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...
This weekend, Parsons will present the first international conference on the state of black culture in art and design education. Organized by Coco Fusco, interdisciplinary…
The Twentieth Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the Decorative Arts and Design April 14 and 15, 2011 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum 2…
Laura Auricchio’s article, “Two Versions of General Washington’s Resignation: Politics, Commerce, and Visual Culture in 1790s Philadelphia,” was published in the most recent issue of…
Organized by the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Department of Costume and Textiles and curated by Joanne Dolan Ingersoll, Cocktail Culture…
A Panel Co-sponsored by The Barnard Center for Research on Women and The Barnard Center for Toddler Development: Monday, 3/28, 6:30 pm James Room, 4th…
Third Annual Exhibition of the Kellen Design Archives March 23-April 8, 2011 Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries Parsons The New…
The School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons and MA Fashion Studies present FASHION IN FILM MUSICALS All Screenings in Tishman Auditorium…
Museum of Art and Design on view now through May 15, 2011, Organized by MAD’s Chief Curator Lowery Stokes Sims and Leslie King-Hammond, Founding Director…
Organized by Assistant Professor Susan Yelavich, this lecture series examines the capacities of design and art to re-shape cultural values in response to the radical…