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Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Jack Whitten

Visiting Lecture Series

Jack Whitten is originally from Alabama. He went to Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to begin studying art and became involved in Civil Rights demonstrations there. Angered by the violent resistance…

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Parsons Typography Club meeting tonight at 7pm – Free Pizza!

Student News

Calling all typography fanatics, nerds or aficionados of all types (pun totally intended)! The Parsons Typography Club meets this tonight, March 14th, to discuss a Parsons Typography Club publication project for which…

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Parsons Typography Club meeting tonight at 7pm – Free Pizza!

Student News

Calling all typography fanatics, nerds or aficionados of all types (pun totally intended)! The Parsons Typography Club meets this tonight, March 14th, to discuss a Parsons Typography Club publication project for which…

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Parsons Typography Club meeting tonight at 7pm – Free Pizza!

Student News

Calling all typography fanatics, nerds or aficionados of all types (pun totally intended)! The Parsons Typography Club meets this tonight, March 14th, to discuss a Parsons Typography Club publication project for which…

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New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium: Symbolia cofounder Erin Polgreen

Events

The thirty-seventh meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, March 18, 2013 at 7:00 pm at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street in The Bark…

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Parsons and Fab, Together Again! Print + Poster Competition

Collaboration Studios

Parsons and design-forward Fab.com have once again joined forces to offer students the opportunity to show and sell their work on the site. Earn some bucks and design cred at the same…

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Vera List Center Fellowship – Call for Applications

Fellowships Opportunities

Orion constellation. Photo courtesy Dallas Poll: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand Vera List Center Fellowships 2013-2015 Application Deadline: April 8, 2013 Vera List Center for Art and Politics…

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Open Call for Submissions: Cover Design for New School Commencement 2013 Program

competitions Opportunities

Deadline: Monday, April 8, 2013 The New School is seeking cover-design proposals for the program to be distributed at The New School’s 77th Commencement Exercises, which will be held on Friday,…

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Parsons Illustration Works in the 2013 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Exhibition

Student News

Parsons Illustration seniors Kristin Chae, Kristen Davis, Annalise Olson, Annie Seo, and Meghann Stephenson, and recent graduates Leah Goren, Katie Gross, Masuko Jo, Su-kyung Lee, Rachel Levit, Chelsey Pettyjohn, Monica Ramos, and Julee…

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Tonight’s Pratt + Parsons Fundraiser & Exhibition covered by the Wall Street Journal!

Events

Please check out the Wall Street Journal article, which highlights the painful loss for senior students in Pratt Institute’s painting and drawing programs, but also celebrates the hope and inspiration that…

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Tonight's Pratt + Parsons Fundraiser & Exhibition covered by the Wall Street Journal!

Events

Please check out the Wall Street Journal article, which highlights the painful loss for senior students in Pratt Institute’s painting and drawing programs, but also celebrates the hope and inspiration that…

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JibJab on campus, Tuesday March 12!

JibJab’s Evan Spiridellis, a Parsons alum, is coming to look at portfolios and talk to students about their upcoming internships available this summer. Check out the descriptions below and come to…

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Pratt + Parsons Exhibition and Fundraiser Thursday, March 7th

Exhibitions

Students at Parsons The New School for Design were very saddened to learn about the recent fire at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. As a show of support for our fellow artists, the…

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Student Time-Based Media Contest

competitions

Yours, Mine, and Ours in the Age of Social Media All currently enrolled New School students are welcome to submit short time-based work that imaginatively explores the relationship between the public…

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NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium: Jeremy Dauber and Danny Fingeroth

The thirty-sixth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, March 11, 2013 at 7:00 pm at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street in…

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UN Competition: Call for Designing 2013 International Anti-Corruption Day Campaign Theme and Logo

competitions Opportunities

Your chance to design a global campaign! Tell the world how to combat corruption! Deadline is March 15 9 December is the International Anti-Corruption Day.  UNDP and UNODC, since 2009, have…

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Tomorrow, Last Day to Donate Work for this Thursday's Benefit Auction for Pratt

Student News

Please donate work for the Parsons benefit auction! The NRM Gallery is looking for any photographs, prints, drawings, paintings, or unique object to auction off, from students and faculty alike, with…

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Tomorrow, Last Day to Donate Work for this Thursday’s Benefit Auction for Pratt

Student News

Please donate work for the Parsons benefit auction! The NRM Gallery is looking for any photographs, prints, drawings, paintings, or unique object to auction off, from students and faculty alike, with…

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PARTICIPATE: DAY OF MUSEUM SOLIDARITY – TODAY

News

If you were around The New School campus over the weekend, you may have started seeing works of art, galleries and studio spaces crossed with these police-tape style demarkations, and wondered,…

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Call for Applications: William Randolph Hearst Scholarship

Scholarships

The William Randolph Hearst Scholarship Fund was created in June of 1986. Funds from the Hearst Foundation Endowment support and encourage partnerships between Parsons and the non-profit community. The scholarship committee…

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ABOUT ILLUSTRATION (BFA)

This program cultivates students' vision and prepares them to translate it into a wide range of traditional and emerging media. The curriculum emphasizes visual thinking, originality, art and design history and theory, and awareness of social and cultural concerns.

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