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students working on a Chalk FIT mural on FIT's facade

Chalk Murals Beautify FIT’s Exterior Once Again

November 1, 2021 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Featured, School of Art & Design, Students

Chalk FIT, an annual tradition since 2013, brings together fourth-year Illustration students to create chalk murals along the college’s concrete […]

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With the Release of the Aretha Franklin Biopic, an Alum Remembers Dressing The Queen of Soul

September 24, 2021 Alex Joseph Alumni, Alumni Home, Featured, FIT + Industry, Hue Feature, Hue Magazine, School of Art & Design

Aretha Franklin liked to perform in white, black, or aqua outfits; occasionally, she would wear pink. She had a thing […]

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Inside FIT’s Four National Science Foundation–Funded Projects

July 22, 2021 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured, Innovation, Sustainability

FIT faculty and student research activity has never been more robust. Case in point: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has […]

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FIT Celebrates a Truly Unconventional Commencement

June 7, 2021 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Featured

A year after the COVID-19 pandemic scuttled the college’s plans for commencement, the college responded with a triumphant comeback: an […]

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Stacy Suvino sitting in a booth

With the Oscar-Nominated Minari, Stacy Suvino ’08 Continues to Realize Her Hollywood Dream

April 16, 2021 Alex Joseph Alumni, Alumni Home, College & Campus, Featured, Hue Magazine, School of Art & Design

In the Oscar-nominated film Minari, a family of working-class Korean immigrants moves to rural Arkansas. The props that convey the […]

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Recent College Rankings Recognize FIT’s Excellence

February 25, 2021 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Featured, Rankings

Each year, a growing number of enterprises collate and crunch swaths of data to build college rankings, relied upon by […]

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How Four Faculty Members Adapted to Remote Teaching

February 8, 2021 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Faculty/Staff Home, Featured

When in-person classes were halted in March 2020, faculty scrambled to reinvent their curricula for remote delivery. They came up […]

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WWD Series Emphasizes FIT’s Importance in Fashion Illustration

January 8, 2021 Jonathan Vatner Center for Continuing & Professional Studies, College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured, FIT in the News, School of Art & Design

From December 28 to 30, WWD ran a series of features about its history of fashion illustration, including profiles of […]

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Marvel Storyboards

MFIT x Marvel x Teen Vogue

January 3, 2021 FIT Newsroom Featured, FIT + Industry, Museum, Newsroom Homepage Featured Story, Video

Have you checked out Marvel’s digital series Storyboards? In the series, Marvel chief creative officer Joe Quesada interviews different people […]

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Seven images of clothing and accessories on models

Reaching Its End, FIT Design Entrepreneurs Program Celebrates Its Success

November 16, 2020 Jonathan Vatner Alumni, College & Campus, Featured, Top Stories

For eight years, the FIT Design Entrepreneurs program helped emerging designers—at first only from New York City and later from […]

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THIS STRIPE PRINT INVOKES A DESIRE TO EXPLORE THE STREETS OF OLD SAN JUAN AND HERITAGE OF THE TAINO.

Carnaval, Culebra, Encanto: Alexa Rivera Explores Puerto Rican Culture in Textiles

Alexa Rivera, a recent Textile/Surface Design graduate who took Prof. Susanne Goetz’s advanced screen printing class last semester, created a collection of designs inspired by Puerto Rico. The collection combines the island’s Taino culture dating back to before Columbus arrived, local architecture, and florals, to beautifully merge history and textile design.  Read more

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