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Chalk FIT Is Back

May 5, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Featured, School of Art & Design, Students

For the past week, passersby along FIT’s Seventh Avenue entrance have been treated to the sight of Illustration students painting […]

A Coloring Book That Teaches Kids About Water Conservation

April 17, 2023 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Featured, Students, Sustainability

Four undergraduate and two graduate Illustration students created a lively coloring book, Drippy’s Water Adventure, published by New York City’s […]

Students Create Hip Hop Block Party in A&D Gallery

February 6, 2023 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Diversity, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design, Students

Step into hip hop. Literally. In their first three-dimensional exhibition, students from Interior Design, Illustration, Graphic Design, and Spatial Experience […]

Five Students Win Honors From the Society of Illustrators

April 11, 2022 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Featured, School of Art & Design, Students

The prestigious Student Scholarship Competition from the Society of Illustrators provides a launchpad into industry for talented graduates. This year, a […]

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 […]

Students and Alumni Chalk Up Bloomingdale’s

October 4, 2021 Jonathan Vatner Alumni, Alumni Home, College & Campus, School of Art & Design, Students, Top Stories

Visitors to Bloomingdale’s 59th Street flagship have been enjoying a visual treat courtesy of FIT’s Illustration Department: chalk murals celebrating […]

FIT Alumni and Faculty Murals Promote Voting

October 27, 2020 Jonathan Vatner Alumni, College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured

The 2020 election has been called the most important in American history. Two mural projects from the FIT community are […]

Mural depciting themes from 1957 to 1960

Chalk It Up!

November 1, 2019 Julianna Dow School of Art & Design, Top Stories

FIT’s annual public art project, ChalkFIT, presents 75 Years of History Through the Eyes of FIT. This year Illustration students, along with […]

three graphic posters in red, navy, and charcoal

IMPACT: Creativity for Civility, Diversity, and Inclusion Begins February 12

February 12, 2019 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Featured, School of Art & Design

IMPACT: Creativity for Civility, Diversity, and Inclusion, an interdisciplinary project supported by the FIT Diversity Council, opens Tuesday, February 12, with […]

The Writing (and the Illustration) Is on the Wall

January 5, 2017 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Students

This fall, the brick wall on FIT’s 28th Street side got a makeover with student paintings and poems that reflect […]