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20 unusual facts about Pratt Institute


Anuthin Wongsunkakon

After completing his bachelor degree he continued his studies in New York at Pratt Institute, choosing it for the city it’s in rather than for its prestigiousness or distinction.

ArtBots

The show is promoted by arts organizations, engineering groups such as the Robotics Society of America, and educational institutions like Columbia University, New York University (NYU), and Pratt Institute.

Chief Magazine

Zipco and Smith originally became friends while attending the Pratt Institute of Art and Design.

Core77

The site began as two students' graduate school project at Brooklyn, New York's Pratt Institute.

Don Ritter

Ritter has held tenured professorships in art and design at Concordia University in Montreal and at Pratt Institute New York City.

Donald A. Hall

He attended the Manual Training High School in Brooklyn, and graduated from the Pratt Institute with a certificate in mechanical engineering in 1917.

Harry Lucey

Lucey, who graduated from the Pratt Institute in 1935, worked on both adventure and humor titles for MLJ, including acting as the regular artist on The Hangman, before being drafted into the United States Army.

Jeremy Jarvis

There, he attended Pratt Institute as a Fine Arts major, graduating Summa Cum Laude.

John M. Pierce

Pierce graduated in architectural engineering from Pratt Institute in 1910.

Kelton House Museum and Garden

Grace was one of the first people in the country to make her living as an interior decorator, having studied at both the Parsons School of Design and the Pratt Institute.

Lucy Fitch Perkins

A year later, she followed Walter Scott Perry to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York to become his assistant.

Marie L. Shedlock

Mary Wright Plummer, director of the Pratt Institute Library attended one of her public recitals and invited her to perform.

Naz Shahrokh

Her work is housed in national and international public collections including: The Library of Congress, Washington D.C. – Reactions Collection, Exit Art; The Alexandria Library, Alexandria, Egypt; Art Museum of SouthEast Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; and Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ.

Shahrokh gained first her BFA in Painting, then her Masters MFA/MS in Painting and Art History, from Pratt Institute.

NYArts

NY Arts Magazine is published quarterly, as well as online, and is edited by Matthew Hassell, a graduate of Pratt Institute.

Pratt Center for Community Development

Founded in 1964 with a grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Pratt Center's original goal was to create a partnership between Pratt Institute’s planning department and local New York organizations eager to address issues of urban deterioration and poverty.

Located in Brooklyn, NY and part of Pratt Institute, Pratt Center leverages professional skills and practical experience in the areas of community organizing, policy advocacy, planning and technical assistance to support community-based organizations and small businesses in their efforts to improve neighborhood quality of life and to develop replicable models for equitable, sustainable community development.

Strasenburgh Planetarium

An architectural design by Robert Napier, then a student at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, included a detached planetarium building at the corner of East Avenue and Goodman Street, just west of the main Museum building.

Ted Lewin

He graduated from LHS in 1952, and in 1956 earned a BFA degree from Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn, where he met his wife, Betsy Reilly.

Tee Corinne

With a B.A. in printmaking and painting (with minors in English and history) from University of South Florida, Corrine went onto get an M.F.A. in drawing and sculpture at Pratt Institute in 1968.


Kathryn Abbe

Abbe attended the Pratt Institute, where she studied under Walter Civardi and painter Reginald Marsh; she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1941.

Lili Lakich

After graduating from high school near Fort Meade, Maryland (between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.), she went to college at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Matsubara Naoko

She then pursued an MFA in the School of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on a Fulbright Travel Grant, and since then has traveled extensively and taught at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn—a rare distinction for a Japanese woman.

Sofia Maldonado

She received a BFA from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas (2006) in San Juan, a Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in 2008, and was a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center.