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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 Congratulations to MAFS Alumni ’16, Joelle Firzli MAFS ’21 Alum, Iesha Coppin-Forde has been featured in the FIDM Museum Newsletter Working in Fashion / Studies: MAFS Alumni and Career Panel 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 A New Book by ADHT’s Petya Andreeva | Fantastic Fauna From China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE A New Book by ADHT’s Jilly Traganou | Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories A New Book by ADHT’s Caroline Dionne | Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis Carroll 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 PLDS 4075, Design for Aging Populations, visits 305 West End Avenue A New Book by ADHT’s Petya Andreeva | Fantastic Fauna From China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE A New Book by ADHT’s Jilly Traganou | Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories Alumni News Congratulations to MAFS Alumni ’16, Joelle Firzli MAFS ’21 Alum, Iesha Coppin-Forde has been featured in the FIDM Museum Newsletter Events PLDS 4075, Design for Aging Populations, visits 305 West End Avenue Designing in Dark Times: an Arendtian Lexicon Working in Fashion / Studies: MAFS Alumni and Career Panel Faculty News A New Book by ADHT’s Petya Andreeva | Fantastic Fauna From China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE A New Book by ADHT’s Jilly Traganou | Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories A New Book by ADHT’s Caroline Dionne | Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis Carroll Close About ADHT PLDS 4075, Design for Aging Populations, visits 305 West End Avenue 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.... Read More... PLDS 4075, Design for Aging Populations, visits 305 West End Avenue A New Book by ADHT’s Petya Andreeva | Fantastic Fauna From China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE 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... Read More... A New Book by ADHT’s Petya Andreeva | Fantastic Fauna From China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE A New Book by ADHT’s Jilly Traganou | Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories 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... Read More... A New Book by ADHT’s Jilly Traganou | Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories A New Book by ADHT’s Caroline Dionne | Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis Carroll 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... Read More... A New Book by ADHT’s Caroline Dionne | Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis Carroll Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities released October 22nd, 2023 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... Read More... Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities released October 22nd, 2023 Latest Posts September 7, 2023 Congratulations to MAFS Alumni ’16, Joelle Firzli Congratulations to MAFS Alumni ’16, Joelle Firzli We are thrilled to announce that MAFS Alumni, Joelle Firzli, has been awarded the 2023 TSA Research Travel… September 3, 2021 MAFS ’21 Alum, Iesha Coppin-Forde has been featured in the FIDM Museum Newsletter MAFS ’21 Alum, Iesha Coppin-Forde has been featured in the FIDM Museum Newsletter: Iesha Coppin-Forde’s internship nightlights the Afro-Caribbean experience” Iesha Coppin-Forde, our Lori and… 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...