Students entering Parsons share a common first-year experience. The same course sequence constitutes the first year of every BFA and BBA program, providing a foundational experience that familiarizes students with the tools, methods, and skills of art and design. First-year courses prepare students for life as skilled and socially aware artists and designers. Classes focusing on broadly relevant design concepts, tools, and methods—including studios exploring 2D and 3D processes, drawing, and digital design as well as liberal arts seminars—bring together students who are passionate about all kinds of art and design and who will one day forge new paths in an array of disciplines.
Drawing on the breadth and depth of expertise in design theory and practice at Parsons, this new Master of Arts program offers students the opportunity to explore design as both a field of scholarly research and an agent of social change.
Launched in fall 2010, this Master of Arts program allows students to engage in the evolving field of fashion studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, students explore fashion as object, image, text, practice, theory, and concept and develop a critical understanding of fashion and its complex global intersections with identities, histories, and cultures in the contemporary world.
Offered jointly with the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the History of Design and Curatorial Studies program leads to a Master of Arts degree. Graduates go on to careers as historians, curators, and scholars in museums, universities, historic houses, auction houses, and galleries.
Part-time faculty member Jeffrey Rosenfeld took his Design for Aging Populations class on a tour of 305 West End Avenue, a nationally recognized Senior Residence....
Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE Explores the zoomorphic imagination and image-making of Eurasian nomads and their...
Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices—spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and...
Recently published by Routledge, Caroline Dionne’s book Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis Carroll offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a...
Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities, a new book by Rory O’Dea, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Design at Parsons, was released on...
On January 25, 2009 Jilly Traganou gave an invited lecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the RWTH University Aachen in Germany within the framework…
Now in its initial phases of development, Mediatory Spaces will be a media-rich, internet-based humanities research laboratory hosted by the School of Art and Design…
As students, teachers, mentors and professionals, women from Parsons have been at the forefront of design study and practice since the school’s founding in 1896….
On February 13 2010, Dr. Heike Jenss, Director of the new MA Fashion Studies program launching in fall 2010, spoke about the relationship of uniformity…
The aim of this groundbreaking graduate program is to foster the critical investigation of fashion in its multifaceted dimensions as object, image and practice that…
Based on an ethnographic study of the contemporary mod and sixties-scene the book explores the appeal and consumption of 1960s fashion among youth and adolescents…
MA Decorative Arts and Design Program alumna Amy Azzarito (2008) is publishing an essay, drawn from her MA thesis, on the hand-built architecture of the…
MA Decorative Arts and Design Program student Natalia del Rivero delivered a paper on Pedro Almodovar at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association, in Boston,…
Sarah Lichtman is a member of the Education Committee and Board of Directors of the Victorian Society in America Summer Schools Program. Please contact her…
Susan Yelavich is the Faculty Advisor for PM (Parsons Magazine). Contact her at yelavics@newschool.edu to find out how to get involved. Opportunities include: publication of…