire Heidinger @notyourclaire Eric Geithner @ericgeithner Elizabeth Hackenberg @elizabethhacken Greta Schneider @bunnyt33th_makes Herok @herok Hyun Sun Ohm @paintingbyhyun Monique Edwards @moniquekevitaedwards Nazli Efe @nazliefee Rodrigo Tafur @rodrigo.tafur.studio Siha Park @siha__park Susan Luss @susanluss Wei Yuan @weiyuan0414 Yedda Ye @yeddao_o Yeon Jong Jeong @bellinpond Yerang Moon @_moonyerang Zakariya Abdul-Qadir @zakariyaa.qadir #lineageandlatitude #thiwgallery #prattalumni #artexhibition #artopening #globalartists #aninclusiveworld

Last Monday, April 14th was Horses on Campus Day, an annual Pratt tradition. Our students took advantage of the opportunity and enjoyed some time outside getting inspired and drawing the horses Cisco and Tibbles. Check out some of the amazing work they did!  Students, if you see your work or any of your friends’, feel free to let us know in the comments.

📨INVITATION: SURREALISM TOMORROW Join us as we step into the dreamworld of student imagination and psychological insight at Surrealism Tomorrow! The exhibition features work that ranges from oil painting and sculpture to digitized claymation, video game design, and mixed-media installations - highlighting the creative range and surreal brilliance of our students. 🎨 Exhibition Opening 📍 Student Union 📅 Wednesday, April 16 🕒 3 PM Expert panel feedback by: Stephanie Weber, Lenbachhaus Munich Ana Janevski, The Museum of Modern Art Danielle Drori, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis Emir Kapetanović, Los Angeles-based filmmaker Cacho Falcon, New York City-based visual artist @prattinstitute @prattslas @hadpratt

It’s today! Co-hosted by the School of Art and Pratt’s Equestrian Team. 🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴#prattinstitute #goprattgo #rideihsa #ihsa #rideiea #interscholasticequestrianassociation #jamaicabayridingacademy #ieazon1 #ieazone2 #ieazone3 #iea_zone4 #ieazone5 #ieazone6 #ieazone7 #ieazone8 #ieazone, #ieazone10 #ieazone11 #highereducation #education #academics #collegeathlete #equestrian #equestriansports #athleticequestrian