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Under the Umbrella
- 2022
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The exhibition, Under the Umbrella, was a curriculum-based project. Students worked with the umbrella concept to highlight a sustainable solution that eliminates tons of umbrellas from reaching landfills each year. The exhibition called for action and focused on reuse, recycling, and lifestyles that support sustainability. The exhibit included sensory elements that made it "rain" in the lobby via sound components.
Jornal and Pattern
- 2021-2022
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The work on display included crocheted installations, fibrous stitchery, handmade books, collages, theatrical garments, costumes for dogs, sketches from the COVID-19 lockdown, illustrations of an extraordinary shoe collection, a gigantic moss-like sculpture, and a quilt from students, faculty, alumni and invited guest artists.
Style Journey
- 2021
- Fashion Design (School of Art and Design)
- Textile/Surface Design
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An exhibition of contemporary kurtas, hand-embroidered and collaboratively designed by FIT Textile/Surface Design students and Fashion Design students from Pearl Academy, India, with an installation by N'Ketiah Brakohiapa, a textile artist and FIT alum, taking inspiration from his native Ghana. Using traditional hand-printed techniques and a range of colors and patterns, Brakohiapa's cloths and garments speak to a very long tradition of textile design that is more than just fashion. Brakohiapa's designs are rich in symbolism and expert in their execution.
Juneteenth, Love and Resilience
- 2021
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A selection of paintings from Juneteenth 2021, “Love and Resilience,” were displayed in the gallery lobby. Organized and curated by Joi Berry, Natasha Bwalya, Khyla D. Walters, and Rukaiah El.
Journey, Journal, Joy
- 2021
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The works in this exhibition opened the mind and told stories. They represented discoveries made through photographs, garments, journals, poetry, and sculpture. This joyful and reflective yet nuanced show was personal and thought-provoking—jumpstarting the collaborative learning process for fall semester 2021 at FIT.
Black in Time: A Black Renaissance
- 2020
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In honor of Black History Month, FIT’s Black Student Union presented an exhibition that celebrated the evolution of Black culture by going beyond the narrative of slavery and back to the rich heritage of culture and tradition in Africa and its expansion worldwide. Black in Time cast a light on creativity, resistance, celebration, self-expression, and Black pride.
Re: Rooted, Cultivating Creatives of Color
- 2019
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Working across many different disciplines, artists came together to celebrate the theme of identity as inspiration. The exhibition features FIT alumni and current students, and is curated by Guillermo Marrero (Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design, 2020) and Taj White (Fashion Business Management, 2020).
Picturing Space: Artists & Designers Imagine Architecture
- 2019-2020
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An exhibition which brought together artists, exhibition designers and interior designers who responded to the constructed city.
Cross-Pollination: Minimalism/MAXIMALISM
- 2019
- Fashion Design (School of Art and Design)
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Student and faculty work inspired by the Museum at FIT's exhibition minimalism/MAXIMALISM. Participants included the Fashion Design Program at FIT, the Dance Wellness Minor at FIT, and LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.
Michael Katz, Art as Fashion
- 2019
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A presentation of the late fashion designer and artist's one-of-a-kind, hand-painted silk and silk-screened fabrics collection, featuring original patterns and documentation. Organized by Anne Kong, Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design faculty.
75 Years of Fashion on 27th Street
- 2019
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Exhibition commemorating 75th Aniversary of FIT. Images and objects sourced from the Gladys Marcus Library's Special Collections and College Archives.
Disney on Broadway x FIT Design Challange
- 2019
- Fashion Design (School of Art and Design)
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Disney on Broadway celebrated its 25th anniversary in partnership with the Fashion Institute of Technology by creating a unique design challenge for students to reimagine contemporary designs for some of Disney on Broadway’s iconic female characters.
Jahnkoy - Crafting Evolution: 10 Years of Fashion Study
- 2019
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Featuring works by Jahnkoy, Siberia-born, New York-based visual artist.
Future is in the Making
- 2019
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The Future Is in the Making reveals the processes of thought and ideation leading to the work highlighted in the 2019 Graduating Student Exhibition. Works include original sketches, notes, renderings, mockups, contact sheets, steps to a launch, a presentation, a prototype, a timeline, an opinion poll, or a description.
Future Portrait - First Year Student Portraits
- 2019
- Fine Arts
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- Paintings (visual works)
Dates: Spring 2019
Modeling the Future
- 2019
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An exhibition featuring the work of Professor Chris Spollen alongside students, alumni, and other faculty members.
The Future is Immersive
- 2019
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Highlighting a unique partnership between FIT and Montefiore Medical Center.
The Future is... The Human Experience
- 2018
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- Drawings (visual works)
- Paintings (visual works)
- Sculpture (visual works)
Drawings, paintings, and clay-sculpted heads by students, faculty, alumni and invited outside artists.
Consider Colour
- 2019
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Consider Colour features a variety of artists and creators who utilize color to examine its social, psychological and emotional impact. The work includes the saturated and desaturated, the raw and refined, the monochrome and color vomit. Each exhibiting artist employs a broad spectrum of approaches to color theory and includes color as a prominent and essential part of their artistic process. The connection between art and psychology bonds certain colors together evoking emotion and meaning.
FIT & Macy's Cross-Pollination: Satellite Garden Flowers
- 2019
- Fashion Design (School of Art and Design)
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16 dresses, inspired by the cosmos. Curated by FIT Fashion Design AAS Graduating Students.
The Commonwealth Fashion Exchange
- 2018
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The Commonwealth Fashion Exchange is a fashion showcase of 32 ball gowns—an initiative conceived by Eco-Age that celebrates artisanal fashion and skilled craftsmanship from the Commonwealth’s 53 countries. (The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 53 independent and equal sovereign states, mostly former territories of the British Empire, that includes Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Britain, as well as some of the tiniest of islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean.)