Faculty Workshop: It’s Your First Day of Class

Virtual event

Please join Brian Fallon, director of Faculty Development, and Jeffrey Riman, Center for Excellence in Teaching coordinator, for “It’s Your First Day of Class!” This session covers topics intended to help you start the semester off strong, including tips on teaching, preparation, and planning for your first day and beyond; creating a syllabus; and innovative […]

Fashion Design AAS Exhibition: Postmodernism: Irony and Contradiction — Closes

Art and Design Gallery Pomerantz Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, 227 West 27th Street, New York City, NY, United States

December 7, 2023–January 31, 2024 Art and Design Gallery In the fall 2023 Fashion Design AAS exhibition, students celebrate the eclectic and subversive spirit of the movement by focusing on the ironic and contradictory aspects in particular, deconstructing the notion of “good” and “bad” taste, and “high” and “low” fashion. About the Art and Design […]

Presenting MUSE and Author B Michael

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

President Joyce F. Brown will be in conversation with author and fashion designer B Michael for the launch of his book MUSE—Cicely Tyson and Me: A Relationship Forged in Fashion. A reception and book signing will follow. This is an invitation-only event. 

Black in Business: The Journey of Entrepreneurs—Black History Month Alumni x Student Mixer

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Celebrate Black History Month by joining President Joyce F. Brown and our guest panelists for an evening of networking and sharing stories of Black entrepreneurship.  Panelists: Isaiah Mikhail Stewart, Creative Lead, ESSENCE Nana Agyemang, Founder, EveryStylishGirl Shelcy Joseph, Editor-in-Chief, NYCXCLOTHES Clarke Peoples, Content Creator and Entrepreneur Following the panel, alumni, students, and panelists will have […]

Lecture Series: Welcome to the Black Renaissance: Using Beyoncé to Discuss Nigresence and Black Student Support

Various locations on campus Fashion Institute of Technology, 227 West 27th Street, New York City, NY, United States

As a lifelong Beyhive member and Renaissance ticket holder, Assistant Director of Residential Life John Rowell will walk through Beyoncé’s development as an artist and her comfort with her Blackness to exemplify the theory of Nigrescence and will compare that to the spectrum of Black student support.  Rowell will hold a series of talks throughout […]