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Documenting a Disappearing Way of Life
I am always glad to have an opportunity to share the amazing variety of work our faculty produce at FIT. We have such an opportunity in the campus showing of Praveen Chaudhry’s moving photography exhibit, Invisible Nomads of the Himalayas: A Life Caught in Turmoil. At a faculty convocation last year, I asked Chaudhry to share photographs of…
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Missing Miss Communication
I miss Miss Communication. She—if we can call “her” “she”—was the striking sculptural installation outside the Pomerantz Center that dominated the entrance area of the building for five months. Elegant and elusive, she stood 20 feet tall and was made up of over 3200 cans and 1600 lines of fishing wire that connected the cans…
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The Creative Process and Critical Thinking
As I walked through the exhibits of our graduating Art and Design students at the end of the spring semester, I was reminded of a wonderful story about the composer Johannes Brahms that people like to tell when talking about creativity–or the creative process. One evening in Vienna, so the story goes, Brahms was with…