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...
On September 17 the Pratt Institute launched a series of five lectures entitled “Fashion Talks: Exploring Fashion and Culture with Kim Jenkins.” The series, which will…
Sarah E. Lawrence Dean of ADHT Sarah E. Lawrence spent July leading a three-week intensive entitled “The Period Room” at Parsons Paris School of Design….
“Design and Disaster: Kon Wajiro’s Modernologio” On Tour September 20 – October 11, 2014 Ponte 9 Gallery, Macau SAR Kon Wajiro’s work has always been one…
From September 10 through February 15, Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe will be on view at The Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition will display 160 pairs…
Colin Bedell, a first-year graduate student in the Fashion Studies program, recently talked with 23 year old Mathieu Mirano about the designer’s source material, early…
Francesca Granata, Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies, will present on the panel “Off the Runway: Print as Performance in Contemporary Fashion” at the New York…