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Pratt Institute is a specialized, private college in New York City
New York City

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 with campuses in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
 and Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
, as well as in Utica, New York
Utica, New York

Utica is a city in the American state of New York, and the county seat of Oneida County, New York.The City of Utica is situated within the region referred to as the Mohawk Valley and the U.S....
. Pratt is one of the leading art schools in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and offers programs in art, architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
, fashion design
Fashion design

Fashion design is the applied art dedicated to clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time....
, illustration
Illustration

An illustration is a Information graphic such as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. The aim of an illustration is to elucidate or decorate textual information by providing a visual representation....
, interior design
Interior design

Interior Design is a profession concerned with anything that is found inside a space - walls, windows, doors, finishes, textures, light, furnishings and furniture....
, digital arts, creative writing, library science
Library science

Library science is an interdisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to library; the collection, organization, Preservation: Library and Archival Science and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information....
, and other areas. Pratt is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design

The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design is a non-profit consortium of thirty-six of the leading degree-granting art colleges in the United States....
 (AICAD), a consortium of thirty-six leading art schools in the United States.

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Charles Pratt

Charles Pratt was a United States capitalism, businessman and philanthropist.Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York....
 (1830-1891) was an early pioneer of the natural oil industry in the United States.






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Pratt Institute is a specialized, private college in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 with campuses in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
 and Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
, as well as in Utica, New York
Utica, New York

Utica is a city in the American state of New York, and the county seat of Oneida County, New York.The City of Utica is situated within the region referred to as the Mohawk Valley and the U.S....
. Pratt is one of the leading art schools in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and offers programs in art, architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
, fashion design
Fashion design

Fashion design is the applied art dedicated to clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time....
, illustration
Illustration

An illustration is a Information graphic such as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. The aim of an illustration is to elucidate or decorate textual information by providing a visual representation....
, interior design
Interior design

Interior Design is a profession concerned with anything that is found inside a space - walls, windows, doors, finishes, textures, light, furnishings and furniture....
, digital arts, creative writing, library science
Library science

Library science is an interdisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to library; the collection, organization, Preservation: Library and Archival Science and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information....
, and other areas. Pratt is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design

The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design is a non-profit consortium of thirty-six of the leading degree-granting art colleges in the United States....
 (AICAD), a consortium of thirty-six leading art schools in the United States.

History

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Charles Pratt
Charles Pratt

Charles Pratt was a United States capitalism, businessman and philanthropist.Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York....
 (1830-1891) was an early pioneer of the natural oil industry in the United States. He was founder of Astral Oil Works
Astral Oil Works

Astral Oil Works was founded in the Greenpoint, Brooklyn section of Brooklyn, New York by Charles Pratt. Pratt was a pioneer of the petroleum industry who formed Charles Pratt and Company with Henry H....
 in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, New York. He joined with his protégé Henry H. Rogers
Henry H. Rogers

Henry Huttleston Rogers was a United States capitalism, businessman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist. ...
 to form Charles Pratt and Company
Charles Pratt and Company

Charles Pratt and Company was an oil company that was formed in Brooklyn, New York in the United States by Charles Pratt and Henry H. Rogers in 1867....
 in 1867. Both companies became part of John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller was an United States industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy....
's Standard Oil
Standard Oil

Standard Oil was a predominant United States integrated petroleum producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 as an Ohio Corporation, it was the largest oil refiner in the world and operated as a major company trust and was one of the world's first and largest multinational corporations until it was broken up...
 in 1874.

Pratt is credited with recognizing the growing need for trained industrial workers in a changing economy. In 1886, he founded and endowed the Pratt Institute, which opened in Brooklyn in 1887.

