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From Urban Waste to Natural Wonder: Socially-Engaged Art in the Environment
with sTo Len
Thursday, October 1 7pm
Foundations Lab (Main 401) and on Zoom

sTo Len will speak about his interdisciplinary artwork that focuses on place-based collaborations with environmentally abused landscapes and co-creations with communities and government agencies. The cross-disciplinary nature of Len’s practice spans printmaking, video, sound, performance, installation, drawing, and social practice work, threaded together by a site-responsive process of making. Recent projects have included an interactive video installation at the Grand Canyon, a Trash Museum in Kyrgyzstan, and a community pirate radio show in New Mexico.
Len has done extensive work as an Artist in Residence embedded in diverse locations including the NY Department of Sanitation, Grand Canyon National Park, Mass MoCA, Queens Botanical Garden, Wave Hill Public Garden, AlexRenew Wastewater Treatment Facility, and Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island. sTo Len is currently an inaugural NYSCA State of the Arts Fellow embedded in the NY State Office of Victim Services.
Len is currently based in Queens, NY, with 26 years of residence in NYC and familial roots in Vietnam and Virginia, often incorporating these bonds by connecting issues of their history, environment, and traditions. Invitation for talk with sTo Len taken in Pratt Institute by @prattfoundationslab

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Part art studio, part science lab, the Foundations Lab invites students to explore art and nature. Read the full story at the link in our bio.

Photography:
1 - Armon Burton
3, 4, 5, 6, 10 - Dahlia Dandashi
8, 9 - Marley Kinsman
2, 7 - courtesy of Pratt Institute Foundations Lab

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1. In the Foundations Lab, Pratt Students Find Inspiration in the Natural World. Part art studio, part science lab, the innovative space invites students to explore art and nature.
2. “This is a space where art and science intertwine, revealing the beauty and complexity of nature.” The Foundations Lab provides art and design students with the opportunity to observe a collection of more than 1,300 objects to inform their practices. Students can study archives of pigments and minerals, examine model skeletons, or peer through microscopes.
3. A system of mirrors, designed by David Dávila, MID ’25, allows viewers to look at both the structurally complex undersides of the historic birds’ nests and the fragile eggs they were built to protect.
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5. “We want to guide students to look more deeply at the world they are inhabiting and reflect this in their practices. The Foundations Lab is a space where students can do deep, meaningful research. Learning as much as they can will prepare them to be out in the world and find what compels them to create a fulfilling life for themselves.” - Beca Acosta, Foundation technician and STEP instructor.
6. For Gaby Calle, MFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’28, those aspects of the job include managing the two fish tanks—one mimicking a marshland swamp and the other swimming with bright yellow cichlids—and helping students with projects. Recently, they assisted a student in creating microscopic slides of a bean for an assignment.
7. “We’re one of those spaces where students can come in, ask for something crazy, and we will do our best to provide it.” - Gaby Calle, MFA Fine Arts (Painting) ‘28
[continued in comment] Image of Pratt Foundations Lab, different species’ skeletons on display. All text in caption. taken in Pratt Institute by @prattfoundationslab

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8 months ago

We took a close look at our Chrysochroa Saundersii (Jewel Beetle) specimen and curated a selection of pigments from our collection to match its color palette. Have you used items from the Foundations Lab collection in your projects? We’d love to see! Tag us.

Pigment accession numbers and names, as they appear in the first slide, from the top left corner to the bottom right:

* FL.2020.00464: Phthalo Green, Yellowish, PG 36
* FL.2020.00488: Dioxazine Violet
* FL.2020.00357: Cinnabar, Dark
* FL.2020.00682: Cobalt Violet Brilliant, Dark
* FL.2020.00329: Azurite MP, Extra Deep
* FL.2020.00652: Cobalt Green Bluish A
* FL.2020.00568: French Ochre SOFODOR
* FL.2020.00650: Cobalt Oxide Green Blue
* FL.2020.00649: Cobalt Green PG 50
* FL.2020.00523: Logwood, Cut Pieces
* FL.2020.00651: Cobalt Bottle Green
* FL.2020.00518: Indigo made of Woad Wide shot of a wooden case alongside a potted plant and some dried flowers displaying 12 pigment jars and a framed beetle specimen by @prattfoundationslab

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7 months ago

Leaf from Pratt Campus!

Happy Fall everyone! Don’t forget to bundle up 🍂 🍁 🧣 by @prattfoundationslab

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ANTHOTYPE PRINT WORKSHOP TOMORROW!! With sTo Len @stoishere

Bored of cyanotypes? Try another plant based sun printing method! No chemicals involved!

tomorrow 10-2 in the foundations lab, RSVP link below. Can't make tomorrow? we have another workshop 10/20.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzWMa5hSx66Or2C_xopi3__L05PgO0s9FWdnouXrtZtWhDpg/viewform?pli=1 by @prattfoundationslab

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7 days ago

🦗 Happy Monday 😃 by @prattfoundationslab

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7 days ago

Under The Sea 🪸🔬 by @prattfoundationslab

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a month ago

Spotted Wood Pecker Spotted Feather by @prattfoundationslab

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a month ago

Come donate your supplies in exchange for cool goodies! Come to the foundations lab and see what we have for you! Get a baby plant, snacks, sunglasses, and other cool things. Happy finals by @prattfoundationslab

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5 months ago

Some close up shots from the microscope!! by @prattfoundationslab

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6 months ago

Come check out the restored moss terrarium in the foundations lab repainted by our senior student workers @jst.ory and @anniella.victoria by @prattfoundationslab

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7 months ago

Happy Tuesday!!! by @prattfoundationslab

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7 months ago