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 […]
February 11–March 31 It is estimated that between 1525 and 1866 some 12.5 to 15 million African men, women, and children were violently forced from Western and Central Africa into […]
FIT supports the Clothesline Project, a visual display that bears witness to the relationship violence. During the public display, a clothesline is hung with shirts; each shirt is decorated to represent a […]
Sama’a Al-Hamdani will discuss the war in Yemen at this World Affairs Lecture, moderated by Yasemin Celik Levine, director of the Presidential Scholars Program. Al-Hamdani is a visiting fellow at Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and director of the Yemen Cultural Institute for Heritage and the Arts. The Department of Social Sciences’ World […]
Cover of Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era, courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Join author Kimberly S. Alexander for a presentation of Treasures Afoot, her intriguing new book that interweaves biography and material culture with full-color photographs to tell how shoes were made, sold, and worn during the eighteenth century. Alexander traces […]