Presidents

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# Charles Pratt
Charles Pratt

Charles Pratt was a United States capitalism, businessman and philanthropist.Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York....
 (1830-1891), president from 1887-1891
  1. Charles Millard Pratt
    Charles Millard Pratt

    Charles Millard Pratt was an American oil industrialist and philanthropist....
     (1855-1935), 1891-1893
  2. Frederic B. Pratt
    Frederic B. Pratt

    Frederic Bayley Pratt was the president of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute for 44 years, from 1893-1937....
     (1865-1945), 1893-1937
  3. Charles Pratt (1892-?), 1937-1953
  4. Francis H. Horn, 1953-1957
  5. Robert Fisher Oxnam (1915-1974), 1957-1960
  6. James Britt Donovan (1916-1970), 1968-1970
  7. Richardson Pratt Jr (1923-2001) (grandson of Charles Millard Pratt and gt-grandson of Charles Pratt), 1972-1990
  8. Warren F. Ilchman (1933-), 1990-1993
  9. Thomas F. Schutte (1936-), 1993 to present


Campus

Higgins
Pratt Institute is a closed campus with four public entrances, two of which close in the evening hours. The main gate on Willoughby Avenue is guarded by a security post 24 hours a day. Buildings on campus include the Library, Dekalb Hall, ISC Building, Main Building, North Hall, East Building, Student Union, Memorial Hall, Machinery Building, Chemistry Building, Engineering Building, Pratt Studios, Steuben Hall, and the ARC building. There is also on campus housing for faculty. Off campus building includes the newly renovated Higgins Hall which contains all the Architecture studios.

In addition, Pratt has another campus in Manhattan on 14th Street between 6th and 7th Avenue. This new building houses the Graduate School for Information and Library Science, the Graduate Program in Communications and Packaging Design, Associates Degree Programs in Digital Design, Graphic Design and Illustration. The modern building has many resources like a library, computer lab and meeting spaces. In 1977, the original school was opened in a nineteenth-century women's dress-design school, a New York City Landmark building at Lexington Avenue and 31st Street. At this time, Manhattan had long been the epicenter of publishing design during the latter-twentieth century, and this new commercial-art-dedicated satellite was modeled to apply intensely concentrated vocational training in graphic design, illustration, package design, and textile design. It's faculty was largely composed of Manhattan's working professionals, who themselves had achieved the level of skill necessary to meet the city's global-defining standards. Magazines, books, music albums, movie posters, print and television advertisements and packaging for all forms of retail products were the intended goals for it's graduates, as well as Manhattan's omnipresent fashion industry. In addition, the below-ground space in the school was converted into a state of the art printmaking facility, teaching artist-created lithography, silkscreening and engraving.

Residence Halls

All residence hall students are provided with a bed (twin extra-long), a drafting table, a chair and a dresser. Students residing in a dorm on campus are required to be on a mandatory meal plan (Stabile, Cannonner, ELJ and Pantas), while those off campus are able to sign-up for an optional meal plan (Willoughby and Grand Avenue).

Cannoneer Court
Cannoneer Court, or "The Cann" was designed by famed architecture firm SOM in 1986 and constructed using a then-unique form of modular construction. Each individual dorm room was constructed off-site and then set into place like building blocks. It accommodates 94 students between two hallways. This traditional corridor style residence houses students in double rooms. Bathrooms are communal. The building has a lounge and work area as well as a garden courtyard. The rooms are air conditioned and carpeted. Although it was meant for temporary housing in 1986, this building still stands today for use as freshman housing as well as late-acceptance students and transfers. The first floor of this two-floor building is used as Graduate Fine Arts studios.

Esther Lloyd-Jones Hall
Esther Lloyd Jones Hall is named for a trend-setter in modern American higher education. ELJ accommodates students single and double rooms. ELJ is comprised primarily upperclassmen continuing students; vacancies for new transfer and graduate students sometimes do occur.

Leo J. Pantas Hall
Designed by SOM in 1986, Leo J. Pantas dormitory sits centrally located on campus. Students live in four-person suites, which consist of two double-rooms (two people in each double-room). Each suite has its own bathroom. Suites are single sex, but floors are coed. Each suite is responsible for the healthy upkeep of the common bathroom area. The building boasts a large work area in addition to a dramatic main lounge area with a large screen TV. Its central location on campus makes it desirable to students, with its clock tower serving as a campus landmark.

