Dramatic Readings: Facing the Rising Sun … Until Victory Is Won

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

The Office of Educational Opportunity Programs, in collaboration with the 1863, 1963 Committee. Will present era-based dramatic readings pulled from published works by African Americans and their allies that address the African American experience of resistance. The readings will be centered around the eras of: Pre-colonized Africa The introduction and execution of the transatlantic slave […]

Exhibition: Fabric of Survival: Images of the Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz — Opens

Feldman Center Lobby Marvin Feldman Center, New York City, NY, United States

Esther Nisenthal Krinitz, "Coming to America, June 10, 1949," 1996. Photo courtesy of Art and Remembrance. April 8–18, 2024 Feldman Center Lobby In recognition of Holocaust Memorial Day, which begins on May 5, the college's Holocaust Commemoration Committee has invited the nonprofit Art and Remembrance to share the work of Holocaust survivor and fabric artist […]

Women, Textiles, and the Holocaust

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

Child's dress knitted with red yarn and gray edging and details, by Mary Frankenstein, ca. 1941. Photo courtesy of the Illinois Holocaust Museum. The Holocaust Commemoration Committee and the Diversity Collective present a conversation between Bernice Steinhardt from Art and Remembrance and Tanya Singer of Knitting Hope moderated by Natalie Nudell from FIT's History of […]

Exhibition: Fabric of Survival: Images of the Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz — Closes

Feldman Center Lobby Marvin Feldman Center, New York City, NY, United States

Esther Nisenthal Krinitz, "Coming to America, June 10, 1949," 1996. Photo courtesy of Art and Remembrance. April 8–18, 2024 Feldman Center Lobby In recognition of Holocaust Memorial Day, which begins on May 5, the college's Holocaust Commemoration Committee has invited the nonprofit Art and Remembrance to share the work of Holocaust survivor and fabric artist […]

Sounds, Silences, and Echoes: Listening for World War II and the Holocaust from North Africa

Film and Media Screening Room D207 Pomerantz Center, New York City , NY, United States

The FIT Holocaust Commemoration Committee and the Diversity Collective host "Sounds, Silences, and Echoes: Listening for World War II and the Holocaust from North Africa," presented by Dr. Christopher Silver. On the eve of the Second World War, half a million Jews called North Africa home. Among them, were some of the most prominent Arabophone […]