Pratt Institute
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Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

 and Utica
Utica, New York
Utica is a city in and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 62,235 at the 2010 census, an increase of 2.6% from the 2000 census....

. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 and offers programs in Architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

, Graphic Design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

, History of Art and Design
History of art
The History of art refers to visual art which may be defined as any activity or product made by humans in a visual form for aesthetical or communicative purposes, expressing ideas, emotions or, in general, a worldview...

, Industrial Design
Industrial design
Industrial design is the use of a combination of applied art and applied science to improve the aesthetics, ergonomics, and usability of a product, but it may also be used to improve the product's marketability and production...

, Fashion Design
Fashion design
Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social latitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories....

, Jewelry Design
Jewelry design
Jewelry design is the art or profession of creating, crafting, fabricating, or rendering designs for jewelry. This is an ancient practice of the goldsmith or metalworker that evolved to a billion-dollar industry with the odyssey from ancient cultures into the machine age...

, Illustration
Illustration
An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information by providing a visual representation graphically.- Early history :The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric...

, Interior Design
Interior design
Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...

, Digital Arts, Creative Writing
Creative writing
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...

, Library and Information Science
Library and information science
Library and information science is a merging of the two fields library science and information science...

, and other areas. Pratt is named one of the best design schools in the world by Bloomberg Businessweek and 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 41 leading art and design colleges in the United States and Canada. All AICAD member institutions have a curriculum with full liberal arts and sciences requirements complementing studio work, and all are...

 (AICAD), a consortium of 36 leading private art schools in the United States.

History

Charles Pratt
Charles Pratt
Charles Pratt was a United States capitalist, 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. An advertising slogan was "The holy lamps of Tibet are primed with Astral Oil." He...

 (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 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. Rogers. The Pratt interests became part of John D...

 in the Greenpoint
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at the Bushwick inlet, on the southeast by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg, on the north by Newtown Creek and Long Island City, Queens at the...

 section of Brooklyn, New York. He joined with his protégé Henry H. Rogers
Henry H. Rogers
Henry Huttleston Rogers was a United States capitalist, businessman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist. He made his fortune in the oil refinery business, becoming a leader at Standard Oil....

 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. It became part of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil organization in 1874....

 in 1867. Both companies became part of John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller was an American oil industrialist, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of...

's Standard Oil
Standard Oil
Standard Oil was a predominant American integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 as a corporation in Ohio, 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...

 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.

Pratt ended its engineering program in 1993 citing "a continuous decrease in its enrollment and the growth of competition for a shrinking pool of prospective students."

Presidents

  1. Charles Pratt
    Charles Pratt
    Charles Pratt was a United States capitalist, 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. An advertising slogan was "The holy lamps of Tibet are primed with Astral Oil." He...

     (1830–1891), president from 1887–1891
  2. Charles Millard Pratt
    Charles Millard Pratt
    Charles Millard Pratt was an American oil industrialist and philanthropist.-Early life:Pratt was born and raised in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, the eldest son of Charles Pratt and Lydia Ann Richardson....

     (1855–1935), 1891–1893
  3. Frederic B. Pratt
    Frederic B. Pratt
    Frederic Bayley Pratt was the president of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute for 44 years, from 1893-1937.-Early life:He was born in Brooklyn NY, the son of Standard Oil magnate Charles Pratt and Mary Helen Richardson....

     (1865–1945), 1893–1937
  4. Charles Pratt (1892–?), 1937–1953
  5. Francis H. Horn, 1953–1957
  6. Robert Fisher Oxnam (1915–1974), 1957–1960
  7. James Britt Donovan (1916–1970), 1968–1970
  8. Richardson Pratt Jr. (1923–2001) (grandson of Charles Millard Pratt and great-grandson of Charles Pratt), 1972–1990
  9. Warren F. Ilchman (1933–), 1990–1993
  10. Thomas F. Schutte (1936–), 1993–present

Campus

Pratt Institute is an enclosed landscaped 25 acres (101,171.5 m²) campus in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Clinton Hill is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. It is bordered on the east by Bedford-Stuyvesant, on the west by Fort Greene, on the north by Wallabout Bay and on the south by Prospect Heights...

, with historic buildings, library, and an athletic center. A residential campus, it offers several different kinds of residential options. It has two public entrances,which close in the evening hours. The main gate on Willoughby Avenue (for pedestrians and cars) is guarded by a security post 24 hours a day. The Hall Street entrance is convenient for commuters. 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. Off-campus buildings include the newly renovated Higgins Hall, which contains the School of Architecture and Myrtle Hall, an environmentally green building on Myrtle Avenuefor digital arts programs and student services including admissions, which opened in Fall 2010. The contemporary sculpture park on campus is open to visitors during the day.

Pratt Institute Historic District is a national historic district
Historic district (United States)
In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

 that consists of 36 contributing buildings built between 1885 and 1936. It includes the Main Hall (1886), library (1896), South Hall (c. 1890s), and Memorial Hall (1926–1927). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 2005. 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.

The library at Pratt Institute, which was opened in 1888 to serve not only students but the general public as well, was the first free public library in Brooklyn. The architect of 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. He worked in the architectural offices of Ebenezer L. Roberts until beginning his own firm in 1883...

 of Brooklyn. The decoration in the building was done by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company.

