Events, Awards, and Reviews

2020 Pratt Fine Arts Stuzman Foundation Awards and Fellowships:

BFA ’20 Sculpture Awards:  Cleo B, Tariq J M S Y Behbehani, Alayna Casey, Violet Cheverez Yun Sun Chun, Nicholas Hair, William Hilsee, Kirstie Hourigan, Michelle Kim• Harley Laratta, Charlotte Levinson, Marshall, Shaun McEnteem, Abbey Miller, Wyeth Milne, Annabel Paran, Sarah Pauley, Rosa Quimby, Joseph Racz, Emma Seely-Katz, Jonathan Sherwood, Hannah Zwier

MFA ’20 Fellowships: Jinyong Choi, Jennifer Ho, Jackie Slanley

Congratulations to MFA alum Nazanin Noroozi and Allen Ball for new residents at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) Studio Program

Professor and alum Jean Shin reviewed in Art in America

BFA Jewelry 2020 graduates, Maikel Ye and Qianwen Lu are finalists for Saul Bell Design Award Competition in the Emerging Jewelry Artist (22 yrs or younger)

MFA alum John Robshaw interviewed in Forbes

MFA alum Cory Sellers featured in The Montage

Professor Steve Locke received the 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship

Fine Arts BFA candidate Clarissa Hurst is making face masks for first responders and is featured in the NY Post

Fine Arts Chair Jane South reviewed in The New York Times

Professors Langdon Graves and Betty Yu selected as STONELEAF RETREAT residents

In the Studio with MFA alum Cristina de Miguel

Professor Mario Naves interviewed in the Art Students League

Professor Steve Locke interviewed in Boston Globe

School of Art Fellow Shaun Leonardo featured in The Brooklyn Rail

Fine Arts Chair Jane South reviewed in Observer

MFA alum Devin B. Johnson featured in Artnet News

Professor Steve Locke contributes essay on former Pratt Professor Jacob Lawrence’s exhibition catalog at the Peabody Essex Museum and Alum Derrick Adams in the PBS feature on Jacob Lawrence

Professor Riad Miah’s reviews in Two Coats of Paint and Art Spiel

Professor Robert Morgan’s review in White Hot Magazine

Professor Judith Solodkin honored at the IPCNY Benefit

BFA Drawing Senior Devin Alexander’s mural on Myrtle Avenue by Film/Video for Black Artstory Month

Talk Artists visit with MFA alum Salman Toor featured in the New York Times

MFA alum Bradley Ward interviewed in JOIA Magazine

MFA alums Jiwon Rhie and Yesuk Seo received 2020 AIM Fellowship at the Bronx Museum

MFA alum Kelly Worman featured in The Coastal Post

Professor and alum Jean Shin featured in the New York Times

Pratt Alumni Push the Boundaries of Painting at UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach

Professor Peggy Cyphers reviewed in Art511 Magazine

MFA alum Jamaal Peterman featured in New American Paintings 

MFA alum Salmon Toor featured in Art of Choice

MFA alum Jennifer Wen Ma received Anonymous Was A Woman award

Professor Langdon interviewed in Art in America

Professor Mary Mattingly named Brooklyn Public Library’s Artist in Residence 2020

MFA alum Trudy Benson and Jason Stopa are featured as emerging artists redefining abstract painting in Artsy

MFA alum and Professor Jason Stopa’s review in Art Forum of  a show he curated and is in “New Skin” along with Professor Michael Berryhill, MFA alum Clare Grill, and former Professor Shirley Kaneda

MFA candidate Taylor Bielekie feature in the Phoenix News 

BFA candidate Collete Bernard’s recent mural project commissioned by the Lafayette DDA and the Children’s Museum of Acadiana

Pratt Center for Teaching & Learning News and Spring Workshops

MFA alum and Assistant Chair Nat Meade reviewed in Juxtapoz Magazine

Professor Angela Conant curated exhibition “MAD” reviewed in Artforum

MFA alum Yasmeen Abdallah co-curated exhibition reviewed in ANTE

Professor Steve Locke featured in exhibition catalog from Gardner Museum

Professor Chris Wright received 2019 MacDowell Colony Fellowship

Professor Laurel Sparks received 2019 MacDowell Colony Fellowship

Professor and alum Jean Shin reviewed in BOMB magazine

MFA alum Lizzy Lunday reviewed in CANVAS

BFA alum Maya Rose Weiss won the 2019 Ethical Metalsmiths Choice award in the So Fresh + So Clean competition

MFA alum Gwen Shockey reviewed in Hyperallergic

MFA alum Yasmeen Abdallah reviewed in Art Savvy

School of Art Fellow Shaun Leonardo’s exhibition review in the New York Times

Professor Joe Fyfe interviewed on Brian Alfred Sound & Vision podcasts 

MFA alum Salman Toor reviewed in Momus

Pratt Sculpture Park reviewed in Bklyner

MFA alum Devin B. Johnson selected for the the Black Rock Senegal Residency Program

MFA Katherine Croft selected as a Finalist for the AXA Art Prize

Professor and alum Chris Wright awarded residencies at MacDowell Colony and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts Residency in Wyoming

MFA alum Hyun Jung awarded 2019 Emerging Art Award by  Banditto Art

Congratulations to Professor Greg Drasler for being awarded a Pollock Krasner Grant

Congratulations to School of Art Fellow, Shaun Leonardo, a 2019 Blade of Grass Fellow for Socially Engaged Art and partnership with SPArt Los Angeles

Fine Arts Chair Jane South and Visiting Professor Shaun Leonardo on Hyperallergic Podcast

MFA alum Melissa Staiger’s curated Pamela Colman Smith show featured in The New York Times

MFA alums Loney Abrams and Jonathan Stanish in The New York Times

Assistant Chair Nat Meade’s review in Artforum

Professor Jean Shin interviewed on WAMC

Professor Allen Frame interviewed in Artforum

Pratt’s Center for Teaching and Learning 

Congratulations to Professor and alum Alan Ruiz for the 2019 Creative Capital Award