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“Amazing! When I was at
Pratt in ’64, the school was
around the age I am now. It’s
still a role model for vitality,
creativity, engagement,
longevity…I’d like to emulate
my alma mater when I’m
125.”
—Edward Koren, M.S. Art
Education ’65
Cartoonist, The New Yorker
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Communications/Package Design Faculty
Howard Allen Chava Ben-Amos Jennifer Bernstein
V ISITING INSTRUCTOR Professor Visiting Associate Professor
M.P.S., Pratt Institute;
B.F.A. University of Illinois, Chicago; B.A., Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, Israel; served B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., Yale; has worked for the
independent consultant focused on the intricate details two years in the Israeli Army, then returned to school New York firms Wechsler & Partners and Balsmeyer &
of design within the world of branding; clients include and began her design career upon graduation; won Everett Inc.; while senior designer at Balsmeyer Everett,
Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger, JP Morgan, Bridge several awards, including one for a Holocaust memorial originated the concepts and design for title sequences
Culture: International Festival of Music Storytelling and postage stamp and moved to the U.S. in 1964, produced for such feature films as Fargo, Girl 6, The First Wives
Dance, Brooklyn Office of Travel and Tourism, Imagine: posters for Broadway productions; served as art director Club, and Waiting To Exhale; in 1998, established her own
NY Schools, and Higher Heights for America; at several prestigious New York design firms before New York–based firm Level Design Group to focus on
he has also served as a senior design manager and founding her own studio. design for print and motion; clients include The New York
client manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where Foundation for the Arts, Deutsche Bank, P.O.V. on PBS,
he helped help establish a strong culture of design and Barry Berger The Nature Conservancy, and MetLife; film work has been
strategic thinking among his creative peers; currently, featured at The Sundance Film Festival, “New Directors,
he is developing an investment methodology which will Visiting associate Professor New Films” at MoMA, The New York International
enable investors to understand how design influences B.I.D., Pratt Institute; founder, owner, and creative Documentary Film Festival, and on PBS; work has been
the quantitative value of a corporation. director of Barry David Berger + Associates, Inc., published in The New York Times, Type In Motion, I.D.
established in 1977, specializing in merchandizing Magazine, and in Zed, The Virginia Commonwealth
Jeff Bellantoni packaging, product design, graphic design, and University Design Journal; work has won Best of
commercial interiors; Fulbright Grant recipient, member Category in the I.D. Magazine Design Annual, and a 2008
C h a i r , G r a duat e Co mmunic at io ns Desig n, of AIGA, IDSA, and APDF; had previously taught at Pratt Create Award; has been on the faculty at UArts since
Associate Professor for many years before taking a sabbatical. 2000, and has also taught at NYU and SVA.
B.F.A., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; M.F.A.,
Virginia Commonwealth University; co-author and Warren Bernard Jean Brennan
designer of three internationally published titles on
Typography and Media: Type in Motion; Moving Type, Adjunct Assistant Professor Adjunct Associate Professor
Designing for Time and Space, and Motion Design; B.A., Hampton University; M.S., Pratt Institute; currently B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; B.F.A., M.S.,
has written on graphic design for How magazine and freelances with Dwight Johnson Design while Pratt Institute; upon graduation from the Graduate
various other design publications; design work has maintaining his established clients; has worked with Communications Design program went to work as a
been recognized by Print magazine, the AIGA (50 Time Magazine and Vibe; several start-up magazines broadcast designer at Lee Hunt Associates, working
Books/50 Covers), and Connecticut Art Director’s Club; have solicited his help in development; has designed with clients such as PBS, Oxygen, and Arte; continued
has previously taught at University of Connecticut, VCU, book covers for labels, such as BET Books and Simon & with the LHA team after they were acquired by Razorfish
Mercy College, and The Wanganui School of Design, Schuster Inc.; creates corporate identities inclusive of in late 1999; in 2002, became the Nick Jr. Art Director,
New Zealand. Abyssinian Development Corporation; has written for where she worked on in-house graphics for the 2–5 age
the AIGA’s Journal of Graphic Design; honored by Pratt programming of Nickelodeon; currently freelances as
as a Distinguished Student. an art director in broadcast, online, and print projects.
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Tom Delaney the Type Directors Club, The Art Directors Club, and the Lubalin Associates, 1979–81; author of Foundations of
American Association of Museums; work has appeared Graphic Design TE (Davis Publications, 1994); co-author
Visiting Instructor in Graphis, Print, How, and Creativity magazines; as of Foundations of Graphic Design, Communicating
Senior Design with Muts&Joy&, Design and Identity a professor at Rutgers University-Newark, heads the Through Graphic Design (Davis Publications, 1990,
Consultants; has extensive experience in the packaging graphic design program and teaches design and the 2009); Distinguished Teacher Award, 1997.
design industry, including Senior Creative Director history of design and is the director of The Design
at EastWest Creative, Design Director at Deskey Consortium, a student/teacher run design studio that Bob Gill
Associates, and designer for Charles Biondo Design focuses on non-profit, community-based projects.
Associates and ESPRIT de Corps. Adjunct Associate Professor
Dennis Dugan Started Fletcher/Forbes/Gill, a design office in 1962
Antonio Dispigna (now known as Pentagram); in 1967 designed the cover
Visiting Professor of Wonderwall, the Beatles’ first record; in 1968, the
Professor B.S., Creighton University; Ph.D., Brown University; has Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam gave him a one-man
B.F.A., M.S., Pratt Institute; designer at Bonder and extensive experience in economic analysis, market show and Lund Humphries published his portfolio;
Carnase; Lubalin Smith and Carnase; in 1973, opened assessments, and business and intellectual property selected to the New York Art Directors Hall of Fame; has
Artissimo, Inc.; in 1978 joined Herb Lubalin Associates valuations; is currently president of Management authored a number of books, including What Colour
as vice president and partner; in 1980 opened Tony and Economic Strategy Analysis, Inc. and senior VP is your World?, A Balloon for Blunderbuss, Forget All
Di Spigna, Inc.; has designed numerous typefaces, of Intellectual Capital Growth, Inc.; has served as chair the Rules You Ever Learned About Graphic Design,
most notably Serif Gothic and exclusive typefaces for of the Department of Economics at the University Unspecial Effects for Graphic Designers, and Graphic
PBS Channel WNET 13, The Coca Cola Co., and The of Notre Dame, and has been an Economic Policy Design as a Second Language.
Louis Dreyfus Corp.; in 2007, became co-founder and Fellow at The Brookings Institution; has performed
design director of THINSTROKE, INC., a complete research and taught graduate and undergraduate J. Roger Guilfoyle
service design firm. courses in economics at Georgetown, American, and
Polytechnic Universities. Adjun ct Profess or , CCE
Thomas Dolle B.A., Creighton University; has appeared on design
David Frisco and packaging panels in the U.S., Mexico, and Japan;
Adj u n ct P ro f e ss o r, CCE has lectured before small and large design groups,
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; principal, Tom Adjunct Associate Professor including Carnegie-Mellon and Cooper Hewitt National
Dolle Design, a strategic design, marketing, and B.A., University of Illinois at Chicago; M.F.A., Yale Design Museum; has worked under grants from the
branding firm in New York; clients have included University; co-director of Design Corps, a studio course NEA, the NEH, and the New York State Council on
Citibank, Dun & Bradstreet, ESPN, Charles Schwab, that encourages the relationship between design the Arts; his work has appeared in newspapers and
Northern Trust, RH Donnelly, Verizon, Reed Elsevier, practice and design education, where Communications magazines, including ID, Interiors, and USAir; has been
and Time Warner; Tom Dolle Design is now focusing on Design students provide pro-bono design work for non- on the Pratt faculty since 1968.
branding, communications, and packaging for retail, profit organizations; in his independent studio practice,
arts, and non-profit organizations; recent projects has completed work for a variety of clients in the art, J. Graham Hanson
include the Getty Trust, Doe Fund, Baruch College, architectural, cultural, and non-profit sectors including
Foundation Center, and National Urban Fellows. Pratt Institute, Pace/MacGill Gallery, The College Art Adjunct Associate Professor
Association, Yale School of Architecture, TASC: The B.F.A., Iowa State University; Graham Hanson, previously
Ned Drew After-School Corporation, and the films Lumo, Fully with Vignelli Associates, is principal of Graham Hanson
Awake: Black Mountain College, The Situation, Chop Design, an internationally recognized multidisciplinary
Visiting Professor Shop, and Man Push Cart. design agency active in all areas of strategic design.
B.F.A., M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University; The firm collaborates with a diverse group of corporate
founding partner and creative director of the New Kevin Gatta clients and cultural institutions on a wide variety of
York–based design firm, BRED and co-editor of Design integrated design projects. Long-time corporate clients
Education in Progress: Process and Methodology, Professor include Saks Fifth Avenue, American Express, Dun
Volumes 1, 2 and 3, an academic book series dedicated B.A., Rhode Island College; M.S., Pratt Institute; and Bradstreet and Macklowe Properties, a New York
to the study of design pedagogy; in 2005, co-authored Pietrasanta Italian Studies Program, Providence real estate developer. The firm works on a number
BY ITS COVER: Modern American Book Cover Design; College; design director, Gatta Design & Co., specializing of exhibition projects for museums and cultural
work has appeared in Graphic Design Referenced, in corporate communications, identity, and branding; organizations in the United States and abroad.
Typographic Design: Form and Communication, design experience: the Pushpin Group, 1981–88;
Graphic Design Solutions and “USDesign 1975–2000” David Pocknell’s Company (Pushpin UK), 1984; Herb
among others; work has been recognized by the AIGA,
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William Hilson Jeong Hoon Kim Eunsun Lee
Adj u n ct P ro f e ss o r, CCE Visiting Assistant Professor Adjunct Associate Professor
Originally trained in architecture, but turned to B.F.A., Seoul National University; M.F.A., Rhode Island B.F.A., School of Visual Arts; M.S., Pratt Institute; in 2004,
graphic design and illustration for professional focus; School of Design; Sheridan Teaching Certificate, founded CMYK+WHITE, Inc., a multidisciplinary studio
introduced desktop publishing to some of the largest Brown University; established Why Not Smile, an focusing on design solutions for interiors, fashion,
ad agencies in NYC; as creative director to the HiFi independent graphic design workshop, focusing on print, and motion graphics; long-time corporate clients
Color Project, helped introduce the new HiFi Color design for art, architecture, and cultural clients across include Estée Lauder, Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.,
printing techniques; was first to design and print using various media; awarded by AIGA 50 Books 50 Covers, Hearst Magazines, Condé Nast, Hollywood Life, Fairchild
an experimental 7-colorant process, the first to use AIGA BoNE, TDC Typographic Excellence, and national Fashion Group and Meredith; previously worked as a
Pantone´s Hexachrome™ in a commercial application, “Next Generation Design Leader” from the Ministry senior art director at Glamour magazine, where her
and also the first designer to print using frequency- of Knowledge Economy, South Korea; participated in team directed photo shoots and developed the visual
modulated (“stochastic”) screening systems. exhibitions in New York, London, Lausanne, and Seoul; style of the magazine.
previously worked at the Museum of Modern Art,
Michelle Hinebrook Practise, Samsung Design Membership, Crosspoint, Alex Liebergesell
and Imagedrome.
Assistant Chair, Adjunct assistant professor Associate Professor
B.F.A., College for Creative Studies; M.F.A., Cranbrook Kimberly Kiser B.F.A., Kent State University; M.F.A., Yale University;
Academy of Art; has exhibited nationally in galleries principal, QNA Design, New York, providing web,
and museums in New York, Washington D.C., Detroit, Visiting Instructor brand, and communications solutions for corporate
San Francisco, Chicago, and abroad in Copenhagen, B.A. Journalism, University of Texas at Austin; M.S., and institutional clients; previously held teaching
Denmark; maintains a studio at XØ Projects Inc., Communication Design, Pratt Institute; Vice President, appointments in graphic design at University of Akron
Brooklyn; currently teaches and lectures at various Global Creative Director, Morgan Stanley and State University of New York, Purchase.
institutions around the U.S.