Grand Avenue
Grand Avenue Residence is home to new and continuing graduate students. The building can accommodate 50 students in efficiency apartments (double and single) and private single rooms within two and three-bedroom apartments. A double efficiency is two students sharing a one-room apartment (with kitchen and bath). A single efficiency is one student in a private one room apartment (with kitchen and bath. A shared single is two or more students, each with their own private bedroom, sharing kitchen, bath and living room. The building is located one block from campus. Each living room is furnished with a sofa, club chair, coffee table, kitchen table and chairs.

Willoughby Hall
Willoughby Residence Hall is a former 16 (no 13th floor) story apartment co-op, and is the largest residence hall. It accommodates 800 undergraduate men and women. Very few apartments are now coed. In addition to the standard furniture, all apartments have a kitchen table, stove and refrigerator. All students assigned to double, triple and single spaces. The converted apartments consist of: at least one double or triple that occupies the former living room space of the apartment. The number of students residing in a given apartment ranges from 2–6 students, depending upon the size of the converted apartment - studio, one bedroom, two bedroom or three bedroom.

Stabile Hall
Vincent A. Stabile Hall opened in the Fall of 1999. Named for the donor and graduate of the Engineering School, Stabile Hall was designed for new undergraduate students. It houses 240 students in four person suites. Each suite consists of two double rooms with a shared bath. There are kitchenette
Kitchenette

A kitchenette is a cooking area in motel and hotel rooms, studio apartment, college Dormitory, or office buildings. It usually consists of a small refrigerator, a microwave oven or hotplate, and, less frequently, a sink....
s located on each floor. The award-winning design of the building boasts a large common lounge with smaller work and lounge spaces on each floor all of which contribute to a vital living and working environment.

Schools


  • Pratt Institute School of Architecture
    Pratt Institute School of Architecture

    The Pratt Institute School of Architecture is one of the largest in the country, and is located in historic Higgins Hall, a block from the Main Brooklyn Campus....
    • Department of Undergraduate Architecture
    • Department of Graduate Architecture
    • Department of Construction Management
    • Department of Facilities Management
    • Department of Graduate Architecture and Urban Design
    • Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment
  • School of Art and Design
    • Department of Foundation Art
    • Department of Art and Design Education
    • Department of Creative Arts Therapy
    • Department of Arts and Cultural Management
    • Department of Communications Design
    • Department of Graduate Communications/Packaging Design
    • Department of Digital Arts
    • Department of Design Management
    • Department of Fashion Design
    • Department of Fine Arts
    • Department of the History of Art & Design
    • Department of Industrial Design
    • Department of Interior Design
    • Department of Media Arts
    • Associate Degree Programs
  • School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
    • Department of English and Humanities
    • Critical and Visual Studies
    • Intensive English Program
    • Department of Math and Science
    • Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies
    • Writing Program
  • School of Information and Library Sciences
  • Center for Continuing Education and Professional Studies


Notable Alumni

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    Deepak Ananthapadmanabha

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     (web-based journalist)
  • Ralph Appelbaum
    Ralph Appelbaum

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     (museum designer)
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    David Ascalon

    David Ascalon is a contemporary sculpture and stained glass artist, and co-founder of Ascalon Studios....
     (sculptor)
  • Ken Bald
    Ken Bald

    Kenneth Bruce Bald is an United States illustrator and comic book artist best known for the Judd Saxon, Dr. Kildare, and Dark Shadows newspaper comic strips....
     (illustrator; newspaper comic strip artist)
  • Lindsey Ann Ballato (LynZ) (musician -bassist of band Mindless Self Indulgence
    Mindless Self Indulgence

    Mindless Self Indulgence is an American electropunk band, formed in New York City in 1997. Their music has a mixed style including electronica, Punk rock and industrial metal....
    , painter)
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    Joseph Barbera

    Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera ; was an influential American animator, film director, Film producer, storyboard artist, and cartoonist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....
     (cartoonist, Hanna-Barbera Productions)
  • Timothy D. Bellavia
    Timothy D. Bellavia

