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Individual art and design college in New York

Parsons Schoolhouse of Blueprint

Former names	Hunt School (1896–1898) New York School of Art (1898–1909) New York Schoolhouse of Fine And Applied Fine art (1909–1936) Parsons The New Schoolhouse for Design (2005-2015)
Blazon	Individual Fine art and Design School
Established	1896
Parent institution	The New School
Dean	Rachel Schreiber
Academic staff	1,400[1]
Students	five,500[one]
Undergraduates	5,000[1]
Postgraduates	500[2]
Location	New York City , United states 40°44′07″N 73°59′39″W  /  40.73528°N 73.99417°W  / 40.73528; -73.99417
Campus	Urban
Colors	Parsons Red[3]
Affiliations	AICAD[4] NASAD[4] NYSED[4] MSCHE[4]
Mascot	Gnarls the Narwhal[5]
Website	newschool.edu/parsons

Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a individual art and design higher located in the Greenwich Hamlet neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York Metropolis. It is one of the v colleges of The New Schoolhouse.

The school was founded in 1896 by William Merritt Chase in search of individualistic artistic expression. It was the first of its kind in the land to offer programs in fashion design, advertising, interior pattern, and graphic design. The schoolhouse offers undergraduate and graduate programs ranging from architectural design, curatorial studies, to textiles and design and urban ecologies.

Among Parsons alumni are fashion designers, photographers, entrepreneurs, designers, illustrators, and artists who take made significant contributions to their respective fields. The college is a member of the National Clan of Schools of Fine art and Pattern and the Clan of Independent Colleges of Fine art and Design.

History [edit]

Get-go established every bit The Hunt Schoolhouse, the institution was founded in 1896 by the American impressionist painter William Merritt Hunt (1849–1916). Hunt led a small grouping of Progressives who seceded from the Art Students League of New York in search of a more complimentary, more dramatic, and more individual expression of art.^[6] The Chase School changed its proper noun in 1898 to The New York School of Art.

In 1904, Frank Alvah Parsons joined creative person Robert Henri as a teacher at the school. In the same approximate time frame, Parsons studied for ii years with the vanguard artist and educator, Arthur Wesley Dow at Columbia University graduating in 1905 with a degree in fine arts.^[vii] A few years later, he became president of The New York School of Art. Anticipating a new wave of the Industrial Revolution, Parsons predicted that art and design would before long be inexorably linked to the engines of manufacture. His vision was borne out in a series of firsts for the school, establishing the first program in fashion blueprint, interior pattern, advertising, and graphic design in the United states of america.^[eight] In 1909, the school was renamed The New York School of Fine and Applied Fine art to reflect these offerings. Parsons became the sole manager in 1911, a position which he maintained to his expiry in 1930. William M. Odom, who established the school'southward Paris ateliers in 1921, succeeded Parsons as president. In accolade of Parsons, who was important in steering the school's development and in shaping visual-arts instruction through his theories about linking art and industry throughout the globe, the establishment became the Parsons School of Design in 1941.^[8]

As the modern curriculum developed, many successful designers remained closely tied to the school, and by the mid-1960s, Parsons had get "the grooming basis for Seventh Avenue."^[viii]

In 1970, the schoolhouse became a partition of the New Schoolhouse for Social Enquiry, which later evolved into The New School. The campus moved from Sutton Identify to Greenwich Village in 1972.^[eight] The merger with a vigorous, fully accredited university was a source of new funding and free energy, which expanded the focus of a Parsons education.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 2005, when the parent institution was renamed The New Schoolhouse, the schoolhouse underwent a rebranding and was renamed Parsons The New School for Design.^[8] In 2015, it dropped "The New School" from its formal championship and has since been referred to every bit The New School'south Parsons Schoolhouse of Design.

Campuses [edit]

Like well-nigh universities in New York City, Parsons' campus is spread among scattered buildings, but the main building is located at 13th Street and fifth Avenue. Many other facilities are in buildings shared by other colleges in The New School but the facilities beneath are mainly exclusive to Parsons. Parsons also has a campus abroad located in Paris's First Arrondissement, known every bit Parsons Paris.

