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...
Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference September 28 – 29, 2012 MoMA PS1 courtyard Performance Dome 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue, Long Island City All Conference…
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street) Closed Mondays; Tuesday–Thursday 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday…
8:50am Introduction by Designboost: What is Design Intelligence; FASHION. Welcome speech by Joel Towers, Executive Dean of Parsons the New School for Design Inaugural address by Annika Rembe,…
The Art Directors Club Presents Ghostly International: Of Art and Artifice Art Directors Club, 106 W 29th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues September 13-18, 2012…
Jilly Traganou, ADHT’s Associate Professor in Spatial Design Studies, has recently published a post on OUPblog, the online space for daily commentary for the Oxford…
Invaluable trees: cultures of nature, 1660‐1830 Ed. Laura Auricchio, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook and Giulia Pacini Publisher: Oxford: Voltaire Foundation Release date: August 2012 ISBN 978‐0‐7294‐1048‐9…
Underground Peanut Butter Brunch Reading at The All-Night Bookstore Peanut Underground, 215 East 5th Street off Bowery Sunday, September 9th at 3:00pm Gallery hours: Thursday…
Beauty Is Embarrassing Produced and Directed by Neil Berkeley Runtime: 87 minutes Opens September 7th at IFC Center, 323 Sixth Avenue at West 3rd Street…