School of Art and Design

We nurture the artistic visionaries, inspired makers, and creative rebels of tomorrow. If you’re seeking a dynamic, world-renowned education in art and design, you’ve come to the right place.

Here, you’ll find rigorous, innovative programs that evolve with industry. You’ll apply keen creative insight to hands-on training. And you’ll master the tools to thrive in the high-tech global marketplace. Invest your passion and imagination in a lifetime of professional success.

The School of Art and Design empowers you to use your imagination, learn exciting new skills, and create artworks and products that can change the world.

Choose from our 17 world-class creative majors in fashion, art, and design.

FIT's Art and Design Gallery presents exhibitions by students, faculty, and distinguished alumni, as well as invited guest artists.

If you're already an Art and Design student, find links to our Academic Advisement Center, lab information, and more.

Art and Design students, faculty, and alumni—together and independently—turn concepts into products with lasting impact.

Faryl Robin Gilston, Accessories Design ’89, Marketing: Fashion and Related Industries ’88, approached FIT to create a completely new brand identity for her company. The college’s students and FIT's DTech Lab explored innovative ideas and developed fresh designs and a new visual direction.

Fashion Design alums Aleks Gosiewski ’17 and Tessa Callaghan ’16 formed Keel Labs, which is poised to tranform the textile ecosystem with their revolutionary seaweed-based biosynthetic.

Marie Lorenz, associate professor of Fine Arts, is one of FIT’s many exceptional faculty members whose creative work extends far beyond the classroom, making a powerful impact in the art world.

If You Dream It, You Can Create It

How can you capture and reflect the world in a meaningful, unique way? How can you cut through all the clutter? How can you visually persuade, promote, and inform? How can you create beautiful things that enhance our lives?

If you ask yourself questions like this, you'll be in good company in FIT's School of Art and Design.

Our majors and minors capture all corners of the artistic imagination. Here, you'll be surrounded by creative, socially responsible, and culturally aware students. No matter the course or subject, you'll be challenged to create new and valuable ideas through exploration, collaboration, and experimentation.

Our innovative curriculum—developed by design and business leaders—sets the pace for industry trends. Taught by studio-savvy, successful designers and artists, you will hone your abilities and sharpen your design sense, forging a path to success. FIT's real-world education in the arts and design will catapult you from the classroom to a fulfilling career.

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Whether creating new technologies or working with industry partners, School of Art and Design students and alumni participate in forward-thinking projects that bring their classroom experience to the forefront of innovation.

FIT DTech Lab Executive Director Michael Ferraro, Michelle Chung, Ed Goodman, and Sonia Yanes.

PETE Prize Winners Develop Pioneering Adaptive Fashion

Michelle Chung, Entrepreneurship ’22, and Sonia Yanes, Fashion Design ’22, founded the company Odera to make online shopping for fashion an easy and enjoyable experience for members of the disability community.

UNIQLO Partners with FIT on an Upcycling Collection for RE.UNIQLO Studio

RE.LIVE, an exclusive upcycling collection developed by FIT students in partnership with UNIQLO, reconceives solutions for unsellable product. This collection marks UNIQLO’s first collaboration with a U.S. college.

Work from the Graphic Design program at FIT's 2025 Graduating Student Exhibition.

The 2025 Graduating Student Exhibition showcased the work of over 600 graduates from 16 areas of study within the School of Art and Design. Each piece represented the culmination of each student’s rigorous and immersive academic journey.

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Majors offered through the School of Art and Design

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A top college for aspiring fashion designers per College Magazine

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Bachelor's degree Art and Design students who participated in internships in 2019–20

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