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1980s
Louis Caracciolo, B.S. Integrative Studies ’80, and his company, Amalthea Cellars, hosted over 100 wine tasters in Atco, N.J., last June and upheld the honor of Garden State wines, which were often preferred over French and Napa vintages in a blind wine tasting. Paul Karasik, B.F.A. Comm-Design ’81, won the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award: Best Archival Collection for his book, I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks. The award was presented at San Diego Comic-Con 2008, where it was announced that Vol. 2, You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation, will be released in 2009. Kitai Park, M.S. Comm-Design ’81, exhibited “Critical Topic: Pajubookcity as Culturescape” in the Korean Pavilion of the 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture last fall. With his design firm, KDA Group, Park documented the creation of a large, eco-friendly industrial publishing park, built on reclaimed wetlands near Seoul.
Carrie Moyer, B.F.A. ’85, participated in a show, “That Was Then…This is Now,” that brought together international and intergenerational artists working within three themes: flags, weapons, and dreams. Their work was on view last summer at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, N.Y. David Kramer, M.F.A. ’87, and Michael Schall, M.F.A. ’05, were the featured artists in a month-long exhibition this winter at Pierogi in Brooklyn, N.Y. Kramer uses humor and self-deprecation to create stories, drawings, and sculptures that juxtapose everyday experiences with the idealized expectations promoted in pop culture.
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projects. As Bracher lives in London, Buluc in Istanbul, and Goetz in New York, they rarely meet but are in frequent contact via the Internet. Mark Inglis, B.F.A. Comm-Design ’86, was recently appointed vice president of marketing and communications at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. He previously served as deputy director and creative director of communications at the Earth Institute at Columbia University in Manhattan. Miriam Mirna Korolkovas, M.F.A. ’86, was awarded a scholarship by the CAPES Foundation of the Ministry of Education of Brazil and co-sponsored by the Fulbright Commission to participate in the University of Michigan’s CAPES/ Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program. She is a visiting professor in the University’s School of Art and Design from February to May 2009. Johannes Knoops, B. Arch.’87, received a 2009 Interior Concept Award from Contract magazine (January 2009) for her design proposal for a new Manhattan Marriage Bureau to be perched above the building that has housed this agency since 1915.
Mark Goetz, B.I.D. ’86, Todd Bracher, B.I.D. ’97, and Efe Buluc, B.I.D. ’97, M.I.D. ’01, work collaboratively as To22 to provoke new ways of thinking and approaches to design. The name To22 refers to the group’s goal of completing 22 joint conceptual
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James F. McAuliffe, B. Arch. ’83, is a principal of McAuliffe + Carroll Architects, which recently relocated to Trenton, N.J. The move will further allow the firm’s architects to combine their passion for urban life with their talent for turning metropolitan centers into sustainable and vibrant communities.
Goulda Downer, B.S. Nutrition and Dietetics ’84, received a 2008 Wisdom of Healers Award from Balm in Gilead, Inc., in recognition of her leadership on health promotion and disease prevention, specifically on HIV/AIDS issues. The award was presented at the 8th Annual Black Church Institute for HIV/AIDS and Other Health Disparities. Downer is also the principal investigator and project director for the multi-million dollar National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center, located in the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C.
William Menking, M.S. City and Regional Planning ’88, served as a curator for the American Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture last fall. He is a professor in Pratt’s School of Architecture.
1990s
Lawrence Sass, B. Arch. ’90, was represented in the Museum of Modern Art’s 2008 show “Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling,” a survey of prefabricated homes from the 1800s to present. Sass’s model of a New Orleans shot-gun style house was one of five houses constructed on MoMA’s vacant west lot. Alex Wilhite, M.F.A. ’90, is among those included in Deborah M. Sonnenstrahl’s book, Deaf Artists in America: Colonial to Contemporary. He is pictured as a graduate student at Pratt in the spring of 1990 along with some of his artwork. Terrence Howard, Civil Eng. ’91, was featured in an article, titled “An Actor Makes an Album, His Way,” in the August 24, 2008 edition of The New York Times. Howard performs as a vocalist and an acoustic guitarist on his debut album, Shine Through It, which was released in September. Joseph Caserto, B.F.A. CommDesign ’92, received an Award Certificate of Excellence from Graphic Design USA Magazine for his cover of the April 2008 issue of BW Chicago. The cover was among 1,000 submissions selected from over 10,000 entries and appeared in The American Graphic Awards
STEPHEN B. JACOBS B. Arch ’63 and M. Arch ’65, is founder and president of The Stephen B. Jacobs Group, one of the most sought-after architectural and interior design firms in the hospitality industry today. “At Pratt, I received a practical education that made it possible for me to be useful and productive, starting with my first job,” says Jacobs, the recipient of many honors and awards in real estate, construction, and design over the course of his 40-year career. “In the 1980s,” he adds, “because of my familiarity with Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, which came from living there in my student years, it was natural for me to renovate over 30 brownstones in the neighborhood, as well as some of the larger buildings, utilizing historic tax credits.” An early advocate of using obsolete buildings as a housing resource, Jacobs’ renovation projects have since become textbook examples of how to develop the highest economic potential of an existing building while, at the same time, preserving its architectural and historic significance. In the past decade, he has often collaborated—with his wife Andi Pepper as affiliate interior designer—on such super-hip projects as The Library and Giraffe, boutique hotels in Manhattan. The stunning success of their Hotel Gansevoort in the city’s Meatpacking District led to tremendous recognition in the national press, as well as to more commissions throughout North America including Los Angeles, Miami Beach, Montreal, and Harrisburg, Penn.