About Vernon Pratt

  • Biography

    Vernon Pratt was an associate professor of art at Duke University. A graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, Pratt enrolled at Duke in 1958 but finished his undergraduate and master's degrees at the San Francisco Art Institute.

    He returned to Duke in 1964 as a professor, a position he held until his untimely death in 2000. Pratt may be best known for creating the massive, publicly funded Education Wall across from the Legislative Office Building in Raleigh.

    The Gregg Museum of Art & Design at North Carolina State University mounted an exhibition of his work, "Permutations, Progressions + Possibilities = The Art of Vernon Pratt", last fall at the Betty Ray McCain Art Gallery, Duke Energy Center for the Performing Art...

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