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, Cannoneer, ELJ, and Pantas), while those off campus are able to sign up for an optional meal plan (Willoughby and Grand Avenue).

Cannoneer Court, or the Cann, was designed by famed architecture firm SOM in 1986 and was 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. This traditional corridor-style residence houses students in double rooms, and 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 of Fall 2010, the first floor rooms are used for housing freshman students as well.

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

Designed by SOM in 1986, the 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), and each suite has its own bathroom. Suites are single sex, but floors are co-ed. Each suite is responsible for the healthy upkeep of the common bathroom area. This building has no air conditioning. 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 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 apartment is two students sharing a one-room apartment (with kitchen and bath). A single-efficiency apartment is one student in a private one-room apartment with kitchen and bath. A shared single is two or more students, each with its 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 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 co-ed. In addition to the standard furniture, all apartments have a kitchen table, stove, and refrigerator. All students are assigned to double, triple, or 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 two to six students, depending upon the size of the converted apartment—studio, one-, two-, or three-bedroom.

Vincent A. Stabile Hall opened in the Fall of 1999. Named for the donor and graduate of the Engineering School, it 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 small cooking area.In motel and hotel rooms, small apartments, college dormitories, or office buildings a kitchenette 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.

A new Myrtle Avenue building currently under construction will house the Student Services Center, Digital Art Center and the Convergence and Fine Arts studios, as well as the Pratt Center for Community Development, which will share space with Pratt's Development and Alumni Relations department.Retail shops will occupy the first floor. The building was designed by Pratt Institute School of Architecture alumnus Jack Esterson AIA of the New York City architecture and engineering firm WASA/Studio A, and is on track to achieve LEED Gold Certification.

Outside Brooklyn

The Pratt Manhattan campus, located at 144 West 14th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenue, is home to Pratt's associate degrees programs in graphic design, illustration, and digital design and interactive media, an undergraduate program in construction management and several of Pratt's graduate programs including the School of Information and Library Science, Communication Design (MFA and MS), Historic Preservation, Facilities management, Design Management and Arts and Cultural Management. This seven story historic building was acquired by Pratt in 2000. The Institute restored the building's exterior to its original facade highlighting its decorative architectural and design elements and renovated the interior to feature its high ceilings and wood beams. A lovely staircase from the building's lobby leads to the Pratt Manhattan Gallery offering a rich array of shows from fine art and sculpture to fashion.

This new building houses the Graduate School for Information and Library Science, the Graduate Programs in Communications and Package Design, Design Management, Arts and cultural Management and the two-year 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 2010 Pratt acquired the entire 3rd floor of a building on W 18th Street to serve as a studio space for its new MFA program in Communications Design.

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. Its 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 its 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.

Pratt also has a campus in Utica, New York
Utica, New York
Utica is a city in and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 62,235 at the 2010 census, an increase of 2.6% from the 2000 census....

, referred to as PrattMWP, at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute is a regional fine arts center founded in 1919 and located in Utica, New York. The institute has three program divisions:*Museum of art*Performing arts*School of art-Museum of art:...

. Students there complete their first two years of study at Munson-Williams-Proctor campus and finish their BFA degree at the Brooklyn campus. PrattMWP has a world-class museum, extensive academic facilities, and programs in graphic design, illustration, fine arts, art education, photography, and interior design.

Schools

  • Pratt Institute School of Architecture
    Pratt Institute School of Architecture
    The Pratt Institute School of Architecture is ranked in the top ten best Architecture schools in the nation. Alumni include Pritzker Prize Winner Peter Zumthor. Within the Brooklyn campus, the school of architecture is located a block from the main campus in Higgins Hall...

    • 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
  • 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 Science (Pratt has the oldest continuously accredited library-science school in the US.)
  • Center for Continuing Education and Professional Studies

Rankings and lists

Pratt is regarded as one of the top art and design schools in the U.S. and was named one of the country's best values in private colleges and universities according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance, which ranked Pratt as one of the top values for academic quality and affordability out of more than 600 private institutions. Pratt is the country's only college specializing in art and design included on the publication's 2010-2011 list of the top 100 private college and universities ranked as best values.http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/privatecolleges/ In 2007, Pratt received more applications than any other art school in the country with 4,400 applications for 585 freshman spots.

· #1 Interior Design U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
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http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-fine-arts-schools/interior-design-rankings

· #4 Industrial Design U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
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 http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-fine-arts-schools/industrial-design-rankings

· #9 Graphic Design U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
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http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-fine-arts-schools/graphic-design-rankings

· #9 Architecture by DesignIntelligence http://archrecord.construction.com/features/Americas_Best_Architecture_Schools/2011/schools-1.asp

· #15 Fine Arts U.S. News & World Report
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 http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-fine-arts-schools/fine-arts-rankings

Notable faculty

  • Fritz Eichenberg
    Fritz Eichenberg
    Fritz Eichenberg was a German-American illustrator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion, social justice and nonviolence....

  • Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt
    Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt
    Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt is an American artist who is also a veteran of the Stonewall riots.Lanigan-Schmidt's artwork incorporates materials such as tinsel, foil, cellophane, saran wrap and glitter, embracing kitsch and intentionally tacky....

    , School of Visual Arts
  • Jonathan Beller
    Jonathan Beller
    Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and medialogist. He currently holds the position of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Mellon, J.P...

    , film theorist
  • Manuel de Landa
    Manuel de Landa
    Manuel De Landa, , is a writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is presently the Gilles Deleuze Chair of Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland; a lecturer at the Canisius College in Buffalo, New York; a lecturer...

    , Philosopher, Artist

Alumni

Pratt alumni include:
  • Tone Aanderaablog (painter)
  • Ralph Appelbaum
    Ralph Appelbaum
    Ralph Appelbaum Associates is the world's largest museum exhibition design firm. It has offices in New York City, London and Beijing.- Overview :...

     (museum designer)
  • David Ascalon
    David Ascalon
    David Ascalon is a contemporary sculptor and stained glass artist, and co-founder of Ascalon Studios.-Biography:Ascalon was born in Tel Aviv, in the British Mandate of Palestine on March 8, 1945...

     (sculptor)
  • Ken Bald
    Ken Bald
    Kenneth Bruce Bald is an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for the Judd Saxon, Dr. Kildare and Dark Shadows newspaper comic strips. Due to contractual obligations, he is credited as "K...

     (illustrator, newspaper comic strip artist) (did not graduate)
  • Joseph Barbera
    Joseph Barbera
    Joseph Roland Barbera was an influential American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....

     (animator) (did not graduate)
  • Gwendolyn B. Bennett
    Gwendolyn B. Bennett
    Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African American writer who contributed to Opportunity, which chronicled cultural advancements in Harlem. Though often overlooked, she herself made considerable accomplishments in poetry and prose...

     (poet, artist) (graduated in 1924)
  • Dave Berg (cartoonist, Mad
    Mad (magazine)
    Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. Launched as a comic book before it became a magazine, it was widely imitated and influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century.The last...

    ) (attended classes at age 12, in 1932)
  • Emery Bopp
    Emery Bopp
    Emery Bopp was an artist and long-time chairman of the Division of Art, Bob Jones University.-Early life and education:...

     (painter and sculptor) (did not graduate)
  • Joe Boudreau
    Joe Boudreau
    Joe Boudreau is an American artist.Born in Vincennes, Indiana, Boudreau moved with his family to Baltimore, Maryland at the age of seven. It was in Baltimore that he spent most of his formative years and where he resolved to be an artist...

     (painter) (graduated in 1981)
  • Rich Burlew
    Rich Burlew
    Rich Burlew is an author, game designer, and graphic designer best known for The Order of the Stick webcomic. He has written several works for Wizards of the Coast's game Dungeons and Dragons...

     (author, game designer, and graphic designer)
  • Cecily Byk (painter)
  • William D. Byron
    William D. Byron
    William Devereux Byron, II , a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 6th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1939 to February 27, 1941. After his death in an airplane crash in Georgia on February 27, 1941, his widow, Katharine Byron, a granddaughter of U.S. Senator...

    , Maryland
    Maryland
    Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

     (politician)
  • Paul Calle
    Paul Calle
    Paul Calle was an American artist who was best known for the designs he created for postage stamps, including 40 that were released by the United States Postal Service, and others for stamps issued by the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Sweden and the United Nations...

     (1928–2010), artist who created the 1969 stamp commemorating the first manned moon landing.
  • 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.-Career:...

     (illustrator)
  • Echo Chernik
    Echo Chernik
    Echo Chernik is an American Art Nouveau artist. Her motif is an art nouveau/jugendstil influenced style, with elaborate decorative borders, women with flowing and entwining hair, sometimes accompanied by elaborate typography.-Early life:Chernik was born in Ellington, Connecticut...

     (illustrator)
  • Daniel Clowes
    Daniel Clowes
    Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books....

     (screenwriter, cartoonist, Art School Confidential
    Art School Confidential (comics)
    Art School Confidential is a four-page black-and-white comic 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. It inspired the 2006 film of the same name...

    , a story related to his experience at Pratt)
  • Bryan Collier
    Bryan Collier
    Bryan Collier, award-winning author and illustrator, has illustrated numerous children's books, including Rosa by Nikki Giovanni which was awarded a Coretta Scott King Award and a Caldecott Honor. He also won a Coretta Scott King Award for Uptown, his first attempt at both writing and...

     (children's book illustrator)
  • Roger Cook
    Roger Cook (graphic designer)
    Roger Cook is an internationally known American graphic designer, photographer and artist.He was president of Cook and Shanosky Associates, a graphic design firm he founded in 1967...

     (graphic designer)
  • Jennifer Dalton
    Jennifer Dalton
    Jennifer Dalton is a contemporary artist born in 1967.Dalton is represented by Winkleman Gallery in New York City, where she has exhibited since 2002...

     (artist)
  • Joshua Davis
    Joshua Davis (web designer)
    Joshua Davis is an American web designer, author and artist in new media. He was an early pioneer in the use of Macromedia Flash as a tool to generate Art...

