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Photography Exhibition by Steven Hirsch on View August 31
Media Arts Renamed Film/Video and Photography
Pratt to Present "Eye on the Strand" Photo Exhibition
Pratt to Celebrate its First Ever Endowed Professorship
2009 Fine Arts Graduates Win Joan Mitchell Fellowship Awards
Pratt Center for Continuing and Professional Studies (CCPS) Gallery will present “Courthouse Confessions – In Their Own Words,” a photography exhibition of work by CCPS instructor and longtime photojournalist Steven Hirsch. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, runs from August 31 – September 29, 2009.
Pratt Institute’s Media Arts Department has been renamed the Film/Video and Photography Department, effective July 1, 2009. The department, which is one of 15 degree programs within the Institute’s School of Art and Design, is located on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus.
Pratt Center for Continuing and Professional Studies (CCPS) Gallery will present “Eye on the Strand,” a group exhibition that features the work of the three winners and 20 finalists of Pratt, the Aperture Foundation, and Strand Book Store’s first-ever photography contest. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will run from July 15 – August 26, 2009 and will include creative photo representations of the Strand Book Store.
Pratt Institute President Thomas F. Schutte and The Board of Trustees of Pratt Institute will hold a dinner to celebrate the establishment of The Marc Rosen Distinguished Visiting Chair in Design on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at The Gramercy Park Hotel Roof at Two Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. The event will include a cocktail reception at 7 p.m. followed by dinner, and will celebrate the first endowed professorship in the history of Pratt Institute.
Pratt Institute department of fine arts graduate students Charlotte Meyer and Kris Scheifele won 2009 Joan Mitchell Fellowship Awards for their accomplishments in sculpture and painting, respectively. Through this award program, Meyer and Scheifele will each receive a $15,000 grant and will also participate in a group exhibition at the Cue Art Foundation in Chelsea, New York in spring of 2010.
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"Thinking Globally, Acting Locally – Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Painting and Graphic Design" Yasmin Hernandez (New York-based artist) and Robert Espinoza (Director of Research and Communications, Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues (FGLI))
YASMIN HERNANDEZ is a working artist who grew up in Brooklyn, and currently lives in Queens. After receiving her B.A. in Fine Arts from Cornell University, with a concentration in Latino Studies, Yasmin has exhibited her work at galleries and universities around the country, and has been featured in publications such as "The New York Daily News," "El Diario," and "The Washington Post." She was recently an Artist in Residence at Oberlin College's Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgendered Persons, and is currently giving a series of public lectures entitled "RebelArte: Monthly Visual Charla Series" at Cemi Underground in New York City. Recent exhibitions have been at New York's Museo del Bario, El Centro Gallery at Hunter College, and the Caribbean Cultural Center in Carolina, Puerto Rico, and she has recently given presentations on the political aesthetic at work in her paintings at Cornell University, University of Texas at Austin, and Yale University. Two paintings by Yasmin were commissioned for the covers of FGLI's "Global Gaze" and "Building Communities" reports.
ROBERT ESPINOZA is the Director of Research and Communications at Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues (FGLI), a national philanthropic group that works with and studies foundations around the world to better support lesbian and gay communities. In this capacity, he oversees all of its research efforts, strategic communications and evaluation activities. Working with nationally renowned design strategists, Robert has also overseen various social change rebranding efforts, including FLGI in 2007, Justice for Janitors in Colorado in 2003, and the Gill Foundation (the nation's largest funder of lesbian and gay issues) in 2000. He has written reports on a range of policy-related issues including the criminal justice system, HIV/AIDS, mental illness and racial equity in gay and lesbian communities . His two most recent reports include "Building Communities: Autonomous LGBTQ People of Color Organizations in the U.S." and "A Global Gaze: LGBTI Grantmaking in the Global South and East." Prior to FGLI, Robert received a Master's in Public Policy from NYU and worked as a communications strategist and policy advocate at the Service Employees International Union in Colorado, the Gill Foundation, and Family Justice, a national, prisoner reentry organization based in New York City. He is currently finishing his first chapbook of poems, entitled "The Orbit of a Planet."