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PRATT INSTITUTE | PLANNED GIVING
Pratt Names Four New Department Chairs
Jean Davis
Steve Diskin
Steven Zucker
Gregg Horowitz
“As a working artist who wanted to express gratitude for my Pratt education,
Four new chairs have been appointed to Pratt, three in the School of Art and Design, and one in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Jean Davis is now chair of the Creative Arts Therapy department. She served as acting chair for two years before being named permanent chair. Author and designer Steve Diskin took over as chair of the Industrial Design department. Diskin has taught in several design programs, including those at Harvard University, the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Gregg Horowitz, former associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, took over as chair of the Social Science and Cultural Studies department. Steven Zucker, former dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, will serve as chair of the History of Art and Design department. He is co-creator of the website/web-book and new art historical tool, smarthistory.org.
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Your Vision for the Future
— Victor Carnuccio, artist, B.F.A. ’79
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Students who spent July studying architecture in the Pre-College Program show their work at Higgins Hall.
WORK from PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAM DISPLAYED IN GALLERY SHOW For most of July, almost 400 national and international students participated in Pratt’s intensive Pre-College Program, run by the Center for Continuing and Professional studies. Students immersed themselves in college-level courses in dozens of areas, including graphic design, jewelry and metal arts, comic book art, and creative writing. They also took a Foundation course, an art history class, and worked on developing their portfolios. Their weeks of hard work were displayed the last day of the program, July 30, at Steuben Hall, Pratt Studios, and Higgins Hall.
Create a Legacy, Lead the Way
photo: diana pau
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) received $971,407 from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services to prepare students to collaborate with three major Brooklyn cultural institutions to digitize and provide public access to their historic photos. Through Project CHART (Cultural Heritage, Access, Research, and Technology), SILS will accept 18 master’s degree students over the next three years, who will study to be digital information managers. As part of the program, they will intern at the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and the Brooklyn Museum, where they will create digital archives of historical Brooklyn photographs, including images dating from the late 1800s. The partners will also create a Web portal, hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library, to provide public access to the digital photographic collections of all three institutions. In addition, through Project CHART, SILS will develop a new certificate program in Digital Management that SILS Dean Tula Giannini says will serve as a new model for digital management curricula nationwide. “This grant opens up a world of new opportunities for collaboration and research, as well as for developing a cutting-edge curriculum in digital management for cultural heritage institutions,” says Giannini.
photoS: lorenzo ciniglio (steven zucker), diana pau (other headshots), AMY ARoNOFF (Pre-college)
SILS RECEIVES nearly $1 MILLION TO prepare future DIGITAL MANAGERS
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