Thomas Klinkowstein Ali Madad
DK Holland
Adj un ct Profess or , CCE Visiting Associate Professor
Visiting Professor M.S., Syracuse University; Tom Klinkowstein is President B.F.A., Rochester Institute of Technology; M.F.A.,
Degree from Parsons the New School for Design; and Creative Director of Media A, LLC, an internationally Cranbrook Academy of Art; designer, writer, educator,
author/editor of numerous books on design; author/ recognized design and consulting group with clients hierophant, and principal in New York– and Los
editor of “Design Issues” column in Communication such as CondéNast, IBM and NASA. He has spoken Angeles–based SCTY, a multi-disciplinary art and
Arts since 1990; partner in several design practices, to over 100 business, political and academic groups. design practice dedicated to the manifestation of
most recently in Pushpin Studio from 1995–2001; TED Klinkowstein previously was a professor in the graphic creative disruptions; his work focuses on both the
Conference member since 1995; AIGA member since design department at the West Brabant Art and Design theoretical and public role design plays within culture
1989; Graphic Artists Guild Professional Practices Award College in the Netherlands. His work has been shown and public space; has served as design director at 19
1998; extended biography at dkholland.com. in art centers, museums and galleries throughout the Entertainment and Rockwell Group and senior designer
world, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the for Ogilvy & Mather; has taught at Cooper Union,
Peter Kaplan Venice Biennale in Italy. Queens College, and Pratt.
Visiting Assistant Professor Gusty Lange Sandie Maxa
B.S., University of Delaware; M.F.A., California Institute
of the Arts;
has served as designer for the CalArts Adj un ct Profess or , CCE Visiting Assistant Professor
office of public affairs; design director for Olgivy/Brand B.F.A., Denison University; M.S., M.P.S., Pratt Institute; has M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University; B.S.,
Integration Group; senior designer at Comedy Central; had several professions which have come together in University of Wisconsin Madison. Principal of Q
and designer at Ruder-Finn Design; was selected as a her teaching in the Graduate Communications Design Collective; previous design positions: Words at Work
ADC Young Gun in 2006 and his design work has been Department since 1985; her psychology background in Minneapolis and Concept Group in Saint Paul,
recognized by the Type Director’s Club and Broadcast as an art therapist and design background as a M.N. Design awards from How, Design Taxi, Graphic
Design Awards; has taught at CalArts, Otis College of graphic designer have unified her teaching of Visual Design:usa, AIGA, and International Association of
Art, and Pratt. Perception (focusing on perception, creative process, Webmasters and Designers. Has taught at Parsons
and archetypal symbolism in design and creativity The New School for Design, Rutgers University, Mercy
development), as well as advising thesis students to College, VCU, and College of Visual Arts-MN.
develop their own vision and critical thinking.
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Brenda McManus at Cooper Union, SVA, Portland State University, SUNY creates platforms for social issues through design, story,
Purchase, Maryland Institute College of Arts,
and and art; has exhibited work internationally and recently
adjunct Assistant Professor College for Creative Studies. had a book of photographs published in Mexico City,
B.A., Rutgers University; M.S., Pratt Institute; founding titled Locales, Portraits of the Colonia Roma; has
partner and creative director of the design firm BRED; Katya Moorman been an NGO representative with the United Nations
previously design manager for Prudential Retirement, for Designmatters, locating opportunities for design
senior designer for Skouras Design, and designer for Visiting Assistant Professor students to collaborate on a UN issue, building bridges
Leibowitz Communications, Inc.; has been recognized B.A., SUNY Purchase; M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art; to connect the world of design and social impact.
by Print, Graphis and How magazines and the Art co-founder and principal partner of Studio2k, a design
Directors Club, the Type Directors Club, the University and video studio that blurs the boundaries between Nancy Nowacek
and College Designers Association, the Museum art and design, materiality, and the ephemeral nature
Publications Design Competition, and the Creativity of technology; published and received awards from Visiting Associate Professor
Design Competition; work has been included both Output06 design annual and I.D. Magazine; widely B.F.A., University of Michigan; M.F.A., California College
in the TDC46 Awards Exhibition, Summit AIGA/NY shown at PS122 and Williamsburg Art Nexus in New of Art;
M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University;
Exhibition, the 37th ADCNJ Awards Show, the UCDA York City, as well as in Detroit, Durham, Toronto, and the worked for Bruce Mau Design in Toronto for several
Conference Exhibition and the American Association Sarai New Media Center in India. years before serving as the art director and a
of Museum Design Exhibition; has also taught at contributing writer at Metropolis magazine from
Rutgers University and F.I.T. Ann Morris 2003–2008; creative consultant work has included
Harter Furniture, Institute of Play, and IDEO; has written
Scott Menchin Visiting Assistant Professor for a number of publications including Education of
B.A., M.A., Hunter College of CUNY; creative director, an E-Designer, edited by Steven Heller; has received
Adjunct Associate Professor design: Ann Morris; worked for 16 years in corporate several design awards, including the Barclay-Simpson
Pratt Institute; Arts Students League; as art director America as creative director of TV Guide’s Advertising award for excellence, Print magazine regional design
worked for How Magazine and Seven Days; as and Marketing Department; her own graphic design award, AIGA 100, and ADC Young Guns; has been a
illustrator worked for Intel, Sun Microsytems, Toyota, business has included a variety of clients: The New York guest critic at Parsons, NYU/ITP, UT-Austin, and CCA,
Time, Newsweek, Esquire, Wired, GQ, Fast Company, Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, The Museum of the City and was a faculty member in the M.F.A. Design and
Bloomberg, Saveur, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, of New York, Columbia University, The New York City Technology Program at Parsons from 2001–2004.
The Washington Post and The Boston Globe; work has Opera, Elizabeth Arden, The Alan Guttmacher Institute,
appeared in American Illustration, Print Magazine, The Dunhill Tailors, The Learning Annex, Dino Di Laurentiis Eric O’Toole
Society of Illustrators and The Society of Publication Productions, and Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Centers.
Designers; his first illustrated children’s book, Taking Adjunct Assistant Professor
a Bath With the Dog and Other Things That Make Me Katherine Muth B.I.D., Pratt Institute; Principal, Exhibit A Design Group.
Happy, won the Christopher Award and was voted “A Eric oversees all aspects of design and development
Best Book of the Year” by The Bank Street College. Visiting Assistant Professor work produced by his design firm for a broad array
B.A., Michigan State University; M.Des., Carnegie of cultural institutions and National Parks across the
Kelli Miller Mellon University; M.F.A., New School University; country. His firm is the recipient of several awards
senior interaction designer for marthastewart.com, for design excellence from professional design and
Visiting Assistant Professor New York City; began her career in newspaper/ museum organizations for his exhibition design work.
B.F.A., College For Creative Studies; M.F.A., Cranbrook newsweekly design and has formerly held positions in
Academy of Art; independent art director and designer content strategy, interaction design, and information Peter Jay Pultorak
working in motion, digital media, and print design; work architecture at NYC agencies Addison, Siegel + Gale,
has run the gamut of independent print publications to and Carpenter Group. Clients include Smith Barney, Visiting Instructor
start-up websites to network branding; has worked on Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and MetLife. Muth has B.A., University of Notre Dame; corporate consultant
projects for Nickelodeon, Sundance Channel, Disney, taught communication design fundamentals and basic and creative director with over 15 years of experience
TV Guide Network, PBS, Coke, Wrigley, Reuters, IFC, and typography at Carnegie Mellon. leading and inspiring creative individuals and teams;
MTV; as design director for Interbrand, has worked as a photographer and designer has worked for
as art director for Thornberg and Forester and as Gala Narezo Architectural Digest, Vogue, Spin, The New Yorker,
art director at College for Creative Studies; artwork Newsweek, and Time Magazine.
has been shown, performed, and screened Visiting Assistant Professor
internationally; has taught undergraduate classes at B.A., Yale University; B.F.A., Art Center College of Design;
Pratt and College for Creative Studies; has lectured is a photographer, art director, NGO representative,
and co-founder of What Moves You?, a company that
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Alan Rapp Christie Shin of Typotopia; designer and activist for Class Action, a
design collective; previously a senior art director for
V ISITING ASSISTANT P ROFESSOR Visiting assistant professor Context, Strong Cohen Design, and Concerned Citizens
M.F.A. Design Criticism, School of Visual Arts;
B.A. B.F.A., M.S., Pratt Institute; clients include Hearst for Humanity.
English, Loyola Marymount University; editor, writer, Corporation, Kaplan Inc., Sony BMG Music
and book developer, he is a former senior editor at Entertainment; has previously taught at Fashion Alisa Zamir
Chronicle Books, San Francisco, where he acquired Institute of Technology and Hofstra University.
and developed dozens of titles in the art, architecture, Professor
design, and photography lists; former managing editor Ryan Waller B.A., Central School of Arts and Crafts—London; B.F.A.,
of the New City Reader, whose office operated on M.S., Pratt Institute; Since, 1981, Alisa Zamir has been the
the gallery floor of the New Museum in fall 2010, and Adjunct Assistant Professor Executive Vice President and Design Director at Taylor
former U.S. editor of DomusWeb International in 2011; B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; M.F.A., Yale; and Ives, Inc. Having worked as a design professional in
has taught at Parsons the New School of Design and joined Pratt after returning from a research fellowship Israel, London and America, she has over four decades
leads a graduate thesis seminar at RISD; currently, he in Switzerland on a Fulbright Award, Ecole cantonale of experience as a designer of annual reports, corporate
operates a visual book consultancy and packager, d’art de Lausanne, and Federal Office of Culture, Bern; literature and corporate identity programs. She
ARstudio, where he works with authors, visual artists, received the Mark Whistler Memorial Prize at Yale; graduated from the Central School of Arts and Crafts
photographers, and designers to develop visual book a Design Distinction Award from I.D. Magazine; an in London and earned her post-graduate degree from
projects and bring them to publication. ADC Young Guns Award; and was recognized by Print Pratt Insititute, where she has been a professor in the
magazine’s “20 Under 30”—the 20 best artists and Graduate Design Department since 1971.
