Pratt Institute President Frances Bronet welcomed a packed house of alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends of the program to the Pratt in Venice 35th Anniversary Exhibition, celebrating 35 successful years of bringing the practice of art and its study together in La Serenissima. The exhibition featured work and research by Pratt in Venice alumni, as well as current and former faculty, since its beginning in 1984 in all media – painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, fashion, photography, film, and animation – as well as a documentary film, Infinite Jest, documenting the pendant celebratory exhibition held in Venice in Summer 2019. A Study Center at the heart of the suite of galleries included the many books, articles, theses, and research posters produced as a result of participation in Pratt in Venice. Multiple photographs and testimonials by students, faculty, and friends, taken since the program’s beginning 35 years ago, were exhibited – both in print and via a Kodak slide carousel.
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Select alumni have generously donated works of art for sale in order to support the Scholarship Fund. Click here to see available works.
WELCOME Gallery
Faculty, Alumni, & Pratt in Venice over the years
Alumni Gallery I
Pratt in Venice Alumni, 1984–2018
the Study Center
The Pratt in Venice Study Center, featuring books, articles, theses, and research posters by Pratt in Venice alumni and faculty, available for consultation. (Photo: Angela Conant)
books, articles, theses, & research posters by pratt in Venice Alumni & Faculty
Graduate art history theses developed in Venice, and theses by Pratt in Venice alumni
Safiye Şentürk, “Formation of an Indigenous Ottoman Decorative Vocabulary in Response to Silk Exchange with the Venetian Republic: 1453–1571 CE” (2019)
Janet Burka, “Searching for Morosina: The figuration of the Dogaressa in Images of the 1597 Entrance Celebration” (2019)
Polly Cancro, “Tres Doulce Dame: The Social & Material Production of late 15th century Rouen Book of Hours” (2018)
Patricia E. Kaiser, “Monumental Multi-block Woodcuts in the Age of de' Barbari, Titian, and Dürer (1500-1522)” (2016)
Margaret S. Matz, “The Innovation of the Architectural Typology of the Venetian Scole Piccole related to the Silk Industry: Case Study of the Scuola dei Mercanti and influences from Arab, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman Cultures” (2016)
Diana Bowers: "'The Physical Text Is History': Erhard Ratdolt's Editions of Werner Rolewinck's Fasciculus temporum" (2015)
Annalise Welte: "San Lazzaro and the Armenian Renaissance: the Mekhitarist Monks of Venice as Collectors and Creators" (2015)
Kelly K. Davis: “Roman Libraries and the Biblioteca Marciana: Ancient Ideals in Renaissance Venice” (2014)
Natalie J. S. Draeger: "Early Italian Opera Houses: Architecture, Acoustics, and Design" (2014)
John Gribowich, “The Influence of the Oratory of San Filippo Neri in Rome on the Theological Perspective of Caravaggio” (2013)
Melinda Anderson: "Venetian Incunabula: Lucantonio Giunta and Aldus Manutius" (2012)
Cynthia Brenwall: "The Gilded City: Gold, Venice and the Art Market 1233-1500" (2011)
Hilary H. Thompson: "Un Ritorno all’antico: The Use of Uomini Illustri in Library Decoration of Reformed Monasteries in the Veneto (1479 to 1503)" (2011)
Victoria Anne Boardman: "A New Venetian Herbal: Depictions of Medicinal Plants in Carpaccio's Cycle of Paintings for the Scuola Di Sant'Orsola" (2010)
Joseph Kopta, “Greek Speakers and Eastern Martyrs: The Greater Contexts of the Theodotus Chapel, Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome (741–752)” (2010)
Jill Luedke, “Nuclear Reactors: Artists in the United States Respond to the Heightened Fear of Nuclear Holocaust, 1981-1984” (2009)
