Guest lectures, exhibitions of student work, social events: check here often for information about shows, panel discussions, career workshops, and extracurricular activities that will fill your calendar and inspire your creativity. And visit our individual school magazines for events and information about specific schools and their programs, faculty, and students.
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Parsons Festival 2012 May 1, 2012 - May 20, 2012 9:00 a.m. Parsons Festival 2012 showcases extraordinary work by students from the full range of Parsons' programs. See firsthand the innovative, diverse work of tomorrow’s leaders in the world of art and design by attending thesis exhibitions, lectures, and special events throughout most of May. For more information, including a complete calendar of events, visit www.newschool.edu/parsons/festival. ... |
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BFA Product Design Flat-Pack Chair Design Exhibition [SCE] May 5, 2012 - May 20, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: Parsons' Product Design Flat-Pack Studio, led by faculty member Mark Bechtel, challenged students to design a piece of furniture that would flat-pack to fit within the dimensions of a UPS box or tube. The project includes the design and construction of a full-scale working furniture prototype, the packaging, and an assembly manual. Final projects were shipped to Blu Dot SoHo, where they were assembled and reviewed by a jury of critics.Opening Reception: Saturday, M... |
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MFA Design and Technology Exhibition [AMT] May 5, 2012 - May 20, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: A two-week gallery exhibition featuring installations and performances, objects and apps, games and video, and interactive experiences that explore the dynamic role of technology in our current lives. These 80 projects represent a unique convergence of effort designed to explore issues related to technology--including its value. We invoke the playful, the informative, the employering, the critical, and the subersive to investigate emerging issues and provoke discus... |
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BFA Fine Arts Show [AMT] May 5, 2012 - May 20, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: The graduating senior class of 2012 presents an exhibition of selections from their final thesis projects. The culmination of a full year of individualized studio practice, their projects span the gamut from new media projects tracking avatars in Second Life to knitted webs for architectural spaces, from painting to performance. Students present live performances during the event. Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 6:30-8:30pmPlease note the Aronson Galler... |
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MFA Photography: Parts & Labor II [AMT] May 7, 2012 - May 20, 2012 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: This exhibition features works by first and second year MFA Photography students. The program seeks to redefine the creative role of photographer within contemporary culture. As illustrated by this exhibition, these pieces represent a wide range of interests, inquiries, methodologies, and approaches. The artwork presented by these emerging photographic artists push the boundaries of the medium and the limits of creative vision. Included in this exhibition are works... |
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Printmaking Senior Show [AMT] May 7, 2012 - May 20, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: "Make Readies" is an exhibition that spotlights handmade prints and hand crafted books made by the printmaking students at Parsons. The term "make ready" typically refers to proofs that incorporate all the preparations needed to produce a print, including image placement, color, and impression quality. This exhibit is a selection of lithographs, etchings, relief prints, books, and silkscreens that shows insight into the diversity of the printmaking processes, as ... |
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BFA Communication Design and BFA Design and Technology Thesis Shows [AMT] May 7, 2012 - May 20, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: See the work of more than a hundred graduating BFA Communication Design and Design and Technology students. Projects address a wide range of practical and theoretical concerns across a variety of media, inflected with their shared optimism about the role of design in a global context.Opening Reception: Friday, May 11, 2012, 5:30-8:00pmThis event is part of Parsons Festival 2012.View Larger Map... |
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BFA Illustration Show [AMT] May 7, 2012 - May 20, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: This exhibit presents work by students in the senior year of the Illustration program. The pieces exhibited lend themselves to a wide variety of careers, such as editorial illustration, comics and graphic novels, picture books, motion graphics and animation, toy and product design, and gallery art.Opening Reception: Friday, May 11, 2012, 6:30-9:00 p.m.This event is part of Parsons Festival 2012.View Larger Map?... |
