Art and Design Gallery
The exhibition space showcases the work of students, faculty, and distinguished alumni, as well as invited guest artists.
Exhibitions
The Art and Design Gallery is open from 9 am until 5 pm, seven days per week. The gallery is located at the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and West 27th Street.
Summer Highlights
The Summer Highlights Exhibition showcases a diverse range of artwork, including tapestries,
paintings, collages, large-scale installations, illustrations of exemplary interior
design, and spatial experience design installations. All exhibited pieces are the
creations of students, staff, alumni, and invited guest artists.
Contributing artists include Starr Smith, Marie Sellier, and Lyndsey Brown (current
Spatial Experience Design students); Yingzhi Baisley, Marta Kolano, and Yuval Izhaki
(Interior Design BFA '24); Joe Biss, Xavier Checo, Will Baaske, and Sebastian Tea
Rice (Fine Arts '24); Shayan Nazarian (invited guest artist), Melissa Starke (Fine
Arts staff, Art Market MA '20); Natalia Anikushina (Fashion Design ’96); Klarissa
Angeline Garcia and Diana Garcia (Spatial Experience Design ‘24).
It's a Kid's World: Play, Imagine, Create
When designing for young children, it is important to experience the world as they do. This form of empathy allows for a deeper sense connection and understanding.
It’s a Kid’s World! Play, Imagine, Create, embraces the imagination of a child and what it means to design for young audiences. In this exhibition, play, inquiry, and wonder take center stage, through interactive and educational components designed to engage visitors and showcase the work of FIT students in Fashion Design (Children's Wear), Toy Design, Illustration, Textile/Surface Design, and Footwear and Accessories Design.
In the back gallery, a selection of work from a special project by the nonprofit adoption services organization Spence-Chapin titled “Dear Future: Elevating Children's Voices" highlights the stories of a group of children residing in an orphanage in Cali, Colombia. Featuring photography, video work, and vibrant costumes, the project explores the possibilities that emerge when vulnerable children are given the space to dream.
Illustration: Bonnie Wong
Graduating Student Exhibition
The 2024 Graduating Student Exhibition presented the work of more than 600 student graduates in 16 areas of study from the School of Art and Design. The work was the culmination of each student’s unique experience in FIT’s diverse, challenging, and demanding undergraduate art and design programs. Featuring juried, award-winning, and thesis projects, this presentation was the manifestation of several years of research, experimentation, critical thinking, and artistic proficiency. The Graduating Student Exhibition advances the college’s philosophy that integrates practice in industry with theory and teaching inside the studio.
Visit the GSE page for locations for each department's exhibit.