Pratt Institute

Exiting Pratt Institute with a degree in sculpture into the Big Apple, I held my breath and clutched the edge of my seat. I remembered how confident and prepared I had felt before beginning my college adventure. Having been a part of RAW Art Works for three years before entering Pratt, my RAW family had empowered and gave me skills that I still cherish today. But while studying at school, I quickly realized that the family I had at RAW was not easy to come by or to be recreated. The day I…

suit, I was more of a visual student and always did exceptionally well in all art-related activities. These activities included media class, fashion shows, and yearbook. After high school, I received acceptance from various schools like Pratt and the art institute of Delaware. Instead of me perusing school, I decided to emerge myself straight into my field, Graphic design. I created a small business which included making party invitations and church flyers. I even took one audit class in Adobe…

Cavil, Dylan O'Brien, and Layla Herbin. She has decided to work at Pixar to become an animator, automator, and graphic designer. She plans to attend: Howard University, The University of Pennsylvania, The Savannah College of Art and Design, The Pratt Institute, and Texas A&M. And lastly I asked her how her relationship with God is and she said that her relationship with God is steadily growing, since the talk we had in Discipleship. What she told me was she is climbing the same mountain and…

The first artwork featuring Virna Lisi represented the women’s movement that caught attention from the public. That particular movement wanted to get rid of women’s traditional roles and make them become more like their gender counterparts, men. I feel like this shouldn’t be a thing in today’s society. I believe men and women should be unique in their own genders as that’s how we were created to be. The second artwork to the right of that is a showing of Roy Cohn wearing a halo pinned on his…

7 age and he was also interested in art. Because of his gentlemanly ways he was nicknamed “Duke”. When he was 15 he wrote his first composition which was called “Soda Fountain Rag”. At the age of 17 Duke was awarded an art scholarship to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in New York but he denied it in order to pursue his passion for ragtime and then began to play professionally at age 17. How did Duke’s Music Fit Into The 20s: Duke Ellington’s music fit into the 20s because it was upbeat and fun…

Marianne Moore was a small town girl, born around St. Louis Missouri. She moved around alot in her life. When Marianne Moore was reaching adolescence, her father left her and her mother, leaving them with no money to keep their house. So they had to move to her grandfather's house and stay there until his death. Which was on 1894. They just moved from one relative to another until the big move to carlisle, PA. Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a BA degree in biology in 1909. Following…

Duke Ellington was born on April 29, 1899 In Washington, D.C. At the age of 7 he started learning piano and got the nickname duke. He wrote his first composition ‘soda fountain rag’ at the age of 15. He was awarded an art Scholarship in the Pratt institute in Brooklyn, New York, Ellington followed his passion for ragtime and began to play professionally at the age of 17. When Ellington was 7 years old, he began his piano training He took lessons for the same from Marietta Clinkscales. His…

After going over the “Between Archives and Aesthetics” art exhibition an looking up information about all the artists in the catalog. One of the artists that really stood out to me in both her life and art itself was Greer Lankton. Born in 1958 as Greg Lankton, Greer grew up in suburban Illinois. The youngest child of a Presbyterian minister and his wife. Greer's earliest desire was simply to feel pretty like a girl. As a baby, she liked to put a washcloth on her head and pretend it was long…

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“The Pure Products of America Go Crazy” is a photo exhibition recently installed at Pratt Institute featuring the works of artists Lucas Blalock, Owen Kydd, and John Lehr. These photographers celebrate, as the name suggest, the pure products of America in their images; they find beauty in banal objects that represent the residue of a pursuit of American living. In doing so, they also emphasize the role that the camera itself, as well as post-production digital tools, have in creating value to…