    Biography Timothy D. Bellavia is a children's author, illustrator and educator with a M.F.A. from Pratt Institute. He is an alumnus of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture....
     (children's author / illustrator)
  • Gwendolyn B. Bennett
    Gwendolyn B. Bennett

    Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African American writer who contributed greatly to Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, which chronicled cultural advancements in Harlem....
     (poet, artist, a central figure of Harlem
  • Dave Berg
    Dave Berg (cartoonist)

    Dave Berg was an American cartoonist, most noted for his work in Mad .Berg showed early artistic talents, attending Pratt Institute when he was 12 years old, and later studying at Cooper Union....
     (cartoonist, MAD Magazine)
  • William D. Byron
    William D. Byron

    William Devereux Byron, II a Democratic Party , was a United States House of Representatives who represented the United States House of Representatives, Maryland District 6 of Maryland from January 3, 1939 to February 27, 1941....
    , Maryland
    Maryland

    Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
     (politician)
  • Bernard Chang
    Bernard Chang

    Bernard Chang is an Asian American artist/designer best known for his work in the comic book industry and entertainment design. He started drawing comics professionally in 1992 while attending Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York on a full scholarship for architecture....
     (illustrator)
  • Echo Chernik
    Echo Chernik

    Echo Chernik, maiden name McKinney, is an American Art Nouveau artist.Born in Ellington, Connecticut, Chernik graduated summa cum laude from Pratt Institute in 1995 with a BFA in Communication Design | Illustration....
     (illustrator)
  • Pamela Colman Smith
    Pamela Colman Smith

    Pamela Colman Smith was an artist, illustrator, and writer. She is best known for designing the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of divinatory tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite....
     (illustrated the Rider-Waite tarot deck)
  • Daniel Clowes
    Daniel Clowes

    Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an Academy Award-nominated United States author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comics. Most of Clowes' work appears first in his ongoing anthology Eightball , a collection of self-contained narratives and serialized graphic novels....
     (cartoonist, screenwriter, author of Art School Confidential
    Art School Confidential (comics)

    "Art School Confidential" is a four-page black-and-white Comics by Daniel Clowes. It originally appeared in issue #7 of Clowes' comic book Eightball and was later reprinted in the book collections Orgy Bound and Twentieth Century Eightball....
    , a story related to the author's experience in Pratt)
  • Roger Cook
    Roger Cook (graphic designer)

    Roger Cook is an internationally known United States graphic designer, photographer and artist.He was president of Cook and Shanosky Associates, a graphic design firm he founded in 1967....
     (graphic designer)
  • Joshua Davis
    Joshua Davis (web designer)

    Joshua Davis is an United States web designer, author and artist in new media. He was an early pioneer in the use of Macromedia Flash. He is the author of Flash to the Core and was featured in the seminal book New Masters of Flash ....
     (web and graphic design)
  • Ben de Lisi
    Ben de Lisi

    Ben de Lisi is a London-based American Fashion designer.Born in New York, he studies sculputre at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, before moving to London to work in the fashion industry in 1982....
     (fashion designer)
  • Louis Delsarte
    Louis Delsarte

    Louis J. Delsarte is an African American artist who is known for what has sometimes been called his "illusionistic" style. He is a Painting, muralist, printmaker, and illustrator....
     (artist)
  • Tomie DePaola
    Tomie dePaola

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     (children's author/illustrator)
  • Lloyd Espenschied
    Lloyd Espenschied

    Lloyd Espenschied was an United States electrical engineer....
     (electrical engineer)
  • Jules Feiffer
    Jules Feiffer

    Jules Ralph Feiffer is an award-wininng United States Print syndication comic-strip cartoonist and author. He is the author of numerous plays, screenplays and children's books ....
     (cartoonist)
  • Harvey Fierstein
    Harvey Fierstein

    Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor and playwright....
     (actor)
  • John Flansburgh
    John Flansburgh

    John Conant Flansburgh is an actor and musician. He is half of the longstanding Brooklyn, New York-based alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants, for which he writes, sings and plays rhythm guitar....
     (musician, half of the band They Might Be Giants
    They Might Be Giants

