Fabrication, Fine Arts, Painting, Printmaking, Visual Arts, Visual Culture, New Genres, Art History Fine Arts (MFA)
What our students, alumni, and faculty are doing in NYC and worldwide
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Program Contact
Jonah Groeneboer, Program Director
The MFA Fine Arts program’s interdisciplinary curriculum reflects the program’s home in The New School, a university with a long history of experimenting with new modes of inquiry. The program hosts an acclaimed international body of faculty, who guide you to expand your artistic practice and its formal, intellectual, and professional aims. You learn through individual studio visits, group critiques with an international cohort of graduate students, and seminars, workshops, and guest lectures with influential artists, curators, critics, and scholars. You are encouraged to explore a variety of mediums and study across disciplines, and undertake the analysis of form, technique, and technology, via theoretical and historical inquiry or social and political engagement
The core curriculum brings together one-on-one studio visits, group critiques with faculty and peers, critical theory seminars, professional practice seminars, and courses for the program’s thesis exhibition. The electives include seminars in theory-in-practice, courses in advanced techniques-based practice, and independent studies. As part of your elective study, you are also encouraged to draw on the resources of other Parsons programs and the other colleges of The New School, including renowned graduate programs in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and design studies.
Graduates are prepared for diverse careers in fields such as fine arts practice; arts administration; curation; museum and gallery management; art criticism; art consulting, and post-secondary art education.
Discover what our students, alumni, and faculty are doing in NYC and worldwide.
Research is integral to the Parsons learning experience, and students and faculty work together to challenge existing paradigms and advance emerging scholarship and practice. Explore the thematic research laboratories housed at Parsons and throughout The New School.
Connect to the organizations, businesses, and entrepreneurs driving global creativity and commerce. In classes, internships, and extracurricular projects, you gain marketable problem-solving skills in sectors ranging from government and nonprofits to tech and creative industries.
New York City’s thriving creative industry and cultural institutions are part of your Parsons education. Our Career Services Office is enmeshed in the art and design industries and can help you advance your career with industry-oriented internships.
Funds are earmarked for graduate travel, research, and work to support your study. Opportunities include paid teaching assistantships, research fellowships and assistantships (including ones offered throughout The New School), ample student employment, and other grants available to U.S. domestic and international students alike.
Enjoy access to extensive resources including New School libraries, computer labs, archives, and studios, along with Parsons’ state-of-the-art Making Center, facilities offering a broad array of tools to support your creative and academic growth.
The New School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
