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  • Colin Mclain

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    mclainc@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

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    Colin Mclain

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    Colin McLain holds a Post Baccalaureate from the Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy and a BFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University. McLain is in his eighteenth year as a Part-time Assistant Professor at Parsons. In his time at Parsons, he has taught a wide variety of courses in multiple departments, including the First Year Department, the Photography Department, the Illustration Department, and the CPE Department and Pre-College programs. He has taught Drawing and Imaging since the First-Year curricular shift was implemented in 2013. McLain has shown his paintings nationwide and in Italy. His work has been reviewed, among other places, in The New York Times and Flash Art

    Painter. Exhibitions: Oliver Kamm: 5BE Gallery (New York), Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea (Florence, Italy),Portland Institue of Contemporary Art (Portland, Oregon), New Jersey Center for Visual Arts (Summit, NJ) Fellowships: Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown, Rotary Fellowship. Bibliography: New York Times, New Art Examiner.


    Current Courses

    Painting
    PNNY 1103, Summer 2026

    Painting & Drawing
    PCAC 0635, Summer 2026

    Future Courses

    Drawing/Imaging
    PUFY 1030, Fall 2026, Spring 2027

    Past Courses

    Color Theory
    PCFA 0110, Spring 2026

    Drawing/Imaging
    PUFY 1030, Spring 2026

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