Marc Rosen designers under the age of 30, selected each year;
clients have included The New York Times, Bloomberg, “Studying at Pratt
Visiting Associate Professor Virgin Records, Yale School of Art, Hunter-Gatherer— exposed me to teachers
B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University; M.S., Pratt Institute; NYC & Co., Mother NY—Condé Nast, Art Director’s and professionals who
president, Marc Rosen Associates. Club, Nike, MTV, Damiani; has taught at Pratt and held taught me a lot more
workshops at CalArts, RISD, and Yale. than I realized at the
Mark Sanders time. Graduate students
Pirco Wolfframm at Pratt were required to
Visiting Assistant Professor write quite a bit, and that
B.S., Clemson University; M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth Adjunct Assistant Professor developed my writing
University; has taught at Parsons The New School M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; Diploma in Visual abilities.”
for Design, and Rutgers University; principal of Q Communication, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach
Collective; design awards from International Design, (Germany); has gathered varied experiences to become —I s aac Ke r low,
How Magazine, AIGA, and International Association of a versatile “designist”; has lived and worked in Frankfurt, M.S. Communicat i o ns
Webmasters and Designers; work has been published London, New York, and Bangkok; her list of clients De s ign ’83,
by The New York Times, HOW magazine, Harper Collins, ranges from corporate juggernauts to niche cultures; Artist in residence, Earth
and Pepin Press. while her passion and expertise lie in brand and identity Observatory of Singapore
development, Wolfframm has applied her research-
Ashish Shah based methodology across all media to projects from
small scale to complex in scope; she is the recipient of
Visiting Instructor a Faculty Development Grant and her work as well as
M.S., Pratt Institute; B.F.A., M.S., University-Baroda, her writings about design have been published and
India; multimedia art director for Burnett Group, NYC; exhibited internationally.
previously worked in India as a partner/creative director
for Third Eye Advertising, senior graphic designer for Edvin Yegir
Solution One, and visualizer for Adroit Advertising
and Marketing; awards include Neenah Paperworks Visiting Associate Professor
Letterhead Competition, Gold Award, HOW International B.A., Connecticut State University; M.F.A., Yale University;
Design Award, Gujarat State Lalit Kala Award for associate professor of graphic design at the University
Photography; professional affiliation with Usability of Connecticut and art director of the Design Center
Professionals’ Association, New York City Chapter. Studio there; has been a guest critic at Yale and RISD;
work has been recognized by AGI, AIGA, ID, Graphis,
Print, and Communication Arts; currently principal
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Creative Arts Therapy
Established in 1970, Pratt’s Graduate Department of Creative chair
Arts Therapy is one of the oldest graduate creative arts therapy
training programs in the country. Julie Miller
Pratt offers a Master of Professional through the integration of imagery administrative secretary
Studies in Art Therapy and Creativity and metaphor, which frames, grounds,
Development, a Master of Professional and facilitates a flow of communication Jean Simmons
Studies in Art Therapy with Special between the therapist and his or her
Needs Children, and a Master of Science patients. Our goal is to help students to be office
in Dance/Movement Therapy. Students able to use a complex and open theoretical
learn creative arts therapy skills as applied framework that makes it possible for Tel: 718-636-3428 | Fax: 718-636-3597
to a wide variety of patient populations, them to respond to a multitude of [email protected]
including psychiatric inpatient and clinical situations, utilizing themselves www.pratt.edu/ad/ather
outpatient, substance abuse, geriatric, in the most creative ways possible
special education, therapeutic nurseries, while being grounded in developmental
after-school programs, families, medical and diagnostic skills, as well as group
rehabilitation, Child Life, eating and individual dynamics. Each student
disorders, AIDS, the homeless, and is encouraged to develop his or
traumatized populations, as well as work her own unique style, informed by an
in prevention and wellness. At the end experiential process.
of their training, students are prepared
for entry work in a broad continuum of Our philosophy comes from the
settings, ranging from institutions to inherent nature of art therapy and
creative work outside institutions. dance/movement therapy as experiential
therapies. Therefore, experiential
Our students develop personal artistry learning and a process orientation are
the cornerstones of our curriculum, and
Left: Dance Therapy class theory and skills are taught experientially.
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The department maintains an professional writing skills are developed The Program’s Structure
environment that supports and maintains through completion of a thesis. Students
the students’ involvement in that are given the option of a range of m.p.s. in art th e rapy a nd
process. Accordingly, we are committed research methods, including quantitative creativity development and m.s.
to maintaining small class sizes, to and qualitative. The latter may include in dance/movement therapy
enhancing communication between a case study, a project implemented in
students and faculty, and to encouraging the community, or descriptive methods These programs provide a synthesis of
discussion of the learning process itself. investigating the experience of a creative, aesthetic, and psychotherapeutic
phenomenon or therapeutic process. theory. Courses offer a thorough theoretical
One of the strongest elements of our framework that is then translated into
program is the synthesis of the theoretical The American Art Therapy personal and practical application through
and the practical. Our program combines Association has approved both art an experiential process. Artwork and/or
practicum/internship assignments therapy degrees. The Dance Therapy movement is done in every course and is
with coursework from beginning to program is approved by the American used to learn therapeutic skills. Students
end, providing graduates with a firm Dance Therapy Association. All focus on a wide variety of populations
grounding in the actual practice of art programs are licensure-qualifying and are required to work with a different
and dance/movement therapy upon and graduates automatically satisfy population for each of the two years
graduation. Students attend two educational requirements for licensure of internship/practicum. Both programs
days of practicum/internship weekly. in New York State. For those considering are for students who want a broad
They complete two practicums/ a career in art or dance therapy or who body of skills, balanced with a strong
internships, one each year. They want a basic introduction, we offer theoretical framework.
receive weekly on-site supervision, as the Spring Institute, which is a three-
well as weekly supervision by a Pratt day set of courses in various areas of m.p.s. in art th e rapy wi t h
supervisor. Supervision at Pratt consists creative arts therapy. special needs children
of group and individual supervision.
A coordinator assists students in finding The Creative Arts Therapy program The program is intended to train art
a clinical placement. offers its degrees in two formats. The therapists who want to work with special
Academic Year format offers classes in a education populations, not as art teachers.
There is richness to be gained from traditional manner, with classes in fall The degree does not qualify students for
including both art therapy and dance/ and spring semesters, for 15 weeks each a teaching license. Classes are the same as
movement therapy students in the semester. The Spring/Summer Intensive for other art therapy students. The main
department. Students can learn about format is an innovative educational model differences are:
the nature of creative arts therapy in based on an adult learning model. The
general and the particular strengths and program is designed for those students ▶▶ In both years of the practicum
limitations of their chosen modality. A who do not live near an established experience students must work with
majority of the courses are discipline program or are not able to relocate to New special education populations.
specific, although many of the classes York City for coursework. The program
are taken with art and dance therapists is also suitable for those students already ▶▶ Distinct readings are given in
combined. Graduates receive discrete in New York City who have to maintain some classes.
degrees, in either art or dance therapy. their employment.
▶▶ Papers and case presentations center
Knowledge of research skills and on a special education population.
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admission requirements before starting the program. Psychology keep Spring/Summer Intensive students
(for all degrees) credits must be completed before the start consistently in touch with Pratt faculty.
of the second year.
A bachelor’s degree is required for Housing is available on campus when
admission. For the Art Therapy program, Students in the academic year format courses are being held in New York.
a degree in art or psychology is preferred. are admitted for the fall semester only. Courses in New Hampshire take place
For the Dance Therapy program, a degree Students in the spring/summer intensive in Lincoln, in the White Mountains.
in dance or psychology is preferred. The format are admitted for the spring Students rent resort condominiums, at
following prerequisites are required for semester only. reasonable prices, for the duration of
all programs: 12 credits in psychology their stay. The Spring/Summer Intensive
(to include coursework in general, academic year format format is offered to both art and dance/
developmental, and abnormal psychology movement therapy students.
and theories of personality). The cycle of classes in New York is as
follows: Students take a number of
For the Art Therapy program only: courses and practicum/internship
18 credits in studio art (to include from September through May for two
coursework in drawing, painting, and 3-D consecutive years.
to include ceramics).
spring/summer intensive
For the Dance/Movement Therapy format
program only: coursework in anatomy/
kinesiology; extensive experience in at The cycle of classes is as follows: Students
least two idioms of dance, one of which take one class (7–9 days) in mid-March in
must be modern dance; and experience New York. During the last week of June,
in mind/ body modalities, such as they take another class (7–9 days), also in
meditation, yoga, body therapy, etc. New York. During the first three weeks
of July, students take courses (over three
All prerequisite courses may be taken on weeks) in New Hampshire.
an undergraduate level but must be taken
from an accredited institution to receive Students complete reading
academic credit. Studio classes will be assignments before classes and then
accepted for movement experience. For complete their papers before the
the Art Therapy program, students may following November, giving them a
start classes with half of the psychology chance to integrate class experience
and half of the studio art credits but must with readings and practicum/internship
complete all prerequisites before the start experience. Two years of practicum/
of the second year. For the Dance Therapy internship are done from September
program, students may start classes with through May following the first
half of the psychology credits, but all and second year of summer classes.
other prerequisites must be completed Supervision is completed through weekly
phone, video, and online contacts that
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Creative Arts Therapy Faculty
Josephine Abbenante her latest full-length documentary, Leave No Soldier, Subcommittee; experience in addictions, adults with
at many professional conferences and international multiple sclerosis, adult inpatient and outpatient
Adjunct Assistant Professor film festivals. She is a board member of Psychoanalysis psychiatry, geriatrics and men with AIDS/HIV; private
B.A. Rice University; M.A. University of Louisville; has for Social Responsibility, and a vocal advocate for practice; ADTR, CASAC, LCAT.
taught and practiced art therapy for the past 25 years; increased community support for the care of our
added the practice of sandplay to her work 10 years returning soldiers. Kimberly Bush
ago; has presented nationally and internationally on
topics including archetypal art therapy, transition, Beate Becker Adjunct Assistant Professor
art therapy with deaf culture, art therapy and feminist B.A., Sarah Lawrence Coll; M.F.A., Parsons the New
theory, sandplay and art therapy, work across Adjunct Associate Professor School of Design; Adv. Cert., Pratt Institute; Adv.
cultures, and the language of aesthetics and metaphor. B.A., Smith College; M.A., Columbia University Cert., Westchester Institute for Psychoanalysis and
ATR-BC, LPAT. (Teacher’s College); M.S., Hunter College; certified Psychotherapy; has been working creatively with
psychoanalyst, New York Center for Psychoanalytic children, teachers, and parents for over 20 years. She
Claudia Bader Training; certified movement analyst, Laban/Bartenieff is a visual artist, a NYS licensed Creative Arts Therapist,
Institute for Movement Studies; advanced training in and Certified Child Life Specialist. In addition, she is
Visiting Instructor Somatic Experiencing. Private practice, Manhattan completing her training as psychoanalytic candidate at
M.P.S., Pratt Institute, ATR-BC, NCPsyA, licensed creative and Westchester; staff, Institute for Contemporary the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychotherapy
arts therapist, licensed psychoanalyst; executive Psychoanalysis; co-editor, American Journal of and Psychoanalysis.
director emerita, Institute for Expressive Analysis ( Dance Therapy; presenter at national professional
2002–2008); board member 1993–2002, IEA; courses: conferences; published in American Journal of Dance Barbara Cooper
Art Diagnosis, Symbolism in Art Therapy, Alchemy, Therapy, American Dance Teacher, and A Moving
Symbolism and Creativity, Dream Analysis, Mandala; Journal; former choreographer, performer lighting Adjunct Associate Professor
MARI certification, Projective Drawing Institute designer. ADTR, CMA, LCAT, LP, LMHC. M.P.S. Creative Arts Therapy, Pratt Institute; has taught
Certification; private practice, Manhattan. in the program for the past 20 years; co-founder and
Joachim Boenig co-director of SuperKids, a therapeutic program for
Donna Bassin children and teens with social skills challenges and
Adjunct Assistant Professor disabilities; co-author of two workbooks for children
Visiting Associate Professor and teens with Asperger’s Syndrome; executive
M.P.S. Art Therapy, Pratt Institute, Ph.D. Clinical Corinna Brown consultant for www.socialskillscentral.com, and travels
Psychology, The Union Institute and University; art throughout the country training teachers and therapists
therapist, licensed clinical psychologist, and I.P.A Visiting Instructor who work with students on the autism spectrum in
certified psychoanalyst; member and faculty at IPTAR, B.A.; M.A., State University of New York at Albany; M.S., using the creative arts to help these students process
and has a full-time private practice in New York Hunter College City University of New York; Certified their experience and learn the skills that will help them
City; author of published books, book reviews, and Alcoholism Counselor; Certificate in Neo-Reichian become independent and successful in their lives.
journal articles in the areas of gender, motherhood, Psychotherapy; current vice president and former ATR-BC, LMHC.
mourning, and memorials; has exhibited her fine art editor of the New York State Chapter of the American
photography in museums and galleries, and screened Dance Therapy Association newsletter; ADTA Research
school of art and design 105
Carol Cox Valerie Hubbs psychotherapy and hypnosis from New York Milton
H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis
Visiting Assistant Professor Visiting Instructor and has presented on use of art therapy for various
B.A., Hofstra University; M.S., Hunter College, City populations in New York, Oregon, Michigan, and
Jean Davis University of New York; certified group psychotherapist; Ireland; in private practice in Manhattan since 2002,
founder/director, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Therapy- she provides ATR supervision and specializes in the
Adjunct Associate Professor North General Hospital; approval committee, American treatment of anxiety and mood disorders, addiction,
M.P.S., Pratt Institute; private practice; former director, Dance Therapy Association; administrative, clinical, eating disorders, trauma, grief/loss, and identity
Transitional Living Community-Brooklyn Bureau of consulting, supervisory, and teaching experience in development. ATR-BC, LCAT.
