Oct 17–23: FIT's flourishing dye garden; Sustainability Awareness Week begins

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Highlights for the week of Oct. 17–23, 2022

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FEATURED STORY
FIT’s Natural Dye Garden Is Flourishing
FIT’s Natural Dye Garden, established in 2014 and located on the ninth floor rooftop of the Feldman Center, has long been an educational tool intended to demonstrate an alternative to toxic synthetic dyes. And now it’s flourishing like never before. (See for yourself during Sustainability Awareness Week!) The garden is currently growing 28 species, including pollinator species and 21 dye species. Everything in the garden has been grown from seed, begun in the spring of this year. The garden is completely student-run and -maintained, with some 30 students across numerous departments involved in the garden’s upkeep. Students are planting dye plants in the full color spectrum, and are making sure they are incorporating native and pollinator species to support a hyper-local urban agricultural environment. Read more

Sustainability Awareness Week Starts Today!
October 17–21 (virtual and in person)
During this annual weeklong event, we invite our community to learn about recent innovations from industry leaders and FIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni through workshops, panels, tours, and interactive programs about the environmental, economic, and social aspects of sustainability.
fitnyc.edu/saw

UPCOMING EVENTS

OCT 19, 5 PM The Evolution of Adaptive Fashion
OCT 20, 5:30 PM Fashion Culture Event: Dior and His Decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy, and the New Look

FULL EVENTS CALENDAR

RECENT STORIES

• Literary Star Angie Cruz ’94 Discusses Her New Novel

ALL RECENT STORIES

Billboard spoke with Illustration adjunct assistant professor Carlos Aponte about his recent Google Doodle of Latin music legend Tito Puente, which was posted on October 10 as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. “Tito was part of my musical experience growing up in Puerto Rico," Aponte said. He also said that Puente exemplified practice and commitment to one's craft: “Love what you do, train, study, and be the best you can be. If you excel, everything else will fall into place.” Watch the fully animated doodle here.

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Social Media of the Week
Check out Shoes: Anatomy, Identity and Magic, an exhibition featuring 325+ pairs of shoes, boots, and sandals from The Museum at FIT’s permanent collection. Tell us … which shoe are you? @fitnyc

poster for Shoes exhibition featuring many individual shoe types

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From the School of Art and Design Blog

Fine Arts Professor Nick Lamia’s wilderness experiences captured in two artistic mediums

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