This project-driven studio course introduces practices and concepts that evoke a visual narrative. Students will evolve their knowledge of process, presentation, and fabrication and develop their work through various projects, such as private/public, identity, participatory, change. We will look at artists such as; Kara Walker, Damián Ortega, Chiharu Shihota, and Charles Avery. By working in varying degrees of scale, context, and diverse methodologies, the goal is to provide a more profound and broader context for each student’s visual and material practice.

This course offers a focused investigation into a single topic. The topic can be, for example, focused on one specific technique or material, or can allow for hybrid practices, context-driven strategies, and take on larger themes. The Topics class will allow students to explore the respective areas in more focus and depth, through research-based studio work. Reading in this class is seen as an integral as it is an essential part of students' studio practice.

This course offers a focused investigation into a single topic. The topic can be, for example, focused on one specific technique or material, or can allow for hybrid practices, context-driven strategies, and take on larger themes. The Topics class will allow students to explore the respective areas in more focus and depth, through research-based studio work. Reading in this class is seen as an integral as it is an essential part of students' studio practice.

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. div>Open to: Bachelors degree in Fine Arts majors, others by permission of the Fine Arts program. Pre-requisite(s): PUFA 2200 Core Studio 1: Sign & System, PUFA 2230 Core Studio 1: 3D, and at least one of the following: PUFA 2220 Core Studio 1: 2D or PUFA 2240 Core Studio 1: 4D.

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. div>Open to: Bachelors degree in Fine Arts majors, others by permission of the Fine Arts program. Pre-requisite(s): PUFA 2200 Core Studio 1: Sign & System, PUFA 2230 Core Studio 1: 3D, and at least one of the following: PUFA 2220 Core Studio 1: 2D or PUFA 2240 Core Studio 1: 4D.