FanfaireNYC is our annual multi-day festival created by the Art & Design High School Parent Teacher Association. It is a celebration of creativity, entrepreneurship, and technology in the arts, from cartooning and animation through graphic design, architecture, and fashion.

The event features over 100 artists and vendors selling comics, prints, and merchandise. Award-winning guest speakers provide insights into their careers and creative processes. Additionally, fans and aspiring artists attend costume contests, panel discussions, workshops, and portfolio reviews.

For over 80 years, the High School of Art and Design has provided award-winning art programs and high-quality academics for youth from across all five boroughs. Students are able to choose majors in Illustration, Graphic Design, Cartooning, Animation, Fashion Design, Architecture, Film/Video, and Photography while pursuing a Regents diploma, and then go on to college or careers in the field. Alumni include singer and artist Tony Bennett, designers Calvin Klein and Marc Jacobs, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and cartoonist Art Spiegelman, comic book legend Neal Adams, filmmaker Amy Heckerling, and photographer Steven Meisel.

As a public school, the High School of Art and Design serves many students who live in underserved communities. In addition to typical student expenses, students also need professional-grade art supplies and materials, as well as opportunities for college exploration and career development that are unique compared to other schools. The PTA helps fund these critical needs and more, which is why we created FanfaireNYC.

We sincerely hope you will be able to attend.

With your support, FanfaireNYC will help students of our art-centric high school, in our art-centric city, access the best of the global entertainment and technology industries both as incubators of talent and employers of future graduates. The PTA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.