March 9, 2026

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Schafler Gallery viewing hours: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm

BFA Jewelry Thesis Show

March 30 - April 6

Exhibiting Artists: Jacob Chang, Siwen Lily Chen, Yijia Monserrat Feng, Hayden Holmes, Jinsong Huang, Isabella Katz, Meijun Lin, Man Huen Jess Tai, Angelina Yimeng Yang, and Binger Zhang

BFA Printmaking Thesis Show

April 13 - 20

Exhibiting Artists: Abigail Amdur, River Barajas, Alicia Li, Audrey Whitehead, and Tingyu Xu

BFA Sculpture & IP Thesis Show

April 27 - May 4

Exhibiting Artists: Abdullah Gramish, Sajan Patel, Taylor Reese, Isaiah Robinson, Kimberly Wu, and Yuqing Wu

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Part 1: Double Take Two

March 30 - April 10

Opening Reception Monday, March 30, 6 - 8pm

Double Take Two brings together seventeen visual artists whose practices consider the material conditions that shape visibility. The exhibition title folds together two idioms: a “double take,” refers to looking at a subject or object again to gather more information, and “take two,” refers to the repetition of an action or scene. These two phrases, nested discreetly in the title, emphasize slow looking, and re-vision, as well as invite a return to what deeper revelations exist in looking once again. Throughout the exhibit, many artists probe how identity is shaped by social interactions, teasing out inherent power dynamics between observer and observed. Others linger in the space between private and public, hidden and visible, or lean entirely into outright spectacle, exposing concealed systems and tactics—ranging from surveillance infrastructure to corporate manipulation. Many paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, and hybrid forms shift our attention to quotidian or overlooked subjects or emphasize abstraction to interrupt and slow our gaze. Together, the works prompt viewers to return for a second glance and to take notice of what might otherwise go unseen.

Exhibiting Artists: Q Ayodele, Jack Catlett, Phoebe Kalm Choi, Shuyi Chen, Lisa Giordano, Joris van Helmond, Sammi Levine, Jiyoon Koo, Nawon Kim, Farrell Mason-Brown, Ben Miller, Tiffany Marie Miller, Lo Smith, Shonobi (Samson Shofoluwe), Wei Yuan Wang, Ryan Zogheb, and Leon Zhan

Macon Reed, The Death Spa Experience (still), 2022, video (color, sound), 7 min. 37 sec. Photo courtesy of the artist.

MFA alum Duke Riley and faculty Jean Shin featured in Summoning group exhibition at Praise Shadows Art Gallery

MFA alum Shaun Haugen online solo exhibition Afterimages of the Invisible at Sumato Art Creatives

Faculty eri king solo show fingers crossed at One River School, Englewood, NJ

Faculty and MFA alum Nat Meade solo exhibition Franklin at Hesse Flatow, Tribeca

Photo: Iain Emaline

BFA alum Nick Fusaro solo exhibition Foreman at Blade Study

BFA alum Eva Robarts solo exhibition at Nicola Vassell Gallery review "The Gray Market on Eva Roberts: Bikes, Bolts, & Brooms"

Review by MFA alum and faculty Yasmeen Abdallah for Tussle Magazine "Nan Goldin: You Never Did Anything Wrong"

Faculty Claudia Bitrán exhibition Titanic covered in Artnet "Meet the Artist Who Spent 12 Years Remaking 'Titanic,' Shot for Shot"

Beca Acosta (she/her) is an MFA student with an emphasis in Integrated Practices at Pratt Institute. Her work combines metal fabrication, ceramics, kinetic sculpture, microscope photography, and audience interaction. A Brooklyn-based native of Dallas, Texas, Beca is Chicana and Puerto Rican. She investigates the confluence of bodies with mobility, freedom, and sexuality. Her artwork has been exhibited at Washington State University, John St. Gallery, Flashburn Film Festival, The Fallow Frames Biennial, Dank, Brooklyn Metal Works, Amos Eno Gallery, Underdonk Gallery, and POWRPLNT, and published in Precog Magazine. She has been a visiting critic at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design and invited to discuss her practice at FEMEETING in Windsor, Canada and LASER (Leonardo Arts and Sciences Evening Rendezvous) in New York City. In 2024, she received a STEAM plant grant to create microscope photography, which she exhibited at Pratt Institute. Currently, Beca is focused on the overlaps between the arts, the sciences, and the existential politics of our contemporary climate.

Life Drawing on Wednesday evenings run by BFA alum Mo Bone at MoBone Studio

Silver Art Projects Artist Residency applications open March 16

STEAMplant interdisciplinary project funding opportunities for Pratt faculty, staff, and guest residencts

Pratt School of Art students—current undergraduate, graduate, and graduating class of 2026—are invited to submit their work for consideration to be included in a group exhibition curated by BFA alum Rachel Vera Steinberg and artist and writer Avram Finkelstein. 

The 2026 School of Art annual student show will provide space for reflection on the many forms of disability and expansive approaches to the meaning of access. The exhibition seeks to challenge assumptions of how, within a larger social framework, bodies and psyches are often spoken of or represented as though they conform to a shared understanding of "wholeness," functionality, and wellness.

The deadline to apply is Sunday, March 22, 2026, by 11:59pm ET.