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INSIDE THIS ISSUE • Vol. 21 • No. 4 • January 2011
ANNOUNCEMENTS

DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR 125TH ANNIVERSARY LOGO COMPETITION

The 125th Anniversary Logo Design Competition has been extended through January 31, 2011. All alumni, students, faculty, and staff are eligible to enter.

Read the design brief and learn how to enter.

Pratt Institute is holding a competition to find the best logo design to mark the Institute’s 125th anniversary. Beginning in September 2011, Pratt will begin marking the Institute’s 125th anniversary with 16 months of events, lectures, and exhibitions. The winning design will become the official logo for invitations, programs, and other materials used in connection with the lectures, exhibitions, and other events and activities taking place in honor of Pratt’s 125th anniversary; it will be used on all anniversary-branded materials such as street banners, invitations, and commemorative products.

ALUMNI, FACULTY,  STAFF
INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN
PRATT’S 125TH ANNIVERSARY
MEMORY PROJECT

As part of Pratt’s 125th Anniversary celebration, we’re launching the Pratt 125th Anniversary Memory Project, which will document the recollections of Institute alumni, faculty, and staff over the past 125 years. Pratt’s history spans some of the most important events of the 20th century—events that helped shape our culture and continue to influence society. Now, we’re turning to you to help us capture and preserve these precious stories.

Do you remember the elevated train that once ran through campus? The exhilarating classes with your favorite professor? The mood on campus and your response to the Vietnam War or the aftermath of September 11, 2001?  We invite you to share your most compelling memories and images of Pratt Institute through the decades. Selected submissions will appear in a special commemorative issue of Prattfolio, on the Pratt website, and in promotional and other materials related to Pratt’s 125th Anniversary. 

The deadline for submitting your memories is February 15, 2011! You may send your submissions to the 125th Anniversary Memory Project, including photographs (300 dpi at 100%, if possible), via email to 125memory@pratt.edu. Please include your contact information and Pratt affiliation, including degree and year if you are an alum.

STUDY ABROAD IN COPENHAGEN, DENMARK INFORMATION SESSION

Are you a current graduate or undergraduate student who wants to learn about cutting-edge Scandinavian design? Do you want to study architecture, furniture design, textile design, urban design, information design, and much more with faculty from the Royal Academy, Danish Design School, and the University of Copenhagen? If so, find out more about the Architecture and Design Program in Cophenhagen for students at the next DIS/Copenhagen Study Abroad information session:

Tuesday, February 15, 12:30 PM

Steuben Hall, 4th Floor

 

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EVENTS

EXHIBITIONS

 

BLIND DATES

PRATT MANHATTAN GALLERY
Manhattan Campus
144 W. 14th St. 
Second Floor, Tuesday–Saturday, 11 AM–6 PM

November 19, 2010–February 12, 2011
Special Lecture, Thursday, February 3, 6:30 PM

“What Image for the Death of the Witness?” A lecture by literary critic and cultural studies Professor Marc Nichanian of Sabanci University in Turkey. The lecture will look at the notion of creating an image for an event that deals with the death of a witness. 

From left: details from works by Linda Ganjian and Elif Uras; Silva Ajemian and Aslihan Demirtas

To create “Blind Dates,” co-curators Defne Ayas and Neery Melkonian paired artists and non-artists from areas once controlled by the Ottomans, including what is now modern-day Turkey and Armenia, to go on “blind dates.” 

The “match-making” created encounters between distanced neighbors and their estranged cultures; the exhibition is based on collaborations stemming from these encounters with “otherness.”

In conjunction with the exhibition

For more on the project, please visit the Pratt Manhattan Gallery or www.blinddatesproject.org.

 

SCHAFLER@25

THE RUBELLE AND NORMAN SCHAFLER GALLERY
Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Avenue
Chemistry Building, First Floor

Monday–Friday, 9 AM–5 PM; Saturday, 12—5 PM
October 7, 2010–January 21, 2011

Top row: Installation view, Schafler Gallery, Where are the Picassos in the Natural History Museum?, 1999. Bottom row (L-R): Adam Bezer, Untitled, September 11, 2001, Chromogenic Print; Leyla Modirzadeh, Secret Histories: Oxford, 15 minute DVD clip; Sally Tosti, Coney Island series, 2010, archival inkjet print, 15x10 inches

To celebrate a quarter century of exhibitions at The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, this exhibition includes recent work by alumni and students. Highlights of six of the most memorable and influential exhibitions will be reassembled along with recent work by original participants. The exhibition is guest-curated by Eleanor Moretta, former director for exhibitions.

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Monday
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SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN ALUMNI RECEPTION

PRATT COMMUNICATIONS DESIGN STUDIOS
123 West 18th Street, 3rd Floor, Manhattan

Thursday, February 10, 2011
5:30—7 PM

Alumni of the School of Art and Design are invited to a reception at Pratt's new Communications Design studios in Manhattan. The event is free and no tickets are necessary. This event is being held in conjunction with the annual College Art Association conference being held in New York February 9-12, 2011.

Alumni attending the conference are especially encouraged to attend the reception.

For more information, please contact Chair of the Department of Fine Arts, Donna Moran at dmoran@pratt.edu.

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Thursday
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2010-2011 ANNUAL VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES

Image from a 2008 performance of "The Rite of Spring," staged by the Bruce High Quality FoundationJanuary 25: The Bruce High Quality Foundation
February 8: Mary Mattingly
February 15: Ursula von Rydingsvard
March 8: David Diao
April 19: Josephine Meckseper

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo: Courtesy of the Bruce High Quality Foundation

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