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Tag: Erika Massaquoi

  • Happy for Her, Sad for Us

    Today was Dr. Erika Massaquoi’s last day at FIT. Our Assistant Dean is relocating to the West Coast shortly.  We will miss her.   Photos: Rachel Ellner  

  • The best review of all

    It was announced today that Graphic Design student, Malik Moore, is the winner of the National Portfolio Day Association poster contest.  Malik’s design will appear on posters announcing Portfolio Day in high schools and community colleges across the country. When the vote came for which designs to submit on from FIT, Assistant Dean Dr. Erika Masaquoi said…

  • Dean’s Dialogue: Posing Beauty in African American Portraits: A Talk by Dr. Deborah Willis February 8, 2011

    “I was a student in the 70s,” said Willis. “I asked my professor ‘Where are the other images,’” of African Americans. “There were (those of) tenant farmers of laborers and that’s fine,” she said. Her professor set her on course to investigate and search for the photos Willis knew had to exist. “I found myself…