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.
To celebrate the release of Designing in Dark Times: an Arendtian Lexicon, we are organizing a series of dialogues to further explore what “dark times”...
Credit: Garment designed by Nina Veresova for her “-ology” collection (2017). Photographer: Nadezhda Belova The Russian edition of Prof. Francesca Granata’s book Experimental Fashion: Performance Art,...
Fashion Studies Professor Francesca Granata was interviewed about her book Experimental Fashion and the concept of the grotesque body in fashion for Thrive Global. Read the full...
Thursday, April 28 66 W 12th Street, 6:00-7:15pm, Room 512 (Klein Conference Room) GENDERING THE RECESSION DIANE NEGRA Professor and Department Head, Film Studies…
We have been informed of an exciting upcoming event co-presented by The College Group at the Met and Selected Shorts. The event, Gilded Ink, features student stories inspired…
Themed “stuff,” this year’s History of Decorative Arts and Design symposium will be held at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum on April 28-29. This is…
This spring semester, Margot Bouman will be teaching a new university lecture course, 9-11 Revisited. It begins from the supposition that enough time may have…
Janet Kraynak has been appointed Field Editor for Exhibitions, New York and International, Modern and Contemporary for caa.reviews , the College Art Association’s online journal…