Community Service; former clinical director, Greenwich multiple psychiatric facilities; ADTR, NCC, LCAT, LMHC.
Village Youth Council; postgraduate training in group Barbara McLeod
therapy, environmental psychology, and gestalt therapy; Kell Julliard
published in Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Visiting Instructor
Therapy Association and The Arts in Psychotherapy; Visiting Instructor B.A., University of Southern Mississippi; M.P.S., Pratt
A.T.R.-BC, LCAT. M.A. Expressive Therapy, University of Louisville; Institute; Ph.D. candidate, Adelphi University; New
assistant vice president, Lutheran Medical Center, York State-licensed creative arts therapist; has worked
Christina Devereaux with responsibility for clinical research, the as an art therapist with children, adolescents, and
Institutional Review Board, and quality monitoring adults in inpatient psychiatry and currently works with
Visiting Assistant Professor in medical student education; he mentors residents incarcerated females using verbal psychotherapy;
B.A., Kent State University; M.A., University of California from many departments in all phases of conducting present research focuses on the interplay of
Los Angeles; Ph.D. Candidate, Santa Barbara Graduate research; has worked as an art psychotherapist gender-role, interpersonal functioning, and healthy
Institute; Board of Directors, chair of Public Relations, in the area of chemical dependency, and has published dependency through a process-based method that
and Newsletter editor, American Dance Therapy a monograph and research studies in that field; measures and compares conscious attitudes and
Association newsletter; past president, Southern formerly, director of communications and publications, unconscious needs. LCAT.
California Chapter, ADTA; former Executive Board Christine M. Kleinert Institute for Hand and Micro
member, California Coalition for Counseling Licensure; Surgery, Louisville, Kentucky. Julie Miller
experience in trauma, domestic violence, attachment
in child development, family work and prenatal and Melissa Klay chair
perinatal psychology; ADTR, NCC, LCAT LMHC. M.A./M.S., Hunter College Dance Therapy Master’s
Adjunct Instructor Program and the Hunter School of Social Work;
Alison Gigl-George B.A., Stephens College; M.P.S., Pratt Institute; Ph.D., maintains a private practice in dance/movement
Pacifica Graduate Institute; has worked with children, and verbal psychotherapy and is co-director of the
Adjunct Assistant Professor adolescents, and adults in inpatient and outpatient New York Center for the Study of Authentic Movement.
settings. Between 1998 and 2001 she attended the LCSW, LCAT, BC-DMT.
Blair Glaser Institute for Expressive Analysis and participated in
a number of courses in play therapy and sandplay Elizabeth (Lisa) Myers
Visiting Instructor therapy. Currently, has a private practice and works with
adolescents at St. Luke’s Hospital Center. Visiting Instructor
Stephanie Gorski M.P.S., Pratt Institute; B.A., University of Cincinnati;
Judith Luongo New York-licensed creative arts therapist and a
Visiting Instructor Vermont-licensed mental health counselor; 25 years
M.P.S., Pratt Institute; B.A., State University College at Adjunct Associate Professor experience working with children, youth and families
Geneseo; 2003-present;Faculty, The School of Visual as an art therapist and program administrator; thesis
Arts, M.P.S. Art Therapy Department 1993-present; Jennifer Mauro was published in the Pratt Art Therapy Review;
Clinical Coordinator. New York Foundling Hospital had published article in the American Art Therapy
1992-Present; Private Practice, New York, New York: Visiting Instructor association newsletter (winter 2011); was a 2011
Individual art psychotherapy for children, adolescents M.P.S., Pratt Institute; B.F.A./Art Therapy Certification, Vermont Studio Center fellowship recipient; has a
and adults as well as supervision for art therapists and School of Visual Arts; creator and former director of art private practice in Burlington, Vermont, and is also a
social workers. therapy and wellness services at CASES, an alternative practicing artist. ATR-BC, LCAT, LMHC.
to incarceration for youth; former clinical director
for Rita Project, a creative arts therapy program for
suicide survivors, received post-graduate training in
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Madeline Rugh Jennifer Frank Tantia Robert Wolf
Visiting Associate Professor Visiting Instructor Visiting Assistant Professor
M.A., University of Michigan Ann Arbor; B.F.A., M.S., Pratt Institute; Ph.D. candidate, The Chicago
Columbus College of Art and Design; Ph.D., University School for Professional Psychology; advanced training Eva Teirstein Young
of Oklahoma; specializing in providing healing art in somatic experiencing; past PR chair, New York
experiences to disabled children and older adults and Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies; past program Visiting Instructor
developing programming at the interface of art, ecology director, New York State Chapter, ADTA; current M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago; M.P.S.
and spirituality; uses the arts to serve as the container research committee, United States Body Association Creative Arts Therapy, Pratt Institute; graduate, The
and primary vehicle for expressing synthesized for Body Psychotherapy; published in the U.S.A. Body William Alanson White Institute’s Child and Adolescent
knowledge and for addressing the health and healing Psychotherapy Journal and several ADTA national and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program; has worked
needs of the individual or group. state chapter newsletters; national and international with children, adolescents, and families at the
conference presenter; private practice: leading New York Foundling Hospital and Bellevue Hospital;
Dina Schapiro authentic movement groups and specializing in trauma creative arts therapy consultant to the Young
and somatic disorders; areas of research interest: Dancemakers Company and has a private practice
Adjunct Instructor embodied epistemology and dance/movement therapy in NYC; ATR-BC, LCAT.
and somatic psychology pedagogy.
Jean Seibel
Susan Tortora
Visiting Instructor
Visiting Assistant Professor
Linda Siegel
Elissa White
D i r ecto r o f G r a duat e Art Therap y P rog ram;
Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor
Certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Charter member and past president of American
Brooklyn Institute for Psychotherapy and Psycho Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) and other board
analysis; Certificate in Parent Infant Psychotherapy, positions since l964. Former co-editor and editorial
Ani Bergaman Parent Infant Training Program in Parent board member of the American Journal of Dance
Infant Psy; previous director of Art and Creative Therapy Therapy. Co-founder of the Dance Therapy Program at
Program at New Directions, out-patient substance Hunter College, CUNY; author, articles on dance therapy
abuse program; co-founder, Park Slope Counseling and Lab analysis, extensive teaching and presenter of
Center since 1990; exhibiting artist. Marian Chace theory and practice; ADTR, CMA, LCAT.
Laurel Thompson Joan Wittig
Professor Director of Gr ad uate Dan ce/Movemen t
M.P.S., Pratt Institute; Ph.D., Union Institute & University; Ther ap y Progr am ; Ass ociate Profess or
board member, American Dance Therapy Association, B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.S., Hunter
chair of Education, Research & Practice; Education College, City University of New; ADTR, LCAT. Wittig
Committee, American Art Therapy Association; board worked for New York City Health and Hospitals
member, USA Body Psychotherapy Association; Corporation for 16 years, including seven years as
editorial board for Arts in Psychotherapy, Art Therapy: director of the Creative Arts Therapy Department
The American Journal of Art Therapy, and Body, at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center.
Movement and Psychotherapy; numerous publications She teaches and presents widely, serves on the
and extensive presentations; credentialed in dance Approval Committee for the American Dance Therapy
movement and art therapy, focusing trainer; private Association, is a member of the New York State Board
practice specializing in eating disorders, dissociative for Mental Health Professionals, and has a private
disorders, and trauma. practice in Manhattan.
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Design Management
Design education imparts many things, but it does not chair
typically provide training in the leadership, team building,
strategy, finance, marketing, and operations skills necessary to Mary McBride, Ph.D.
effectively lead a design department or to run a design business.
Similarly, M.B.A.s who are selected to lead design functions office
often lack the design experience necessary to guide design
decisions or to lead creative people. Tel: 212-647-7538
[email protected]
www.pratt.edu/ad/dm
The Design Management Program (DMP) The program’s academic calendar
was created to bridge the discip lines of is modeled after successful executive
design and business management. The E.M.B.A. programs. Its schedule of
two-year program provides an executive alternating weekends (Saturdays and
education more focused than an M.B.A. Sundays) allows participants to carry their
on the special needs of design leaders full job responsibilities while they study.
managing design firms or managing
design teams in creative industries. The program provides designers with
the opportunity to:
Design Management classes are
designed for working professionals ▶▶ Join a learning community of
and delivered by working professionals professionals with diverse design
from the worlds of business and backgrounds.
design. Participants come from a variety
of disciplines, including industrial ▶▶ Develop a strong skill set in the
design, interior design, graphic design, discipline of business and the
fashion design, communication and management of design.
information design, interactive media
design, and architecture. ▶▶ Explore emerging trends and draw
from new ideas converging across
design disciplines.
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school of art and design 109
▶▶ Learn to identify and manage criti- The Program’s Structure admissions requirements
cal business challenges strategically.
The Design Management Program Design Management program
▶▶ Practice using Triple Bottom Line (DMP) curriculum is designed to develop applicants should ideally have an
by Design (TBLD) to create strate- strategic management skills in five areas undergraduate degree in one of the
gic and sustainable advantage and related to design management: operations design disciplines and a minimum of
social innovation. management; financial management; three years’ professional experience prior
marketing management; organization to admission. All applicants must follow
▶▶ Analyze key global social, economic, and human resource management; the standard rules for admission to a
environmental, technological, and and management of innovation and graduate program at Pratt and meet those
political challenges. change. Courses are relevant and offer requirements. See www.pratt.edu/apply.
active learning experiences that provide
▶▶ Meet the challenge of managing in participants with an integrated focus
team-based organizations. on the role of design in the creation and
management of strategic and sustainable
▶▶ Develop leadership capabilities. advantage and social innovation.
▶▶ Refine communication, negotiation, Offered at Pratt’s West 14th Street
and conflict management skills. campus in Manhattan, classes meet every
other weekend for two full days
▶▶ Learn techniques for leading and or twelve hours. In addition, students
managing innovation. attend for a full week at the beginning
and middle of the program. An
▶▶ Use technology to aid design in integrative experience at the end of the
creating advantage. two-year period provides the opportunity
for several brief, intensive courses,
▶▶ Sharpen skills in operations and including behavioral simulation and
project management, finance, and negotiating modules. These weeks
budgeting. establish and maintain relationships
among students in each class, which
▶▶ Apply strategic thinking to market- many participants in executive programs
ing, new product development, and consider especially valuable. Students are
brand management. required to complete 42 credit hours in
order to receive the accredited academic
▶▶ Create and extend professional degree Master of Professional Studies
networks worldwide. (M.P.S.) in Design Management.
Graduates are prepared for leadership
roles in strategic design and strategic
management. They are able to use design
to create sustainable strategic advantage
and social innovation and to shape the
way business is designed worldwide.