     (web and graphic designer)
  • Ben de Lisi
    Ben de Lisi
    Ben de Lisi is an American born fashion designer based in London. He is best known for his collections with high street store Debenhams, and as a mentor and judge on the television series Project Catwalk. He has also appeared on UK television show Come Dine With Me.Born in New York and raised in...

     (fashion designer)
  • Louis Delsarte
    Louis Delsarte
    Louis J. Delsarte is an African American artist known for what has sometimes been called his "illusionistic" style. He is a painter, muralist, printmaker, and illustrator. When Delsarte was growing up, he was surrounded by music including jazz, opera, musicals, and the blues...

     (artist)
  • Tomie dePaola
    Tomie dePaola
    Thomas Anthony "Tomie A." dePaola , is an American author and illustrator of over 200 children's books, including Caldecott Honor book Strega Nona and Newbery Honor book 26 Fairmount Avenue. DePaola was awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 2011.-Biography:DePaola was born in Meriden,...

     (children's author-illustrator)
  • Gus Edson
    Gus Edson
    Gus Edson was an American cartoonist known for two popular, long running comic strips, The Gumps and Dondi....

     (cartoonist)
  • Lloyd Espenschied
    Lloyd Espenschied
    Lloyd Espenschied was an American electrical engineer who invented the modern coaxial cable with Herman Andrew Affel.-Biography:He was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 27, 1889....

     (electrical engineer)
  • Jules Feiffer
    Jules Feiffer
    Jules Ralph Feiffer is an American syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his long-run comic strip titled Feiffer. He has created more than 35 books, plays and screenplays...

     (cartoonist)
  • Harvey Fierstein
    Harvey Fierstein
    Harvey Forbes Fierstein is a U.S. actor and playwright, noted for the early distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and originating the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family, as well as writing the...

     (actor)
  • Suzanne Fiol
    Suzanne Fiol
    Suzanne Fiol ,"an impresario of avant-garde culture in New York" founded the performance space ISSUE Project Room in 2003 and oversaw its growth from the fringes of the New York new music scene into what The Village Voice, The Brooklyn Borough President, and Fiol herself predicted will become the...

    , avant-garde music producer and founder of ISSUE Project Room
    ISSUE Project Room
    The ISSUE Project Room is a music venue in Brooklyn, New York founded in 2003 by Suzanne Fiol. Located in The Old American Can Factory in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, the venue supports a wide variety of contemporary performance, specializing in presenting experimental and avant-garde music...

  • John Flansburgh
    John Flansburgh
    John Conant Flansburgh is an American 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 They Might Be Giants
    They Might Be Giants
    They Might Be Giants is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years Flansburgh and Linnell were frequently accompanied by a drum machine. In the early 1990s, TMBG became a full band. Currently, the members of TMBG are...

    )
  • Richard Foster
    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. He was educated at the Pratt Institute....

     (architect)
  • Roderick Gilchrist (director of the Cartoon Art Museum
    Cartoon Art Museum
    The Cartoon Art Museum is a California art museum that specializes in the art of comics and cartoons. It is the only museum in the Western United States dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of all forms of cartoon art...

    )
  • Bob Giraldi
    Bob Giraldi
    Bob Giraldi is an American film and television director best known for directing the music video for Michael Jackson's song "Beat It." His work has garnered many accolades, including several , , NY International Awards, Addy Awards, and hundreds of Clio Awards...

     (director, filmmaker)
  • Eric Goldberg
    Eric Goldberg (film director)
    Eric Goldberg is an American animator and film director. He is best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He's also well known as the creator of Disney character Genie in Aladdin...

     (animator)
  • Félix González-Torres
    Félix González-Torres
    Felix Gonzalez-Torres was an American, Cuban-born visual artist."For Felix it was much more powerful to assume that the gay and straight audience was the same audience, that being a Cuban-born American is the same as being an American. And being American was something he was extremely proud of."...

     (artist)
  • Bill Griffith (cartoonist, Zippy
    Zippy the Pinhead
    Zippy is an American comic strip created by Bill Griffith. The character of Zippy the Pinhead initially appeared in underground publications during the 1970s...

    )
  • Jan Groover
    Jan Groover
    Jan Groover is an American photographer residing in Montpon-Menesterol, France, She is noted for her use of emerging color technologies...

     (photographer
    Photography
    Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

    )
  • Donald A. Hall
    Donald A. Hall
    Donald Albert Hall was a pioneering aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer who is most famous for having designed the Ryan NYP in only sixty days. -Early years:...

     (aeronautical engineer, designer of the Spirit of St. Louis
    Spirit of St. Louis
    The Spirit of St. Louis is the custom-built, single engine, single-seat monoplane that was flown solo by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927, on the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize.Lindbergh took off in the Spirit from Roosevelt...

    )
  • Christian Hawkey
    Christian Hawkey
    Christian Hawkey is an American poet.-Life and work:Christian Hawkey graduated from University of Massachusetts, Amherst....

     (poet, novelist)
  • Gregory Henderson (photographer)
  • Eva Hesse
    Eva Hesse
    Eva Hesse , was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. -Early life:Hesse was born into a family of observant Jews in Hamburg, Germany...

