By: Simone Rosenthal This time last year I decided to take Painting one, an elective I’d been looking forward to since before my acceptance to Pratt. My only previous visual art experience was from a course in Drawing one and one acrylic painting on an eight by eight inch canvas. This to say, my experience was limited, and I wasn’t nearly prepared for the talent I was about to witness. This class was mainly populated with painting majors of the same year, and many of them see

Words by: Yingqi Wang In a recent geology class, we studied different kinds of rocks and spent time observing their surfaces and textures. Before this activity, I had never paid much attention to the differences between rocks. Most of them seemed like ordinary stones that we might see on the ground, along a sidewalk, or beside a road. However, once we started picking them up, touching their surfaces, and comparing them with one another, I realized that rocks can be much more

Dear Prattlers, This magazine is going through an identity crisis, and unlike middle school, it can’t be solved with acne medication or gay liberation. By the end of this pubescent transformation, Pratt Admin hopes to see a Prattler that is entirely online (no more printed issues) and without any artsy themes (e.g., Lost in Translation). In other words, The Powers That Be insist upon a change. Out with new, in with the old. It’s true — this magazine used to be a no nonsense,

Dear Prattlers, I’ve got a bad habit of bringing up the end of the world and forwarding frightening articles to my friends. In part, it stems from a selfish sort of “If I’m going down, I’m taking you with me” instinct. I guess I could argue that I’m spreading awareness, which counts for something. But deep down, I know it has more to do with a primal, insatiable, morbid curiosity. I can’t help but find the deterioration of the world around me fascinating. It’s the car crash

March 30, 2026 Newsletter Dearest Prattlers, This week’s newsletter features Junior Writing major Sydney Brewer’s insights on music streaming platforms and how they alter our relationships to music. Sydney Brewer (she/her) is a third-year writing major. She writes prose-poetry and fiction about diasporic experiences, language, and memory. Without further ado, here is Sydney’s newsletter, The Cost of Streaming @donaldoivanbarber/TikTok / Adobe Stock / @miss.mia777/TikTok Follo

March 16, 2026 Newsletter Dearest Prattlers, Happy Spring Break <3 I hope you all get the chance to take a break this week, even though I know thesis deadlines are approaching for my fellow seniors. On a slightly-unrelated note, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to “go analog” as a kind of creativity-inducing lifestyle, especially when it comes to generating enough inspiration for my thesis. I’ve been collecting cassettes, CDs, and vinyl for a long time now becaus

March 2, 2026 Newsletter Dearest Prattlers, I hope I am finding you well amidst a troubling time in foreign policy and a rather chaotic midterm season. Now is a good time to keep our eyes on Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and all others affected by Trump’s neo-US Imperialism. Now is also a good time to give ourselves and our communities some additional care in whatever form feels right. I’m opting for movie nights with friends and a heavy Zadie Smith reading rotation. Here’s some readi

February 16, 2026 Newsletter If you’ve taken the train at least once in the past two months, chances are you’ve seen a particular ad glued to the walls: plain white background, Times New Roman font, and an air of mystery. The actual product being advertised is not easily deciphered. Although you may be thinking of the infamous Friend.com campaign that inundated quite literally every blank surface of the MTA for the last four months of 2025, I am talking about Meeno.com’s “Rej

February 2, 2026 Newsletter Andres Kudacki for The New York Times Dearest Prattlers, I wish that I could be welcoming you all back to Pratt on better terms, but the fact of the matter is that ICE is ravaging our communities and will stop at nothing to terrorize us into complacency. As Pratt’s widest-reaching publication, it is our duty to use our platform to spread information that is beneficial to our community. Instead of blandly-wording an email about the “challenging mome

December 9, 2026 Newsletter Spotify Wrapped 2025 It was in 2015 that Spotify users were first subjected to the digital summary of their year’s listening habits now known as Spotify Wrapped. Since then, Spotify Wrapped has marketed itself into a semi-global cultural event, dissected in the Op-ed section of the New York Times, advertised on the Paris metro, and endlessly re-posted on social media. This year, I even heard someone refer to the planned release date of Spotify Wrap

November 10, 2025 Newsletter The 2025-2026 Prattler Team at the Rogue Launch Party Hi All, Thank you to everyone who attended our launch party this past Friday. It was a huge success for us, and for your closet too, we hope! The Rogue Edit Also, here's another reminder that pitches for our Occult Classics Winter Web Issue are due this Friday, November 14th . Here is a link to the pitch log. Here is a link to the SVM form, wherein you may submit any sort of standalone media

October 27, 2025 Newsletter Collage by Jasmine Nguyen A few mornings ago I was getting ready, and I was thinking about the Prattler. Specifically, I was thinking about the newsletter and how much more time can pass before it becomes apparent that, behind my not writing it, I am hiding two ugly truths: a complete lack of inspiration and an utter absence of creative impulse. It gets dark by 6pm, almost nothing feels intellectually stimulating, and as I’m writing this the New Yo