Caley Cannon: “Stones in the Service of God and Government: The twelfth-century Mosaic Pavements in the Basilica of San Marco” (2008)
Ana Maria De la Ossa, “The Surrealist Proposals of Latin American Artists Wilfredo Lam and Roberto Matta: From Paris (1935–40) to New York (1940–50)” (2008)
Monique Rollins: “Tintoretto's Philosophers in the Marciana Library and a Glimpse of the Original Program of the Library Decoration” (2006)
Dara Metz: “Lino Tagliapietra and Laura de Santillana: Tradition and Innovation in the Glass Work of two Venetian Artists” (2004)
Sarah Wilkins: “Iconography and Understanding: An Analysis of the Magdalen Chapel in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi” (2004)
Michelle Stanek, “Revival of the Head of Medusa in Renaissance and Baroque Italy” (2005)
Edward Bielejec, “Giotto: The Iconographical Program of the Life of the Virgin Register in Relation to the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua” (2003)
Rebecca Kranz: “The Campanili of Venice, circa 1200-1600” (2002)
Caroline Briceno, “A Michelangelo in Manhattan: An Analytic Study based on the Case of the Bruges Madonna” (2000)
Nathan M. Cochran: "Prophets as Saints: Prophetic Iconography in the Venetian Churches of San Geremia, San Samuele, San Giobbe and San Moisè" (1998)
Verena Sutter: "Two Venetian Baroque Altars by Giuseppe Pozzo" (1998)
Sergio Rossetti Morosini: "New Findings in Titian's Fresco Technique" (1997)
Elizabeth Peterson, “American Fresco: Fresco Painting in the 1930s and 1940s US Federal Art Projects” (1997)
Mijeong Kim, “What Rembrandt did not learn from Titian: A Historical Study in the Materials and Techniques of Oil Painting” (1994)
Carmela Pintado: “The Collection of Venetian Painting of Catherine the Great” (1994)
“wall of honor” celebrating richards Ruben, claire romano, & John Ross
Alumni, 1984–2018
Alumni GALLERY II
PRATT IN VENICE ALUMNI, 1984–2018
Alumni Gallery III
Pratt in Venice Alumni, 1984–2018
Pratt in Venice class of 2019
Pratt in Venice Class of 2019 Print Center
Works made by the Class of 2019 at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica (photos above: Angela Conant)
Thank You!
We are grateful to the generous donors who celebrated our 35th Anniversary with a contribution to the Pratt in Venice Scholarship Fund.
Janet Burka • Mary Couvillon • Todd Gilmour • Jewel Golden • Dimitri Hazzikostas • Andrew Kurczak • Gayle Rodda Kurtz • Domenico Lanzara • Susan & Gerald Luss • Anthony Manglicmot • Jason Mazza • Michele Rollins • Colleen Scott • Kayla Scullin • Gerry Snyder • Hilary Thompson • Annalise Welte • Jennella Young • Penghui Zhang
We are also grateful to the Pratt in Venice alumni who have donated artwork for sale, and to donors whose purchases support the Pratt in Venice Scholarship Fund.
Worth Bracken • Lindsay Cook • Christian Harding • Diane Kopta • Gayle Rodda Kurtz • Michelle Leeds & Nick Runyan • Rachel Moog-Lagé • Marsha Morton • Lara Pendleton • Michelle Sakhai • Safiye Şentürk • Myriam Wolf Block
With thanks to our collaborators in Venice
Università Internazionale dell’Arte • Scuola Internazionale di Grafica • Fabiana Chiossi
Pratt in Venice 35th Anniversary Exhibition
October 21––November 1, 2019
Steuben Gallery
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Curated by Michael Brennan and Angela Conant, with Diana Gisolfi, Joseph Kopta, Christian Harding, and June Bendich
Art Handling by Nick LaPole and David Jacaruso
Installation support by Pratt Institute Fine Arts Department
Photographs by Angela Conant, Joseph Kopta, and the individual artists.
Opening reception photographs by Jacob Grumulaitis for Pratt Institute.
Wenlu Bao, Infinite Jest, 2019, with alumnae Hyewon Hahn (PiV ‘06), Monique Rollins (PiV ‘06), and PiV faculty Michael Brennan.