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The Black Apparel Arts Challenge on Instagram to encourage artists to reimagine and add to the fashion history of apparel arts illustrations.To date there are over 1000+ posts filling the hashtag with art in almost every medium. Now I am teaming up with Jason Raish to create The Fashion Institute of Technology Black Student Illustrator Award to empower future artist to tell diverse stories.
⚡NEW⚡ Dandy Class and Shop: dandy-wellington.myshopify.com
*** Support us on Patreon patreon.com/dandywellington
FUNDRAISER LINK: jason-raish-illustration.myshopify.com
#VintageStyleNOTVintageValues
#BlackApparelArts
#FashionInstituteofTechnology
The Fashion Institute of Technology Black Student Illustrator Award
A Dandy Wellington and Jason Raish collaboration. 100% of proceeds donated to The FIT Black Student Illustrators Award fund. These timed editions are available for 1 week only, never to be printed again (edition size determined by final sale number). Sales open Oct 9th @12:00pm EST and close Oct 16th @12:00pm EST. jason-raish-illustration.myshopify.com
These $1,000 no-strings-attached awards will be given to Black student applicants displaying artistic merit and financial need graduating from New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology BFA illustration program. Recipients can do as they please with the award money as there’s no one way to enrich yourself as an artist. Recent data from The Illustrators Survey shows that 3% of the illustration industry is Black. Our goal is to help Black students bridge the gap between graduation and professional success so they can be seen, heard, and shape the narrative of this industry they are so underrepresented in.
If you want to make an individual donation please go to www.fitnyc.edu/give and be sure to use the drop down menu to select the Black Student Illustrators Award. There is an option to type in a custom donation amount and it is a 501(c)(3) organization.
All the accounting and final $ amount of proceeds will be transparently and publicly shown and the final edition size announced.
Black Apparel Arts
Apparel arts was originally a trade magazine launched in the early 1930s and used by fashion buyers to decide what to stock in their stores. It’s illustrations featured men dawning outfit combination for a variety of occasion, temperatures and activities. It’s basically a “how to” guide on classic mens dress of the 1930s and ‘40s. In 1957, as industry trends shifted, it was rebranding as Gentlemen’s Quarterly or GQ and evolved into the magazine we know today however lovers of early styles still look to Apparel Arts illustrations for inspiration.
Though I always collected these illustrations for the clothes, the lack of diversity in the images wasn’t lost on me. Given the history of most westernized countries it’s to be expected that black people would be depicted, if at all, as maids or porters in these illustrations, as was true with most advertising pre-1970. Though Apparel Arts was for the buyer the illustrators had the, generally white, customers in mind, but it didn’t have to be.
Black Apparel Art, that little idea on a Sunday became a rallying cry for artist to diversify their work by looking to the past and fashioning it for the present; and boy did they deliver! All of a sudden artist from all over the world were using the hashtag to display new works featuring black subjects. Illustrations came from England, Canada, Switzerland, France, Italy, Estonia, Germany, Thailand, The Netherlands, Japan and all over the United States. Some were inspired by artists like Fellows and Leyendecker, others pulled from Fashion Plates of the 1800s and others still were original acts of creativity. Some artist had been portraying people of color in their work but many of the artists had never drawn or at least never posted a person of color on their feed. What was it about the challenge to inspired all artists to act?
Featured Artist
Agnes Barton-Sabo
@BettyTurbo
Alex Barrow
@AlexMaglalangBarrow
Alice Cao
@AliceCaoIllustration
Asia Ellington
@AsiaDraws
Briana Bailey
@Jewelthief13
Caitlin Rain
@caitlinrain_art
Damsel At Arms
@DamselAtArms
Lauren
@Coppertop.ink
Tamara Turner
@TigerEyeclay
The Black Apparel Arts Challenge on Instagram to encourage artists to reimagine and add to the fashion history of apparel arts illustrations.To date there are over 1000+ posts filling the hashtag with art in almost every medium. Now I am teaming up with Jason Raish to create The Fashion Institute of Technology Black Student Illustrator Award to empower future artist to tell diverse stories.
⚡NEW⚡ Dandy Class and Shop: dandy-wellington.myshopify.com
*** Support us on Patreon patreon.com/dandywellington
FUNDRAISER LINK: jason-raish-illustration.myshopify.com
#VintageStyleNOTVintageValues
#BlackApparelArts
#FashionInstituteofTechnology
The Fashion Institute of Technology Black Student Illustrator Award
A Dandy Wellington and Jason Raish collaboration. 100% of proceeds donated to The FIT Black Student Illustrators Award fund. These timed editions are available for 1 week only, never to be printed again (edition size determined by final sale number). Sales open Oct 9th @12:00pm EST and close Oct 16th @12:00pm EST. jason-raish-illustration.myshopify.com
These $1,000 no-strings-attached awards will be given to Black student applicants displaying artistic merit and financial need graduating from New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology BFA illustration program. Recipients can do as they please with the award money as there’s no one way to enrich yourself as an artist. Recent data from The Illustrators Survey shows that 3% of the illustration industry is Black. Our goal is to help Black students bridge the gap between graduation and professional success so they can be seen, heard, and shape the narrative of this industry they are so underrepresented in.
If you want to make an individual donation please go to www.fitnyc.edu/give and be sure to use the drop down menu to select the Black Student Illustrators Award. There is an option to type in a custom donation amount and it is a 501(c)(3) organization.
All the accounting and final $ amount of proceeds will be transparently and publicly shown and the final edition size announced.
Black Apparel Arts
Apparel arts was originally a trade magazine launched in the early 1930s and used by fashion buyers to decide what to stock in their stores. It’s illustrations featured men dawning outfit combination for a variety of occasion, temperatures and activities. It’s basically a “how to” guide on classic mens dress of the 1930s and ‘40s. In 1957, as industry trends shifted, it was rebranding as Gentlemen’s Quarterly or GQ and evolved into the magazine we know today however lovers of early styles still look to Apparel Arts illustrations for inspiration.
Though I always collected these illustrations for the clothes, the lack of diversity in the images wasn’t lost on me. Given the history of most westernized countries it’s to be expected that black people would be depicted, if at all, as maids or porters in these illustrations, as was true with most advertising pre-1970. Though Apparel Arts was for the buyer the illustrators had the, generally white, customers in mind, but it didn’t have to be.
Black Apparel Art, that little idea on a Sunday became a rallying cry for artist to diversify their work by looking to the past and fashioning it for the present; and boy did they deliver! All of a sudden artist from all over the world were using the hashtag to display new works featuring black subjects. Illustrations came from England, Canada, Switzerland, France, Italy, Estonia, Germany, Thailand, The Netherlands, Japan and all over the United States. Some were inspired by artists like Fellows and Leyendecker, others pulled from Fashion Plates of the 1800s and others still were original acts of creativity. Some artist had been portraying people of color in their work but many of the artists had never drawn or at least never posted a person of color on their feed. What was it about the challenge to inspired all artists to act?
Featured Artist
Agnes Barton-Sabo
@BettyTurbo
Alex Barrow
@AlexMaglalangBarrow
Alice Cao
@AliceCaoIllustration
Asia Ellington
@AsiaDraws
Briana Bailey
@Jewelthief13
Caitlin Rain
@caitlinrain_art
Damsel At Arms
@DamselAtArms
Lauren
@Coppertop.ink
Tamara Turner
@TigerEyeclay
