Exhibition: Journal and Pattern — Opens

Journal and Pattern
December 13, 2021–January 23, 2022 

The work on display includes 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.

 Participating artists: Chloe Apostle, Fine Arts student; Anabella Bergero, Fashion Design MFA ’20 and inaugural SUNY Performing Arts Creation and Curation Prize winner; Jacyln Burke Fine Arts ’22; Slavko Djuric, book artist and technologist, Fine Arts and Photography; Bil Donovan, adjunct associate professor, Illustration; Thomas Leach, exhibition installer; Esther Li, Fashion Design ’21; Melanie Reim, artist and educator and former associate dean, School of Art and Design; Tom Scott,­ assistant professor, Fashion Design; Lauren Zodel, assistant professor, Fashion Design; and invited guest artists Woolpunk and herbalist and artist Donna Cleary. 

Our thanks go to President Joyce F. Brown; Troy Richards, dean of the School of Art and Design; and Jen LoTurco, deputy to the president, for always encouraging gallery programming as an extension of FIT’s creative classroom.

Special thanks go to the co-curator for this exhibition Gabrielle Lauricella from The Museum at FIT’s Gallery FIT; Izabel Cockrum, our student exhibition coordinator; and Jaclyn Burke and Anthony Cruz from our student curatorial committee.

About the Art and Design Gallery

The Art and Design Gallery brings together the work of FIT students, faculty, alumni, and invited outside artists in every exhibition. The gallery, located in the glass-walled lobby of FIT’s Pomerantz Center, is a window into the college and a window out, serving as a space to foster learning and innovation.

The gallery is open from 9 am to 6 pm daily.

This exhibition is free and open to the public.