announcements

The IT Division needs to perform essential system maintenance on
the Datatel Colleague system. The system will be unavailable on Wednesday,
February 10, 2010.  The following related systems will therefore be
unavailable:

Academic Tools on my.pratt.edu
Parents.pratt.edu
Tuition Management System (TMS)
Desktop UI & WebUI

Please note that you are receiving this email because you have been  
identified as a user of one or more of the systems mentioned above. Please
share this information with all individuals who may be affected by this
outage.

We appreciate your cooperation.  As soon as the system is available for
use, notification will be made to the community.

Thank you,

Information Technology

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The librarians from the Public Services department at Pratt
Institute Libraries will host six (6) information sessions on the new Pratt
Libraries Website!   

These recurring info-sessions are open to the entire Pratt Community.
Students, faculty, staff, and friends will receive an overview of site
navigation, locate key information, and learn of the many web resources
available, including the exclusive access to electronic databases.

Please bring any questions you might have about the services provided by
the Pratt Libraries.

Website Information session dates & times:

Daytime Sessions:
Tuesday, February 16th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Tuesday, March 9th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Tuesday, April 13th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Evening Sessions:
Tuesday, February 16th, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Tuesday, February 16th, 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm LOCATION:  PMC Library Conference
Room
Tuesday, March 9th, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Tuesday, April 13th, 7:30pm - 8:30pm

All sessions will be held in the East Wall area (basement) of the Pratt
Libraries in Brooklyn.

No RSVP required.  For more information please call Amy at x3545 or
.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Dear Colleagues,

The Art and Design Dean’s Gallery is pleased to announce an opening
reception for the latest show, Michelle Hinebrook and Lisha Bai, on
Wednesday, February 10th from 4:30pm to 6pm.

Michelle Hinebrook is the Assistant Chairperson of Graduate Communications
design.  She received her MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art,
Bloomfield Hills, MI and her BFA from the College for Creative Studies,
Detroit, MI.  Hinebrook’s paintings have been featured in over thirty group
exhibitions, several solo shows and is included several public and
corporate collections. Lisha Bai teaches Printmaking and Internship at
Pratt.  She earned her MFA from Yale University and her Bachelor’s degree
from Washington University.

The mission of the Dean’s gallery is to showcase a talented but often
underappreciated sector of the Pratt community, the many emerging artists
who make up our faculty and staff.  Monthly exhibitions will feature groups
of artists selected on the basis of compatibility, conversation, or tension
between their works.  The work will not always be aesthetically or
conceptually similar.  It may not even be from similar genres.  As a
primary goal is to illustrate interactions across the visual arts, it is my
hope that exhibitions will include works by painters and sculptors, but
also illustrators and graphic designers.

Submissions are open to all members of Pratt’s faculty and staff who fall
into the category of Emerging Artist and those who might not ordinarily
have opportunities to exhibit their work in a gallery setting.  There are
many artist faculty members who enjoy quite a bit of success and notoriety.
The Dean’s gallery hopes to present the work of those artists whose work
has not yet had as much exposure.

Michelle Hinebrook and Lisha Bai will be on view February 1st through
26th.  Upcoming shows in the Dean’s Gallery will be former Dean Frank Lind
(March 1st through 26th);  Digital Arts MFA candidates Jeyoung Lee (March
29th through April 2nd), Harim Song (April 5th through 9th), Heajin Seo
(April 12th through 16th), and Jung Yuen Shin (April 19th through 23rd);
and recent Graduates of the Pratt’s Associates Degree program (April 26th
Through May 7th).  The Dean’s Gallery is located on the 4th floor of Main
Building.

For more information, or to submit work for consideration, please email
, or come see me in Main building room 432.

—Greg Singer, Curator of the Dean’s Gallery

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The Institute mourns the loss of Leonard “Lenny” Bacich, a
longtime professor of industrial design who died on February 3 at age 67.
Lenny was popular among generations of students he taught in 3-D design
courses and graduated from the Institute with a bachelor’s degree in
industrial design in 1963 and a master’s degree in industrial design in
1971. He was also a former faculty trustee.

Lenny was among the most admired industrial design educators in the country
in 2006, according to monthly architecture and design journal
DesignIntelligence. A student of influential design educator Rowena Reed
Kostellow, Lenny continued teaching her design principles as coordinator of
the 3-D design curriculum. His 3-D design courses introduced first, second,
and third year students to the materials, techniques, and ideas that
comprise the three-dimensional world of “made” objects and natural forms
through the exploration of basic abstract components such as plane, mass,
and space.