    They Might Be Giants is a Grammy Award-winning Music of the United States alternative rock band which began as a duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, and currently also includes Marty Beller, Dan Miller , and Danny Weinkauf....
    )
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    Richard Foster (architect)

    Richard T. Foster was a modernist architect who worked in the New York area, and also around Greenwich, Connecticut, often in partnership with Philip Johnson, including the Glass House located in New Canaan, Connecticut....
  • Roderick Gilchrist (Director of the Cartoon Art Museum)
    Roderick Gilchrist (Director of the Cartoon Art Museum)

    Rod graduated with his M.F.A at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. He began his work in the arts at Shapolsky Gallery. He taught at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Hofstra University Long Island and the New College San Francisco, CA....
  • Eric Goldberg
    Eric Goldberg (film director)

    Eric Goldberg is an United States animator and film director. He is best known for his work at Walt Disney Feature Animation.Born and raised in New Jersey, Goldberg later studied at the Pratt Institute, where he majored in illustration....
     (Disney animator)
  • Félix González-Torres
    Félix González-Torres

    Felix Gonzalez-Torres was a Cuban artist who grew up in Puerto Rico before moving to New York City. Gonzalez-Torres had his first one-man exhibition of his early text pieces in 1988 at the Rastovsky Gallery in Soho....
     (artist)
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    Bill Griffith

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     (cartoonist)
  • Jan Groover
    Jan Groover

    Jan Groover is an United States photography residing in Montpon-Menesterol, France, She is noted for her use of emerging color technologies. Groover received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1965 from Pratt Institute, and a Master of Arts in 1970 from Ohio State University....
     (B.F.A. 1965) photographer
    Photography

    Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an ....
     noted for her use of emerging color
    Color

    Color or colour is the visual perception property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others....
     technologies.
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  • Eva Hesse
    Eva Hesse

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     (sculptor)
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    Betsey Johnson

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     (fashion designer)
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    Malcolm Jones III

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     (comic book artist)
  • Ellsworth Kelly
    Ellsworth Kelly

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     (painter, sculptor)
  • Jack Kirby
    Jack Kirby

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     (comic book artist, most noted for his involvement with Captain America
    Captain America

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     and Fantastic Four
    Fantastic Four

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    )
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     (installation artist, designer, inventor)
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    Arnold Lobel

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     (illustrator, author of the Frog & Toad
    Frog and Toad

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     books)
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     (award winning Art & Advertising Director, known for his legendary series of covers for Esquire Magazine)
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    Robert Mapplethorpe

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     (photographer)
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     (painter)
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    Alan Scott

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    , developed the Pillsbury Doughboy
    Pillsbury Doughboy

    "The Pillsbury Doughboy", known as Poppin' Fresh, is an advertising icon and mascot of The Pillsbury Company, appearing in many of their commercials....
     concept.)
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     (fashion designer)
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  • Roberto Parada
    Roberto Parada

    Roberto Parada is a freelance illustrator who has been creating paintings for major American magazines for the past 15 years. Some of the publications include TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, Reader's Digest, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated and Esquire....
     (illustrator)
  • Beverly Pepper
    Beverly Pepper

    Beverly Pepper is a Modern Art sculptor, and Abstract art Painting.She was born Beverly Stoll on December 20, 1922, in New York City, and educated at the Pratt Institute and the Art Students League of New York....
     (sculptor)
  • Denis Peterson
    Denis Peterson

    Denis Peterson is an United States artist. He is a hyperrealist painter whose early Photorealism works were exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, and Max Hutchinson Gallery in New York....
     (photorealist painter)
  • John Peterson (author)
    John Peterson (author)

    John Peterson was an American author of children's books during the 20th century. He is best remembered as the creator of The Littles, which began as a series of books in 1967, later adapted into a long-running animated cartoon series by DiC Entertainment....
     (children's book author)
  • Charles Pollock (Chair design)
  • Charles E. Pont
    Charles E. Pont