Left: Left Top, Bottom: Catalyst design management
magazine; Right Top, Center, and Bottom: Design Futures
collaboration with EDC and Source4Style
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Design Management Faculty
Laurence DeGaetano Richard Green James Murray
Adjunct Assistant Professor Professor Visiting Assistant Professor
M.B.A., New York University; Financial Officer, Met Life Former director of new products and joint ventures, M.P.S., Pratt Institute; Design Director, Bed, Bath and
Financial Services; member, American Institute of Citibank-Diners Club; consultant specializing in Beyond
Certified Public Accountants. developing organizational change strategies and the
improvement of internal team processes. Jo Ann Stonier
Roger Dunbar
Mary McBride Visiting Assistant Professor
Visiting Professor J.D., St. John’s University; privacy consultant specializing
Ph.D., Cornell University; Professor of Management, Professor and Chair of Design Management in developing privacy strategies for organizations;
New York University, Stern School of Business Ph.D., New York University; Partner, Strategies for former chief privacy officer, American Express Company.
Administration. Planned Change, an international consulting group
specializing in creating excellence by design; visiting Marvin Waldman
Scott Fiaschetti professor international universities including Esade,
Spain; Koc University, Turkey; ISG, France; European Visiting Assistant Professor
Visiting Associate Professor University, Russia; former director, Management M.B.A., Baruch College; President, The Shadow Group,
Decision Lab, Stern School of Business, New York an advertising group specializing in strategy for not-for-
Larry Gibbs University. profit companies.
Visiting Assistant Professor Jacqueline McCormack
Adjunct Associate Professor
M.P.S., Pratt Institute; Chief of Staff to New York
State Banking Commisioner; former Director of
Communications and Employee Engagement, TD
Waterhouse.
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Digital Arts
Imagine you’re an artist who knows how to use every piece of chair
hardware and software in the world…now what?
Peter Patchen
Students in the Graduate Digital Arts advantage of exhibition opportunities
program at Pratt are immediately engaged that exist nowhere else in the country. assistant chair
in the creation of artwork utilizing digital Graduates become leading contributors to
technologies. These artists come together the digital arts with a commitment to the Carla Gannis
to study interactive arts, digital anima- cultural enrichment of their world.
tion and motion arts, and digital imaging. lab managers
Within a context of new media, students The Program’s Structure
use critical thinking, creative problem solv- Igor Molochevski
ing, technical facility, and conceptual skills Students are able to follow one of three Greg Blazer
to develop a sophisticated body of work. tracks: interactive arts, digital animation
and motion arts, and digital imaging. office
Studio practice is essential for This 60-credit, full-time program is to be
students of interactive art and imaging. completed in two calendar years. Students Tel: 718-636-3411 | Fax: 718-399-4494
Students working in these areas of complete required coursework in their [email protected]
study are provided with studio space primary area of emphasis and one year http://dda.pratt.edu
for the completion of their theses. This of work on a thesis, which culminates in
intensive course of study is augmented a thesis paper, exhibition, or screening of
by internships, special topics courses, and the completed work. Additional degree
lectures and critiques by visiting artists. requirements include completing six
Students create work with the guidance credits of extra-departmental studio elec-
of a faculty of professional practicing tives, one course in art history, and one
artists and scholars, who serve as models course in liberal studies.
in the pursuit of artistic excellence.
Digital art students become part of the
thriving New York art scene, establishing
a professional network and taking
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interactive arts Admissions Requirements Fa c i l i t i e s Imaging C e nte r
Students use computer-human interac- Applicants should have a degree or ▶▶ 9 digital studios The Digital Arts Imaging
tion to convey meaning in the form of considerable background in the digital ▶▶ Imaging center Center has class-
physical installations, interactive objects, arts and should submit a strong visual ▶▶ Audio room related equipment and
and online artworks. This includes the portfolio demonstrating a conceptual ▶▶ Gallery/test space other services available
combination of video, animation, text, and aesthetic focus. A pplicants whose ▶▶ Graduate studios only to registered
audio, and imagery in an interactive envi- first language is not English must Digital Arts students.
ronment. Recommended electives include achieve a minimum score of 550 on the (by concentration) Services include:
courses in history of new media, sculpture, Test of English as a Foreign Language
creating exhibitions, prototyping, pro- (TOEFL). In addition to the TOEFL Additional ▶▶ Wide format
gramming, interactive installation, online requirement, all enrolling students Resources 2-D printing
media, robotics and physical computing, whose first language is not English will
electronic music, and sound. be tested for English Proficiency unless ▶▶ B/W laser printers ▶▶ 3-D printing (ABS)
they have a TOEFL score of 600. Pending ▶▶ 3-D printer (ABS) ▶▶ 3-D scanning
digital animation and motion arts the outcome of this test, individuals ▶▶ 3-D scanner ▶▶ Flatbed and
may be assigned to ESL courses. For ▶▶ Color laser and
Students create evocative narrative and more information, contact the Office of slide scanning
nonnarrative films and installations using Admissions at [email protected] or inkjet printers
2-D and 3-D digital animation tech- the department chair at 718-636-3411. ▶▶ DVD and CD-ROM Equipme nt for
niques, live action, and motion graphics. check out includes:
Recommended electives include history Digital Arts Graduate Assistantships duplicator
of animation, film criticism, traditional are available beginning in the first ▶▶ Flatbed scanners ▶▶ HD digital
animation, character design and rigging, semester of attendance. Positions ▶▶ Slide scanner video cameras
lighting and rendering, audio and video, range from assisting faculty research to ▶▶ RAID file storage
compositing and special effects, and creative or technical support. Graduate ▶▶ Digital still cameras
advanced digital animation techniques. Assistantships are awarded based on and transfer system ▶▶ Portable lighting kits
individual skills or degree goals and are ▶▶ Plasma screen ▶▶ Digital audio recorders
digital imaging available throughout the Digital Arts ▶▶ Render farm ▶▶ Headphones
M.F.A. degree program. ▶▶ Laser cutter ▶▶ Microphones
This area of study employs digital and ▶▶ 11' × 12' portable
traditional processes in the creation of Left: Lorena Kraus Software
large-format digital prints, installations, green screen
artist books, and other tactile media. It Pages 114–115: Michelle Muzyka ▶▶ Adobe Photoshop ▶▶ 35 mm projector
addresses critical issues and techniques in ▶▶ Adobe Illustrator ▶▶ Portable video
the development, printing, and presenta- Pages 116–117: Nick Pedersen ▶▶ Adobe InDesign
tion of digitally based art. Recommended ▶▶ Adobe After Effects projection screens
electives include critical history of pho- Pages 118–119: Kanokphan Hoontrakool ▶▶ Apple Aperture ▶▶ Video tripods with
tography, etching, silkscreen, lithography, ▶▶ AutoDesk Maya
and digital photography. ▶▶ Apple Final Cut Pro three-way fluid head
▶▶ Apple Logic ▶▶ Wacom tablets
▶▶ Adobe Dreamweaver ▶▶ Installation computers
▶▶ Adobe Flash ▶▶ Digital projectors
▶▶ Adobe Director
▶▶ Max/Msp/Jitter (normal and
▶▶ Mental Ray wide throw)
▶▶ Processing ▶▶ DVD players
▶▶ Quicktime Pro and recorders
▶▶ Syflex ▶▶ Wide array of tutorials
and much more and much more.
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Digital Arts Faculty
Doug Barrett Liubomir Borissov Elliot Cowan
Visiting Instructor Associate Professor Visiting Instructor
M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Ph.D., SUNY- Ph.D., Physics, Columbia University; M.P.S, Interactive B.A. Visual Communication, Independent College of
Buffalo; work considers sound, performance, and Telecommunications, New York University; B.S., Art and Design; Post-graduate degree, Animation,
technology as critical components of the digital arts; Mathematics and Physics, California Institute of The Victorian College of the Arts; international writer,
Barrett ‘s artworks, music, and writing have been Technology; Global Vilar Fellow, Tisch School of the Arts, director, animator and illustrator who has completed
exhibited, performed, and published throughout North NYU; exhibitions: New Interfaces for Musical Expression work for diverse clients such as Sesame Street, Viacom,
America and Europe: Incubator Arts Project (New York), conference, Japan, 2004; Canada 2005; Lincoln Center Elizabeth Arden, and Scholastic; has worked in almost
Diapason Gallery (New York), the Wulf (Los Angeles), Summer Festival, NYC; the Kennedy Center, Washington, every facet of media production including an 11-year
Theater Perdu (Amsterdam), Universität der Künste D.C. Borissov has taught at Harvestworks, Parsons stint producing commercials and work on animated
Berlin, Université de Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallée, Phoebe School of Design and the Columbia University Graduate feature films; his award-winning short film series The
Zeitgeist Teatro (Milan), University of Huddersfield School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Stressful Adventures of Boxhead and Roundhead is
(UK), Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast, UK) and currently in production as an independent animated
Neutral Ground (Canada); his writing is published in the Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols feature; and his pen and ink drawings have been
interdisciplinary literary journal Mosaic (U of Manitoba) exhibited many times.
and Contemporary Music Review (Edinburgh); Barrett Visiting Associate Professor
received a research grant to Berlin from DAAD (German M.F.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; B.F.A. Sarajevo Edward Darino
Academic Exchange Service) in 2009. University’s Music Academy; film and multimedia
theater composer, producer; recipient of the Soros and Adjunct Assistant Professor
Rick Barry ASCAPLUS Awards; exhibitions: The Tribeca Film Festival, Ph.D., UEU on New Technologies; M.F.A., Tisch School of
Anthology Film Archives, and AMC Theaters in New Art, New York University; designer, on-air identification
Professor York City; SABCTV Art Works, South Africa; Louisiana for Manhattan Cable, HBO, Calliope, USA Networks,
M.F.A., Pratt Institute; president, Desktop Design Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen; International Con Edison, USA Olympics, Snoopy and Superman
Studio; past president of the Graphic Artists Guild of Festival Mosaics ’97, London; Sarajevo Winter Festival specials; editor, director, and special effects supervisor
New York; Board of Directors, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH; ’98; Immedia ’98, University of Michigan; Museum for Hollywood Stars, Grand Entertainment, Disney
chair SIGGRAPH 2003 courses program; chair NYC of Science, Boston; Institute on the Arts and Civic Entertainment, Discovery, Galavision, and many
MetroCAF 2005; ACM SIGGRAPH director for education Dialogue, Harvard University. others. Darino’s Special Effects Library is used in 62
2006–2009; founding member of ACM SIGGRAPH countries worldwide.
Digital Arts Committee; chair, Digital Arts at Pratt Aharon Charnov
Institute,1995–2000; interim chair, 2004–2006. Marianna Ellenberg
Visiting Instructor
Thomas Bonè B.A., University of Pennsylvania, M.F.A., Rochester Visiting Instructor
Institute of Technology; has worked as a Digital Artist M.A., Slade School of Art; B.A.,Wesleyan University;
Visiting Assistant Professor at The Jim Henson Company, Pixel Liberation Front, 2009 LMCC Swing Space residency; exhibitions: The
Professional digital and traditional animator Animatus Studios, Callaway & Kirk, Homer; projects N.Y. Underground Film Festival, 2007, The Collectif
and cartoonist with over 14 years of professional include Paranormal Activity (iPod game), Bob the Jeune Cinéma, 2003, LA Freewaves, 2006; forthcoming
work experience in varied works from film, Builder, Sid the Science Kid (3 seasons), The Incredible exhibitions: “The Pleasures Seekers,” Chashama Gallery,
television, illustrations, web, advertising and Hulk, and Terminator Salvation. NYC, 2009, “Hysteria,” UC Long Beach, 2008.
merchandising productions.
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Carla Gannis chapter of “Object of Desire”; recipient of the Jerome Photography and the Fakultet za Likovni Umetnosti.
