L-R: William Hilson, Joan Fallon, and Derrick Adams (photo by Christopher Garcia Valle)
Pratt Institute’s Board of Trustees has elected three new members in the last year artist and Pratt alumnus Derrick Adams, founder and CEO of Curemark Joan Fallon, and former Pratt faculty member William (Bill) Hilson.
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Derrick Adams
Derrick Adams’s appointment to Pratt Institute’s Board of Trustees was effective October 15, 2020.
Derrick Adams is a Baltimore-born artist whose work spans painting, collage, sculpture, performance, video, and sound installation. His multidisciplinary practice engages the ways in which individuals’ ideals, aspirations, and personae become attached to specific objects, colors, textures, symbols, and ideologies. His work probes the influence of popular culture on the formation of self-image and the relationship between man and monument as they coexist and embody one another. Adams also examines how African-American experiences intersect wi