when: MARCH 1ST, 2012, 6-9PM
location: 25 EAST 13TH STREET, 5th floor
btw University Place and 5th Avenue
School of Art Media and Technology
Parsons The New School of Design

Parsons Fine Arts is pleased to announce the annual Spring Open Studio on Thursday March 1st 6-9pm at the 25 East 13th Street studios. Parsons Fine Arts is a cross-disciplinary MFA program with students’ practices spanning a wide range of genres and fields of research. The first and second year MFAs are comprised of a group of emerging international artists’ from countries as diverse as Columbia, Chile, Switzerland, Kuwait, Canada, Netherlands and the United States. The 2012 Spring Open Studios feature works ranging from affective explorations of mass culture to historic investigation into structures — urban, rural, temporal, abstract, empathetic, queer, social and material, from a creative negotiation of the boundaries of physical and psychological transformations to unexpected disruptions of surface, material and gesture. The work in the studios actively evokes and critically engages art history, critical theory, visual studies, art activism, political action and public culture.

Studios by: Lilian Kreutzberger, Yali Lewis, Bing Han, Ilyn Wong, Michael Ratulowski, Reena Katz, Isaac Richard, Jessica Posner, G. Scott Raffield, Kaitlynn Redell, John Furer, Lucille Pack, Dalal Ani, Rebecca Volinsky, Michael Watson, Jade Yumang, Kalena Patton, Christine Howard Sandoval, John Small, Leah Raintree, Aron Louis Cohen, Alicia DeBrincat, Paulina Garcia, Julia Kul
, Alice Gibney,
 Pablo Gomez Uribe, Pieter Paul Pothoven, Maria Cruz Alarcon Lopez, Chaney Trotter,
 Johnny Thornton, 
Lauren Denitzio, Camilo Leyva
, Cupid Ojala, 
Wilson Parry, 
Racini Andres, 
Hyun Jung Cho, Summer Shiffman, 
Sarah Eagen, Grace Hong, 
Sara Jimenez, 
Meagan Glesser, Elysa Batista, 
Brenda Goldstein, 
Cecilie Kronborg, 
Claire Robertson,
Victoria Hempstead

We welcome you to an evening of lively conversation, video screening, experimentation, and a to get a glimpse at this concentration of creative workspace. The artists will be present.

Parsons Fine Arts is committed to educating artists who will undertake essential roles in our society by offering a progressive, cross-media program that integrates dynamic studio practice with critical theory. For further information go to : http://finearts.parsons.edu/ or contact the MFA program director, Simone Douglas douglass@newschool.edu. Alumni of the program include: Olja Stipanovic, Nick van Woert, Nina Abney, Rob Pruitt, Jennifer Sullivan, Stacy Seiler, Colette Robbins, Courtney J. Wendroff, Azin Feizabadi, Dan Carlson and this years New Museum Triennial participant Julia Dault.

Parsons The New School for Design 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 but active around the world, the school offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the full spectrum of design disciplines. Critical thinking 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. For more information, please visit http://www.parsons.newschool.edu