Meet Our Alumni
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Stay connected with the Pratt Munson creative community. From exhibitions and awards to new projects and career milestones, our alumni are making their mark.
Whether you’re opening an exhibition, launching a project, receiving recognition, or reaching a personal milestone, share your news to be featured here and in future alumni communications. Your achievements inspire current students and strengthen our creative network.
Brittany Miller
Class of 2010
Painter Brittany Miller ’10 lives and works in the Bronx. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Scott Miller Projects in Birmingham, Ala., and Steve Turner in Los Angeles, Calif. Miller has also shown her work in group exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and across the United States, and her work is included in numerous public and private collections. She is the recipient of the 2022 Hopper Prize and two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings and Juxtapoz Magazine and written about in Exhibart and Artribune. Miller is represented by T293 in Rome, Italy. She earned her BFA and MS in art education from Pratt Institute in 2013 and her MA in early childhood education from Columbia University in 2023.
Jihad C. Dennis
Class of 2016
2026 Commencement Alumni Guest Speaker
Jihad C. Dennis ’16 is the associate publications designer at Cleveland Museum of Art, where he uses his skills in design, event execution, and visual art. Born in Oakland, Calif., and raised in Akron, Ohio, he is intrigued by the origins and synthesis of culture and works to share narratives that convey a love of historical research and image archiving. Dennis has done work for Redscout, SLAM Magazine, and Milk Studios among others which informs his professional instincts, but his free time is spent on personal uninhibited work that reflects his interest in music and event production.
Born in Oakland, CA, but raised in Akron, Ohio, Jihad C. Dennis is a Pratt MWP/Institute graduate versed in design, event execution, and visual art. Currently, he is based in Cleveland, OH, where he works at The Cleveland Museum of Art. He is intrigued by the origins and synthesis of culture. He works to tell accessible narratives that evoke a love of historical research and image archiving. His time at Redscout, SLAM Magazine, Milk Studios, and more has informed his professional instincts. However, the DIY work he does in the street produces work uninhibited, reflecting his interest in music and event production.
Colette Bernard
Class of 2019
Colette Bernard ’19 earned her BFA in Fine Arts – Sculpture and Integrated Practices and used her skills to start her own thriving business. She created a series of 3D-printed hair claws to help people express themselves—first dental workers who enjoyed her wisdom tooth-shaped claw and now people from all industries. Bernard sells these designs, called Career Claws, online, as well as at her own gift shop, Cocodrie Collective, in Lafayette, La., where she occasionally transforms a downtown block into a bustling Cocodrie Art Market, showcasing local talent and fostering community. She also worked with the Children’s Museum of Acadiana in southern Louisiana to paint a giant I-Spy mural on a blank wall that allows passers-by to interact with her art, finding hidden images amongst a sea of faces she sketched while she lived in New York City as a student.
Jared Diaz
Class of 2014
Jared Diaz ’14, a second-generation Dominican artist born and based in New York City, began managing facilities at one of the largest hand-painted billboard companies in America within a year of graduating from Pratt Institute. They didn’t start their artistic career as a muralist, but found their way to it during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, feeling called to begin creating them as part of their civic duty. Diaz has contributed to the management and painting execution of more than 2,000 large-scale murals over their career, including the “Gathering in the Name of: One World Gathering” mural at Munson’s Genesee Street Studio, completed in July 2025.
Diaz is also the founder of nonprofit Open Air Projects, which promotes cultural equity through mural art. By March 2021, Diaz launched the Open Air Archive, which aims to preserve history normally located in the niche view of local archives and promote them on the stage of public art. After nine months of planning, community dialogues, and execution, the Open Air Archive manifested through the 1,500-square-foot mural-monument, HENRIETTA, located on the corner of 5th Ave. and Muhammad Ali Boulevard in Louisville, Ky.
Renata Dominguez
Class of 2023
Renata Dominguez ’23 scored an internship at her dream agency, Landor Associates, as a graphic designer after graduating from Pratt Institute, and within one year, she was offered a full-time position. Dominguez grew up with parents in the marketing and design industries, so a career in branding feels natural to her. While a student, she was nominated by faculty for the opportunity to work on a real-world branding project for the À Dériva Architecture, Design, and Arts Festival in Portugal. She worked with Chair of Undergraduate Communications Design Meta Newhouse, Professor Ana Boavida from the University of Coimbra, and University of Coimbra alumnus Nuno Flórido to develop the full branding for the festival, which they then presented to the government of Penacova, Portugal. The festival took place as part of an ongoing partnership between Pratt Institute and the University of Coimbra “in which students and faculty from both schools will imagine creative solutions to questions that have global resonance.”
