Spring 2017 MFA and BFA open studios

Thursday, March 16, 2017, 6–9pm

Parsons Fine Arts
Graduate Studios, 5th floor
Undergraduate Studios, 4th floor
25 East 13th Street
Between University Place and 5th Avenue
New York

amt.parsons.edu

Parsons Fine Arts is pleased to announce the spring 2017 open studios for the MFA and BFA programs to be held on Thursday, March 16, 6–9pm.

Parsons Fine Arts MFA
Our dynamic group of 47 graduate students will open their creative spaces to the public and be available to answer questions and discuss their work. Open studios provides a rare opportunity for visitors to view works in progress and meet these artists in an informal setting. Visitors will gain insight into the diverse practices within our studio art program that embraces interdisciplinary experimentation, intellectual rigor and innovation.

Presenting artists: 
Manar Abdelmaaboud, Layo Bright, Joshua Coates, Shuyi Cao, Gal Cohen, Freddie Dessau, Amy Dos Santos, Sareh Imani, Paloma Jimenez, Paulina Kim Joo, Andres Martinez Ruiz, Lisa McCleary, Seungkyung Oh, Rebecca Ou, Anna Parisi, Al Prexta, Tianyu Qiu, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Alex Salerno, Andrew Sapala, Zac Spears, Shunran Xue, Steven Yang, Scynge Xing, Katie Chambers, Yeu Ryang Choi, Catherine Fenton Bernath, Francesca Fiore, James Hsieh, Luma Jasim, Shenyuan Ke, Cali D. Kurlan, Bridget Leslie, Xin Liu, Daniel Llaria Gaspar, Marija Markovic, Haleigh Nickerson, Lydia Nobles, Robert Panichpakdee, Lucas Perez, Mihika Shah, Gregory Simoncic, Justin Sterling, Yue Sun, Gianna Surangkanjanajai, Hillary Andres Villarreal, Wagner, Daria (Zest’) Zhestyreva

Parsons Fine Arts MFA is a dynamic two-year, cross-disciplinary program committed to expanding the formal, intellectual and conceptual dimensions of emerging artists’ work. We foster studio-based research and scholarship that extends the boundaries of contemporary cultural expression, developed through a global understanding of the arts. Parsons Fine Arts is committed to diversity among students and faculty that provides a potent learning community. Housed within both Parsons School of Design and The New School University, the Fine Arts program is uniquely positioned within a progressive educational environment. Our international student body has access to a wide spectrum of activities, ranging from rigorous formal and aesthetic investigations to cross-disciplinary collaborations with design, performing arts and humanities students, to public forums that address pressing social and political concerns.

Parsons Fine Arts is home to an active, international faculty whose work has been included in the Whitney Biennial, Documenta, the Sharjah Biennial and the Sydney Biennale; and exhibited in institutions such as the Arko Art Center, Seoul  and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Additionally our Visiting Artist Lecture Series and our Critic and Curator Series features critically renowned, multi-disciplinary artists, curators and critics who are available for one-on-one visits with graduate students. This culture of dialogical exchange supports our graduate students to redefine the cutting edge of Contemporary Art. The spring 2017 Visiting Artists Lecture Series features Paul Pfeiffer, Public Art Fund Panel: Commercial Break, Carrie Yamaoka, Will Rawls, Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Bo Zheng with Steven Lam (Organized in collaboration with India China Institute), Stephanie Syjuco, Grimanesa Amorós, Leonardo Drew, Torkwase Dyson and Jonathan VanDyke

For more information please visit finearts.parsons.edu or contact MFA Program Director, Simone Douglas at [email protected]

Parsons Fine Arts BFA
The Fine Arts Undergraduates students are exposed to an array of studio practices, ideas, communities and global relationships. Our students learn all the traditional techniques but they also learn to work more innovatively and are encouraged to push the boundaries of what contemporary art is. We have students working across many media, experimenting with public engagement, video, animation, photography and digital imaging. Some students appropriate images from popular culture to make politically charged statements; others re-purpose found materials and ideas from everyday life.

To learn more about the program, please contact the Director of the Program, Anthony Aziz, at [email protected]

Presenting artists:
Anahid Mishek, Andrea Robertson, Alexandra Woodward, Barbara E. Byrd, Abby Pressberg, Adrienne Bennett, Alessia Reggiani, Casielle Santos-Gaerlan, Alexandra Oates, Christina Allan, Engie Ezeldin, Gio Choi, Hilary Yeh, Huey, Isabella Rodriguez, Jo Rosenthal, Juan Leonardo Bravo, Juliet Johnstone, Kai Thorlakson, Kathryn Woodward, Ken Goshen, Kitty Shenlin Mai, Leah Mersky, Lu Han, Lucy Barthel, Molly Rae, Natasha Le Sourd, Rachel Rosenthal, Sabine Penteado, Sarah Schulman, Shirin Mazdeyasna, Syd, Ting Teal, Tomoka Yoshinaga, Xinyi Hu, Caio Sorrentino.

About Parsons School of Design
Parsons is one of the premier institutions for art and design education. Founded in 1896, is has served as a pioneer in the field for more than a century. Based in New York and internationally active, the school offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the full spectrum of design disciplines. Critical thinking, research and collaboration are at the heart of a Parsons education. Parsons offers rigorous training that allows for interdisciplinary collaboration across five thematic schools. An integral part of The New School, Parsons builds on the university’s legacy of progressive ideals, scholarship and pedagogy. Parsons graduates are leaders in their respective fields, with a shared commitment to creatively and critically addressing the complexities of life in the 21st century.

In 2015, QS World University Rankings, a London-based higher education organization, named Parsons the number one College for Art and Design in the United States, and number two internationally.