    Charles Ernest Pont was a Swiss-American artist and Baptist minister. Although his ministerial career was not particularly noteworthy, he was a prolific artist in many media including watercolor painting, printmaking, oil painting, pen and ink, and drawing....
     (painter, illustrator, printmaker, graphic designer)
  • Bob Powell
    Bob Powell

    Bob Powell is a United States composer.In 2004 Bob released the Bob Powell Anthology as open source audio on the Internet.Discography also includes Evil Flower Volume One, Dreamscape Of The Falcon, Pussywillow Patch, Pretzel Head, Room 417, Leftover Noodles and Los Angeles....
     (comic book artist)
  • George Pratt
    George Pratt (artist)

    George Pratt is an award-winning United States Painting and illustrator known for his work in the comic book field....
     (painter and graphic novel artist)
  • Paul Rand
    Paul Rand

    Paul Rand , born Peretz Rosenbaum, was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate Logotype designs. Rand was educated at the Pratt Institute , and the Art Students League of New York ....
     (graphic designer)
  • Robert Redford
    Robert Redford

    Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
     (actor, director)
  • Robert Riger
    Robert Riger

    Robert Riger was a celebrated sports illustrator, photographer, award-winning television director, and cinematographer.John Szarkowski, former director of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art, said, "His photographs are documents, and the best of them are also pictures that now have a life of their own, and that would have giv...
      (illustrator, photographer)
  • Robert Sabuda
    Robert Sabuda

    Robert James Sabuda is a leading children's pop-up book artist and paper engineering. His recent books, such as those depicting the stories of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, have received wide popular and critical acclaim....
     (children's book creator)
  • Stefan Sagmeister
    Stefan Sagmeister

    Stefan Sagmeister is a graphic designer and typographer currently based in New York City. He has his own design firm, Sagmeister Inc. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, the Rolling Stones, David Byrne , Aerosmith and Pat Metheny....
     (graphic designer)
  • Jeremy Scott
    Jeremy Scott

    Jeremy Scott is a Missouri-born fashion designer. He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY for fashion design. Jeremy is best known for his outrageous and sometimes comical designs....
     (fashion designer)
  • Nat Mayer Shapiro (painter)
  • David Silverman
    David Silverman

    David Silverman is an animator best known for film director numerous episodes of the animated TV series The Simpsons, as well as The Simpsons Movie....
     (animator)
  • Patti Smith
    Patti Smith

    Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an United States singer-songwriter, poet and artist who was a highly influential component of the punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses ....
     (singer and poet)
  • Frank Smith
    Frank Smith

    Frank Smith may refer to:In government and politics:*Frank Smith , Canadian senator and businessman*Frank Smith Montana State Senator*Frank Owens Smith , U.S....
     (fashion designer)
  • Swoon
    Swoon (artist)

    SWOON is a street artist from New York City who specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures. Swoon studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and started doing street art around 1999....
     (street artist)
  • Elliot Tiber
    Elliot Tiber

    Elliot Tiber is an artist and screenwriter and was instrumental in getting the Woodstock Festival to be held in Bethel, New York in 1969.Tiber's autobiography is to be turned into a movie Taking Woodstock directed by Ang Lee and scheduled to be released in 2009....
     (screenwriter who "saved" Woodstock Festival
    Woodstock Festival

    Woodstock was a music festival, billed as An Aquarian Exposition, held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969....
    )
  • Dante Tomaselli
    Dante Tomaselli

    Dante Tomaselli is an Italian-American horror screenwriter, film director, and score composer....
     (director, score composer, writer)
  • William Van Alen
    William Van Alen

    William Van Alen was an United States architect, best known as the architect in charge of designing New York City's Chrysler Building ....
     (architect, designer of the Chrysler Building
    Chrysler Building

    The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan in the Turtle Bay, Manhattan area at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue ....
    )
  • Max Weber (artist)
    Max Weber (artist)

    Max Weber was a Polish-American Painting who worked in the style of cubism before migrating to Jewish themes towards the end of his life.Born in Bialystok, then part of Poland occupied by Russia, he immigrated to America with his parents at the age of 10....
     (painter)
  • Kent Williams
    Kent Williams