     (sculptor)
  • Malcolm Holzman
    Malcolm Holzman
    Malcolm Holzman FAIA, is an American architect, who practices in New York City, and is a founding partner of Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates .-Life and career:...

     (architect)
  • William Howard Hoople
    William Howard Hoople
    William Howard Hoople was a prominent leader of the American Holiness movement; the co-founder of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, one of the antecedent groups that merged to create the Church of the Nazarene; rescue mission organizer; an ordained minister in the Church of the...

     (minister and inventor, one of the first 12 students)
  • Ryszard Horowitz
    Ryszard Horowitz
    Ryszard Horowitz was born in Kraków, Poland. At the age of only four months, he and his family were transported into a series of concentration camps following the Nazi invasion of Poland. After years of imprisonment, he and his parents survived the horrors of the work camps...

     (photographer)
  • Terrence Howard
    Terrence Howard
    Terrence Dashon Howard is an American actor. Having his first major role in the 1995 film Mr. Holland's Opus, which subsequently led to a number of roles in films and high visibility among African American audiences. Howard broke into the mainstream with a succession of well-reviewed television...

     (actor)
  • Betsey Johnson
    Betsey Johnson
    Betsey Johnson is an American fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. Many of her designs are considered "over the top" and embellished...

     (fashion designer)
  • Matt Johnson (of the indie rock duo Matt and Kim
    Matt and Kim
    Matt & Kim are a dance punk duo residing in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The group was formed in 2005 and is composed of Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino...

    )
  • Malcolm Jones III
    Malcolm Jones III
    Malcolm Jones, III was an American comic book artist best known as an inker on The Sandman, where he added his illustrative line and textures to the work of pencillers such as Mike Dringenberg, Kelley Jones, and Colleen Doran...

     (comic book artist)
  • Ellsworth Kelly
    Ellsworth Kelly
    Ellsworth Kelly is an American painter and sculptor associated with Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and the Minimalist school. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing the simplicity of form found similar to the work of John McLaughlin. Kelly often employs bright colors to...

     (painter, sculptor)
  • Jack Kirby
    Jack Kirby
    Jack Kirby , born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium....

     (comic book artist, did not graduate)
  • Ben Knight
    Ben Knight
    Ben Knight is a typographic coordinator for the United Nations. In 2002, Knight joined the UN in New York City where he started working closely with Maxim Zhukov to help with multilingual typographic design teaching, solutions, and co-ordination. Knight took over the responsibility UN typographic...

     (designer, installation artist, inventor)
  • Josh Koury
    Josh Koury
    Josh Koury is an American filmmaker, best known for his documentary films and Standing by Yourself.Koury was born in upstate New York, and currently resides in Greenpoint, Brooklyn....

     (filmmaker)
  • Martin Landau
    Martin Landau
    Martin Landau is an American film and television actor. Landau began his career in the 1950s. His early films include a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest . He played continuing roles in the television series Mission: Impossible and Space:1999...

     (actor, artist)
  • Elizabeth Lee
    My Life as Liz
    My Life as Liz is a mockumentary style American television series that centers on the life of Liz Lee, a misfit high-school senior living in small town Texas...

     (from the MTV show My Life as Liz
    My Life as Liz
    My Life as Liz is a mockumentary style American television series that centers on the life of Liz Lee, a misfit high-school senior living in small town Texas...

    )
  • Arnold Lobel
    Arnold Lobel
    Arnold Stark Lobel was a popular American author of children's books. Among his most popular books are those of the Frog and Toad series, and Mouse Soup, which won the Garden State Children's Book Award from the New Jersey Library Association.Lobel won the 1981 Caldecott Medal for his book...

     (illustrator, author of the Frog & Toad
    Frog and Toad
    Frog and Toad are the main characters in a series of easy-reader children's books, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel.Each book contains five simple, often humorous, sometimes poignant, short stories chronicling the exploits of a frog and his friend, a toad, simply named Frog and Toad...

     books)
  • George Lois
    George Lois
    George Lois is a controversial American art director, designer, and author. Lois is best known for over 92 covers he designed for Esquire Magazine...

     (art & advertising director)
  • Robert Mapplethorpe
    Robert Mapplethorpe
    Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men...

     (photographer)
  • Irvin Leigh Matus
    Irvin Leigh Matus
    Irvin Leigh Matus was an independent scholar, autodidact and author. He is best known as an authority on Shakespeare, but also wrote about aspects of Brooklyn's history such as the Vitagraph Studios, and developed a method of modelling baseball statistics...

    , (Shakespearean scholar)
  • Earl Mayan
    Earl Mayan
    Earl Mayan was an American illustrator whose early career spanned the era of pulp magazines to the post WWII years alongside Norman Rockwell at The Saturday Evening Post...

     (magazine illustrator)
  • Peter Max
    Peter Max
    Peter Max is a German-born Jewish American artist. At first, works in this style appeared on posters and were seen on the walls of college dorms all across America. Max then became fascinated with new printing techniques that allowed for four-color reproduction on product merchandise...

     (artist)
  • Vera Maxwell
    Vera Maxwell
    Vera Huppe Maxwell was a legendary sportswear and fashion designer until her retirement in 1985.She was the first American designer to make clothes with Ultrasuede material...

