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...
Newly launched by ADHT’s Insights Magazine, Notices is a multi-part series which features reviews and commentaries produced by students currently enrolled in one or more…
Review Some Wear Leather Some Wear Lace Andi Harriman and Marloes Bontje Intellect Ltd. $35.00, 214 pgs Andi Harriman and Marloes Bontje’s Some Wear Leather,…
The School of Art and Design History and Theory is introducing four new minor tracks in an initiative to cultivate more opportunities for advanced and…
Notable Courses: Dutch Design (PGHT5733) Graduate Seminar October 13-October 24 Coming from the ArtEZ Institute of Architecture in the Netherlands, Marie-Leen Ryckaert began last week by…
Upcoming Event: Instyle‘s Ariel Foxman, Presentation and Q&A Hosted by the Fashion Institute of Technology Monday, October 20th, 2014 4-6 PM 227 W. 27th Street…
On Thursday, October 16th from 6-8PM, Ethical Writers Co. will host “Zero Waste Fashion: An Intimate Conversation with Daniel Silverstein” at the designer’s studio on…
Tomorrow from 6:30 to 10pm, Digital DUMBO will be presenting “Racks on Racks: Streetwear Goes Digital,” the first part in their new DGTL_CLTR Series. Featuring…
Review “Kimono: A Modern History,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art September 27, 2014–January 19, 2015 “Kimono: A Modern History,” housed at the Metropolitan Museum of…
Opinion Editorial Jhen-Yi Lin How might design provide a new approach to inform public policy planning and implementation? What brings designers and public policy makers…
Tomorrow from 9am to 11am, The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam will be live streaming an expert talk preceding the opening of their new exhibition…