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January, 2010

Rowena Reed Kostellow Award Ceremony: Tom Patti, 2010 Recipient
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Cocktails at 6 PM, Ceremony at 7 PM
Knoll Showroom
76 Ninth Avenue (at 15th Street), 11th floor
New York City

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You are cordially invited to the presentation of the Rowena Reed Kostellow Award.

On Thursday, January 28, 2010, at the Knoll Showroom, We salute Tom Patti ’67, ’69, a designer and artist who advances and extends the principals of design that Rowena Reed Kostellow helped developed.

“Miss Reed was both my teacher and mentor,” says Patti. “She tirelessly gave of herself to foster in me all the conceptual design skills I would need then and now as an artist.”

While at Pratt, Tom Patti experimented with inflatable plastics, embracing the relationships between art, engineering, and architecture, seeking and developing solutions for global housing issues.

Patti became interested in the form potential of glass. His art reveals itself in transparent cross-sections that encapsulate veils and patterns within the borders of simple, sophisticated forms. His work reflects a multidisciplinary spirit — encompassing an interest in architecture, design education, engineering, science, and the power of creativity. His body of work includes sculptural works, visionary architectural systems, product designs, and large architectural art commissions. Published and exhibited around the world, his work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Louvre.

Patti joins 13 other professional champions of the abstract principals of visual relationships who have received this award. These teachers, artists, entrepreneurs, and designers embody the mission of the fund: to encourage and guide a systematic educational approach to all forms of visual expression, inspired by Rowena’s teaching.

The Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund at Pratt Institute was organized 21 years ago to help continue Rowena’s teachings by supporting scholarships, publishing, and programs. She dedicated 50 years of her life to teaching; the fund and the Pratt 3-D faculty work to keep her ideas and principles alive.

Past recipients of the Rowena Reed Kostellow Award: Gina Caspi, Ivan Rigby, Eva Zeisel, Gerald Gulotta, William Fogler, Eugene Grossman, Ralph Appelbaum, James Fulton, Louis Nelson, Judy Collins, Bruce Hannah, T ed Muehling, and Lucia N. DeRespinis.

Every year the trophy is made from one of the best examples of Pratt student 3-D design exercises. A student and teacher work together to transform the sketch into a limited edition trophy.