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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 […]

NYC Digital Fashion Symposium

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

FIT DTech Lab partners with Digital Fashion Week to bring the NYC Digital Fashion Symposium to FIT. Across three cities and in parallel with traditional fashion weeks, Digital Fashion Week is a lens through which we view the future of fashion. ​Under the three pillars of thought-leadership, innovation and creativity, Digital Fashion Week disrupts the […]

Globally Connected @ FIT: Cultural Mapping of American and Chinese Dreams: Imagining Across Transpacific Boundaries

Virtual event

A discussion based on Dr. Melody Li’s new book Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States. The book examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-U.S. tensions. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese […]

Exhibition: The Colorful Influence of Susan Daykin — Opens

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

February 9–March 3, 2024 Art and Design Gallery The Colorful Influence of Susan Daykin at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Art and Design Gallery celebrates the artwork and teaching of Fine Arts Professor Susan Daykin. Throughout the 52 years she has worked at FIT, her impact on the Fine Arts program, its students, and the […]

AI Speakers Series: David Doermann

Dubinsky Student Center, Eighth Floor Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Join the CET and the Office of Faculty Development for the first of three Spring 2024 professional development workshops focused on AI in higher education. The goal of this series is to strengthen faculty knowledge of AI from technical, industry, and educational perspectives. Our first featured speaker will be David Doermann, PhD, University at Buffalo, […]