Core Studio 2: Topics in 3D
Parsons School of Design: Fine Arts
CRN: 1958
Credits: 3
This course fuses the digital to the real world. Making sculptures that range from small-scale objects to both proposed and realized installations, students will utilize 21st-century means of drawing at the intersection of the Parsons Making Center. Through Computer Aided Drawing (CAD), rendering, rapid prototyping, and a headfirst dive into the E4 metal shop, students will make their way through their concepts while exploring a range of artists and practitioners who employ similar literacies. This course will examine the work of Baseera Khan, Grace Lee Lawrence, David Howe, Jonathan Brand, David Hammonds, The Ben Keating Foundry, Maker Space NYC, as well as many others.
College: Parsons School of Design (PS)
Department: Fine Arts (PUFA)
Campus: New York City (GV)
Course Format: Studio (S)
Modality: In-Person
Max Enrollment: 12
Add/Drop Deadline: September 11, 2023 (Monday)
Online Withdrawal Deadline: November 19, 2023 (Sunday)
Seats Available: No
Status: Waitlist*
* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 1:06am EDT 5/30/2023
CRN: 14451
Credits: 3
In this studio course students will expand beyond traditional exhibition strategies by exploring the possibilities that various locations, both indoors and outdoors, hold. Each student will explore themes that are important to them by putting handmade and found objects into conversation with the formal, emotional and historical properties of specific sites. This course will introduce students to global trajectories of Installation Art that include the varied practices of Pope L., Kishio Suga, Sheela Gowda, Xu Bing and Ann Hamilton to name a few. The class will combine presentations on artists and short readings with prompt driven projects that lead up to independent work.
College: Parsons School of Design (PS)
Department: Fine Arts (PUFA)
Campus: New York City (GV)
Course Format: Studio (S)
Modality: In-Person
Max Enrollment: 12
Add/Drop Deadline: September 11, 2023 (Monday)
Online Withdrawal Deadline: November 19, 2023 (Sunday)
Seats Available: No
Status: Waitlist*
* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 1:06am EDT 5/30/2023
CRN: 11679
Credits: 3
In this special topics 3D class, students learn about different approaches to sculpture, installation, and object making with special emphasis on performativity. The goal is to explore objects as extensions of the body/adornment, the body as object, installation spaces activated by participation, and kinetic objects that perform on their own. Research on artists working performatively in sculpture include Cassils, Ann Hamilton, Jordan Wolfson, Guadalupe Maravilla, Jacolby Satterwhite, Pat Oleszko, and Scott Burton among others. In addition to contemporary artists active in the field, this course will include readings and lectures by theorists and new materialists like Jane Bennett to scaffold students’ artistic production. By the end of this course students will demonstrate nuanced understanding of object performativity and have executed four major projects on the themes listed here.
College: Parsons School of Design (PS)
Department: Fine Arts (PUFA)
Campus: New York City (GV)
Course Format: Studio (S)
Modality: In-Person
Max Enrollment: 13
Add/Drop Deadline: February 5, 2023 (Sunday)
Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 16, 2023 (Sunday)
Seats Available: Yes
* Seats available but reserved for a specific population.
Status: Closed*
* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 1:06am EDT 5/30/2023
CRN: 5240
Credits: 3
This course will focus on the interconnections between people’s lives and modern society. We will explore topics such as mass media, identity, politics, and the environment. Students will be encouraged to explore various media to convey their own perspectives on the interconnected relations between themselves and the world they inhabit. Through presentations and gallery visits students will be introduced too artists who exemplify this approach including Doreen Gardner, Guadalupe Maravilla, Yeon Ji Yoo, Angela Yuen, Leilah Babirye EV. Day, Chiharu Shihota, Cassils, Julia Phillips, and Cristina Tufiño. By utilizing the facilities in the Making Center, students will continue developing hands-on making skills so everyone in class can build their sculptures or installations with integrity and confidence.
College: Parsons School of Design (PS)
Department: Fine Arts (PUFA)
Campus: New York City (GV)
Course Format: Studio (S)
Modality: In-Person
Max Enrollment: 12
Add/Drop Deadline: February 5, 2023 (Sunday)
Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 16, 2023 (Sunday)
Seats Available: No
Status: Closed*
* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 1:06am EDT 5/30/2023