Events
Farm to Fashion: Designing with Locally Sourced Materials
Date: October 8, 2026
Time: 5.30 p.m.
Location: Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center, 300 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001
Image credit: Mimi Prober, produced by People’s Revolution for NYFW: The Shows. Photo: Randy Brooke.
Join Mimi Prober, an NYFIC consortium member, alongside NYFIC grant awardees Melissa Ventosa Martin, founder of Old Stone Trade, and Karuna Scheinfeld, co-founder of Four Objects, for a conversation moderated by Susan Easton, NYFIC Product & Marketing Director.
Together, they’ll explore what it means to design with New York-sourced materials and how regional supply chains can open new pathways for innovation in fashion and textiles.
This event is organized by the Museum at FIT in collaboration with the FIT Sustainability Council as part of FIT’s Sustainability Awareness Week.
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is an NYFIC consortium member organization.
RSVP required. Attendance is first-come, first-served.