Pratt has set up a daily center/PRATT DAILY HUB on the official website since the closure of classes due to the epidemic, recording the lives of students, teachers and students in various disciplines isolated at home, their thoughts on the epidemic and their artistic creation. Today, we will take a look at the research and creation of the subject of Preet College during the epidemic. The following are the artistic creation and research of different disciplines during the epidemic.

Project research and creation of Preet College during the epidemic

Fine arts

From the spring of 2020, Pratt Pure Arts will share online classroom examples and student works with the public through social platforms. For the teaching of pure arts and skills courses, Pratt Preet College of Art There are also some ingenious ideas.

In an online woodworking course, Yasu Izaki, the course professor and Woodshop technician, borrowed carrots and bread to demonstrate the carving and assembly process of the structure for the students. Finally, the students' work was also demonstrated in the state of "food materials".

In the mold making course, the professor used jelly, ice, paper and paint as molds, and encouraged students to use common materials in daily life for combination.

In addition to skill teaching, in this stage of the course, the instructor also encourages students to pay more attention to their own "psychology" than to the "epidemic situation", and guide students to conduct artistic creation with their recent psychological changes as a topic.

Drawing II class Tutor Ben La Rocco course

Student works

Source: Pratt official website

Digital Media

Faith Holland, a professor of digital art, led the students to jointly plan an online art exhibition, designed an independent website called "Well Now WTF", and invited more than 80 artists and students from the dynamic imaging industry to exhibit their works together.

The original intention of this art exhibition is that the museum is closed, the school is closed, the world is forced to suspend, and everyone is trapped indoors. Nevertheless, we still need art to add vitality to our life.

This exhibition gathers nearly 100 works, most of which are in the form of dynamic graphics and short animation. The theme also comes from the artists' jokes and complaints about life during the epidemic, with bright colors and humorous themes, to ease the bad mood during the epidemic with an entertaining attitude.

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Fashion Professional/FashionDesign

Yoon Chang, a professor of Pratt Fashion, believes that the spread of the epidemic has had a serious impact on fashion industry practitioners, but as an educator and future innovator, it is indeed a good time to examine the sustainable development of fashion and environment-friendly themes.

During the epidemic, students majoring in fashion created different forms of art works about thinking about the future of their major in response to the call of their instructors Study abroad in jewelry design Qianwen Lu was inspired by the ecological image during isolation, and created a group of jewelry designs with the theme of "how to wear jewelry during isolation":

In the clothing design course, the instructor requires students to use the available materials and waste articles in their current life to make three-dimensional clothing and related accessories:

The art creation of Pratt teachers and students about epidemic hot spots may not be the same as everyone imagined, not only as a theme, but also as a source of inspiration for a small event, to re observe the society and think about the future with a daily attitude.

In the above artistic creation and discussion on epidemic theme, different majors combine industry development, daily life of participants, user psychology, coping strategies and other aspects to trigger teachers and students to perceive the world, observe life, and integrate their thoughts and feelings into their own creation from different perspectives as the event's witnesses.

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