Lenny initiated Pratt’s exchange program with Bauhaus University in Wiemar,
Germany in 2004, which offers students from communications design, fine
arts, industrial design, and digital arts disciplines the chance to study
abroad in the spring. As part of the program, Pratt welcomes exchange
students from Bauhaus each fall. Lenny was on sabbatical in spring 2009 to
teach at Bauhaus and participate in the school’s commemoration of its 90th
anniversary celebration.

Lenny epitomized the rigor and magic of great teaching. He taught our most
esoteric abstract courses and simultaneously created an understanding in
his students of the value their individual creative life.

A memorial service is planned, with details to follow at a later time.
Those wishing to make contributions in Bacich’s name can send them to the
attention of Lenora Hallums in North Hall 219 and designate them for
Pratt’s Rowena Reed Kostellow (RRK) Fund. For more information on the RRK
Fund, please call 718.399.4296.

Pratt Provost Peter Barna

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Poet Stuart Dischell will read excerpts of his work and answer
questions as part of Pratt’s Writer’s Forum at 12:00 p.m., Friday, February
5, in the Engineering Building, Room 371, on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus. This
event is free and open to the public.

Dischell is the author of Good Hope Road, a 1991 National Poetry Series
Selection (Viking, 1993), Evenings & Avenues (Penguin, 1996), Dig Safe
(Penguin, 2003), and Backwards Days (Penguin, 2007).

Dischell’s poems have been published in journals such as the Atlantic, the
New Republic, Agni, Slate, The Kenyon Review, and in anthologies including
Essential Pleasures, Hammer and Blaze, The Pushcart Prize, and Good Poems.

A recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North
Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, he teaches
in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Greensboro, the Sarah Lawrence
Summer Literary Seminars, and in the Low Residency MFA Program for Writers
at Warren Wilson College.

The Writer’s Forum is curated by co-directors Nelly Reifler and Gina
Zucker, and is sponsored by the Pratt Writing Program. For more information
on Pratt’s Writer’s Forum and to view a complete list of this semester’s
speakers, visit http://mysite.pratt.edu/~fforum/.

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“What is Sustainability? - Pratt Students Respond”
Opening reception Tuesday, February 9, 4-6pm
Exhibition dates: February 10-March 10, 2010

On Tuesday, February 9, The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn will host an opening for “What is Sustainability? -
Pratt Students Respond,” a multi-disciplinary Pratt student exhibition
inspired by the Pratt Manhattan Gallery exhibition season “Design and
Sustainability.” Responding to an open call for submissions, over 50
students submitted work in a variety of media.

Deb Johnson, academic director of Sustainability, Pratt Institute; Julie
Lasky, editor, Design Observer; and Nick Battis, director of Exhibitions,
Pratt Institute will jury the exhibition for cash prizes totalling $1000.

The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery
Pratt Institute
Chemistry Building, 1st floor
200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn
718-636-3517

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Visual artist Elizabeth Neel will speak at Pratt Institute about
her artwork, influences, and career as part of the 2009-2010 Visiting
Artist Lecture Series, from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m., Tuesday, February 9,
in the Engineering Building, Room 371, on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus. The
lecture is free and open to the public.

New York-based Neel will speak about the methods, craft, and influences
behind her paintings.

Neel has exhibited extensively and internationally, throughout the U.S. and
Europe, at Deitch Projects and Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc. in New
York; The Saatchi Gallery in London; and Galleria Monica De Cardenas in
Milan. Her work has been reviewed by ARTnews and The New York Sun.

Neel received a bachelor of arts degree from Brown University in Rhode
Island and a master of arts degree from Columbia University in New York.

Neel is the seventh artist invited to speak as part of the 2009-2010
Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS), which welcomes nationally and
internationally recognized fine artists to share their experiences with the
Pratt community. VALS will conclude with Olaf Breuning on February 23. The
lecture series is coordinated by graduate students Yael Rechter and
Elizabeth Stehling under the supervision of Professor Dominique Nahas in
the Department of Fine Arts in the School of Art and Design at Pratt
Institute.

For more information, please visit
http://prattartistsleague.com/wp/visiting-artists-lecture-series or contact
this year’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series coordinators at .

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In order to unclutter your inbox, the Student Affairs Division has
created an event calendar with all of the interesting an fun events for the
month of February in one place. It includes Social Events, Community
Service Opportunities, Career Development Programs and much much more.

Please go to:   
http://www.pratt.edu/calendar/view/student_affairs_newsletter/ to learn
about what is happening on campus, this month.

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It’s three weeks into the semester - are you ready for the
workload ahead of you?  Do you want to avoid feeling overwhelmed and
panicky?
Then get organized!!

Attend the Campus Wide Time Management Workshop!
Get the help you need to organize your life, prioritize your class
assignments, and complete them on time.  Learn easy to use time management
tools and study skills proven effective by students like you.

When:  Wednesday, February 3 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Where:  Alumni Reading Room Main Library, 3rd Floor

Presented by:

Bradley Carney (IND-‘98) Pratt’s Time Management Coach Jernee Montoya,
Staff Therapist and Outreach Coordinator

The Time Management Workshop is sponsored by the Disability Services and
Health and Counseling Services offices.

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Artist David Salle will speak at Pratt Institute about his
artwork, influences, and career as part of the 2009-2010 Visiting Artist
Lecture Series, from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m., Tuesday, February 2, in the
Engineering Building, Room 371, on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus. The lecture is
free and open to the public.

New York-based Salle will speak about the methods, craft, and influences
behind his paintings, films, sculptures, and photography.

Salle has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the United States.
His solo exhibitions include “David Salle: Distance from Nowhere” at the  
Kestnergesellschaft Museum in Hannover, Germany; and at The Stedelijk
Museum in Amsterdam; The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao; the Whitney Museum of
American Art in NYC; and Mary Boone Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, both
in NYC.

Salle’s work was included in “The Pictures Generation” exhibition at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009. His work has been reviewed by ARTFORUM
International, The New York Times, ARTnews, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine,
and The New Yorker. In 2010, Salle will be exhibiting at Mary Boone Gallery
in New York City.

Salle received the Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 and a
Guggenheim Fellowship for theater design in 1986. He received his bachelor
and master of art degrees from the California Institute of the Arts in
Valencia, Calif.

Salle is the sixth artist invited to speak as part of the 2009-2010
Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS), which welcomes nationally and
internationally recognized fine artists to share their experiences with the
Pratt community. VALS will continue with Elizabeth Neel on February 9 and
Olaf Breuning on February 23. The lecture series is coordinated by graduate
students Yael Rechter and Elizabeth Stehling under the supervision of
Professor Dominique Nahas in the Department of Fine Arts in the School of
Art and Design at Pratt Institute.

For more information, please visit
http://prattartistsleague.com/wp/visiting-artists-lecture-series or contact
this year’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series coordinators at .

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Artist David Salle will speak at Pratt Institute about his
artwork, influences, and career as part of the 2009-2010 Visiting Artist
Lecture Series, from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m., Tuesday, February 2, in the
Engineering Building, Room 371, on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus. The lecture is
free and open to the public.

New York-based Salle will speak about the methods, craft, and influences
behind his paintings, films, sculptures, and photography.

Salle has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the United States.
His solo exhibitions include “David Salle: Distance from Nowhere” at the  
Kestnergesellschaft Museum in Hannover, Germany; and at The Stedelijk
Museum in Amsterdam; The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao; the Whitney Museum of
American Art in NYC; and Mary Boone Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, both
in NYC.

Salle’s work was included in “The Pictures Generation” exhibition at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009. His work has been reviewed by ARTFORUM
International, The New York Times, ARTnews, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine,
and The New Yorker. In 2010, Salle will be exhibiting at Mary Boone Gallery
in New York City.

Salle received the Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 and a
Guggenheim Fellowship for theater design in 1986. He received his bachelor
and master of art degrees from the California Institute of the Arts in
Valencia, Calif.

Salle is the sixth artist invited to speak as part of the 2009-2010
Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS), which welcomes nationally and
internationally recognized fine artists to share their experiences with the
Pratt community. VALS will continue with Elizabeth Neel on February 9 and
Olaf Breuning on February 23. The lecture series is coordinated by graduate
students Yael Rechter and Elizabeth Stehling under the supervision of
Professor Dominique Nahas in the Department of Fine Arts in the School of
Art and Design at Pratt Institute.

For more information, please visit
http://prattartistsleague.com/wp/visiting-artists-lecture-series or contact
this year’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series coordinators at .

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Tuesday, February 2  

Fashion Roundtable Event
Pratt Manhattan Second floor
6 to 8 p.m.
      The Fashion Society collaborates with Career Services to produce
this wonderful evening that brings cutting edge fashion professionals into
conversation with students from many disciplines at Pratt: advertising,
fashion, communication design, illustration, photography,  film, fine arts
and industrial design. A wonderful networking opportunity for anyone
interested in any aspect of the many industries that make up fashion.   
      Cheese and h’dourves are served.

*This event is organized by Deborah Yanagisawa, Assistant Director of
Career Services in collaboration with the Fashion Society

Thursday, February 4th

BCBG Max Azria Group Campus Visit
Career Services, East 1
12:30-2:30
      Two representatives from BCBG Max Azria Group will be on campus to
present information about the company and internship opportunities in both
NYC and LA.  There will be a video presentation and a little time afterward
for questions and networking.