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“_(City)_” Poster Installation: California College of the Arts with Parsons The New School for Design [AMT] May 7, 2012 - May 20, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: Responding to the notion of “living and creating within a specific city,” students from Parsons The New School for Design (in New York City) and California College of the Arts (in San Francisco) collaborated on a poster project informed by interviews between assigned partners from each school on their subjective viewpoint of their host “_(city)_” while attending art college. Each CCA student designed 50 percent of the poster artwork after selecting a question, answ... |
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AAS Graphic Design Show [AMT] May 7, 2012 - May 20, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: The Parsons AAS Graphic Design program is a fast-track approach to creating world-class design thinkers. Its graduates go on to work in major design firms and companies throughout the world, including Chermayeff & Geismar, Pentagram, the New York Times Corp., Random House, Nylon magazine, and V magazine, among others. The AAS Graphic Design exhibition highlights the best work from 2010, 2011, and 2012.Opening reception: Friday, May 11, 2012, 6:30-9:00 p.m.This ... |
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Parsons Scholars Exhibition [SUMMER, PRE-COLLEGE ACADEMY, AND CONTINUING EDUCATION] May 7, 2012 - May 20, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: The Parsons Scholars Program is a three-year college preparation program in art and design for high school students from New York City public schools. This exhibit showcases the work of students at each stage of this program, spanning a variety of art and design disciplines. A presentation of the Senior Capstone Project precedes the exhibit. Students present work produced in collaboration with the organization Beyond Bullets, which uses documentary films to educate... |
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Sustainable Design: Videos of Student Work From BFA Integrated Design [SDS] May 7, 2012 - May 20, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: On display are a series of videos featuring a range of core projects by students in Parsons' BFA Integrated Design program.This event is part of Parsons Festival 2012. View Larger Map... |
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Bike Task Force: An Installation On Urban Sustainability [AMT] May 7, 2012 - May 20, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: Students working with the Sustainability Committee, which oversees the Green Fund at The New School, present an exhibit/installation that uses the bicycle to visualize and communicate ideas about energy and energy use.Opening Reception: Friday, May 11, 2012, 6:30-9:00 p.m. This event is part of Parsons Festival 2012.View Larger Map... |
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The Participatory City: Interface-Public Space Workshop with IBM City Forward [AMT] May 7, 2012 - May 20, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: Selected students exhibit work produced in a collaborative research and design workshop that investigates the future of public space through the development of physical and digital interfaces for community participation with the City Forward platform of city data. The results of this workshop will also be made available in an IBM publication and website.Opening Reception: Friday, May 11, 2012, 6:30-9:00pmThis event is part of Parsons Festival 2012. View Larger Map... |
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BFA Photography Show [AMT] May 10, 2012 - May 20, 2012 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: Parsons The New School for Design and Calumet present an exhibition of photographs, installations, video projections, and magazine and book displays by graduates of Parsons' BFA Photography program, which challenges students to use analog and digital technology to create bodies of work influenced by film, design, fine art, video, and sound. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu/parsons/bfa-photography. Opening Reception: Thursday, May 10, 2012, 6:00-8:30 p... |
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MFA Fine Arts Show [AMT] May 11, 2012 - May 18, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: The MFA Fine Arts program at Parsons is proud to present the 2012 MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition at The Kitchen in Chelsea. A reception is scheduled for May 10, from 7:00-9:00 p.m., and the exhibition is on view from May 11-19. Hours: Tues.-Fri. 12 noon-6:00 p.m.; Sat. 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Parsons' MFA Fine Arts program is a cross-disciplinary master's degree program; student practices span a wide range of genres and fields of research. This year’s exhibitio... |
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Five Sixty 7th Exhibition 2012 [FASHION] May 12, 2012 - May 20, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: The School of Fashion at Parsons presents an exhibition of thesis work from across the fashion disciplines including menswear, women’s wear, children’s wear, accessories, and multimedia installations. Selected sponsored projects are also on view, including Allen Edmonds, Amicale, Coach, Swarovski ©, Saga Furs, Solstiss, and The Shoe Polytechnic.This event is part of Parsons Festival 2012.View Larger Map... |
