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.
Making Ground: Selected Works from the Class of 2026
This summer, the Art and Design Gallery presents Making Ground: Selected Works from the Class of 2026, a curated selection of highlights from the annual Graduating Student Exhibition (GSE) at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). The exhibition brings together emerging artists and designers across a wide range of disciplines in the School of Art and Design. Selected following the conclusion of the GSE, the works on view reflect diverse practices spanning fine arts, illustration, photography, textiles, fashion, and design.
Making Ground speaks to a moment of active transition, where these artists are establishing their footing, claiming space, shaping direction, and constructing the foundations of their professional practices.
Soil to Surface
Soil to Surface highlights the creations of small-scale women farmers, women’s cooperatives, and internationally recognized designers from Türkiye, alongside the work of School of Art and Design students, faculty, and alumni at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Proposing an alternative framework where farmers, craftspeople, and designers operate on equal ground, the exhibition sees the FIT community actively reimagining these materials for contemporary design through technical experimentation and innovative thinking.
Agricultural waste and local textile materials are repositioned in a contemporary context, allowing multiple narratives to emerge across time and geographies, while creating new paths for creative businesses to be local, sustainable, and value-driven.
Graduating Student Exhibition 2026
School of Art and Design at FIT
This 2026 Graduating Student Exhibition presents the work of more than 600 student graduates in 16 areas of study from the School of Art and Design.
The work is 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 is the manifestation of several years of research, experimentation, critical thinking, and artistic proficiency.
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Adorned Futures: Fabric, Form, and Indigenous Resistance
February 25–March 29, 2026
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.