*This event is organized by Laura Keegan, Internship Program Manager of
Career Services

Tuesday February 16th

Fresh Meet
Pantas Lounge
8:00 p.m.
      Hey Freshmen!  Confused?  Can’t decide your major? Want to know
what to expect in the coming years?
      Stop by for an information open house that will answer all of your
questions and help you get a grip on the next three years!
      Career Services, Academic Advising, Foundation Faculty, Peer
Counselors, RA’s, and Upperclassmen from all majors will be available to
answer questions and talk to you about what you need to know moving forward
Just in time for registration!

*This event is organized by the Peer Counselors in the Peer to Peer Program
in Career Services in Collaboration with the Residential Advisors.

Monday February 22

Career Day 2010
Higgins Hall first floor
12:00 to 2:00
      This event is a collaboration between the School of Architecture,
student organizations (Pratt AIAS and CMAA/AGC) and Career Services and
serves students from the disciplines of Architecture, City and Regional
Planning, Construction Management, Environmental Systems Management,
Facilities Management, Historic Preservation, Interior Design and Urban
Design. During Career Day you can have resume and portfolio reviewed by
firm representatives and also participate in roundtable discussions with
the many professional seated at the ongoing roundtables table discussions.
      To help prepare you for the event workshops are held throughout the
month.

*This event is organized by Deborah Yanagisawa, Assistant Director of
Career Services in collaboration with the School of Architecture

Tuesday February 23rd
Heather Darcy Bhandari and Jonathan Melber
Presenting two topics for fine artists:
Getting Your Work Out There and Who Loves Paperwork?
Career Services, East One
12:30pm
      Heather Darcy Bhandari is the director of artist relations at Mixed
Greens Gallery as well as a board member of NURTUREart.  Bhandari teaches
professional development at the School of Visual Arts and is a member of
the College of Art Association and ArtTable.
      Jonathan Melber is the director of business development at Jen
Bekman Projects, which runs 20x200.com and the Hey, Hot Shot! photography
competition, and is a board member of NURTUREart. As a lawyer, Jonathan has
worked with artists, galleries, collectors and provided pro bono counsel to
artists for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. He writes about art and law for
the Huffington Post, and teaches a class on art law at the School of Visual
Arts.
      They are Co-authors of Art/Work: Everything You Need to Know (and
Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career, the most comprehensive guide of its
kind, ART/WORK gives artists of every level the tools they need to make it
in an art world so competitive one dealer likens it to “the Sopranos,
except nobody gets killed.” Whether you’re an art school grad looking for a
gallery, a mid-career artist managing a busy studio, or someone just
thinking about becoming a professional artist, this indispensable resource
will help you build your career and protect yourself along the way.
http://artworkbook.net/
*This event is organized by Brynna Tucker, Associate Director of Career
Services and Ryan Turley, Graduate Assistant for Art Related Fields

To subscribe to the Career Services Listserv, send an email to
with a blank subject and type ‘subscribe
career-announce’ in the body.

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Dear Community:

The correct date for the reception is Tuesday, February 2nd.

The correct announcement is repeated below. Sorry for the error.

Coordinator:
Myonggi Sul

On Tuesday, February 2nd, the study abroad program for Copenhagen/Denmark
Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) will hold its Spring reception at 12:30 PM
on the fourth floor of Steuben Hall on the Brooklyn campus.  Students will
receive information on study abroad programs in architecture/interior
design, urban design, pre-architecture, furniture, textile, glass, and
jewelry.

Students will spend seven weeks this summer studying design in beautiful,
vibrant, hospitable Denmark. Taken for nine Pratt credits, these classes
are taught in English by an international faculty.  Programs begin on
Wednesday, June28 and end on Saturday, August 15; and include study tours
to Sweden, Finland, and western Denmark.

The application deadline is February 15.

A complimentary lunch will be served.

Coordinator:
Myonggi Sul

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On Friday, January 29 from 7-10pm the Pratt Student Government is
hosting “Pratt Night Out” at the Brooklyn Museum. Tickets are $5 and are
available in the Student Activities office, lower level of Main Building.

There will be music, dancing, hors d’oeuvres, cash bar and art!

Tickets are required.

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On Tuesday, February 3rd, the study abroad program for
Copenhagen/Denmark Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) will hold its Spring
reception at 12:30 PM on the fourth floor of Steuben Hall on the Brooklyn
campus.  Students will receive information on study abroad programs in
architecture/interior design, urban design, pre-architecture, furniture,
textile, glass, and jewelry.

Students will spend seven weeks this summer studying design in beautiful,
vibrant, hospitable Denmark. Taken for nine Pratt credits, these classes
are taught in English by an international faculty.  Programs begin on
Wednesday, June28 and end on Saturday, August 15; and include study tours
to Sweden, Finland, and western Denmark.

The application deadline is February 15.

A complimentary lunch will be served.

Coordinator:
Myonggi Sul

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