The UCE of FIT invites you to a town hall-style event titled "Stop Asian Hate," moderated by Isabella Bertoletti, Modern Languages and Cultures; Paul Clement, Social Sciences, and Felix Rivera-Perez, Career and Internship Center. This event is for the FIT community only; attend the event here.
Teaching Business and Labor History to Art and Design Students presents the Art/Works: Teaching Labor and Capitalism in Art and Design symposium, Thursday and Friday, April 8 and 9, 2021, 9 am to 6 pm, through Webex Meetings. Artists and designers aspire to be creative geniuses, and they often are. But they are also bosses, employees, […]
Join us for this year's virtual conference focusing on changemakers in sustainability. The keynote lineup for this virtual event includes FIT alumna Stacy Flynn, co-founder and CEO of Evrnu; Eileen Fisher, founder of Eileen Fisher; Abrima Erwiah, co-founder and president of Studio One Eighty Nine, and Dr. Mark Liu, pioneer in zero-waste fashion design. The […]
Photo by Taylor Larson. This online exhibition highlights photographs taken by three recent FIT students—Laura Cervini, Taylor Larson, and Megan Weber—whose participation in a course titled Ecology and Photography: Sustainable New York inspired and informed their work. The interdisciplinary course was developed and taught by FIT professors Keith Ellenbogen and Dr. Arthur Kopelman, and it […]
Zero waste cardigan designed by Melody Marte. Every spring semester at FIT, students who take the course Advanced Knitwear Design: Creative Development and Execution, taught by Professor Lisa Donofrio, are asked to create a sweater and coordinating pants. Rather than working with new materials, students are challenged to make upcycled ensembles from existing knit garments. […]
