Art and Design Gallery

Harmonic Threads: AAS Fashion Exhibition

Music is a universal language that shapes how we think, feel, and connect. Harmonic Threads explores music beyond genre, focusing instead on the emotions that sound evokes and how those feelings translate into fashion. Through silhouette, texture, color, and movement, the exhibition invites viewers to consider how emotional experiences—fleeting, layered, or contradictory—can be materialized on the body.

The exhibition is organized by the Fashion Design AAS Exhibition Committee with collaborators, including adjunct instructor Ethan Minsker of the Film and Media department, with students Benjamin Tarace and Candance Cooper, who produced a short film about the connection between music and emotion. Hue magazine's Alexander Joseph and intern Kevin Diller produced a short film asking members of the FIT community about their favorite music.

Critic Award Ceremony: April 9, 1–2 pm

Adorned Futures: Fabric, Form, and Indigenous Resistance

Adorned Futures: Fabric, Form, and Indigenous Resistance brings together Ma’s House resident artists, Shinnecock Indian Nation artisans, and students and faculty from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) to explore contemporary art and design as expressions of cultural resilience, Indigenous futurism, and environmental storytelling. Rooted in the community-centered practices of Ma’s House, this exhibition features wearable art, beadwork, performance, sculpture, painting, photography, and video. Together, these works honor Indigenous knowledge systems and position creativity as an act of sovereignty, resistance, and intergenerational exchange.

<<Rewind Play> Fast Forward>>
Animation and Game Design at FIT and Beyond

Rewind, Play, Fast Forward celebrates animation and game design work by Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) students, faculty, and alumni of the School of Art and Design and School of Graduate Studies. 

The exhibition surveys works created in NYC and beyond, showing how storytelling appears in animation, where a storyline can take on a linear structure, and in game design, where players shape the story themselves. On display are a wide variety of game and animation art, concept and character designs, and games to play, along with a special guest exhibition of world-class work from Hornet, an NYC-based animation studio that produces all forms of commercial work, including stop-motion and computer-generated animation. 

<<Rewind Play> Fast Forward>> is curated by Dan Shefelman, chair, Illustration and Interactive Media, and organized by the Department of Illustration and Interactive Media.