About this Event
Hosted by our Fine Arts MFA program, VALS is one of several free and open-to-the-public events we offer each year. Follow us on Instagram @prattfineart to see what’s coming up, and we look forward to welcoming you soon!
(b. Chicago, Illinois) is an artist, educator, and designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work utilizes textiles, writing, and digital media to examine American heritage and the seemingly ordinary stories of Black folks.
Pulley received her MFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design in 2023 and her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015. Pulley is an inaugural recipient of the Rhode Island School of Design Society of Presidential Fellows Award and was named the Graduate Graphic Designer to Watch by GDUSA in 2023.
Pulley was an Artist-In-Residence at Smack Mellon and the Studio Museum in Harlem. She has exhibited work at MoMA PS1, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Eastville Community Historical Society, Heritage House Museum, the Newport Art Museum, the RISD Museum, and the Art Museum of the University of Memphis. Her work is held in the collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Valentine Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Beinecke Library, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, and the MET Watson Library.
She is currently an Artist-In-Residence at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) and a Session artist at Recess Art for the 2026–2027 season.
Previous VALS artists include: Diana Al-Hadid, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Izzy Barber, Judith Bernstein, Michael Berryhill, Wafaa Bilal, The Black School, Flaviu Cacoveanu, Pradeep Dalal, Abigail D. Deville, Nicole Eisenman, Florencia Escudero, Rochelle Feinstein, Keltie Ferris, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Scherezade García, Rico Gatson, Jeffrey Gibson, Mark Thomas Gibson, Nancy Grossman, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Edgar Heap of Birds, James Hyde, Laura Kalman, Lotus Kang, Nina Katchadourian, Elektra KB, eri king, Baseera Khan, Savannah Knoop, Leigh Ledare, Jennie Jieun Lee, Ann Lewis, Tau Lewis, Kalup Linzey, Ibrahim Mahama, Park McArthur, Alicia Mersy, Wardell Milan, Ayanah Moor, Lavar Munroe, Narcissister, Rashaad Newsome, Catherine Opie, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Alexis Rockman, Aura Satz, Shazia Sikander, Lorna Simpson, Nyugen E. Smith, Wendy Red Star, Brigitta Váradi, Dan Walsh, Yu-Wen Wu, Hu Xiangqian, and Frank Wang Yefen.
We are grateful to the Robert Lehman Foundation for supporting this series.
Finding, and Important Access Information
Access to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Dock 72 is restricted ONLY to those with an ID card of a visitor pass. All who RSVP here will receive an email with information on how to receive their Visitor QR Code Pass, which will be issued the morning of the event.
Please register each person attending the event with their individual email, so that they receive their own unique QR pass. Limit one pass per visitor.
You will receive a digital QR pass via email that will appear in your inbox as: DOCK 72 Visitor Check-in Tuesday, September 29, from [email protected] one hour ahead of the event. Please check your SPAM folder if you cannot locate it. NO PASS = NO ACCESS. This pass will be good for the date of the event only.
You will first use your pass to enter the Brooklyn Navy Yard at whichever gate is convenient. You can come by taxi (showing your pass to the guard to enter) but if you drive, you will need to park OUTSIDE the Navy Yard and walk in. There is NO parking at Dock 72.
Additionally, Dock 72 is situated next to the NYC Ferry and Citibike, and there are shuttles available on-site to and from MTA subway stops. For more info, please visit:
NOTE: If you are taking a taxi or rideshare to the Navy Yard, enter, as your drop-off and pick-up location. Enter the Navy Yard via Building 77, using your access QR code at the gates at the end of the hall in Building 77, past the food places. Rideshares and taxis are not allowed to enter the Navy Yard for pick-up.
When you arrive at Dock 72, enter the Lobby and then use your pass at ELEVATOR BANK C, which is the last elevator bank right at the end of the lobby (past the lobby cafe, near the exit door at the very end).
At the elevator bank, select Floor 3 on the digital pad, which will then indicate which elevator to take.
Event venue & nearby stays
Dock 72, 1 Dock 72 Way, Brooklyn, United States
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