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Tag: Native American

Globally Connected @ FIT: A Talk with Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo

November 7, 2024 Laura Hatmaker

Patricia Michaels, whose designs are featured in the FIT’s Art and Design Gallery’s exhibition Lighted Earth, on display from November […]

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Graphic Design Students Partner with Indigenous Student Artists for ‘Lighted Earth’

November 4, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Diversity, Events, School of Art & Design, Students, Top Stories

In honor of National Native American History Month, FIT’s Art and Design Gallery—the school’s public contemporary art space—presents the exhibition […]

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Exhibition: Lighted Earth — Opens

September 18, 2024 Laura Hatmaker

November 7–December 1, 2024 Art and Design Gallery Lighted Earth is a collaboration between Graphic Design students at FIT and […]

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Fashion Culture Online Event: Jeffrey Gibson and Korina Emmerich in Conversation

October 13, 2020 Laura Hatmaker

In a conversation moderated by Regan de Loggans (Mississippi Choctaw), Jeffrey Gibson and Korina Emmerich will discuss Native American fashion […]

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Anna Blume’s Research to Be Published in Archeology This Summer

June 13, 2017 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Research conducted by Anna Blume, History of Art, during her fall 2016 sabbatical at the American Museum of Natural History […]

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Maya women protecting their land, 1998, Chiapas, Mexico

FIT Faculty Members Present at Native/American Fashion Symposium

May 9, 2017 FIT Newsroom Faculty/Staff Home, School of Art & Design, School of Liberal Arts

In 2012, Victoria’s Secret issued an apology after one of the models in its fashion show wore a Native American-style […]

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Native Fashion Now

April 18, 2017 FIT Newsroom College & Campus, School of Graduate Studies, Top Stories

In 2012, the Navajo Nation sued Urban Outfitters for appropriating the name of the tribe and traditional tribal patterns to […]

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