Chloe Scout Nix and Lena Smart, both MFA Photography ’24, were featured in Hyperallergic for their thesis exhibitions currently on view at the photography gallery in Pratt’s ARC Building. “It’s worth a trip to explore body parts like ears, arms, and hands in an unconventional way, but more importantly this exhibition challenges the distorted body images that prevail in mainstream media,” writes Daniel Larkin. The artists
“champion the role photography can play in intervening and healing.”

Assistant Professor of Film/Video Eliza Hittman’s fourth feature film, Motherlove, was named a recipient of the Water Tower Feature Film Grant from Rooftop Films’ 2024 Filmmaker Fund.

Matt Huckenpoehler, MArch ’24, is one of the winners for the 2024 METROPOLIS Future100 Award after being nominated by Alexandra Barker, interim chair of graduate architecture and urban design. “Matt is adept and versatile with techniques and technologies of representation and fabrication and has a confident yet open-minded and collaborative approach to working that is productive, inspiring, and inclusive to others in his class,” Barker wrote. 

Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design Alvaro Uribe, BID ’10, is introducing the Coliseum Chair at the Salone del Mobile during the 2024 Milan Furniture Fair. The Coliseum Chair, created in collaboration with Italian furniture company SLIDE, “reverently honors [the Rome Colosseum’s] majestic arches and grandeur.”

Assistant to the Chair of Art and Design Education, Jonell Joshua, was interviewed for Print Magazine about her new graphic memoir How Do I Draw These Memories? The book, which knits together the story of her childhood and her mother’s mental illness, is about “faith, the preciousness of life and unconditional love,” Joshua says. “I’m glad I was able to make this book come to life, not only for myself, but for my family as well.”

Agnes Questionmark, MFA Fine Arts ‘25, is one of the 12 artists selected for the 2nd edition of the Biennale College Arte 2023/24 on the occasion of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Questionmark’s work Cyber-Teratology Operation (2024), on view now at the Arsenale, “addresses the transgender body as one that is often pathologised, mechanised, and hospitalised, illuminating the patriarchal biopolitics at play in science and healthcare,” writes Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Interim Chair of Graduate Architecture and Urban Design, Adjunct Associate Professor-CCE, and founder of the Brooklyn-based studio BAAO Alexandra Barker is featured in a New York Times article about her renovation of an Upper West Side home. From major architectural changes like moving staircases to design details like bold wallpaper, “the renovation infused the home with a new sense of style,” reports the Times.