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Bookends: MFA Illustration Exhibition
The remarkable ability of illustration to tell complex, moving stories is on full display at “Bookends,” this year’s exhibition of visual theses by 11 students graduating from FIT’s Master of Fine Arts in Illustration. This is outstanding visual work, full of gripping imagery and engaging narratives. The MFA is a three-year program with classes exclusively during evening…
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Dennis Basso, John and Laura Pomerantz, and QVC Honored at Annual Gala
One of the highlights of the FIT year is always our annual gala, and this year it was especially so. That we raised $1.7 million certainly was part of what made it so special. But I think that this year our gala just had a kind of magical ambiance. It was held at the Plaza Hotel and the…
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Edit the Statistic
What a delight to see every workstation occupied with student writers and editors typing away in the computer lab at Gladys Marcus Library for the Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon. A quick glance revealed students working on pages ranging from “Pattern Grading” to “Gothic Cathedrals” to the “British Fashion Council,” to name just a few. The event, which…
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Admissions Anxiety Addressed by Harvard Initiative
In this country, almost every teenager thinking of going to college faces the application process with excitement…but also with dread. Applications, after all, are impossibly complicated and criteria for acceptance impossibly daunting, especially for the more selective colleges and universities. To say that the competition is fierce—and probably unfair—hardly does it justice, and at bottom, you have to wonder what…
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Black History Month
February is Black History Month and every year when it rolls around, so many of us experience a complex mixture of emotions: pride, of course, in the long history of courage and accomplishment and pleasure in the opportunity to celebrate that—but also frustration and distress at the slow path of progress and the recurring and…