Dennita Sewell
Director + professor of practice, ASU FIDM
“Building upon ASU’s longstanding success operating as one institution across many locations, ASU FIDM offers students pursuing a career in fashion meaningful connections and practical experience within the industry while learning from a cutting-edge and multidisciplinary faculty in fashion, design and the arts.”
Dennita Sewell was the founding program director for the BA Fashion program at ASU and is now the director of the ASU FIDM fashion school.
For nearly two decades prior, Sewell served as Phoenix Art Museum’s curator of fashion, where she organized more than 50 exhibitions on subjects ranging from motorcycle jackets to haute couture designers. She earned an MFA in costume design from Yale University and worked in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before moving to Phoenix.
