{"id":15815,"date":"2018-05-30T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/?p=15815"},"modified":"2019-02-23T12:16:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T16:16:11","slug":"instructor-spotlight-eileen-karp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/2018\/05\/30\/instructor-spotlight-eileen-karp\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructor Spotlight: Eileen Karp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/precollegeprograms\/files\/2018\/05\/EKarp-Nov2015-2.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/files\/2018\/05\/EKarp-Nov2015-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15816\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/files\/2018\/05\/EKarp-Nov2015-2-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/files\/2018\/05\/EKarp-Nov2015-2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/files\/2018\/05\/EKarp-Nov2015-2-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/files\/2018\/05\/EKarp-Nov2015-2-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/files\/2018\/05\/EKarp-Nov2015-2-19x24.jpg 19w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/files\/2018\/05\/EKarp-Nov2015-2-28x36.jpg 28w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/files\/2018\/05\/EKarp-Nov2015-2-37x48.jpg 37w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/files\/2018\/05\/EKarp-Nov2015-2.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>Eileen Karp began her fashion design career as a creative designer of loungewear and sportswear. She founded a business designing an exclusive maternity line whose designs sold to Bloomingdale&#8217;s and Saks Fifth Avenue.\u00a0She is a graduate of the FIT Fashion Design program, as well as the Textiles and Clothing program at North Dakota State University.\u00a0She moved into various aspects of creative design and related positions primarily in the cut &amp; sewn knitted and woven sportswear areas. Concurrently, she began teaching as an adjunct at FIT\u2013SUNY and became a full-time professor in the Fashion Design Department in 2007. In 2008, she completed a Master\u2019s Degree in Education from California State University East Bay. She developed a new interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science program in Technical Design at FIT that has grown steadily. In January 2014, Eileen became the Chairperson of the Fashion Design Department in FIT\u2019s School of Art and Design.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Prof. Karp teaches the following FIT Precollege Classes:<\/strong> <\/em><br \/>\nHAP 026 <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.fitnyc.edu\/precollege\/classes\/course-selection\/high-school-fashion-design-apparel\/index.php');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/precollege\/classes\/course-selection\/high-school-fashion-design-apparel\/index.php\">Sewing for Fashion Designers<\/a><br \/>\nHAP 017\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.fitnyc.edu\/precollege\/classes\/course-selection\/high-school-fashion-design-apparel\/index.php');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/precollege\/classes\/course-selection\/high-school-fashion-design-apparel\/index.php\">Introduction to Draping for Fashion Design (Level 2)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Teaching Philosophy:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nThe practice of fashion design constantly evolves and advances through exposure, exploration, and experimentation. Heraclitus said, \u201cThe only thing that is constant is change.\u201d To prepare my students for success in this creative field and for life, it is incumbent upon me to develop in them a strong foundation that they know how to tap when, occasionally, the creative well runs dry. I have an obligation to weave into students the ability to be adaptable, flexible, and open.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Industry Experience\/Recent Exhibitions:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 30 years of experience in creative design, patternmaking, fashion business, technical design at all price points and types of industry experiences.<\/li>\n<li>Showed two original works in the annual \u201cNew Views\u201d FIT Art &amp; Design School Faculty Exhibit in 2016\/2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Karp began her fashion design career as a creative designer of loungewear and sportswear. She founded a business designing an exclusive maternity line whose designs sold to Bloomingdale&#8217;s and Saks Fifth Avenue.\u00a0She is a graduate of the FIT Fashion Design program, as well as the Textiles and Clothing program at North Dakota State University.\u00a0She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7508,14703,7503],"tags":[8977,8624,38559],"class_list":["post-15815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-design","category-instructor-spotlight","category-newsevents","tag-eileen-karp","tag-entrepreneur","tag-fashion-designer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WbqN-475","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}