    Kent Williams is an American Painting and graphic novel artist.A graduate of the Pratt Institute in New York City, Williams, a consummate draftsman and painter, has realized his work through various other artistic channels as well; that of the illustrated word and the graphic novel , printmaking, photography, design, architecture, and film...
     (illustrator)
  • William T. Williams
    William T. Williams

    William T. Williams was born in Cross Creek, North Carolina, United States. He received a BFA degree from Pratt Institute in 1966 and studied at The Skowhegan School of Art....
     (artist)
  • Robert Wilson
    Robert Wilson (director)

    Robert Wilson is an United States of America avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America]'s — or even the world's — foremost vanguard 'theater artist'"....
     (director)
  • Rob Zombie
    Rob Zombie

    Robert Bartleh Cummings , better known by his stage name, Rob Zombie, is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer....
     (musician, director, writer)
  • Peter Zumthor
    Peter Zumthor

    Peter Zumthor is a Swiss architect, considered one of the most important in the world....
     (architect)


Athletics


The Pratt Cannoneers, a founding member of the Hudson Valley Athletic Conference (NCAA Division III), has varsity teams competing in men's basketball, soccer, cross-country, indoor/outdoor track, and tennis; as well as women's soccer, tennis, cross-country, indoor/outdoor track, and volleyball.

The men's basketball team has a storied tradition, including the 4th longest collegiate basketball rivalry in the nation between Pratt and Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, NY), with Pratt holding the overall record 78-59. The Cannoneers also took home a national collegiate championship title in 1901, and made four NAIA ('59, '60, '61, and '62) and two ECAC ('77,'79) post-season appearances. Former players included Ed Mazria ('62), who was drafted by the New York Knicks, and Anthony Heyward ('94), who currently tours with the And1 streetball team as "Half Man Half Amazing".

The women's cross-country team recently captured the 2006 HMWAC championship title and coach Dalton Evans won "Coach of the Year" honors. The men's cross-country team also has a championship title. The women's tennis team has won three HVWAC titles, including an appearance in the ECAC tournament.

In addition, there are intramural activities schedules throughout the year, ranging from individual (tennis and track & field) to team sports (soccer, basketball, volleyball, and touch football). Two premier student intramurals events include the fall classic Halloween Pratt Ratt Outdoor Obstacle Relay Race and the annual Mr. & Ms. Pratt All Thatt Fitness & Artistic Expression Pageant finale.

The Athletics Resource Center (A.R.C.) is home to the athletic department, and features the largest clear-span space in Brooklyn. It also hosts the annual Colgate Games, the nation's largest amateur track series for girls from elementary school through college.

The school's mascot, "the Cannoneer", takes the name from the 19th century cannon which stands prominently near the main gate to the campus. Cast in bronze in Seville, Spain, the cannon bears the insignia of Philip the Fifth and was brought to Pratt from the walls of Morro Castle in Havana, Cuba in 1899.

Trivia

  • The library at Pratt Institute opened in 1888 to serve not only students but the general public as well, was the first free public library in Brooklyn. The architect on the building was William Tubby
    William Tubby

    William Bunker Tubby was an American architect, particularly in New York City.Tubby was born in Des Moines, Iowa and graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1875....
     of Brooklyn. The decoration in the building was done by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company.
  • The school had a radio station in the mid 1980s which broadcast on a limited-range signal. After students modified the broadcast tower, the FCC
    Federal Communications Commission

    The Federal Communications Commission is an Independent agencies of the United States government, created, directed, and empowered by United States Congress statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President of the United States....
     stepped in and shut it down. The station later re-emerged in 2001 as an internet-only station and continues to broadcast from http://www.prattradio.com.
  • Comic book
    Comic book

    A comic book is a magazine or book of narrative artwork and dialog and descriptive prose. The style was introduced in 1934. Despite the term, comic books do not necessarily feature humorous subject-matter; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented....
     artist Daniel Clowes
    Daniel Clowes

    Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an Academy Award-nominated United States author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comics. Most of Clowes' work appears first in his ongoing anthology Eightball , a collection of self-contained narratives and serialized graphic novels....
    's experience at the Pratt Institute provided the inspiration for his satirical comic
    Comics

    Comics is a graphic Mass media in which are utilized in order to convey a sequential narrative; the term, derived from massive early use to convey comic themes, came to be applied to all uses of this medium including those which are far from comic....
     "Art School Confidential", upon which the 2006 film of the same name was based.
  • Segments of the 1990 movie Jacob's Ladder
    Jacob's Ladder (film)

    Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 in film Thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne, based on a screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin. It stars Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pe?a, Danny Aiello, and Jason Alexander....
     were filmed at Pratt, as well as scenes for the 2006 film The Good Shepherd
    The Good Shepherd (film)

    The Good Shepherd is a 2006 in film spy film directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie, with an extensive supporting cast....
    , directed by Robert De Niro
    Robert De Niro

    Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
    . Some episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American drama television program about the Special Victims Unit in a fictional version of the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department....
     have been filmed on campus.
  • Pratt has a closed-circuit television station, PRATT TV, located on channel 66 on campus. (Founded in 2000). Until recently, the channel was home to a blank VCR screen.
  • Pratt's Brooklyn campus is home to a number of cats which are known as the 'Pratt Cats'.
  • The school's colors are black and cadmium yellow.
  • The oldest continually functioning elevator
    Elevator

    An elevator or lift is a vertical transport vehicle that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building. They are generally powered by electric motors that either drive traction cables and counterweight systems, or pump hydraulic fluid to raise a cylindrical piston....
     in all of Brooklyn, installed in 1910, was located at Pratt's Main Building, until it was upgraded in October, 2004.
  • Pratt has the oldest continuously accredited library science school in the United States of America.
  • In 2007, Pratt received more applications than any other art school in the country with 4,400 applications for 585 freshman spots.
  • Pratt boasts the oldest continuously-operating, privately-owned, steam-powered electrical generating plant in the country. The facility's historic value was recognized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and named a National Mechanical Engineering Landmark.
  • Pam Beesly
    Pam Beesly

    Pamela "Pam" Morgan Beesly is a fictional character on the U.S. TV series sitcom The Office , played by Jenna Fischer. Her counterpart in the original UK series of The Office is Dawn Tinsley....
     from The Office was accepted to Pratt in the episode "Goodbye, Toby
    Goodbye, Toby

    "Goodbye, Toby" is the fourteenth episode of the The Office of the American comedy television program The Office , and the show's sixty-fifth episode overall....
    ". She studies for three months and leaves Pratt by the episode "Business Trip
    Business trip

    A business trip or official trip is a travel/journey caused by business necessities. The place of employment is left transitionally, e.g....
    ".
  • Parts of the pornographic film "Debbie Does Dallas
    Debbie Does Dallas

    Debbie Does Dallas is a 1978 in film pornographic movie starring Bambi Woods and Christie Ford ....
    " were filmed at locations in the Pratt Institute Library and the women's locker room in Pratt's Athletic and Recreational Center (ARC). This was done without the knowledge or consent of staff and administrators.
  • The exterior of the Design Center and East Hall were used as stand-ins for Boston College
    Boston College

    Boston College is a private university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, in the city of Newton, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, in the New England region of the United States, rendering it neither in Boston nor a college....
     and Harvard University
    Harvard University

    Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
     (respectively) for the TV show Fringe
    Fringe

    Fringe may refer to* Edinburgh Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world* Adelaide Fringe Festival, Australia's premier arts festival that is the second largest arts festival in the world...
  • Pratt Institute's School of Architecture is currently the largest school of architecture in the country
  • The Student Union and the Engineering Building were used to film Billie Joel's video for the song The Longest Time
    The Longest Time

    "The Longest Time" is a doo-wop single by musician Billy Joel. The song was released as a single in the early spring of 1984 in music as the fourth single off of the album An Innocent Man, it reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, #1 on Billboard magazine's Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, and #25 on the UK Singles Chart....


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