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Social media expert Natalie Zfat will be the guest at this week’s Faces and Places in Fashion. The Faces and Places in Fashion lecture series is a forum for prominent fashion professionals to discuss their trade, experience, and perspective on the business. Read more on the series’s Facebook page here. Full speaker schedule : Faces and Places in Fashion_Fall 2016
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The Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations in New York Hahn Choong-hee will present a lecture titled "How Sustainable Development Goals Are Affecting Us and Our World." |
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In celebration of the first annual New York Textile Month, the FIT Library and the FIT Textile and Surface Design department are hosting an Wikipedia Edit-a-thon that will be held on two dates: September 27 and 29 from noon to 2 pm. The Edit-a-thon is an opportunity to create, contribute to, and edit articles in Wikipedia on topics related to textiles—their history, production, and […]
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In partnership with the FIT Wellness Program, the Employee Assistance Program will hold a lunchtime seminar to teach breathing meditation to reduce stress, calm the mind and body, reduce anxiety, and improve your emotional well-being and overall health. To RSVP and for more information, contact Bob Silverstein, 75600. Students, faculty, and staff can find out more about how to help students enter FIT's Think Big Challenge and participate in the Clinton Global Initiative University. |
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The Diversity Council holds a workshop to demonstrate how to apply for an FIT Diversity Grant. President Brown established Diversity Grants to encourage educational projects, scholarly research, creative endeavors, and professional activities that promote the council’s goals of diversity and inclusion. A total of $15,000 is awarded in maximum amounts of $5,000 for each winning […]
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Student participants in FIT Hives, a project that won a Student Innovation Grant and was part of the 2016 Clinton Global Initiative University, will premiere a documentary about their work and discuss bringing bees to FIT. |
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Fruits and vegetables grown by local farms will be for sale, plus tours of one of the FIT green roofs will be given. Learn about student projects including: Natural Dye Garden, Muslin Composting, CitiBike, BioDesign, and more.
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President Brown will hold an “open hours” session in her office for those interested in meeting with her one on one. Please sign in upon arrival; meetings take place on a first come, first served basis. Each meeting will be limited to 15 minutes. NOTE: The date has changed from Sept. 15 to Sept. 29. Students, faculty, and staff can find out more about how to help students enter FIT's Think Big Challenge and participate in the Clinton Global Initiative University. |
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FIT President Joyce F. Brown welcomes Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer and city and state elected officials to an award ceremony honoring photographer Jane Schreibman for her role in reporting the second, undetonated explosive device in Chelsea in mid September. As you may know from media reports, Schreibman is the Chelsea resident who "saw […] |
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The FIT Board of Trustees holds its October meeting. For more information, contact the Office of the President, 74000. This event is open to the public
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Curator Luis Cancel will talk about Taller Boricua, a nonprofit arts organization in East Harlem, and its numerous exhibitions of Latin American artists. Cancel is a New York–born Puerto Rican artist, art administrator, and art historian who served as executive director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts. While at the museum, he received a fellowship from the National […]
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The Photography Department's Photo Talks series presents Abelardo Morell, a Boston-based photographer represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City. Born in Havana, Morell immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1962. He received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College in 1977 and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 1981. His publications include a photographic illustration […] |
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Career and Internship Services holds its annual Job and Internship Fair. A number of leading industry sponsors have been invited including Calvin Klein, Chanel, Cole Haan, Eddie Bauer, Express, Fast Retailing/Uniqlo, Foot Locker, Gap, Hudson Group, JCPenney, Macy’s, Lafayette 148, Limited Brands, Saks Fifth Avenue, and many others. This event is for the FIT community only. |
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FIT's new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategic Plan—a draft of which can be found on the MyFIT home page as well as on the President’s Office Strategic Planning page—will be discussed in two town hall meetings that are open to the FIT community. Diversity is a central part of the college’s mission, which calls for a campus that […]
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FIT's new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategic Plan—a draft of which can be found on the MyFIT home page as well as on the President’s Office Strategic Planning page—will be discussed in two town hall meetings that are open to the FIT community. Diversity is a central part of the college’s mission, which calls for a campus that […] |
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Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, curator at El Museo del Barrio, will speak on the legendary Puerto Rican fashion illustrator and FIT alumnus Antonio Lopez, whose work made great strides in exploring and representing the ethnic or racialized body within the world of high fashion. The artist's illustrations are on view in an exhibition, Antonio Lopez: Future Funk Fashion, at the Museo del Barrio through November 26. […]
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Author and photographer Eric Mindling will discuss his work in Oaxaca, Mexico, as part of this fall’s Love your Library programming. Mindling spent two years traveling in the Oaxaca region observing traditional textile practices and communities, which he has compiled in his book, Oaxaca Stories in Cloth: A Book About People, Belonging, Identity, and Adornment. After […] |
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Author and former Colorado poet laureate David Mason will read selections from his travel writing and poetry with a presentation of photographs by Cally Conan-Davies and illustrations by Grant Silverstein. A Q&A session and book signing will follow the presentation. Click here to read Mason's bio and some of his poetry on the Poetry Foundation site. |
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Dan Cooper, who teaches music and music history in the Film, Media, and Performing Arts Department, will present a colloquium-concert of his distinctive compositions, including "Bowery," "Design," "El Planeta Rojo," "Herald Square," "Lullaby," "Plural of Blue," "Soca," and "Unsubscribe," among others. The live orchestra will feature Kaoru Hinata on flute and piccolo, David Valbuena on clarinet and bass clarinet, John Lake on trumpet on flugelhorn, Nicole Brancato, Jai Jeffryes […] |
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Photograph by Otto of the Countess Greffulhe in a ballgown, circa 1887.© Otto/Galliera/Roger-Viollet. The Museum at FIT's 16th annual daylong academic symposium is organized in conjunction with the current exhibition Proust's Muse, The Countess Greffulhe. Researchers from the United States and Europe will discuss the connections between fashion, patronage, literature, and the arts in turn-of-the-century France. The Countess […] |
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FIT Alumna Emily Brickel Edelson will discuss, demonstrate, and sign copies of her new book, Sketch and Go: 5-Minute Fashion Illustration, by Race Point Publishing. Part technique, part sketchbook, Sketch and Go shares tips and tricks for sketching fashion illustrations quickly. Readers first learn basic fashion illustration skills and practical techniques for inspired "live fashion sketching." Then they sketch their own collections […]
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As part of the Film and Media Screening Series, director Barbara Hammer will present Welcome to This House. With this latest work, Hammer, who is known for films about lesbian life, examines the life of Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), a poet who gained notoriety as much for her poetry as her tempestuous romance with Lota […] |
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The Illustration BFA students and alumni of the School of Art and Design will be at a reception to reveal their Chalk FIT creations on the walls of FIT. This year, the markable surfaces have extended down 28th Street to include brick wall that is to be painted with acrylics, titled Brick FIT. The brick wall will eventually be torn down to […] |
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President Joyce F. Brown will hold an “open hours” session in her office for those interested in meeting with her one on one. Please sign in upon arrival; meetings take place on a first come, first served basis. Each meeting will be limited to 15 minutes.
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Drag queen comedian, actor, and recording artist Willam Belli will sign copies of his debut book, Suck Less: Where There's a Willam, There's a Way, a collection of essays and tutorials that offer both practical and humorous makeup, travel, dating, and other advice. |
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THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. Join Susana Martínez Vidal, author of Frida Kahlo: Fashion as the Art of Being, and Circe Henestrosa, curator of the exhibition Appearances Can Be Deceiving: The Dresses of Frida Kahlo at the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City, as they discuss this inspiring artist, whose legacy continues to influence the […] |
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