Peter Moskowitz/The Local Christopher Verstegen, a gallery supervisor at Pratt Institute, organized donated supplies for artists who lost their work in last month’s fire.Two weeks after a fire at Pratt Institute ravaged the Brooklyn art school’s historic Main Building and destroyed thousands of student artworks, The Local blog checked in with a handful of students who came by a makeshift dispensary topick up donated art supplies.
The Local’s piece, published Thursday, finds the artists variously philosophical, lost and inspired. One student reported he had started mixing soot into his paint. Another told The Local that after the fire: “I just started immediately working on new stuff. I kind of saw it as a good thing, because I was kind of stuck and now I’m moving in a new direction.