     (fashion designer)
  • Marcus McLaurin
    Marcus McLaurin
    Marcus McLaurin is an American comic-book writer and editor best known for developing the Marvel Comics limited series Marvels by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross.-Biography:...

     (comic book writer/editor)
  • Wendy McMurdo
    Wendy McMurdo
    Wendy McMurdo is a British artist who specialises in photography and digital media. She attended Edinburgh College of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York where she first became interested in photography.-Career:Her work centres around the relationship...

     (artist)
  • Morton Meskin (comic book artist)
  • Colleen Mulligan
    Colleen Mulligan
    Colleen Mulligan is a Los Angeles based artist. Painting large images of folding flesh, her work has been compared to the likes of Georgia O'Keeffe.Mulligan attended Pratt Institute in New York City from 1997 to 2002...

     (painter)
  • Judith Murray (painter)
  • Kadir Nelson
    Kadir Nelson
    Kadir Nelson is an award-winning African American artist, illustrator and author. His work is focused on African American culture and history.-Early life:...

     (illustrator, children's book author)
  • Tom Nikosey (designer and illustrator)
  • Martin Nodell
    Martin Nodell
    Martin Nodell was an American cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. Some of his work appeared under the pen name "Mart Dellon."-Early life and career:...

     (comic book artist)
  • Norman Norell
    Norman Norell
    Norman Norell was an American fashion designer, known for his elegant suits and tailored silhouettes....

     (fashion designer)
  • Laura Numeroff
    Laura Numeroff
    Laura Joffe Numeroff is an American author and illustrator of children's books who is best known for her work If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.-Early life:...

     (children's book author)
  • Abraham Nathanson
    Abraham Nathanson
    Abraham Nathanson was an American graphic designer. He created the game Bananagrams, a game that uses letter tiles similar to Scrabble with the addition of the element of speed....

     (1929–2010), developer of the game Bananagrams
    Bananagrams
    Bananagrams is a word game invented by Abraham Nathanson of Narragansett, Rhode Island, wherein lettered tiles are used to spell words.Nathanson conceived and developed the idea for the game with the help of his family...

    .
  • Bryan Osburn (painter)
  • Roxy Paine
    Roxy Paine
    Roxy Paine is an American artist. He was educated at both the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico and the Pratt Institute in New York....

     (conceptual artist)
  • 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.Roberto graduated from Pratt...

     (illustrator)
  • Beverly Pepper
    Beverly Pepper
    Beverly Pepper is a pioneering sculptor known for her monumental works,site specific and land art. She remains independent from any particular art movement.- Early Life and Education :...

     (sculptor)
  • Denis Peterson
    Denis Peterson
    Denis Peterson is an American hyperrealist painter. He is a hyperrealist painter whose photorealist works have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Butler Institute of American Art, Tate Modern, Springville Museum of Art, Corcoran MPA and Max Hutchinson Gallery...

     (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 known 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)
  • Pelle Petterson
    Pelle Petterson
    Per "Pelle" Helmer Petterson in Stockholm is an award-winning Swedish sailor and yacht designer. He is the son of Helmer Petterson, and studied design at the leading Pratt Institute in New York from 1955 through 1957. He is probably best known for designing the Maxi Class sailing boats, which...

     (yacht and automobile designer)
  • John M. Pierce
    John M. Pierce
    John M. Pierce was an American teacher and amateur astronomer.Pierce worked with Russell W. Porter to organize Stellafane, the observatory near Springfield, Vermont where amateur telescope makers still meet annually for the Stellafane convention...

     (writer on amateur telescope making)
  • Sylvia Plachy
    Sylvia Plachy
    Sylvia Plachy is a Hungarian/American photographer.Plachy was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her Czech Jewish mother was in hiding in fear of Nazi persecution during World War II. Her father was a Hungarian Roman Catholic aristocrat and she was raised in his faith.Plachy's family moved to New York...

     (photographer)
  • Charles Pollock
    Charles Pollock
    Charles Cecil Pollock was an American painter and eldest brother of Jackson Pollock. His parents were Stella May McClure and LeRoy Pollock, his father, who born McCoy, had taken the surname of his parents' neighbours who adopted him after both his own parents died within a year of each...

     (chair designer)
  • 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, printmaking, oil, pen and ink, and pencil...

     (painter, illustrator, printmaker, graphic designer)
  • Bob Powell
    Bob Powell
    Bob Powell né Stanislav Robert Pawlowski was an American comic book artist known for his work during the 1930-40s Golden Age of comic books, including on the features "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" and "Mr. Mystic". He received a belated credit in 1999 for co-writing the debut of the popular...

     (comic book artist)
  • George Pratt
    George Pratt (artist)
    George Pratt is an American painter and illustrator known for his work in the comic book field.-Biography:...

     (painter and graphic novel artist)
  • Hawley Pratt
    Hawley Pratt
    Hawley Pratt was an American film director, animator, and illustrator. He is best known for his work during the heyday of Warner Bros. Cartoons and as the right-hand man of director Friz Freleng as a layout artist and later as a director...

     (layout artist under Friz Freleng
    Friz Freleng
    Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....

