MFIT on the Road
Not in New York?
The Museum at FIT often loans objects from its permanent collections to other institutions to use in exhibitions. Watch this space for venues featuring MFIT on the road.
Solid Gold
November 16, 2024 – July 6, 2025
The Museum at FIT has loaned an Anna Sui necklace to Solid Gold. As a material and a color, gold has symbolized beauty, honor, joy, ritual, spirituality, success, and wealth throughout history. It has also taken on myriad forms: from millennia-old depictions of an idealized world to opulent 13th- and 14th-century Italian altarpieces and intricate Japanese screens, to contemporary artwork and haute couture marvels. With a sweeping range of objects and a global perspective, Solid Gold traces the many odysseys of the metal that has influenced cultures and legacies worldwide.
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York
Image: Anna Sui, set, fall 1997, USA, gift of Anna Sui, 2022.70.2
Liz Collins: Motherlode
July 19, 2025 – January 11, 2026
The Museum at FIT has loaned a dress to Liz Collins: Motherlode. The exhibition celebrates the richly varied career and work of the New York-based Queer feminist artist known for her bold abstract patterns, inventive use of materials, and radical experiments with fiber. Over the past three decades, Collins (b. 1968) has excavated deep below the surface of established ways of making, bringing to light eye-dazzling creations that disrupt the boundaries between art, design, and craft.
RISD Museum
Providence, Rhode Island
Image: Liz Collins, Lumberjack Goddess dress, 2005, gift of Liz Collins, 2016.23.1