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School Overview Admission Faculty Student Work ☰ ˟ School Overview Admission Faculty Student Work Insights The School of Art and Design History and Theory Menu Undergrad Experience First Year 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. Visit our First-Year blog Close Design Studies MA 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. Learn More Close Fashion Studies MA 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. Learn More Close History of Design and Curatorial Studies MA 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. Learn More Close News Series Alumni Spotlights Working in Fashion / Studies: MAFS Alumni and Career Panel Legacy with Sebastian Grant – November 19th, 2020 The American Everyday: Resistance, Revolution & Transformation symposium Student Spotlights Celebrating our ADHT Students! An Inside Look at BIAS Issue 7: Fashion + Death VIDEO VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS by MAFS Students in Fashion Curation Faculty Spotlights The New Literary Review and Theory of Fashion present: Francesca Granata, Experimental Fashion Legacy with Sebastian Grant – November 19th, 2020 Francesca Granata on the Grotesque Body in Fashion First Year Features Integratives Faculty Spotlight: Eric Anthamatten Integratives Faculty Spotlight: Maya Pindyck First Year Faculty Awarded NYFA Artist Fellowships INSIDE (hi)STORIES INSIDE (hi)STORIES – From the Planning of the Kitchen to the Planning of the Nation: Exhibiting Homes in Postwar Britain INSIDE (hi)STORIES: The Interiors and Restoration of the Hôtel Beauharnais INSIDE (hi)STORIES – Designing Sapphic Modernity: Against Communication ADHT Recommends Working in Fashion / Studies: MAFS Alumni and Career Panel The New Literary Review and Theory of Fashion present: Francesca Granata, Experimental Fashion Legacy with Sebastian Grant – November 19th, 2020 Events Working in Fashion / Studies: MAFS Alumni and Career Panel The New Literary Review and Theory of Fashion present: Francesca Granata, Experimental Fashion Celebrating our ADHT Students! Faculty News The New Literary Review and Theory of Fashion present: Francesca Granata, Experimental Fashion Legacy with Sebastian Grant – November 19th, 2020 Francesca Granata on the Grotesque Body in Fashion Publications Fashioning Indie: Popular Fashion, Music and Gender – A New Book by Rachel Lifter Fashion Projects #5 on Fashion Curation Introducing Parsons First Year Blog, “Parsons Notes” Close About ADHT Working in Fashion / Studies: MAFS Alumni and Career Panel Working in Fashion / Studies MA Fashion Studies Alumni & Career Panel In recognition of the launch of our MA Fashion Studies program... Read More... Working in Fashion / Studies: MAFS Alumni and Career Panel The New Literary Review and Theory of Fashion present: Francesca Granata, Experimental Fashion 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,... Read More... The New Literary Review and Theory of Fashion present: Francesca Granata, Experimental Fashion Legacy with Sebastian Grant - November 19th, 2020 Scholarship in the history of jewelry making in the 20th Century has often focused on a very narrow discourse based on primarily white European and... Read More... Legacy with Sebastian Grant - November 19th, 2020 Francesca Granata on the Grotesque Body in Fashion 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... Read More... Francesca Granata on the Grotesque Body in Fashion Professor Hazel Clark Comments on Senator Kamala Harris' Style Choices Attribution: Gage Skidmore Professor Hazel Clark comments on Senator Kamala Harris’ style choices in a Huffpost article titled “What Kamala Harris’ Style Choices Say about her... Read More... Professor Hazel Clark Comments on Senator Kamala Harris' Style Choices Latest Posts May 20, 2020 MAFS Faculty, Christina Moon, on JCPenny filing for Bankruptcy Listen to the conversation HERE Transcript Below SCOTT SIMON, HOST: J.C. Penney, a mainstay of the suburban mall, has filed for bankruptcy. The retailer began… May 19, 2020 An Inside Look at BIAS Issue 7: Fashion + Death BIAS Issue 7: Fashion + Death Preview MA Fashion Studies Students and BIAS Co-Managing Editors, Nate Hoe and Maegan Stracy, give us an inside look… April 14, 2020 VIDEO VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS by MAFS Students in Fashion Curation As a final project for the MA Fashion Studies program’s Fashion Curation course, led by Jessica Glasscock, students were asked to build a video virtual exhibition using widely… February 18, 2020 The American Everyday: Resistance, Revolution & Transformation symposium The American Everyday: Resistance, Revolution & Transformation symposium, hosted by the Columbia College Chicago Fashion Studies Department, was held on Saturday February 15, 2020. American… December 6, 2019 Curators’ Talk: Narcissister November 12, 2019 Exhibition Opening November 15th – Otherworldly: Performance, Costume and Difference Come support your fellow faculty at the Otherworldly: Performance, Costume and Difference exhibition at Parsons’s Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries at 66 Fifth Avenue. This exhibition… November 6, 2019 Guy Debord’s Game of War: A Conversation With Emmanuel Guy Thursday, November 14 6:00 pm Kellen Auditorium 66 5th Avenue We know Guy Debord (1931-1994) as a poet, filmmaker, artist, revolutionary theorist, editor and founder… November 4, 2019 Fashioning Indie: Popular Fashion, Music and Gender – A New Book by Rachel Lifter Fashioning Indie: Popular Fashion, Music and Gender a new book by Rachel Lifter, assistant professor of Fashion Studies at Parsons was just published by Bloomsbury and is currently available… October 30, 2019 Fashion: Now & Then Friday November 1 and Saturday November 2, LIM will host the Fashion: Now and Then conference. Current MAFS student, Noel Yeong-An Liao (MAFS ’20), and several MAFS alum will be presenting. FASHION: NOW & THEN… October 25, 2019 Plot(s) Call for Editorial Board Members October 16, 2019 Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global Context Released Oct. 17th Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global Context, a new book co-edited by Heike Jenss, associate professor of Fashion Studies at Parsons and Viola Hofmann, lecturer at TU Dortmund… October 8, 2019 ADHT Dean, Rhonda Garelick, Joins Bard Graduate Center for BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation in the Gal...