Sexual Assault Awareness Walk + Resource Fair

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and FIT, as well as SUNY, is joining the One Love Foundation campaign to go “Around the World for Yeardley” in honor of Yeardley Love and other victims and survivors of relationship abuse. SUNY campuses across the state will organize campus Yards for Yeardley campaigns with the goal of reaching 50 million …

International Dance Festival

FIT will showcase the college’s dance and cultural curriculum at the International Dance Festival on April 18th at 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm. Performances include: Andrea Beeman (FIT faculty member) and Bani Ray, performing a fusion of Middle Eastern dance and classical Indian dance Dana Manno and PAKA, Afro-Caribbean dance Meira Goldberg (FIT faculty member) and flamenco ensemble …

The FIT Brand

According to President Joyce Brown, FIT is a community of unconventional minds, educating students to be problem solvers and design thinkers. The FIT student body, faculty, curriculum, and industry partners are unlike all others. Watch this video produced by FIT students to see uncommon imagination at work. Have questions about FIT’s new brand? View the FAQs here. …

FIT Re-Welcomes Colorful Fiber Art

A colorful work of fiber art by former Textile Design faculty member Wilma Grayson hung in the lobby of FIT’s Pomerantz Center in 1975. The design, a grid of colored rectangles on a white ground, was selected by FIT’s Art Committee (and approved by the Art Commission of the City of New York) for manufacture …