PARSONS FINE ARTS

This course fuses the digital to the real world. Making sculptures that range from small-scale objects to both proposed and realized installations, students will utilize…

An edible weed can grow from a crack in the bricks. A single seed can grow into an oak that can live 400 years. As…

This observational-based painting and drawing course engages the facts, fictions and impossibilities inherent in visual perception when focused intensely on a portion of the phenomenal…

In this course students will closely read theoretical texts in order to create critical works of experimental video art. Referencing Avery Gordon’s use of the…

In our era of the remix, sampling has become its own art form. This course will critically explore the material and conceptual possibilities of the…

Everything is made up of or emits energy. How can we both utilize and visualize its presence? This course expands the practice of drawing to…

This course will examine paradigms of productivity, health, and care through various 4D media including performance, video, sound, and installation. Given late stage capitalism’s increasing…

In this studio course we will explore how context shapes the meaning of artwork by testing possibilities that various locations—both indoors and outdoors—hold. Each student…

Topics in 2D: Analog, Catalog PUFA 3220 CRN 11652 This course delves into topics in 2D conceptual art through analog, or handmade works, and the…

  X-Studio: Art As Social Tool PSAM 3702; CRN 3303 The class Art As Social Tool will encourage students to develop in-depth, research-based-projects, inspired by…

  X-Studio: Maximalism PSAM 3703; CRN 3304 This interdisciplinary studio course explores material strategies of making where more is more. Maximalist ornament can be used…

  X-Studio: Up Close and Impossible: Painting/Drawing from Observation PSAM 3705; CRN 3305 “Long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little.” — Helen…

  X-Studio: Alchemical Affinities PSAM 3701; CRN 2074 How and why do artists engage with the grammars of science in their work? How do these…