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Film and Media Screening Series: ‘Just Another Girl on the IRT,’ with Leslie Harris

Film and Media Screening Room D207 Pomerantz Center, New York City , NY, United States

Original, provocative, and female-driven, the feature Just Another Girl on the IRT was a welcome relief from the male dominated urban films of the '90s. Smart, ambitious, and brash, the lead character, Chantel, is not your typical "good girl" or "bad girl" but a complex character who deals with her ambitions, African-American culture and disappointments […]

CANCELED: ‘Fresh Dressed’ Documentary Screening and Black History Month Closing Program

Haft Theater Marvin Feldman Center, New York City, NY, United States

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.  The documentary Fresh Dressed chronicles the history of hip-hop/urban fashion and its rise from Southern cotton plantations to the gangs of the 1970s in the South Bronx, to corporate America, and everywhere in between. Supported by rich archival materials and in-depth interviews with individuals crucial to the evolution of a way […]

V-Day at FIT

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

FIT joins the V-Day global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day at FIT 2019 presents a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues by the Theater Club. Doors open for an art exhibition at 7:30 pm; show at 8 pm. This event is part of Promoting Healthy Relationships Month. Find more details at fitnyc.edu/healthyrelationships. This event […]

Exhibition: IMPACT: The Future Is Inclusive — Closes

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

February 12–March 5 Professor C.J. Yeh, Communication Design, curates an interdisciplinary exhibition examining the importance of creativity for social impact and inclusion. IMPACT: The Future Is Inclusive is an exhibition about the imagination and its effects on positive social change. Yeh will curate work by students, faculty, and alumni, as well work by an invited artist to […]

Exhibition: The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion — Opens

Gallery FIT, The Museum at FIT Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Grenelle-Estévez, evening set, circa 1957, gift of Sylvia Levine. March 5–30, 2019  Gallery FIT The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion explores the legacy of one of the first institutions dedicated to educating fashion industry professionals in New York City. The impact of the school, in operation from 1923 to 1991, will be explored through an introduction […]