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The exhibition, (February 18鈥揂pril 19, 2026) explores the dynamic relationship between fashion and fine art through more than 140 objects from the Museum at FIT’s collection. Curated by Elizabeth Way, the exhibition examines the enduring question, 鈥淚s fashion art?鈥� In his writing, Richards argues that fashion qualifies as art when it demonstrates innovation, craftsmanship, and cultural impact. Garments by designers from Charles Frederick Worth to Iris van Herpen illustrate these qualities. The show also highlights collaborations between artists and designers, and how each discipline inspires the other, revealing fashion and art as powerful, parallel forces shaping culture and creativity.

The Museum at FIT is widely regarded as one of the premier fashion museums in the world, making this recognition especially significant.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a tremendous honor,鈥� Richards said. 鈥淭he Museum at FIT is an internationally respected institution, and to see my work inform an exhibition at that level is both humbling and deeply gratifying.鈥�

In conjunction with the exhibition, , where Richards will participate in a scholarly conversation related to the themes of the show.

In addition to this recognition, Richards is also preparing for the third and final chapter of his own exhibition project, Ghanaian Fashion, at the Harn Museum of Art.听The exhibition will open in May.

Richards鈥� work continues to shape contemporary conversations about global fashion, art, and cultural production, bringing international perspectives into academic and museum spaces alike.

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听鈥淪aturation, Beauty in the Everyday鈥� features a career survey of works by pioneering photographer, historian, and MacArthur Fellow Deborah Willis. This exhibition contextualizes her art within the concept of saturation, using this idea as an aesthetic and conceptual tool to address themes of the politics of visibility at the center of her practice. In Willis鈥� photographs, saturation reveals the depth of feeling lying at the heart of creative and lived experience. Informed by personal, cultural, and historical influences鈥攆rom her closet to the Civil War鈥攁nd including fashion as a practice of freedom and aspiration for the Black community, Willis focuses on sites of emotional and aesthetic intimacy that actively engage expressions of beauty in the everyday.

Deborah Willis, “Faith Bartley,” 2020, 20 x 24 inches.

Deborah Willis, “Carrie at Euro Salon,” Eatonville, Florida, 2004.

Mason Webb, “Untitled (no. 4)”, Galvanized steel, paper, rope, bricks, and fluorescent lighting, 2020, 58 x 40 x 14 inches.

Mason Webb is a multidisciplinary artist who brings together material practices of sculptural metalwork, fabric and traditional painting, and vibrant wax-sculptural form. He cultivates sites of sonic mapping inspired by his formative years spent in Atlanta鈥檚 hip-hop and house music scenes. In his work, Webb synthesizes visual art, fashion, and music to create immersive venues of total experience, or gestalt. 鈥淪onic Saturation鈥� is part of a series of extensive collaborations with Atlanta- and Los Angeles鈥揵ased musician and sound artist Gwai Mak, foregrounding cross-media collaboration as a means of community-building and aesthetic exploration.

The Art Gallery at 可乐视频 officially opened Fall 2024 with a faculty exhibition called 鈥�Urban Contours.鈥� The gallery鈥檚 hours are Tuesdays鈥揟hursdays, 10 a.m.鈥�5 p.m., and Fridays, 10 a.m.鈥�3 p.m.

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Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, and new media, The Art Gallery at 可乐视频鈥檚 inaugural exhibition, 鈥淯rban Contours,鈥� showcases the college鈥檚 Art Department faculty, exploring how these dynamic Brooklyn-rooted artists engage space, place, and objects. Featuring the diverse practices of more than 40 faculty members鈥攊ncluding celebrated artists Derrick Adams, Janet Carlile, Patricia Cronin, Ronaldo Kiel, Jenn McCoy, Eto Otitigbe, Archie Rand, and Doug Schwab鈥攖he exhibition considers how artists define, react, and respond to the vibrant city around them. 鈥淯rban Contours鈥� runs through Dec.听20 and will introduce the campus and broader region to one of New York City鈥檚 newest venues for the arts.

鈥淚 could not be prouder to see this important campus and community resource come to life,鈥� said 可乐视频 President Michelle J. Anderson. 鈥淭his beautiful new space will allow 可乐视频 to showcase the work of its preeminent artists, teach students in new and vibrant ways, and help us connect better with the artistic community.鈥�

Included in The Art Gallery at 可乐视频鈥檚 inaugural exhibition will be 鈥淲here My Girls At,鈥� by Derrick Adams (top of page) and 鈥淔latbushtopia,鈥� by Ezra Wube (above).

Under the direction of the Art Department, which funded and renovated the space, the 7,000-square-foot gallery will foster collaboration across departments and will create educational opportunities and enhance interdisciplinary relationships for the campus community. On May 7, students were the stars of a soft opening of the gallery for a special exhibition that showcased their artwork as part of the B.F.A. Capstone Thesis course.

