Grad Core 1: Studio Visits

Level: Undergraduate, Graduate

Division: Parsons The New School for Design

School: School of Art, Media and Technology

Department: Fine Arts

Course Number: PGFA 5105

Course Format: Studio

Location: NYC campus

Permission Required: No

Topics:

• Interdisciplinary Visual Arts
• Visual Arts

Description:
This course is a central element of the MFA experience at Parsons and is focused exclusively on the development of student’s work in the studio. Its goal is to strengthen students’ understanding of their own work and how it relates to the broad range of techniques, forms and ideas that comprise contemporary art. It is comprised of focused work time in the studio and weekly 45-minute, one-on-one studio visits between the student and a professor to seriously reflect on the student’s methods, ideas, process and final work. The focus of the studio visits will be on students’ personal vision and development as self-reflexive, critically engaged artists. Theses studio visits allow students to actively and consciously immerse themselves in a lived experience of the world of art through a dialogue with core faculty members that are actively engaged makers of contemporary culture. An integral part of Graduate Core is the Parsons Visiting Artist’s lecture series. The weekly lectures features prominent artists and critics who discuss their current practices in relationship to larger trends in contemporary culture. Students have a studio visit with approx 2 of the visiting artists across the semester. Students have the opportunity to learn about a wide range of artistic practices through post-lecture dialogue with the visitors.

Course Pre/Co-requisites:
Open to: Masters in Fine Arts majors only. Co-requisite(s): PGFA 5136 Graduate Core 1: Group Critique, PGFA 5127 Theory, Practice and Career 1, PGFA 5150 Critical Thinking 1.

Restrictions:

Level

Open to Graduate students.