Category: student work

  • Design Across the Oceans with Professor Jerry Dellova

    Attending class remotely from four continents,19 students in Prof. Jerry Dellova’s CAD for Fashion Design class FD342, finished the semester a few days before Christmas, filling their screens with a riot of colors, print and pattern designs. As is typical, the students presented their final projects to their professor and classmates. What was not typical…

  • Artful and Profound COVID Scarves

    Students in Professor Susanne Goetz’s Screen Printing Scarves (TD316) class were inspired to create pandemic-themed designs as their final project this semester. “Some are thoughtful, some humorous,” says Prof. Goetz who is internationally recognized as a textile designer and educator. Students were asked to design a contemporary screen printed scarf accompanied by a storyboard with…

  • Kam Mak’s Studio Class: Virtually Live

    Illustration Professor Kam Mak revels in teaching studio painting classes with live models. It’s been part of his class syllabus for 20 years. Pre-pandemic he led a popular study abroad program in Florence where students paint in the medium of Renaissance masters. Naturally, remote teaching poses challenges. But Prof. Mak has technology on his side.…

  • Bengali women serve as inspiration for CFDA award winner Mohua Goswami

    Admiration and inquiry of Bengali women are at the center of award-winning knitwear design major Mohua Goswami’s CFDA collection. Goswami’s work showcases the free-flowing and personalized styles of the Bengal region in eastern India, where her family roots are. They are also influenced by the multicultural region around Pune, a city inland from Mumbai, where…

  • Seeing Stars with Emmanuel Agwam

    “The stars and big smiles around Black figures in my portraits tell the viewer that this is a person who deserves to be present and that the person deserves to ‘shine.’” – Emmanuel Agwam, Illustration (‘22). The smiles, stars and bright symbols in Emmanuel Agwam’s portraits express “a positive perspective on Black people and Black…