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.
Lighted Earth
Lighted Earth is an exhibition in collaboration with Graphic Design Students at FIT, Jewelry Design Students at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM, and Fashion Designer and IAIA Artist in Residence Patricia Michaels.
The exhibition features student projects from IAIA's Jewelry Class and garments and printed textiles by Michaels, shown alongside a documentary made by the film department at IAlA that includes student interviews and insights on the collections from lAIA Jewelry Design Faculty. FIT Graphic Design Students developed the identity and interpretive materials for the exhibition.
Image shown here: Dress design by Indigenous Fashion Designer Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo) and Haiden R. Gould (Diné), Fashion Design Student, IAIA.
City in Bloom:
Rediscovering Nature's Fragments
CiTY iN BLOOM is a meditation on the resilience of the human experience and the restorative capacity of nature within urban life. From the shaded elegance of tree-lined streets to the verdant sophistication of plants nurtured within apartments, these moments of “urban nature” assert themselves to our advantage, reminding city dwellers that serenity, a sense of place within the infinite universe, can be accessed simply by watching for owls in Central Park or pigeons on one’s own windowsill; beholding slivers of light, cloud, and sky between shimmery, towering skyscrapers; listening for seagulls as one walks toward a lake or river, then smelling the salty breeze floating across it. After all, even in the most industrialized of spaces, nature’s carefully calibrated biorhythms persist.
Image: Story Stitchers Collective, Peace in the Prairie, 2022. (Video still).
Picturing Light:
Artists Explore Luminosity
Picturing Light, which was a follow-up to Picturing Space (2019), was an exploration of the many manifestations of light. The exhibition brought together the work of fine artists and photographers, and exhibition, textile, and interior designers who respond to natural and artificial light. The specific focus was on work that makes light its primary subject matter, not just as the means to reveal other content. Some of the work explores the visible spectrum scientifically. Other pieces created environmental experiences through controlled lighting.
Picturing Light was curated by Anne Finkelstein, adjunct assistant professor of Spatial Experience Design.
Photo: Ryan Murphy (Photography student)
