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Co-director of FIT Dance Company Quiantae Mapenzi Johnson smiles at the camera. She has her black hair in a topknot and wears a black open blazer with a navy blue scoop-neck top underneath.

Dance Team Co-Director Performs in Off-Broadway Musical

May 2, 2025 Kim Masibay Athletics, College & Campus, Faculty/Staff

Quiantae Mapenzi Johnson (née Thomas), co-director of the FIT Dance Company team, is a member of the ensemble cast in the […]

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FIT Tigers

The Grit and Dedication of FIT Tigers

August 11, 2016 norma_stary Athletics, Students

All eyes are on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where the world’s best athletes are vying for the Olympic gold. The Games […]

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FIT Tigers Best The Competition

December 4, 2015 FIT Newsroom Athletics, College & Campus, Home, Students

The misconception that FIT “doesn’t do sports” is finally fading, as the college continues its run of besting its competition […]

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Exhibition: Tony Capparelli: The Art of Sport

October 27, 2015 Steven Bibb Athletics, College & Campus, Events, Faculty/Staff, FIT DIRECT, FIT in the News, Home, Museum, School of Art & Design

November 3–December 12, 2015 Gallery FIT, The Museum at FIT The Fashion Institute of Technology’s School of Art and Design […]

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FIT’s Outstanding Sports Program May Be the College’s Best-Kept Secret

January 15, 2015 Steven Bibb Athletics, College & Campus, FIT in the News, Students, SUNY

It may be FIT’s best-kept secret. The college with the tagline “Where Creativity Gets Down to Business” excels at something […]

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Just Call Her JP

Fresh off One Battle After Another‘s Oscar win for Best Picture, we’re celebrating one of its standout stars: FIT Fashion Merchandising Management alumna Shayna McHayle, also known as Junglepussy, also known as JP. Check out our profile of the alum in FIT’s magazine, Hue.

SUSTAINABILITY SPOTLIGHT

Gwen Sanchirico leans over a drawer of colorful glass petri dishes Building a Biomaterials Reference Library, One Avocado Skin at a Time

From 60,000-year-old Neanderthal “super-glue” to WWII-era milk-spun fabric, humans have always found ways to forge useful materials from whatever is on hand. Today, in Room C806 of the Feldman Center, FIT researcher Gwen Sanchirico is carrying that spirit of innovation into the future.

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