Pratt Institute
The Pratt Institute is a privately held college founded in New York City in 1887 . It is one of the leading art schools in the United States , offering courses in arts , architecture , design , creative writing, and library studies, among others . It has a campus in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan .
It is named after its founder and first president, Charles Pratt , a US oil industrialist. The institute has its own radio station and one of the oldest public libraries in the United States.
Well-known students
- Justin Almquist (painter)
- David Ascalon (sculptor)
- Harold Becker (film director)
- Daniel Clowes (cartoonist, screenwriter)
- Robert Cottingham (painter)
- Katherine Sophie Dreier (painter)
- Jules Feiffer (cartoonist)
- John Flansburgh (musician in the band They Might Be Giants )
- Richard Foster (architect)
- Anthony Goicolea (photographer)
- Bill Griffith (cartoonist)
- Eva Hesse (artist)
- Betsey Johnson (designer)
- Ellsworth Kelly (painter, sculptor)
- Harald-Alexander Klimek (painter, draftsman, graphic artist)
- Bob Kuhn (painter, illustrator)
- Alison Knowles (Fluxus Artist)
- George Landow ( Owen Land , film director)
- Arnold Lobel (draftsman)
- Robert Mapplethorpe (photographer)
- Mary Quinn Sullivan (Co-Founder of the Museum of Modern Art )
- Norman Norell (fashion designer, costume designer)
- Emilio Perez (painter)
- Paul Rand (graphic designer)
- Robert Redford (actor, director)
- Stefan Sagmeister (graphic designer)
- Federico Schiaffino (artist)
- Jeremy Scott (Designer)
- Gary Stephan (painter, sculptor)
- Max Weber (artist) (painter)
- Robert Wilson (director, video artist)
- Rob Zombie (musician, director)
- Peter Zumthor (architect)
Web links
Commons : Pratt Institute - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Coordinates: 40 ° 41 ′ 28.3 " N , 73 ° 57 ′ 50.6" W.