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MFA Design and Technology Thesis Symposium [AMT] May 15, 2012 - May 16, 2012 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: A two-week gallery exhibition featuring installations and performances, objects and apps, games and video, and interactive experiences that explore the dynamic role of technology in our current lives. These 80 projects represent a unique convergence of effort designed to explore issues related to technology--including its value. We invoke the playful, the informative, the employering, the critical, and the subersive to investigate emerging issues and provoke discus... |
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Thesis Exhibition—Architecture, Interior Design, Lighting Design, and Product Design [SCE] May 15, 2012 - May 20, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: This exhibition of graduating students’ work includes drawings, models, and prototypes from the architecture, interior design, lighting design, and product design programs at Parsons. The exhibition takes place in the studio space created by the Parsons Design Workshop—its signature design-build program—where work desks and adjacent spaces convert to exhibition space. Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 6:00-8:00 p.m. This event is part of Parsons Festival 20... |
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New Ventures [SDS] May 16, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: Participants of The School of Design Strategies, BBA Design and Management: Entrepreneurial Ventures Panel discuss business development projects by students in Parsons' BBA Design and Management program. A full range of work, from posters to prototypes, will be examined.This event is part of Parsons Festival 2012.View Larger Map... |
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Integration of Design and Research [SDS] May 16, 2012 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: Although grounded in different theoretical frameworks, research and design processes can be difficult to distinguish in practice. This is particularly true in the context of strategic initiatives, where efforts to model the future require the comparison of alternate perspectives on present conditions. Much of the work produced by students in the Design and Management program deals such strategies, and many interesting ways to integrate research and design methodolo... |
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BFA Integrated Design Senior Show [SDS] May 16, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: This exhibition presents senior works from the BFA Integrated Design program. The exhibition continues at 2 West 13th Street in room 602 and 603 from 10:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.This event is part of Parsons Festival 2012. View Larger Map... |
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BFA Fine Arts Show - Opening Reception [AMT] May 16, 2012 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: The graduating senior class of 2012 presents an exhibition of selections from their final thesis projects. The culmination of a full year of individualized studio practice, their projects span the gamut from new media projects tracking avatars in Second Life to knitted webs for architectural spaces, from painting to performance. Students present live performances during the event. This event is part of Parsons Festival 2012.View Larger Map... |
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From A to B and Back Again, Again (Dialogue 3: Service) [AMT] May 16, 2012 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: On the one hand, designers in droves are trying new ways to abandon the practice of serving clients and moving towards serving customers/users/audience instead. At the same time we're seeing a resurgence of craft - designers finding meaning and seklf-repect in being artisinal service provider. As always graphic design anxiously lags behind, torn between between contradictory desires for avant garde practice, social-relevance, white collar status, and success. Join... |
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WantedDesign's Design Students Challenge May 19, 2012 - May 20, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: WantedDesign, an New York organization created as a platform for design events, launches “Design Students Challenge” at this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). Over the course of three days, design students from the United States and France will use one material, computer software, and a Trotec laser cutting machine to fabricate a lighting device of their own invention. At the end of three days, designs will be presented and judged by the publ... |
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Cindy Sherman: From 1975 To Now May 21, 2012 6:30 p.m. On the occasion of the Cindy Sherman retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the publication of Cindy Sherman: The Early Work, 1975-1977, Catalogue Raisonné, this lecture will cover Sherman’s career from the very beginning to the present. ... |
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Temporary Space Studio with Carnegie Fabrics at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair [SCE] May 22, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: Students examine the relatively underexplored realm of designing space with soft structures in a collaborative installation at the 2012 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) for an exhibit sponsored by Carnegie Fabrics. This project is the culmination of the course taught by Moorhead and Moorhead using Xorel, a Cradle to Cradle certified textile invented by Carnegie Fabrics.This event is part of Parsons Festival 2012.View Larger Map... |
