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A Renowned Faculty
Much of Pratt’s strength derives from its
faculty. Most have chosen to practice their
profession while they teach. The faculty
is drawn from the ranks of the world’s
art, design, architectural, educational,
and business communities. Architecture
professors design buildings; art and design
professors paint, sculpt, and design ads,
interiors, cars, furniture, and lighting.
You see their work all around you.
These faculty members bring to the
classroom the same high standards upheld
in their professional work. With different
views, methods, and perspectives, they
all share a common desire to develop
each student’s potential and creativity to
the fullest—to turn out competent and
creative professionals who will shape the
world to come.
The result is an exhilarating
learning experience for our students.
Pratt’s faculty members have received
more than 18 Tiffany, Fulbright, and
Guggenheim awards as well as other
prestigious professional awards. This
allows Pratt’s young talents to observe
and learn from its world-renowned
faculty on an individual and personal
basis. The faculty offer students special
assistance in coursework, studio work, and
special projects, and provide important
connections when students are ready for
employment or internships.
State-of-the-Art
Computer Facilities
Pratt has established computer labs with
the most current equipment available.
Computer labs include computer
workstations, color scanners, color and
black-and-white printers and plotters,
digital and analog output centers;
digital photography; video and sound
bays; multimedia video projection with
DVD; CD-ROM burners; and multiple
servers. All workstations feature the latest
software, including Quark, Photoshop,
Illustrator, AutoCAD, ProEngineer,
and Premiere.The computer labs are
networked and most feature full Inter-net
connectivity. Pratt continually upgrades
lab equipment as industry standards
change and processing speeds increase.
Exhibitions
Gallery space, both on campus and at
Pratt Manhattan, is extensive, showing
the work of students, alumni, faculty,
staff, and other well-known artists,
architects, and designers throughout
the academic year. The Institute’s main
galleries are the Pratt Manhattan Gallery
at Pratt’s Manhattan campus and the
Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery
in the Chemistry Building on Pratt’s
Brooklyn campus. In addition, solo and
group shows are held on the main campus
in the President’s Office Gallery.
The first art teacher at Pratt
was a pupil of Cézanne;
the second was a student
of Matisse. More than
100 years later, the legacy
of masters working with
students not only persists at
Pratt but grows stronger.
The masters of today are people who take time
off from their “nine-to-five” jobs of designing the
buildings and cities in which we live, creating the
award-winning advertisements that influence
us, and building the information systems that
are an indispensable part of our lives to pass
on knowledge and expertise to the generation
that will shape the essential art and design of
tomorrow. These contemporary masters are
teaching at Pratt today.
Why do so many prestigious professionalschoose to teach at Pratt? For some, it’s the
passion for teaching itself. For others, it’s the
ability to use Pratt as a laboratory to test their
latest concepts. And for others, it’s to water the
soil that helped them grow into the leaders in
their fields. After all, many of these individuals are
Pratt graduates themselves.