Author: Rachel Ellner

  • Sneak Preview: Jane Gennaro’s “scissor drawings”

    Jane Gennaro has long been observing, speaking about, and creating works of art based on underfed fashion models.  Her  work “Feed the Models: The Scissor Drawings of Jane Gennaro,” includes  images cut from fashion magazines, sculptural variations with bones and science glass, and large scale prints on metallic surfaces. “When does it go from all…

  • Designing like an “anthropologist”–Frank Zambrelli

    “Stop taking offense! It’s o.k. not to take things personally and to design for others.  Design can be approached as an art, or a science.  I liken it to an anthropologist. Both are valuable,” FIT grad and shoe designer (Banfi Zambrelli), Frank Zambrelli told students of Faces & Places class yesterday. Not surprisingly, Zambrelli, according to…

  • Changes in the Dean’s Office

    We lost…   We gained… We lost again… Shaniqua Matthews-McClam leaving us for Interior Design Congratulations Shaniqua, Kimberly & Elke!  

  • Happy Halloween!

    Wishing you many happy surprises! From the staff of Art & Design.

  • no more segregated proms

    On October 20, Gillian Laub showed work from her NY Times photo essay on segregated proms at Montgomery County High School. The lecture, sponsored by the Photography Department, is part of the Photo Talks lecture series. Although the south-Central Georgia high school was integrated in 1971, the prom had remained a “separate but equal” type affair…