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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 […]

Exhibition: Threads of Bondage, Invisibility, and Style Influence: Hidden African American Contributions to American Couture (Revisited) — Closes

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

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 brutal captivity to provide labor for the Western Hemisphere. Approximately 450,000 of the 10.5 million who survived the overseas voyages were sent to North America […]

Online Exhibition: Back to the Present — Opens

Powered by the Black Student Union (BSU) at FIT, the Back to the Present virtual exhibition conveys comparisons between activism, police brutality, and racism from the 1960s to 2020 through art submitted from all over the country. Not only did the curators want to invoke a feeling of shock and disbelief on how similar photos, […]

FIT Diversity Comic Con 2021

October 15 and 16 As part of its Civility Week, FIT hosts the fourth Diversity Comic Con, the second year it will be completely online, which means anyone can attend from anywhere in the world. The comic con features panel discussions, speed networking, a drawing contest, a cosplay challenge, a comic anthology, and a virtual marketplace/exhibition. […]

FIT Diversity Comic Con 2021

October 15 and 16 As part of its Civility Week, FIT hosts the fourth Diversity Comic Con, the second year it will be completely online, which means anyone can attend from anywhere in the world. The comic con features panel discussions, speed networking, a drawing contest, a cosplay challenge, a comic anthology, and a virtual marketplace/exhibition. […]