    )
  • Paul Rand
    Paul Rand
    Paul Rand Paul Rand Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum, (August 15, 1914 — November 26, 1996) was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Westinghouse, ABC, and Steve Jobs’ NeXT...

     (graphic designer)
  • Robert Redford
    Robert Redford
    Charles Robert Redford, Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime...

     (actor, director)
  • J. Noel Reifel (printmaker)
  • Matthew Reinhart
    Matthew Reinhart
    Matthew Christian Reinhart is a leading children's pop-up book artist/author. His most recent books, including Star Wars: The Pop-up Guide to the Galaxy, Encyclopedia Mythologica: Fairies and Other Magical Creatures , and Brava, Strega Nona! have received much popular and critical...

     (creator of pop-up books)
  • Willy Bo Richardson
    Willy Bo Richardson
    Willy Bo Richardson received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in 2000. He is a professor at Santa Fe University of Art and Design and exhibits his paintings internationally. In 2011 his work was included in the exhibition at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York titled, “70 Years of Abstract...

     (painter)
  • Robert Riger
    Robert Riger
    Robert Riger was a celebrated sports illustrator, photographer, award-winning television director, and cinematographer....

      (illustrator, photographer)
  • Michele van de Roer
    Michele van de roer
    Michèle Van de Roer is a contemporary French artist: a painter, designer, photographer, and engraver. She studied formally at the École d'Arts de Valence, Pratt Institute of Design in New York, and École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles...

     (artist, designer, and engraver)
  • Robert Sabuda
    Robert Sabuda
    Robert James Sabuda is a leading children's pop-up book artist and paper engineer. His recent books, such as those describing the stories of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, have been well-received and critically acclaimed.-Biography:Sabuda was born in Pinckney, Michigan...

     (children's book creator)
  • Stefan Sagmeister
    Stefan Sagmeister
    Stefan Sagmeister is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. He has his own design firm—Sagmeister Inc.—in New York City. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny.-Biography:Sagmeister studied graphic design at the...

     (graphic designer) {note: He was an exchange student}
  • Kim Schifino, member of Matt and Kim
    Matt and Kim
    Matt & Kim are a dance punk duo residing in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The group was formed in 2005 and is composed of Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino...

    , indie pop duo
  • Sarah Schkeeper
    Sarah Schkeeper
    Sarah Schkeeper is an American football Guard for the New York Sharks. Nicknamed "The Viking" because she wears braided pigtails in games, she joined the New York Sharks in 2009 as a rookie and has started in every career game....

     (Guard
    Guard (American football)
    In American and Canadian football, a guard is a player that lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team....

     of New York Sharks
    New York Sharks
    The New York Sharks are a women's American football team playing out of New York City. They are a member of the Women's Football Alliance...

     and designer)
  • Jeremy Scott
    Jeremy Scott
    Jeremy Scott is an American fashion designer born in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, for fashion design...

     (fashion designer)
  • Nat Mayer Shapiro
    Nat Mayer Shapiro
    Nat Mayer Shapiro was a prolific American visual artist.-Art:Nat Mayer Shapiro’s art is best known for his complex paintings on paper and canvas that may incorporate structural and whimsical imagery among areas of pure or constructed abstraction...

     (painter)
  • Rob Sheridan
    Rob Sheridan
    Rob Sheridan is an American graphic designer, director, and photographer best known for his extensive work with the band Nine Inch Nails....

     (artist, graphic and web designer, editor, art director)
  • Jean Shin
    Jean Shin
    Jean Shin is an American artist who lives and works in New York City.She is best known for her labor-intensive, sculptural process of transforming accumulations of cast-off objects into visually alluring, conceptually rich works...

     (installation and multi-media artist)
  • Robert Siegel
    Robert Siegel (architect)
    Robert Siegel, FAIA is an American Architect who, along with Charles Gwathmey, founded the architectural firm of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates. He graduated from Pratt Institute with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1962 and received his Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University in...

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

     (animator)
  • Pamela Colman Smith
    Pamela Colman Smith
    Pamela Colman Smith , also nicknamed Pixie, was an artist, illustrator, and writer. She is best known for designing the Waite-Smith deck of divinatory tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite.-Biography:Smith was born in Pimlico, Middlesex , England the only child of an...

     (artist, illustrator, writer)
  • Patti Smith
    Patti Smith
    Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses....

     (singer and poet)
  • Yoshi Sodeoka
    Yoshi Sodeoka
    Yoshi Sodeoka is a Japan born artist and musician who has been producing art projects since the early 1990s. 1989 he moved to New York City to study art and design at the Pratt Institute....

     (artist and musician)
  • Leonard Starr
    Leonard Starr
    Leonard Starr is a Golden Age comic book artist, an advertising artist and award-winning cartoonist, notable for creating the newspaper strip On Stage and reviving Little Orphan Annie.-Early life:...

     (comic strip illustrator)
  • Therman Statom
    Therman Statom
    Therman Statom is an American Studio Glass artist whose primary medium is sheet glass. He cuts, paints, and assembles the glass - adding found glass objects along the way – to create three-dimensional sculptures. Many of these works are large in scale. Statom is known for his site-specific...