Foundation Media Arts grant, the New York Foundation Her curated exhibitions include “Digital Visions”
Visiting Instructor for the Arts 2001 Fellowship award and the Alternative (1995) at the Muroff Kottler Art Gallery at SUNY Ulster,
M.F.A., Boston University; B.F.A., University of North Museum Digital Commission 2000; formerly, an artist- Stone Ridge as well as “Threading Time” (2005) and
Carolina at Greensboro; Carla Gannis is the recipient of in-residence at Harvestworks collaborating on the CD “Computer Animation Festival Concept Artwork” (2005)
several awards, including a 2005 New York Foundation Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell released by Innova Recordings at SIGGRAPH 2005 in Los Angeles. She co-curated a
for the Arts Grant in Computer Arts, an Emerge 7 in 2005; in 2002 she completed the second chapter series of international, multi-site live performances on
Fellowship from the Aljira Art Center, and a Chashama of “Destruction & Mending” commissioned by the San the Access Grid (2005).
AREA Visual Arts Studio Award in NYC. She has Francisco Museum of Modern Art; launched “Portal,” an
exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both nationally interactive net.dance commissioned by Turbulence.org, David Mattingly
and internationally. Features on Gannis’s work have and was R&D resident at Eyebeam in 2003; represented
appeared in Res Magazine and Collezioni Edge, and her by Bitforms Gallery in New York. Visiting Instructor
work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The B.F.A., Colorado State University; M.F.A. Art Center;
LA Times, The Miami Herald, The Daily News and The Everett Kane headed the Matte Department at Walt Disney Studios
Village Voice. where he worked on “The Black Hole,” “Tron,” “Dick
Visiting Associate Professor Tracy,” Stephen King’s “The Stand,” and “I, Robot” for
Kay Hines B.A., Princeton University, B.F.A.; M.F.A., Art Center Weta Digital in New Zealand; has produced over 500
College of Design; artist, 3D animator, creative director covers for most major publishers of science fiction
Visiting Instructor of SuperSoft Design; educational advisor to Location and fantasy, including Baen, Bantam, DAW, Del
B.A., Art History, Barnard College; Cine Golden Eagle One, a Manhattan-based non-profit focused on Rey, Dell, Marvel, Omni, Playboy, Signet, and Tor; for
Award, editor of “9/11: Response and Recovery” the intersection of technology and the arts; 3D designer, Scholastic Inc., he painted 54 covers for K.A. Applegate’s
for Signet Productions and Bovis Lend Lease, 2003; Molecular Biology Department, California Institute Animorphs series, along with the last five covers for
Greenwald Foundation Grant, 1995; New York of Technology. the Everworld series; illustrated the popular Honor
Foundation for the Arts Grant, 1992, 1985; National Harrington series for author David Weber; painted
Endowment for the Arts Creative Artist Fellowship Lara Kohl the latest repackaging of Edgar Rice Burroughs’
Grant, 1981; videographer and internationally exhibited “Pellucidar” books for Ballantine Books; two-time
media installation artist; co-owner/founder of Dekart Adjunct Assistant Professor winner of Magazine and Booksellers Best Cover of the
Video, est. 1981. M.A., Performance Studies, New York University; M.F.A. Year award, and winner of the Association of Science
Time Based Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Fiction Artists Chesley award; other clients include
Stephen Jackett Chicago; B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University; Michael Jackson, Lucasfilm, Universal Studios, Totco Oil,
residencies: EdLab digital artist in residence, Teacher’s Galloob Toys, R/Greenberg Associates, Click 3X, and
Visiting Instructor College, Columbia University, 2008; Banff Centre for Spontaneous Combustion; author of The Digital Matte
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.F.A., School of Visual Arts; the Arts, Banff, Canada, 2008, 2000; Queen Street Painting Handbook (Sybex, 2011) the first guide to
works include award-winning commercial animation Digital Studios, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2008; selected digital matte painting.
for J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, with clients such as exhibitions: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens,
the Oxygen and Discovery channels, Saturday Night NY; Artists Space, NYC; Triple Candie, NYC; Exit Art, NYC; Peter Mackey
Live, Chef Boyardee, the Ad Council, and the Chicago Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NYC; Alona Kagan Gallery,
Tribune; additional work includes animated Web NYC; Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Jack Professor
advertisements for ESPN360.com for W/M Animation the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY; Repetti Gallery, B.A., Syracuse University; M.F.A., University of Southern
and an anti-smoking 3-D animated film for the C. Brooklyn, NY. California; Prof. Mackey has nearly 40 years of
Everett Koop Institute (1998–1999); Web-based projects experience writing and directing award winning films,
include 3-D animated e-cards for online greeting card Linda Lauro-Lazin videos, multi-image, and interactive programs and
brand MyFunCards and various popular Facebook installations for companies such as GE, Apple, and
applications, such as the FlowerShop, My Own Adjunct Associate Professor Simon and Schuster Interactive. He has taught and
Superhero, and Smiley Creator. Lauro-Lazin is an artist, curator, lecturer and educator. lectured in South Korea and Turkey, writes speculative
She has been exhibiting her artwork for more than fiction, and enjoys pushing the limits of three-
Yael Kanarek 30 years in the U.S. and Europe. Her foundation is in dimensional interactivity, player-mediated generative
painting and photography. Her work has been included art, and artist-friendly microelectronics.
Visiting Instructor in the book Art in the Digital Age (Thames and Hudson,
B.A., SUNY; M.F.A. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; 2006). Lauro-Lazin was awarded the Fulbright Lecturing
practices in various media; selected for the Whitney and Research Award in 1998–1999 in Macedonia. She
Biennial 2002, Kanarek was awarded the Rockefeller has lectured at the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary
2005 New Media Fellowship to create the third
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Top, Bottom Left: Zach Hyer; Bottom Right: Zach Hyer Professor
receiving 2011 Student Academy Award for Animation M.F.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ed.M., Harvard
University; artist, author, educator; selected exhibitions
include: Kennedy Center for the Arts, Washington, D.C.;
Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; Isetan Museum, Tokyo;
Laumont Editions, NYC; Hong Gah Museum, Taipei; Uma
Gallery, NYC.
Peter Patchen
Chair
M.F.A., University of Oregon; Peter Frank Patchen is a
digital artist exhibiting and lecturing nationally and
internationally. He grew up in Colorado where the
natural environment had a profound influence on his
perception of the relationships that exist between
nature, humanity, culture and technology. In 1993, he
founded the Cyber Arts (now New Media) program
at the University of Toledo. Recent work includes
interactive artworks, prints, web-based art, and mixed
media pieces.
Mira Scharf
Vis itin g In structor
B.S., University of California, San Diego; M.F.A University
of California, Los Angeles; animated for television
programming including Dilbert, Queer Duck, Assy
McGee, Wonder Pets, Sesame Street shorts and Pinky
Dinky Doo; also animated many webisodes for General
Mills, Postopia, and PBS Kids, and animated computer
games for Dreamworks Interactive, Knowledge
Adventure, and others; illustrated 25 educational
workbooks for U.R.J. Press and has written copy for
computer games and created story and graphic content
for computer game play as well; her cartoons have
appeared in Harvard Business Review, Reader’s Digest,
Funny Times, and Narrative magazine.
Claudia Tait
Associate Professor
M.F.A., University of Maryland Baltimore County;
B.F.A., Ringling School of Art and Design; Claudia Herbst
is a digital artist and media theorist whose works
explore the meaning of technology in the construction
of gender. Her critical inquiries focus on the social,
political, and economic role of computer programming
and contextualize technology’s languages as a
form of writing and literacy. Herbst joined the Pratt
community in 1999.
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Fine Arts
The primary goal of the M.F.A. program is to provide for the chair
advanced education of artists. To this end, we emphasize the
development of students as individual thinkers and assist in the Deborah Bright
mastery of craft and professional preparation.
assistant to the chair
Mastery is accomplished through a graduate research institution as the artist
personal, historical understanding of explores the complexity of individual Nat Meade
one’s art and through a conceptual, artistic achievement.
technical control of that art. Professional administrative assistant
preparation involves an introduction The structure of graduate study, then,
to the realities of the art world, a allows for maximum independence of Lisa Banke-Humann
comprehension of the art of others study and time of growth as well as for
developed through the seminars and the emergence of new emphases. It also technicians
internship of the graduate program, capitalizes on the diversity of student
and the development of a capacity for interests and abilities. As teachers in Adam Apostolos
articulate criticism. an institution that must allow for the Rainy Lehrman
individual, non-institutional aims of Alexia Cohen
Because the creative process the artist, the members of the faculty do Zena Pesta
is characterized by a number of not transmit dogmatic opinions peculiar Sarah Shebaro
contradictory functions, idealistic and to either the school or the art world, Christopher Verstegen
materialistic, analytic and synthetic, but instead instigate investigation and
intuitive and intellectual, any effective stimulation through communication office
educational treatment of creativity on with the student.
the graduate level must be open and Tel: 718-636-3634
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undergraduate education yields to the www.pratt.edu/ad/fineart
relatively independent procedures of the
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Fine Arts Studio Program credits in art criticism/history, and six history. Students must be accepted by
credits in the liberal arts. The 27 elective both departments and complete a total of
pratt m.f.a. in fine arts, rome credits may be used for a wide variety 75 credits.
of interdisciplinary, studio, or technics
The Graduate Fine Arts Program in courses across the Institute. A minimum art and design education
Rome is a five-week program offering of 60 credits and two years of study are advanced certificate
an interdisciplinary curriculum that required for the Master of Fine Arts (fall and spring)
utilizes the platform of the “City as degree. The time and number of credits
Studio.” The courses are interrelated, may not be reduced but may be extended. This 23-credit-hour program is open
fostering collaboration, critical thinking, All work for the degree must be completed to individuals with an M.F.A. degree,
and a studio practice that is contextually within seven calendar years after initial or those currently enrolled in the
responsive. The intention is to challenge registration as a graduate student. M.F.A program at Pratt. For those
the artist to leave the familiar and at applicants already holding an M.F.A
times predictive confines of the studio m.f.a./post-bac calaureate degree, the program may be completed
and to work directly within the open (certificate in art and in two semesters, and the application
environment of the city of Rome—to design education) requirements are the same as those listed
engage simultaneously with the historical for the M.S. in Art and Design Education.
and the contemporary, to question M.F.A./Post-baccalaureate (Certificate
through the active encounter of a in Art and Design Education) is designed admissions requirements
different culture one’s place within the for M.F.A. students desiring eligibility
global art community, and within this for a Pre-K–12 teaching certificate. Applicants should have an undergraduate
context to initiate an account of one’s own Students take 20 credits in Art and Design degree in fine arts and should be able
professional ambitions. Education. With one additional studio to submit a strong digital portfolio in
elective credit, students can qualify the major area of concentration. See
The Program’s Structure for their provisional New York State admissions section for details or www.