University Center [edit]

The New School University Center at 14th Street and Fifth Artery, a LEED Aureate building completed in 2014

The New School opened the xvi-story The New School University Center ("UC") at 65 5th Avenue in January 2014.

While the 65 5th Avenue plans were initially controversial amidst students and Village residents (spurring in 2009 a major student occupation was held at The New School'due south previous building on that site), plans for the Academy Heart were adjusted in response to customs concerns and accept since been well received. In a review of the Academy Center's terminal pattern, The New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff called the building "a celebration of the cosmopolitan metropolis".

The belfry, which was designed past Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's Roger Duffy, is the biggest capital project the university has e'er undertaken. The building added classrooms, new residences, figurer labs, event facilities, and a cafeteria to the downtown New York Urban center campus in improver to a two-story library and lecture halls. While the UC serves as a key hub for all academy students, the majority of its classrooms and workspaces are used for Parsons programs.

The Sheila Johnson Design Center [edit]

2 West 13th Street/66 Fifth Avenue is almost commonly known as the Sheila Johnson Blueprint Eye. The main Parsons campus is located at ii West 13th Street in Greenwich Village in the borough of Manhattan.^[nine] The 12-story L-shaped building, at the corner 70 Fifth Avenue and 2W 13th street was originally built in 1914 equally an function and loft edifice. Since its structure, information technology housed the national function of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from February 1914 to June 1923. Before being acquired past The New School in 1972, it housed a multitude of wedlock and justice organizations, such as the American Matrimony Against Militarism (AUAM) who founded the National Civil Liberties Agency, which after became the ACLU. The building has also housed League for Industrial Commonwealth, League of Nations Union, New York Teachers Matrimony and Woman's Peace Political party. With its history as a edifice of organizations for the advancement of justice and democracy, on May 18, 2021, the building was turned into a NYC landmark past New York City Landmarks Preservation Committee (LPC).^[10]

The renovation of the existing construction's first and mezzanine levels was fabricated possible in part by a $7 million gift from New Schoolhouse Trustee and Parsons Lath of Governors Chair Sheila Johnson. The "Urban Quad" (as the school calls it) was designed past Lyn Rice Architects and encompasses a total area of 32,800 square feet (iii,050 yard²). In addition to classrooms, the building includes the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery and Auditorium, and the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries.^[eleven] The renovated ground floor too provides a new habitation for the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Athenaeum, a collection of drawings, photographs, letters, and objects documenting 20th-century pattern.

Until its move to the new University Heart, the edifice hosted the Adam and Sophie Gimbel Design Library, a resource collection supporting art, architecture and blueprint caste programs offered by the Parsons School of Design. The drove consists of approximately 45,000 volume volumes, 350 periodical titles (200 current), 70,000 slides and 45,000 pic files. Special collections holdings number over 4,000, including many rare and valuable items.^[12]

The building's renovation won the 2009 National AIA Honor Award, the 2009 MASNYC Masterworks Award, the 2009 AIANY Merit Award, the 2008 AIA New York State Award of Excellence, the 2008 American Institute of Architects NY/Boston Society of Architects Biennial Honor Award for Educational Facility Design, the 2008 SARA/NY Design Honor of Excellence, and the 2007 AIANY Merit Accolade for Projects.^[13]

On Monday, April 2, 2018, the 2 Westward 13th Street building was affected by an electric burn down, which erupted in the basement at around 10:40 AM. The building was quickly and safely evacuated thanks to the teamwork of all students, faculty, and staff, and the building remained closed for the remainder of the Jump 2018 semester. The 375 courses usually located within the building were relocated to other buildings in the university. The cause of the burn down is h2o which leaked through the basement ceiling onto electrical switchgear, causing excursion breakers to explode.^[14]

Parsons East Building [edit]

The Parsons East Building, located at 25 East 13th Street building is home to the Schoolhouse of Constructed Environments, which houses the Interior Design, Lighting Blueprint, and Compages and Product Design departments of the college. The Fine Arts section is as well located in this building. The facilities included in the building are the digital and traditional fabrication shops, the Laser Cut lab, the Light Lab, multiple Computing Labs, the Angelo Donghia Materials Center, the Healthy Materials Library, and The Design Workshop.^[xv]

Albert and Vera Listing Academic Center [edit]

