ART & DESIGN
Award-winning Orthodox Fashion Student is True to Couture and Tradition
When Chaya Hoffman came to study at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, she says she was “so out there with leopard and hot pink, feathers and bows, everyone called me the next Betsy Johnson...
Julian Acevedo’s Smoke, Ashes, and Persuasion
The relationship between cigarette smoking and terminal disease is well established. But how...
“ESC: Digital Artworks” are interactive pleasures for art goers
While you’re watching C.J. Yeh’s art at the Museum at FIT, the art is watching you. In fact, it’s not only ...
Kristin Gates captures the cold truth about Polar Bears
For over a month in late winter on the Coney Island Boardwalk, Kristin Gates met with her Projectsin ...
Boots on the Ground for Peace
The assignment was to create an illustration that promotes peace. “What is the iconography of war and peace? Prof. Anthony Freda asked his students ...
Buddy in space joined by other Inktober characters
“It was Inktober. I was missing my dog. I had a new sketchbook and I was designing characters. It occurred to me that Buddy is ...
Ellenbogen films what the eye can’t see
There was a lot of talk about “swimming with the fishes” in Boston this summer as the trial of famed mobster “Whitey” Bulger got underway. But underwater ...
2D to 3D — It’s more than adding a dimension
At one time they were sculpted with chisel on marble. In Prof. Sue Willis’ 3D Design Fine Arts class, the recreation of ancient Greek reliefs are made with foam core, masking ...