On the Seventh Avenue sidewalk outside FIT – at almost any time of day or night-busy passersby are stopping or slowing down to admire the large-scale images that run in a single, head height band along the exterior walls of FIT’s Pomerantz Center, all produced by the senior illustration majors and alumni in brilliantly colored chalk. Chalk! is overseen by illustration Professors Dan Shefelman and Richard Elmer, is now in it’s third year and has become an end-of-semester FIT tradition. Looking at the artwork gives you an idea of the serious, rigorous work that goes on inside those walls. The range of styles is very interesting, everything from abstract, to comic, to portraiture.
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