Pratt Institute
The Pratt Institute is a university founded in 1887, the private sector in New York City. It is one of the leading art schools in the U.S. and provides, among other courses in the fields of art, architecture, design, creative writing and library science at. It maintains a campus in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan.
It is named after its founder and first president Charles Pratt, an American oil magnate. The Institute has its own radio station and one of the oldest public libraries in the United States.
Known students
- Justin Almquist (painter)
- David Ascalon (sculptor )
- Harold Becker ( film director )
- Bernard Chang ( artist)
- Daniel Clowes ( cartoonist, screenwriter )
- Roger Cook ( graphic designer )
- Robert Cottingham (painter)
- Katherine Sophie Dreier ( painter )
- Jules Feiffer ( Cartoonist )
- John Flansburgh (musician of the band They Might Be Giants )
- Richard Foster (architect)
- Anthony Goicolea ( Photographer )
- Bill Griffith ( Cartoonist )
- Eva Hesse (artist )
- Betsey Johnson ( designer )
- Malcolm Jones III ( comic artist )
- Ellsworth Kelly (painter, sculptor )
- George Landow ( Owen Land, Film Director )
- Arnold Lobel ( Illustrator )
- Robert Mapplethorpe ( Photographer )
- Marcus McLaurin ( comic book writer )
- Mary Quinn Sullivan ( co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art )
- Morton Meskin ( comic artist)
- Norman Norell ( fashion designer, costume designer )
- Emilio Perez (painter)
- Paul Rand ( graphic designer )
- Robert Redford ( actor, director )
- Stefan Sagmeister ( graphic designer )
- Jeremy Scott (designer)
- Max Weber ( artist) ( painter)
- David Weinrib (sculptor )
- Terry Winter, painter
- Rob Zombie ( musician, director )
- Peter Zumthor (architect)