The 16th Street building, known equally the Vera List Center, features dedicated floors to design studies and development.^{[ clarification needed ]} Both the 6th and 12th floors are dedicated to the Design & Engineering science Bachelor and Master programs. The edifice too features a library.^{[ citation needed ]}

Loeb Hall [edit]

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Programs [edit]

Parsons offers xx-five different programs each housed in one of five divisions:^[17]

• School of Art and Design History and Theory – Dean Rhonda Garelick
• School of Art, Media, and Technology – Dean Anne Gaines
• School of Constructed Environments – Dean Robert Kirkbride
• School of Design Strategies: Cities, Services, Ecosystems – Dean Jane Pirone
• School of Fashion – Dean Burak Cakmak

Ranking [edit]

In 2021, Parsons Schoolhouse of Blueprint was ranked third in the QS World University Rankings past bailiwick.^[xviii]

Admission and student demographics [edit]

Demographics of student body^[19]

	1st Year Students	U.S. Demography
African American/Non-Hispanic	4%	12.4%
Asian American/Pacific Islander	18%	4.iii%
White	29%	74.1%
Hispanic American	9%	xiv.seven%
American Indian/Alaskan Native	<ane%	0.8%
International students	31%	N/A
Total	92%	106.three%

Parsons has an enrollment of approximately three,800 undergraduate students and 400 graduate students. The student trunk is 77% women and 23% men, with most of the constituents being total-time students.^[xx] About 1 third of the college is made upwards of international students hailing from 68 different countries. The largest international groups come from Asia, followed by Europe.^[21]

There are 127 total-time faculty members and 1,056 part-time faculty members, many of whom are successful working artists and designers in New York Metropolis. The student:faculty ratio is nine:one.^[22]

Notable faculty members include Frank Lloyd Wright, Piet Mondrian, Tim Gunn, Presently Yu amidst others.

Expansion and affiliations [edit]

In 1920, Parsons School of Pattern was the offset art and design school in America to found a campus abroad.^[21]

Paris [edit]

Director of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, Frank Alvah Parsons, first began a program in Paris in 1921.^[23] The post-obit yr, the school made its home on the oldest planned square in Paris, the Identify des Vosges. Parsons stated: "France, more than any land, has been the center of creative inspiration since the sixteenth century… The value of associating with, and working from, the finest examples of the periods in decorative art, the adaptation of which is our national problem, needs no comment."^[24] The school offered courses in architecture, interior ornamentation, phase design, and costume design, adding poster and graphic design a year afterwards. Among its supporters were interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe and author and interior designer Edith Wharton.

In 1931, interior designer Jean-Michel Frank led a group of students at the Paris Ateliers to create an icon of mod pattern, the Parsons Table.^[25] Later on didactics advertizing, analogy, and stage and costume design, Van Day Truex became director of the Paris Ateliers in 1934. An influential vocalism of 20th-century American design, Truex later on became the blueprint director of Tiffany & Company, where he adult the business firm's signature interiors and graphics. Guest critics at the Paris Ateliers during this period include way designers Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Jean Patou.

After closing before the onset of World War II in 1939, Parsons restarted its activities in Paris in 1948 offer a summer course combining travel and written report. What was now Parsons School of Design reopened the Schoolhouse (at first with a summer abroad program in the late 1970s); information technology became known every bit Parsons Paris. In 1980, Parsons expanded its Paris program, entering into an educational partnership with the American College in Paris (now American University in Paris), to offering Bachelor of Fine Arts and report-abroad options. Showtime in 1986, students matriculating in the Parsons Paris program were eligible to receive a degree from Parsons School of Design.

In 2008, when the contract betwixt Parsons Schoolhouse of Design and Parsons Paris expired, the former decided non to renew information technology. At the expiration of the agreement, Parsons notified the Paris school that it could not continue to use the "Parsons" name any longer. The Paris schoolhouse challenged that conclusion and brought the legal proceeding before the International Chamber of Commerce who ruled in favor of Parsons School of Design.^[26] That institution, at present called the Paris Higher of Art, is no longer affiliated with The New School.

Parsons Paris [edit]

In November 2012, The New School President David E. Van Zandt appear that Parsons School of Design would be opening a new academic center, to be called Parsons Paris, in Paris in the fall 2013.^[27] Located in Paris'due south Starting time Arrondissement, Parsons Paris incorporates a kinesthesia of French and European design educators every bit well as visiting professors from around the world. The school offers a multifariousness of bachelor'due south and master'south degrees in design, fashion, curatorial studies and business. All classes are taught in English.^[28]

Notable alumni [edit]

Parsons has educated some designers in the style industry including Hatun Aytug, Donna Karan, Kay Unger, Scott Salvator, Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, Tom Ford, Anna Sui, Jason Wu, Narciso Rodriguez, Sophie Buhai, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, Isaac Mizrahi, Samantha Sleeper, Derek Lam, Prabal Gurung, Heron Preston, Jenna Lyons, Jo Copeland, Jasper Conran and Yeohlee Teng.^{[ citation needed ]}

In addition to fashion designers, Parsons is as well known for existence the alma mater to artists Jasper Johns, Paul Rand, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Norman Rockwell, Duane Michals, Ai Weiwei, Joel Schumacher, Julie Umerle, Danielle Mastrion, and Jacqueline Humphries among others.^{[ citation needed ]} The late, famed interior decorator Mario Buatta as well attended the schoolhouse. Industrial designer Sara Little Turnbull graduated from the school.^{[ citation needed ]}

The school has been the choice of notable students such every bit Bella Hadid, Nicky Hilton Rothschild, Rina Bovrisse,^[29] Sailor Brinkley Cook (daughter of Christie Brinkley), Andrew McPhee, Massimo A. Pellegrini, Alexandra von Fürstenberg^[30] amongst others.

Educatee life [edit]

The Student Development and Activities is home to over 25 recognized educatee organizations throughout The New School that serves Parsons likewise as all the other five schools that are under the umbrella of The New Schoolhouse.^[31]

Publications [edit]

• re:D is the magazine for Parsons alumni and the wider Parsons community, published by the New School Alumni Association.^[32]
• Scapes is the annual journal of the School of Constructed Environments.
• The Periodical of Design Strategies explores and documents collaborative work on the borders of direction and design.^[33]
• The Parsons Journal for Information Mapping (PJIM) is published quarterly by the Parsons Found for Information Mapping and focuses on both the theoretical and practical aspects of information visualization.^[34]
• BIAS: Periodical of Dress Exercise published past the MA Style Studies Apparel Practice Collective started in the spring of 2013 and aims to join elements of "visual culture, fashion theory, blueprint studies and personal practice through a variety of media."^[35]
• The Manner Studies Journal ' is a monthly peer-reviewed bookish periodical for fashion scholarship and criticism. It was established in 2012 as a platform for graduate-level writing^[36]

Broadcasting [edit]

WNSR is a student-run, faculty-advised online-only academy radio station based at The New Schoolhouse. Programming is delivered in the form of streamable mp3s and, in the most future, subscribable podcasts. It is a station for all divisions of The New School.^[37]

Run into likewise [edit]

• Instruction in New York Urban center
• The New York Foundation
• The New York Intellectuals
• Parsons table
• Project Pericles

References [edit]

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14. ^ "Dear Faculty and Students: Institutional – Parsons The New School For Design". Parsons.edu. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
15. ^ "Schoolhouse of Constructed Environments".
16. ^ Loeb Hall opened its doors in August 1989 and is the beginning residence hall owned and operated by The New School. An energetic and passionate residence life staff brand Loeb Hall ideal for higher students looking for a strong community and agile programs and events.
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25. ^ "PARSONS RETURNS TO PARIS". 9 November 2012.
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29. ^ Pesek, William. "Is it Time for a Adult female to Run Tokyo?". www.barrons.com . Retrieved 2021-06-29 .
30. ^ "Alexandra von Furstenberg fait l'éloge de la couleur". www.lofficiel.com (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-30 .
31. ^ "Student Services". Archived from the original on August nineteen, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
32. ^ "re:D". Retrieved August 9, 2010.
33. ^ "Projects Archive". School of Design Strategies.
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36. ^ "The Fashion Studies Journal". The Mode Studies Journal.
37. ^ "WNSR / New School Radio". Archived from the original on July 4, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2010.

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