Pratt Institute School of Information

Don't miss the exhibition of Pratt student work on the corner of 14th Street and 6th Avenue. On display until the new building finds a retail tenant!

Pratt Institute will unveil a new public-facing art installation transforming vacant storefront windows along Manhattan’s 14th Street corridor into a vibrant street-level gallery. Join us for the window reveal!

MONDAY, JUNE 15
1:30-2:30 PM

THE VILLAGE WEST
525 6th Avenue, between 13th and 14th Streets
New York, NY 10011

Registration not required.
https://www.pratt.edu/events/pratt-manhattan-x-the-village-west-window-reveal-and-ongoing-exhibition-on-14th-street/

Congrats to Prof. Pamela Pavliscak- her new book "All the Feels: How to Stay Human in the Digital World" (Algonquin, 2026) has been published! She is also having a book launch party at the Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo on Thursday at 7pm. More info and to RSVP at: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-all-the-feels-by-pamela-pavliscak/ Copy of the book available on the 6th Floor faculty publications display.

InfoShow26 was a big hit, Gradation at Radio City Music Hall was a smash, and much more news in the School of Information June '26 newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/pratt/prattischool-13923231

Dean Cocciolo and Associate Director Brull paid a visit to our neighbors to explore the option of using their backyard for a school event or two. Interesting to see the OSGEMEOS mural from a different perspective!

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 Don't forget to look up - our Pride Flags are being installed this Saturday morning and will be up for the month of June! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈

Students in INFO 634 Conservation Lab with Prof. Slava Polishchuk finished up their custom enclosures for rare books. Sometimes, it is nice to get off a screen!

Congratulations to our award winners at InfoShow26! They are:

Best Individual Project – $500
Neighborhood Corridor: Estimating Historical Refugee Routes
Makeda Tadesse

Best Group Project – $1,000 divided evenly
Inside Pratt Semantic Lab: Working with Sélavy
Alex Dean and Delaney Keck

Best Poster Award – $500
Beyond the Boroughs: Addressing the Geographic Inequities of NYC’s Foster Care System
Nisha Shrinivasan

People’s Choice Award – $500
Small Language Models (SLMs) in Programming for Cultural Heritage
Alana Maisel, Ellie Connors and Jace Steiner

Thank you to the donors to Fund for Pratt: School of Information for making possible the awards. Also thank you to the faculty awards jury (Profs. John Decker, Nancy Smith, and Benjamin Zweig), and to all attendees who submitted a ballot for the people’s choice award. And congratulations to the award winners and all presenters!

https://studentwork.prattsi.org/infoshow/2026/infoshow26-awards

InfoShow26 program is now live, fellowship recipients announced, and much more in the May '26 School of Information Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/pratt/prattischool-13922882

What does it take to make a museum experience more accessible, intuitive, and meaningful before a visitor even walks through the door?

For six Pratt graduate students, the answer is unfolding behind the scenes at The Museum of Modern Art through the School of Information’s annual fellowship program, which places students inside one of New York City’s most iconic cultural institutions.

From improving MoMA’s digital search experience across an archive of more than 106,000 works, to supporting research in the museum’s library, Pratt students are applying information design, emerging technology, art librarianship, and user research in real world settings that shape how people encounter art.

As Simran Kaur, MS Information Experience Design ’26, shared: “Being a fellow at MoMA has been one of those rare experiences where the reality actually lives up to the dream.”

Read more about how Pratt students are powering the museum experience behind the scenes: https://bit.ly/3QXhKiF