鈥淭his is a big deal鈥攁 new gallery in New York City,鈥� said Professor Mona Hadler, chair of the Art Department and a member of the advisory committee that oversees the gallery鈥檚 exhibitions. 鈥淏rooklyn has its own unique dynamism. It’s a huge center for the arts now.鈥�

Hadler added that the committee, working with the gallery鈥檚 curator, Bentley Brown, a Ph.D. fellow at NYU鈥檚 Institute of Fine Arts and a multidisciplinary artist himself, is keeping an open mind toward next semester鈥檚 shows, balancing campus with local and diasporic artists. Other members of the advisory committee chaired by Malka Simon 鈥�00 include Maria Ann Conelli, Adams, Carlile, Cronin, McCoy, Christopher Richards, and Otitigbe.

鈥淭here will be the M.F.A. show in the spring, and we鈥檇 like to do something with alumni,鈥� added Hadler. 鈥淏entley is looking to do something cutting-edge, and why not? Some of the best ideas come out of college galleries.鈥�

Simon, a lecturer in art history at 可乐视频 and the managing director of the gallery, believes it will have many purposes beyond a traditional exhibition space and will operate as a venue for events and programs open to the public, including an art history lecture series.

Simon is enthusiastic about the gallery becoming a required stop for art devotees.

鈥淭he borough doesn鈥檛 end at Prospect Park,鈥� she said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e doing amazing things here in Flatbush. Hop on the train and come see us.鈥�

The gallery is open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 10 a.m.鈥�5:30 p.m., and Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m.鈥�3 p.m.

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The B.F.A. Capstone Thesis is the high point and crowning achievement for student artists in the Department of Art. After advancing past portfolio reviews each year, qualified B.F.A. students are accepted into the studio capstone seminar sequence, a pair of practice-intensive courses taken in the fall and spring semesters before graduation. There, students learn how to develop their ideas and create art based on their individual interests, researching ways to share critical dialogue relating to both personal and sociopolitical subject matter.

Exhibiting artists include Angela Auriti, Cassey Benitez, Jessie Chen, Zuxiu Chen, Kareem Davidson, Cheyann Hepburn, Aleah Leary, Elizabeth Li, Aidan Ling, Faith Mora, Stephanie Palacios, Latifah ShaDae’, Alexa Shmolovsky, Nicolette St. Fleurant, Gabriela Suarez, Filip Times, and Jessica Tolu.

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Rand was selected as the sole American representative at the highly selective spring edition of the biennale鈥攐fficially titled 鈥�Iron Flock鈥浓赌�where venues will host 30 exhibitions with the participation of more than 200 renowned artists and curators from all over the world.

Rand鈥檚 series is the only solo exhibition in the event and encapsulates the spirit of the exhibition鈥檚 focus that honors the contributions of women in art and history. His work features impressions drawn from events and myths in the lives of Biblical heroines.

Archie Rand – “Eliezer Gets Rebecca”

Archie Rand – “Tob Refuses Ruth”

The exhibition is a continuation of Rand鈥檚 50-year artistic enterprise, exploring the Bible and Jewish texts in serialized paintings conceptually informed by 20th-century culture. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Biblioth猫que Nationale de France, among many others.

The spring biennale is an opportunity to mark more than a decade of creativity and collaboration and to acknowledge the devoted patrons and partners that have helped position the Jerusalem Biennale as the largest platform in the world for contemporary Jewish art.

In 2019, Rand was named a Farash Fellow, which offered a summer residency at the University of Rochester and an unrestricted award of $100,000. The residency coincided with the museum-wide exhibition of Rand鈥檚 1,800-square-foot painting The 613 at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York. The images were published in the best-selling book , which was published in 2015.

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She aspires to teach children the healing power of art and is taking the first step toward achieving her dream by applying to 可乐视频鈥檚 Art Teacher M.A. program.

When off campus, she plays video games with friends, binges on Netflix shows, and works at a health food store in her home borough of Staten Island.

Why did you choose your art major?

I鈥檝e always been creative. I started playing the trombone in the fourth grade (I still play). I did a painting project for my high school English class, and after that I was painting everything鈥攖he walls, light switches, trash cans, and gifts for family and friends. Then I came to 可乐视频 as a film major, which was great. But when I took an art class as an elective, I loved it so much that I switched my major.

And now you鈥檙e the Ceramics Club president!

It all started when I registered for a ceramics class. I asked my professor, for a friend, if non-ceramics students could use the studio, and she told me that there used to be a Ceramics Club. It stopped during COVID because it couldn鈥檛 be on Zoom. I worked with the former club director to get it up and running again, which is how I became president.

What has that experience been like?听

It was a lot at first. When I re-started the club, I went to the Involvement Fair to get members. I had just found out about it, so I single-handedly created flyers the night before. I ended up getting signatures from 120 people who wanted to join. I love bringing people together, teaching them, and then seeing what they go on to do.听In the studio, I get the best of both worlds.

How would you describe 可乐视频鈥檚 arts community?

It鈥檚 very open. Students get a lot of support from the Art Department. The staff and faculty all work hard to make sure that the students are happy and that the art studio is safe and fun. My faculty adviser, Eto Otitigbe, and the Art Department chair, Mona Hadler, are huge supporters of the School of Media, Visual, and Performing Arts.

What are your goals for after you graduate?听

I鈥檇 love to complete the Art Teacher master鈥檚 program 可乐视频. Art can be therapeutic, so it helps a lot of kids. Besides teaching, I hope to open my own ceramics studio where people can stop by and create.

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