Certification to teach Fine Arts, Pre-K–12, pratt.edu/admiss/apply. Applicants
The Master of Fine Arts program at a certification that is reciprocated in more whose first language is not English must
Pratt Institute offers the following major than 35 states. For specific courses, see achieve a score of 550 on the Test of
areas of emphasis: painting/drawing, the Art and Design Education section of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).
printmaking, sculpture, photography, this Bulletin. In addition to the TOEFL requirement,
and new forms (nontraditional all enrolling students whose first
investigations). Students complete two m.s./m.f.a. in fine arts language is not English will be tested for
semesters of coursework in their major English Proficiency. Pending the outcome
area of emphasis and one year of work Students will complete the normal of this test, individuals may be assigned
on a Master of Fine Arts thesis in their requirements for the M.F.A. with an art to ESL courses. For more information,
major area, including a written thesis history minor (15 credits of HA, HD contact the Office of Admissions at
statement and a solo exhibition in the courses), plus 15 additional credits of 718-636-3514, 800-331-0834, or the
graduate galleries. Degree requirements art history, including the distribution department chair at 718-636-3602.
include 27 studio elective credits, nine requirements and required courses
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Fine Arts Faculty
David Alban James Costanzo Allen Frame
Visiting Assistant Professor Adjunct Associate Professor Adjunct Associate Professor
B.F.A., Kansas City Art Inst; M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy M.A., University of Iowa; M.F.A., University of Iowa.
of Art. Linda Francis
Grayson Cox
Adam Apostolos Adjunct Professor
Visiting Assistant Professor M.A., Hunter College, City University of New; Selected
Sculpture Technician, Visiting Instructor M.F.A., Columbia University; B.F.A., Indiana University; One Person Exhibitions: Hal Bromm Gallery, Gallerie
exhibitions include “Exquisite Corpse Project,” Gasser Gislain Mollet-Vieville, PS 1, Damon Brandt Gallery,
Michael Brennan Grunert Gallery, N.Y.; “Short-term Deviation,” The Gallerie Per Sten, Wm. Paterson U., Nicholas Davies
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, N.Y.; “One and Gallery, Univ of Alabama College of Arts and
Adjunct Instructor Three Quarters of an Inch,” curated by Peter Clough, Sciences, Catherdral of St John the Divine, Minus
M.F.A., Pratt Institute; B.A., University of Florida; Exhibited St. Cecilia’s Parish Art Space, Brooklyn, N.Y.; “Entropy Space. Selected Group Exhibitions: Aldrich Museum,
with minusspace, Thatcher Projects, Lucas Schoormans, Symphony,” performance with Zefrey Thorwell, Whitney Studio La Citta,Moore Col of Art, Stadische Gallerie
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, Yoshii Gallery, etc. Exhibited Museum, N.Y.; “B-Sides” 6–8 Months Project Space, Im Lenbachhaus, Kunsthalle Basel, List Gallery MIT,
internationally in Brussels, Paris, Shanghai, Sydney, etc. N.Y.; grants and residencies include Rema Hort Mann Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, The Kitchen, Louisiana
Group exhibitions include PS1/MoMA, Vassar College, Foundation Nominee; Catwalk Artist Residency, Catskill, Museet, Leubsdorf Art Gallery Hunter College, Rogalund
St. Peter’s College, etc. Written extensively for The N.Y.; Montrose Initiative for the Arts, Artist Residency Kunstmuseum, Sydney Non Objective, Vassar College,
Brooklyn Rail, ArtNet, and numerous catalog essays. program; The Daisy Soros Prize for Fine Arts, awarded by Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational.
Reviewed in Art in America, The New York Times, The The American Austrian Foundation to study in Salzburg,
Philadelphia Inquirer, etc. Collected in the National Austria; work held in the collections of Fisher Landau Joseph Fyfe
Gallery of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, San Jose Center for Art; John Friedman, Easton Capital, N.Y.; Serra
Museum of Art, American Express, General Dynamics, Sabuncuoglu, N.Y. Visiting Assistant Professor
etc. Also teach at Hunter College and have taught at B.F.A., University of the Arts; selected solo exhibitions:
Cooper Union. Kelly Driscoll JG Contemporary, NYC; Ryllega Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam;
Cynthia Broan Gallery, NYC; selected group exhibitions:
Mona Brody Assistant Professor “Intersections,” Meyer School of Art; “Paint/Not Paint,”
M.F.A., City College, NY; Coordinator-Pratt in Tuscany; Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, NYC; “Carton Rouge,”
Visiting Assistant Professor M.F.A. City College. Exhibitions: Kristen Frederickson Atelier Tampon-Ramier, Paris; selected awards: Gug-
B.F.A., Moore College of Art and Design,; M.S., Gallery, NY; IPCNY, NY; PS 1-Greater New York, NY; Mark genheim Fellowship; McDowell Fellowship; Adolph and
Massachusstts College of Art; M.F.A., Vermont Wooley Gallery, Portland, Oregon, D.A.P., NY, Kaohsiung Esther Gottlieb Award; Pollock-Krasner Award; Fulbright
College Norwich. Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan. Artists Books: Masnavi, Award; selected publications: Art, das Kunstmagazin; Art
Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi, Published by Vincent in America, Joe Fyfe at Nicholas Davies.
Richard Budelis FitzGerald and Co., NY; The Story of the Eye, Georges
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Jonathan Goodman University of the Arts Wongwang University, College of Dennis McNett
Fine Arts Shanghai, Printmaking Council of New Jersey,
Adjunct Associate Professor Nathan Cummings Foundation, Mills College, Lawson Adjunct Assistant Professor
Gallery, Kala Institute; collections: Hunderton Museum, M.F.A., Pratt Institute. Dennis McNett was born in 1972
Eric Heist William Paterson University, Lafayette College, College and grew up in Virginia Beach, VA. He moved to New
of New Jersey, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, York in 2001 and has lived there since. He has been
Visiting Assistant Professor Kala Institute; publication: Water-Based Ink: A Screen carving the hell out of surly block prints for over 16
B.F.A., University of Delaware; M.F.A., Hunter College; Printing Manual for Studio and Classroom. years. All of his encouragement as a young kid came
selected exhibitions: participant at rental, “Office Party,” from his blind grandfather, who told him over and
NYC; “Unfathom,” Max Protech, NYC; “Interfaith Center,” Jenny Lee over again that his drawings were good. Like a billion
“Travel Agents,” and other solo exhibitions at Schroeder other teenaged kids, later influences came from the
Romero, NYC ; grants: NYFA, Fellowship; Sally and Don Adjunct Professor raw high-energy images pouring out of the ’80s punk
Lucas Artists Program at the Montalvo Arts Center; Jenny Lee has exhibited extensively in galleries, arts rock and skateboard scene. McNett has been fortunate
founder and director of Momenta Art, Brooklyn. organizations and museums. In fall 2002, she had a enough to have designed board graphics for Anti-Hero
retrospective at the Hoboken (NJ) Historical Museum, skateboards and collaborate with Cannonball Press.
Licio Isolani sponsored by the NJ State Council for the Arts and the He works from his Brooklyn studio that overlooks the
NJ Council for the Humanities, National Endowment smoggy Brooklyn Queens Expressway. He has also
Professor for the Humanities. In 2001, her work was featured in taught at Parsons, Rutgers, Lower Eastside Print shop
Prospective Sul Design (Musee Des Arts Decoratifs the first-ever historical survey of 20th century welded and worked as a master printer at Brand X editions for
de Montreal); The New York Waterfront Marine Park sculpture, at the Neuberger Museum. Her work is over four years.
(The Municipal Art Society, NY);I Am An Art Work in public venues such as the Brooklyn Museum,
(Guggenheim Museum/Whitney Museum/Metropolitan the Newark Museum and the Neuberger Museum Nat Meade
Museum/M.O.M.A.. NY); Transference (Nassau County of Art. Private collections include DeMenil and
Museum Ground, Rosyln, Long Island, NY); Geometric Borgenicht-Brandt. Assistant Chair of Fine Arts
Art (Trenton Museum, Trenton, NJ);Light-Motion M.F.A., Pratt Institute; B.F.A., University of Oregon;
and Sound (Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY); One Frank Lind Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; solo
Man Show (sculpture) (The New School for Social exhibitions include “Falsetto” and “Guys are Dolls,”
Research, NY). Professor Froelick Gallery, Portland Ore.; group exhibitions include
B.A., Georgetown University; M.F.A., Pratt Institute; “Aqua,” Aqua Hotel, Miami, Fla.; “12 Painters in 12
Shirley Kaneda selected solo exhibitions: “Recent Paintings,” 2010, Hours,” Rogue Space, N.Y.; “View Points,” Aljira, A Center
Gallery 210, Brooklyn, N.Y.; “Ocean Paintings from Long for Contemporary Art, Newark, N.J.; “Group Show,”
Associate Professor Island,” Henry Gregg Gallery, DUMBO, New York, 2010; Perogi Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y., among others; included
B.F.A., Parsons the New School of Design; has exhibited selected group exhibitions: “The New Hudson River in the Artist Registry of Perogi Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.;
widely both in the US and in Europe. Her most recent School,” Riverstone Arts, Haverstraw, N.Y.; “Mermaids,” published in American Artists, Fine Arts Connoisseur,
solo shows include Danese Gallery, NYC,2007, Bernard Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, N.Y. Portrait of Portland.
Jacobson Gallery, London UK (2006), Galerie Jean-Luc
and Takako Richards, Paris, France, (2005), Feigen Naohisa Matsumoto Jennifer Melby
Contemporary, NYC, (2003), Galerie Schuster and
Scheurerman, Berlin and Frankfort, Germany (2002). Sculpture Technician, Visiting Instructor Visiting Assistant Professor
Her work has been featured in many publications such
as Art in America, ARTnews, Contemporary, The New J. Martin Mazorra Ann Messner
York Times, Time Out among others.
Visiting Assistant Professor Adjunct Professor
Catherine Lecleire B.F.A., West Virginia Univ; M.F.A, American University, B.F.A., Pratt Institute; Her work investigates the inherent
DC; Martin Mazorra of New York, is co-founder of contradictions between notions of private life/space
Adjunct Assistant Cannonball Press. Martin is currently the Coordinator and public/civic experience. Her work is both social
Professor B.A., Ursinus College; B.F.A., University of the of Printmaking at Parson’s School of Design in New and political in intention. She is a recipient numerous
Arts; M.F.A., University of Southern California; selected York City where he teaches lithography, woodcut, and fellowships including: the NEA, 3 NYFA Awards,
solo and group exhibitions at Montclair Art Museum, letterpress printmaking. He is the mastermind behind Henry Moore International Fellowship, Guggenheim
Hunterdon Museum of Art, William Paterson Univeristy, the cross-institutional print exchange “Swaptropolis.” Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and a
College of New Jersey, University of Wisconsin, Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship. She was a fellow at
Dana Library, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University 2000; Princeton
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University Council on the Humanities 2001. She has Cyrilla Mozenter Howard Rosenthal
taught at MIT’s Visual Arts Program, Hunter College,
Bennington College, Maryland Institute of Art. Adjunct Professor Visiting Associate Professor
M.F.A., Pratt Institute; B.F.A., Pratt Institute; has exhibited B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; M.F.A.,
John Monti at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Drawing Pratt Institute.
Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Neuberger
Professor Museum of Art. She has been artist-in-residence at Miriam Schaer
M.F.A., Pratt Institute; B.S., Portland State University; Dieu Donn’e Papermill, the Kohler Arts Center, and
solo exhibitions include: “Synthetic Pleasures,” Bentley Instituto Municipal de Arte e Cultura-Rioarte, Rio de Visiting Assistant Professor
Projects, Phoenix, Ariz.; “Fancy” and “Rondo,” Elizabeth Janeiro. She has received grants from NYFA and The B.F.A., Philadelphia College of the Arts; B.F.A., School of
Harris Gallery, N.Y.C.; “Amatory Bodies,” Sarah Moody Fifth Floor Foundation. Her work is in the collections of Visual Arts; Miriam Schaer is a multimedia book artist.
Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and the Arkansas Arts Center, Birmingham Museum of Art, She has exhibited steadily and extensively in solo and
many group exhibitions; public art projects include Brooklyn Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Walker group exhibitions in the US and internationally, and her
“Fancy for Boston”; “Changing Places,” Metro Tech Art Center, and Yale University Art Gallery. work has been mentioned in a long list of articles and
Center Brooklyn, N.Y.; Neuberger Museum of Art; reviews. She is a recipient of a NYFA Artists Fellowship
Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Dominique Nahas and her work has been included in the Mary H. Dana
of Art; recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Women Artists Series at Douglass Library, the oldest
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, and New Visiting Assistant Professor and longest-running exhibition series dedicated to
York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant; work is showcasing women artists in the United States.
included in the collections of American Telephone & Ross Neher
Telegraph; the Arkansas Arts Center, The Eli and Edythe Linda Schrank
Broad Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, the Castellini Adjunct Professor
Art Museum of Niagara University, and the Chase Adjunct Professor
Manhattan Bank, among others. Thirwell Nolen B.A., Mt Holyoke College; M.A., New York University;
Exhibited: Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York,
Donna Moran Adjunct Assistant Professor NY; Peccolo Gallery, Livorno, Italy, Kidder Smith Gallery,
Matt Nolen is a studio artist who trained as a painter Boston, MA; A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY; Brooklyn
professor and architect. His current body of work is comprised Museum; Etruscan Museum, Cortona, Italy; Ceramic
B.A., CW Post Campus LIU; M.F.A., Pratt Institute; of sculptural objects and architectural installations in Museum, Monte San Savino, Italy; New York Studio
Donna Moran is a printmaker and painter whose work clay and other materials. His work has been exhibited School; International Print Center, New York, NY Awards:
has been exhibited nationally and internationally internationally and can be found in numerous private Residence fellowships: Yaddo; Sanskriti Foundation,
including solo exhibitions in Australia, Spain and Peru. and public collections including: The Cooper-Hewitt New Delhi, India; Fundacion Valparaiso, Almeria, Spain;
Her work is represented in many group exhibitions National Design Museum (Smithsonian), NYC; The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Visiting artist
and collections. Donna has been Chair of the Fine Newark Museum, NJ; The Everson Museum of Art, NY; fellowships: Brandywine Graphic Workshop; Visiting
Arts Department since 2000 and teaches graduate The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX; and the De Young Artist, Ditta Grazia, Deruta, Italy; Cuts + Burns Artist
printmaking classes including silkscreen and the 1st Museum, San Francisco, CA. Other awards include: NYFA Residency, Outpost Video Productions, Brooklyn, NY.
year M.F.A. Printmaking Seminar. Fellowship and NEA Fellowship (1995).
Robert Morgan Catherine Redmond Carla Shapiro
Adjunct Professor Adjunct Associate Professor Visiting Assistant Professor
B.F.A., University of the Redlands; Ed.M., Northeastern B.A., Harpur College, SUNY Binghamton; 1969–1974 ,
University; M.F.A., University of Massachusetts; Ph.D., Art Students League of NY; Adjunct Associate Professor Elise Siegel
New York University; Art critic, writer, curator, artist; Selected solo and group exhibitions at David Findlay
books include Art Into Ideas; Between Modernism and Jr., N.Y.; M B Modern, N.Y.; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Visiting Assistant Professor
Conceptual Art; The End of the Art World; Gary Hill; Buffalo; Butler Institute of American Art; Babcock
Bruce Nauman and Clement Greenberg. Curator of Galleries, N.Y.; Cleveland Museum of Art; Jerry Soloman Robbin Silverberg
the exhibitions: “Komar and Melimid: A Retrospective”, Gallery, Los Angeles; Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL.;
“Women on the Verge”, and “Clear Intentions”; co- collections include: Art Students League of N.Y., Butler Adjunct Assistant Professor
curator of the Lodz Biennial; recipient of the 1999 Museum of American Art, Citibank of N.Y., Cleveland B.A., Princeton University; Robbin Ami Silverberg’s
Arcale Award in art criticism, Salamanca, Spain. Clinic Foundation, Dreyfus Corporation, Luther College artwork is divided between solo and collaborative artist
Museum, Progressive Corporate Collection, and books and large paper installations. She is founding
Reading Public Museum. director of Dobbin Mill / Dobbin Books in Brooklyn.
Dobbin Mill is a hand-papermaking studio and teaching
facility, one of three in NYC. Dobbin Books is
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a collaborative artist book studio, which publishes the Heart of Black Identity: Art and the Contemporary “At Pratt I had some great
small edition artist books by Silverberg, in collaboration African American Experience,” Kentucky Museum of Art painting professors
with international writers and artists. Silverberg has and Craft, Louisville, Ky; recipient of the Joan Mitchell looking at my paintings
both exhibited and taught extensively both in the US Foundation Grant, the Rem Hort Mann Foundation in unusual ways.”
and internationally. Her artwork is found in numerous Grant; represented in the public collections of 21c
public collections. Museum, Louisville, Ky.; Akron Art Museum; The Art —Joh n Robs h aw, M.F.A. ’92,
Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim Owner, John Robshaw Textiles
Joseph Smith Museum, International Center of Photography; The
Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., and the Museum of Fine “I can’t overemphasize the
Professor Arts, Boston among others; residencies include the importance of New York
B.F.A., Pratt Institute (Dean’s Medal); 1965,1966: Drwg, Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program at Giverny, as the center of the art and
Wagner Coll. 1969–1971: Ptg Workshop, Art Alliance France; Studio Museum in Harlem, N.Y; Vermont Studio design world; studying in
of Cent. PA 1975: Visualization Wrkshp. Wainwright Center, Vt.; and the Yale-Norfolk Summer School of New York at Pratt was a
Center, Rye, NY 1984: ptg., Richmond Coll., London Music and Art, Norfolk, Conn. very special experience.”
1987–91: ptg and drwg, ATI, Stocton State Coll. NJ
1990: Art Inst. of Chicago, Oxbow, MI 1992, 1998: Ptg: Christopher White —John Pai, B.I.D. ’62, M.F.A. ’64,
M.S. Art Colony 2000. 2001: U.of Rio Grande, grad. Internationally renowned
Childrens Bk Illus., Visualization, Drwg. 1962-present: Adjunct Assistant Professor sculptor and former Pratt faculty
Pratt—Undergrad: ptg, drwg, fig. drwg, fig. sculpt., Illus. B.A., Harvard University; Kit White, Adjunct Assistant
and Symbolic Imagery, Sr. Ind. Proj. Grad: Drwg Sem., Professor, Painting: Harvard University, A.B. Fine Arts.
M.F.A. Thesis Ptg. 2007: Walter Gropius Master Artist, Numerous solo gallery and museum exhibitions. Works
Huntington Mus. of Art. WV. in major public collections: Guggenheim Museum,
Johnson Art Museum, others. Tiffany Award for Painting,
Judith Solodkin Nominee, National Artists Award, Visiting Artist,
American Academy in Rome. Criticism published in
Visiting Associate Professor national arts journals. Instructor/Lecturer, Metropolitan
B.A., Brooklyn College; M.F.A., Columbia University; Museum of Art. Represented by Andre Zarre Gallery,
Master Printer, Tamarind Institute; president, SOLO New York.
Impression, Inc., N.Y.; solo exhibitions: “Cartouche
Lithographs,” Razor Gallery; “Roots of Creativity,” Robert Zakarian
Rutgers University; group exhibitions: “Women Artist’s
Series,” Rutger’s University. Professor
Mickalene Thomas
Visiting Associate Professor
M.F.A., Yale University; B.F.A., Pratt Institute; solo
exhibitions include “Put A Little Sugar in my Bowl,”
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Calif.;
“Something You Can Feel,” La Conservera Contemporary
Art Space, Murcia, Spain; “She Come UnDone!,”
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, N.Y.; “Girlfriends, Lovers,
Still Lifes and Landscaped,” Rhona Hoffman Gallery,
N.Y.; “What’s Love Got To Do With It?,” Bloom Projects,
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Calif.; special
projects include Le Dejeuner Sur l’Herbs: Les Trois
Femmes Noirs, The Modern Window at The Museum
of Modern Art, N.Y. and P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island City,
N.Y.; selected group exhibitions include “Searching for
Left: Seung Hun Lee
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History of Art and Design
Pratt Institute is an exceptional place to study the history of art chair
and design. Our landmarked campus attracts leading artists,
designers, historians, and theorists and is only minutes from the Dorothea Dietrich, Ph.D.
studios, galleries, private collections, libraries, and museums
that make New York a premier center of art and design. assistant chair
The faculty is composed of distinguished professional network that will inform and Gayle Rodda Kurtz, Ph.D.
scholars and mentors who focus on the support their careers for many years.
intellectual and professional growth of assistant to the chair
our students. Their expertise, dedication, Every graduate student’s program
and original thinking can be seen in includes “behind-the-scenes” Jill Song
the broad range of courses, academic experiences, not only at exhibitions and
and professional opportunities, and museums but also in the Institute itself. office
most importantly, in the quality of our Connections with other departments in
students’ work. all areas of fine arts and design—interior, Tel: 718-636-3598
industrial, communication, and fashion— [email protected]
Explore our degree options and you offer a unique platform for an interaction
will find students studying 17th-century between practitioners and theoreticians.
frescos in Venice, 20th-century product Our students witness the making of art
design at first-rate auction houses, and and design first hand, which adds a real-
21st-century performance art at the life perspective to their scholarly studies.
Guggenheim Museum. Students come
from a wide range of backgrounds, and A Pratt graduate student is surrounded
leave with knowledge, experience, and a and inundated in an aesthetic and
intellectual swirl like no other. Pratt’s
Left: Class trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York faculty is distinguished in training and
experience, with an impressive array of
degrees and professional credentials.
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The History of Art and Design Library Science, Department of Art pratt in venice
department offers exciting lectures and and Design Education, and the Arts and Pratt in Venice is a six-week summer
seminars on a wide range of approaches, Cultural Management program. Many program that takes place in June and
from connoisseurship to the most members of our faculty are museum July. Art History of Venice (HA590I, 3
recent theoretical approaches. Frequent professionals who bring their expertise credits) and Materials and Techniques
excursions and internships result from and experience to the classroom. The of Venetian Art (HA600I, 3 credits) are
our extensive working relationship with Certificate is intended to give graduates offered together with Painting (Art 590I,
the city’s museums, galleries, and cultural an “edge” for those who seek museum 2–3 credits) and Printmaking/ Drawing
organizations and are a crucial part of and gallery employment. The Certificate (Art 591I, 2–3 credits). Graduate and
the curriculum. is available to graduate students enrolled undergraduate students enroll for six to
in the History of Art and Design master’s eight credits. We collaborate with the
Graduate Degrees program as well those in the dual Università Internazionale dell’Arte and
programs with the Department of Fine the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica
The department of the history of art and Arts and the School of Information and in Venice. Group visits to Padua and
design offers the M.S. degree, requiring Library Science and is only awarded upon Bassano/Maser are included. The
36 credits as described below and a thesis. completion of those master’s degrees. program fosters interaction between
In addition, a Certificate of Museum Some of the courses for the Certificate art history and the studio arts through
Studies can be earned in conjunction with may be taken within the credits required group events, faculty/student discussions,
this M.S. degree. for the M.S. degree. visiting lecturers, and just by being
there together. Participants experience
Two dual degree programs are materials, techniques, and the visual riches of Venice and have
available: History of Art and Design with c onservation the opportunity to conduct research in
Fine Arts, leading to M.S/M.F.A. degrees; extraordinary museums and libraries.
and History of Art and Design with Art’s historical concern with materials
Library and Information Science, leading and techniques exists naturally in Right: Students at Pratt in Venice at the Gallerie dell’
to M.S/M.S degrees. connection with programs in the practice Accademia in summer 2011
of art. This is an emphasis in all our
advanced certificate in museum courses, but it takes specific form in our
studies required Materials, Techniques, and
Conservation course. In addition, issues
The Certificate in Museum Studies related to conservation problems in
complements the M.S. degree in the Venetian art history are explored with
History of Art and Design Department the help of local experts on site in our
by offering both a solid base in art and Venice program.
design history and practical, in-depth
experience in the museum world. History
of Art and Design courses are augmented
by Pratt’s School of Information and
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