Category Archives: A&D staff

It’s Not Pulp Fiction…But Could Be. Fine Arts students assist visiting artist at The Studio Museum in Harlem

by Rachel Ellner Posted on April 29, 2015

Print is not dead, and a redesign by Fine Arts students and featured artist Samuel Levi Jones at The Studio Museum in Harlem on March 29 will help keep it alive.  The Fine Arts department’s Urban Studio club members assisted Jones … Continue reading →

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A visit to Angel Falls in poetry and landscapes

by Rachel Ellner Posted on November 22, 2013

Maia Nero’s trip to Angel Falls in the summer of 2012 ignited a productive period of landscapes and poetry. Nero recalls the spectacular Venezuelan landscape and the works it inspired. “It was an eight-day trip through an area called Kavac. … Continue reading →

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She took one refurbished piano…

by Rachel Ellner Posted on June 13, 2013

… some primer, a little paint, 15 discarded music books, 1/3 gallon of glue, and created one of the 88 pianos re-envisioned by artists for Sing for Hope (a public arts organization in NYC). The artist responsible for this piano … Continue reading →

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Stitcher and singer Rosario Rizzo

by Rachel Ellner Posted on February 14, 2013

The gowns, dresses and a harem outfit designed by the late FIT instructor Rosario Rizzo are now on display in the Pomerantz (D) lobby. Professors Anne Kong and Glenn Sokoli of the Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design Department helped create … Continue reading →

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Shefelman’s Ooze

by Rachel Ellner Posted on December 3, 2012

Dan Shefelman is an illustration department professor who understands the bottom of the food chain. He writes the comic strip “Ooze,” which appears in the current December issue of Mad magazine. Professor Shefelman’s microbial view fits well with Gary Larson’s (of … Continue reading →

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Amy Bauer at D’s Soul Full Cafe

by Rachel Ellner Posted on September 7, 2012

D’s Soul Full Cafe in Hoboken is referred to by its employee-turned-co-owner, Dwight Thompson, as a “sandwich shop experience.” But menu items like “the famous hangover cure,” and “the weird New Jersey” suggest something more than a stop for a … Continue reading →

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Art & Design’s Sass Brown Appointed Acting Assistant Dean

by Rachel Ellner Posted on August 13, 2012

Sass Brown, our new Acting Assistant Dean, has been appointed to replace Dr. Erika Massaquoi, who left in April.  Brown is student-conscious,  eco-conscious,  a dedicated promoter of sustainable fashion, and about to publish her second book on eco fashion and accessories. “She … Continue reading →

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Mark Lesseraux’s blend of pop, rock, blues and everything in between

by Rachel Ellner Posted on July 24, 2012

The news and culture website Interrobang, has lavished praise on FIT’s own Mark Lesseraux and his second solo CD “Transmissions 2003-2012”: “Mark Lesseraux has been one of the best kept secrets in music for the better part of a decade. An outstanding … Continue reading →

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A big mention for Oded Hirsch

by Rachel Ellner Posted on November 18, 2011

“Crafty, nostalgic, highly inefficient yet still somehow emancipatory and sublime––provides an apt metaphor for the exhibition” — is how art critic Kaelen Wilson-Goldie describes Oded Hirsch’s  bridge, the center piece in his video “Tochka.” Hirsch, a staff member in the … Continue reading →

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