FIT’s School of Art and Design has appointed Lobsang Tsewang exhibitions manager and Fawz Kabra curator of the Art and Design Gallery. The gallery—located in the glass-filled lobby of the Fred P. Pomerantz Center at the northwest corner of West 27th Street and Seventh Avenue—is “an accessible destination for visitors to view the work of students, faculty, distinguished alums, and invited artists,” says Troy Richards, dean for the school. “It serves as a window into FIT and, conversely, a window out into the world—a place to foster learning and exchange.”
Lobsang Tsewang, an FIT alumnus, has curated and participated in numerous group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, presenting his work across various venues, such as Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Ulsan International Woodcut Festival in South Korea, CUE Art Foundation, The George Washington University, Texas Christian University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Khadhok Arts in Dharamsala, India.
Fawz Kabra has curated exhibitions at the Brooklyn Public Library, Columbia University Wallach Art Gallery, e-flux Screening Room, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, BRIC Arts and Media House, and The Palestinian Museum in Ramallah, as well as symposia at The Armory Show and Global Art Forum 13 in Dubai. She is co-founder of Brief Histories, an art gallery and publishing platform, and she was formerly assistant curator at Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Kabra is visiting faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies and editor of the book Through the Ruins: Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1, published in 2023 by the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. Her writing and interviews appear in Art Papers, Canvas, e-flux Film, Ibraaz, and Ocula.
FIT’s Art and Design Gallery is free of admission and open to the public from 9 am until 5 pm, seven days per week. An exhibition calendar can be found on the gallery website at fitnyc.edu/gallery.