     (glass artist)
  • Lynne Stewart
    Lynne Stewart
    Lynne Irene Stewart is a former attorney who represented controversial, poor, and often unpopular defendants who was convicted on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists in 2005, and sentenced to 28 months in prison. Her felony conviction led to her being automatically...

     (civil rights lawyer)
  • Elke Reva Sudin
    Elke Reva Sudin
    Elke Reva Sudin is an American Artist and Illustrator. In 2010, her "Hipsters and Hassids" painting series premiered in New York City, aiming to calm tensions between Hassidic Jewish and Hipster culture.-Biography:...

     (artist, illustrator)
  • Swoon
    Swoon (artist)
    Swoon is a street artist born in New London, Connecticut, and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. She moved to New York City at age nineteen, and specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures...

     (street artist)
  • Joseph Szabo
    Joseph Szabo
    Joseph Szabo is an American photographer.-Life and career:Szabo studied photography at the Pratt Institute where he received his MFA. He taught photography at Malverne High School in Long Island, New York from 1972 to 1999 and he continues to teach at the International Centre of Photography...

     (photographer)
  • Mickalene Thomas
    Mickalene Thomas
    New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas is known for her elaborate paintings adorned with rhinestones, enamel and colorful acrylics. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 2000, and her MFA from Yale University in 2002 and currently lives and works in New York...

     (artist)
  • Elliot Tiber
    Elliot Tiber
    Elliot Tiber, born Elliot Teichberg in 1935, is an artist and screenwriter who has written a memoir about the Woodstock Festival, held in Bethel, New York in 1969....

     (screenwriter who "saved" Woodstock Festival
    Woodstock Festival
    Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969...

    )
  • Dante Tomaselli
    Dante Tomaselli
    Dante Tomaselli is an Italian-American horror screenwriter, director, and score composer.-Directing career:...

     (director, score composer, writer)
  • Boaz Vaadia
    Boaz Vaadia
    Boaz Vaadia is an American/Israeli figurative art sculptor known for working with bluestone slate.-Early life and education:...

     (sculptor)
  • William Van Alen
    William Van Alen
    William Van Alen was an American architect, best known as the architect in charge of designing New York City's Chrysler Building .-Life:...

     (architect, the Chrysler Building
    Chrysler Building
    The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco style skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan in the Turtle Bay area at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Standing at , it was the world's tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State...

    )
  • Frank Verlizzo
    Frank Verlizzo ("Fraver")
    Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo is an American design artist and Drama Desk Award-winner. He is best known for creating the posters for many prominent Broadway productions, including the original productions of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Sunday in the Park with...

     (design artist)
  • Lindsey 'LynZ' Way (musician, artist)
  • Max Weber
    Max Weber (artist)
    For the social theorist and philosopher, see Max WeberMax Weber was a Jewish-American painter who worked in the style of cubism before migrating to Jewish themes towards the end of his life.-Biography:...

     (painter)
  • Kent Williams (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. In 1968 he received an MFA degree from Yale University School of Art and Architecture...

     (artist)
  • Robert Wilson
    Robert Wilson (director)
    Robert Wilson is an American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America]'s — or even the world's — foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video...

     (director)
  • Terry Winters
    Terry Winters
    Terry Winters is an American painter whose work reintroduced figuration into painting in way that was consonant with the Modernist legacy...

     (artist)
  • Mary Elizabeth Wood
    Mary Elizabeth Wood
    Mary Elizabeth Wood was an American librarian and missionary, best known for her work in promoting Western librarianship practices and programs in China...

     (librarian)
  • Rob Zombie
    Rob Zombie
    Rob Zombie is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the...

     (musician, director, writer)
  • Peter Zumthor
    Peter Zumthor
    Peter Zumthor is a Swiss architect and winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize.-Early life:Zumthor was born in Basel, the son of a cabinet-maker...

     (architect)
  • Justin I. Lewis (Industrial Designer, Interior Designer)

Student media

Pratt has multiple student media groups through which students can use their art and explore new mediums. If you are interested in being a part of a student media groups feel free to contact them at any time.

The Film Club promotes the art of film throughout Pratt Institute.

Pratt Radio is a student-run internet radio station that broadcasts internationally on the web. The school had a radio station in the mid-1980s that broadcast on a limited-range signal. After students modified the broadcast tower, the FCC
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...

 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.pratt.edu/radio.

The Prattler is Pratt's student magazine. Everything from newsletter articles, art reviews, concerts and events can be found in our publication, which usually comes out the first Monday of the month.

Static Fish was established over 20 years ago and is Pratt's oldest comic book publication.

Ubiquitous, Pratt's Literary and Arts magazine, is published twice a year with reading event on campus per semester, and maintains a blog of additional submissions. Ubiquitous accepts poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and journalism writing submissions. They also accept reproductions of photography, paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, and architecture models.
Their blog can be accessed at http://www.ubiquitousmag.blogspot.com/. Those interested can also join our group on Facebook.

Prattonia Pratt's yearbook which is designed by selected Pratt students each year.

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 that stands prominently near the main gate to the campus. Cast in bronze in Seville, Spain, the cannon bears the insignia of Philip V and was brought to Pratt from the walls of Morro Castle in Havana, Cuba, in 1899.

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