Reading By Pratt 2007 Writer-in Residence Mary Gaitskill

Pratt's Writing for Publication, Performance and Media program is sponsoring a reading by renowned author and Pratt 2007 Writer-in Residence Mary Gaitskill. This will take place in

Memorial Hall on
Friday, September 7 at
12 noon

All are welcome.

Bio:
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels /Two Girls, Fat and Thin/ and /Veronica/, as well as the story collections /Bad Behavior/ and /Because They Wanted To/, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner in 1998. Her story "Secretary" was the basis for the feature film of the same name. Her stories and essays have appeared in /The New Yorker/, /Harper's/, /Esquire/, /Best American Short Stories/ and The O. Henry Prize Stories. In 2002 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction; she is currently Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University. Her novel /Veronica/ was nominated for the National Book Award in 2005; it was also nominated for the National Critic's Circle Award and the L.A. Times Book Award.


Thank you,

Gina Zucker
Assistant Visiting Professor, WPPM
Writing for Publication, Performance, and Media
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Artists in their Studios: A Symposium

Saturday, September 8, 2007
9:00 am - 4:30 PM

Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York City

Advance registration is required.
$50.00 General Admission
$35.00 Students and Archives of American Art Members

Sponsored by the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art and the PhD Program in Art History, the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center.
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Registration
Send checks (payable to Archives of American Art) to:
Laura MacCarthy
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012
Victor Building, Suite 2200, MRC 937
Washington, DC 20013-7012
Questions about the event? Call (202) 633-7959

*Special Bonus Event
All participants are invited to a special reception on Friday evening to view the exhibition Artists in their Studios: Images from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art. This event is made possible with the support of Forbes.

Friday, September 7, 2007
6:00 - 8:00pm
Forbes Galleries
60 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street),
New York City

You must RSVP to (202) 633-7959 to attend this event

Steve Uzzell Lecture

The Student Affairs Committee on Student Leadership is proud to be hosting its first motivational speaker geared to Pratt students. We will be hosting Steve Uzzell, motivational speaker, photographer, designer…artist, in

Memorial Hall on
Thursday September 27, 2007
at 5:30 pm.

We hope that you and your classes will attend. He is VERY excited to come and speak to the future of the Art and Design world and will be hosting a Q&A following his presentation. Here are PDFs of his prints and his biography for you to review.

Thank you behalf of the entire committee,

Melissa
718-636-3422

Melissa Diane Komasz, M.Ed
Assistant Director of Student Activities and Orientation
Student Activities, Main Building Lower Level

50 years of Mythologies: Barthes, Design and Popular Culture

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

History of Art and Design Department and
The Program in Critical and Visual Studies present a
Fall 2007 Symposium

50 years of Mythologies: Barthes, Design and Popular Culture

Thursday 18th October 2007
5-7:30 pm
Alumni Reading Room, Library
Pratt Institute Brooklyn

First published in 1957, Roland Barthes' Mythologies developed a new system for analyzing contemporary consumer culture. Comprising a theoretical essay, "Myth Today", as well as 54 short texts on various aspects of French postwar culture, Barthes argued that myths are narratives that serve to explain the world view of a culture or rationalize a practice or belief. While the theoretical essay had a significant impact on semiology and theoretical approaches to design and popular culture, the short texts provided practical applications of theory at work on a range of disparate topics, from "Soap powders and Detergents" to "The New Citroën". Although written in the 1950s, Barthes emphasis on analyzing objects in terms of their social and political ideologies, beyond mere function or surface appearance, still seems vital to our understanding of consumer culture today.


Papers and presenters

Roland Barthes' Aesthetics of Everyday Life
Stuart Kendall
Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Humanities, Eastern Kentucky University

Display and the Mall: the Power of Myth
Kim Heppler
Principle, MoiMoi Design, Toronto, Canada

From Mythologies to Metadesign
Larry Busbea
Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Arizona

The Design Historian as Mythologist
Michael Golec
Assistant Professor, Art and Design History, College of Design, Iowa State University

Discussant:
Kimberly Lamm
Assistant Professor, Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute