Parsons The New School for Design

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The Parsons The New School for Design, shortly Parsons, is a design school founded in origin in 1896 as the Chase School of Art located in New York City, which is part of The New School (until 2005 The New School for Social Research ) since 1970.

History

Founder was the impressionist painter William Merritt Chase. 1898, the school in New York School of Art has been renamed. In 1904 Frank Alvah Parsons to the school, where he developed in 1907, the first courses for interior design, graphic design and advertising in the United States. To take account of the extended school program, called the school from 1909 New York School of Fine and Applied Art Parsons was from 1911 until his death in 1930 director of the school. He later director William Odom christened in honor of the school 1939 in Parsons School of Design in order. The current name of Parsons The New School for Design carries the school since the renaming of the parent institution in The New School.

Parsons today

The Parsons is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design ( AICAD ). The main campus is located in Greenwich Village, the famous department " Mode" in the heart of the Garment District. The students are divided into approximately 3,100 undergraduate and 400 postgraduate Students. In addition, the school offers construction and certification courses.

Worldwide, there are more Parsons partner schools in France, in Los Angeles, Malaysia, South Korea, the Dominican Republic and Japan, are following as independent schools the philosophy and methods of Parsons. Except for the contact to the Parsons schools in the Dominican Republic and in France the Parsons The New School for Design has currently stopped the contact with the other Parsons schools.

Known graduates

  • Adolph Gottlieb (* 1903, † 1974), American painter
  • Marc Jacobs ( born 1963 ), American fashion designer
  • Donna Karan ( born 1948 ), American fashion designer and businesswoman
  • Tom Ford ( born 1961 ), American fashion designer
  • Steven Meisel (born 1954 ), American photographer and illustrator
  • Anna Sui ( born 1955 ), American fashion designer
  • Stephen Dwoskin (* 1939, † 2012), American film artists
  • Ai Wei Wei ( * 1957 ), Chinese conceptual artist
  • Julie Umerle, English painter
  • Barbara Kruger ( born 1945 ), American artist
  • Sue de Beer (born 1973 ), American artist
  • Jasper Johns ( b. 1930 ), American artist
  • Alexander Wang ( b. 1983 ), American fashion designer
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