Category: Courses

  • How can FIT’s Precollege Programs help you on your Artist’s Journey

    The painter Chuck Close is quoted as saying “Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work.” To be a professional artist takes skill and studio discipline. Workshops and courses taught by artists will help you develop the studio practice you need to be a full-time artist. 11-session Precollege Courses We recommend a high school Precollege…

  • How can FIT’s Precollege Programs help you on your Photographic Journey

    Photography is such a versatile skill. In our increasingly visual world, being able to take a well-staged and well-edited (#notwithafilter) photo is practically mandatory. Artists, designers, and makers of all sorts – photography classes are for you too! Being able to photograph and edit your work for print and web is essential in your fields…

  • How can FIT’s Precollege Programs help you on your Fashion Journey

    Fashion designers from all over the world get their start at FIT. Many come back to learn even more skills, to stay on the cutting edge of fashion design and development. FIT has concentrations in menswear or womenswear. Whether you’ve been creating your own fashions since you were a tiny tot or just decided yesterday you were meant to…

  • How can FIT’s Precollege Programs help you on your Interior Design Journey

    Interior Design is one of the most popular majors at FIT. Interior designers create worlds inside walls with their creative layouts, material and lighting choices. But don’t confuse design with decorating. Interior Design is essentially interior architecture and is in the field of technical design. 11-session Precollege Courses We recommend a high school Precollege Live Class: Intro to Technical Drawing and Spatial…

  • Instructor Spotlight: Stephen Savage

    Stephen Savage is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator whose accolades include a New York Times Best Illustrated Book (Polar Bear Night), a Geisel Honor (Supertruck), and a Sendak Fellowship. His picture book Polar Bear Night was a New York Times bestseller. In addition to children’s books, he illustrates for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, and Entertainment Weekly. He…

  • Instructor Spotlight: Glenn Hilario

    Glenn Hilario is a fashion illustrator with an extensive experience in several illustration fields, specifically: fashion and editorial. Glenn Hilario has a versatile career, working for the Fashion Designer REEM ACRA, creating illustration for online publications, painting commissioned mural projects in USA and The Dominican Republic and working in the shoe industry for Camuto Group, Global…