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ART & DESIGN

Award-winning Orthodox Fashion Student is True to Couture and Tradition

Rachel Ellner for The Forward

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...

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The Untold Story of Boston’s Iconic Citgo Sign
Rachel Ellner for The Boston Globe
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Through the (Digital) Looking Glass
Rachel Ellner for HUE Magazine
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Julian Acevedo’s Smoke, Ashes, and Persuasion

Rachel Ellner for Fashion Insitute of Technology Blog

The relationship between cigarette smoking and terminal disease is well established. But how...

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“ESC: Digital Artworks” are interactive pleasures for art goers

Rachel Ellner for Fashion Insitute of Technology Blog

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 ...

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Kristin Gates captures the cold truth about Polar Bears

Rachel Ellner for Fashion Insitute of Technology Blog

For over a month in late winter on the Coney Island Boardwalk, Kristin Gates met with her Projectsin ...

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Boots on the Ground for Peace

Rachel Ellner for Fashion Insitute of Technology Blog

The assignment was to create an illustration that promotes peace. “What is the iconography of war and peace? Prof. Anthony Freda asked his students ...

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Buddy in space joined by other Inktober characters

Rachel Ellner for Fashion Insitute of Technology Blog

“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 ...

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Ellenbogen films what the eye can’t see

Rachel Ellner for Fashion Insitute of Technology Blog

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 ...

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2D to 3D — It’s more than adding a dimension

Rachel Ellner for Fashion Insitute of Technology Blog

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 ...