In this major, you develop a creative studio practice by engaging with the ideas, communities, and global networks that shape contemporary art. You learn to translate ideas into visual expression by acquiring skills in a variety of media and exploring diverse contemporary artistic strategies in media ranging from painting and sculpture to video and performance.
Explore the BFA Fine Arts community to see what students, faculty, and alumni are doing in NYC and around the world at amt.parsons.edu/finearts. This program is part of Parsons' School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT).
Expanding the Field
This program guides you to discover your creative voice, familiarizing you with traditional techniques of painting, drawing, and sculpture as well as innovative interdisciplinary methods in media including video, photography, experimental sound, social practice, and performance.
You acquire a range of practical and theoretical skills by producing medium-specific work in the Core Studios and developing a cross-media approach in conceptual exercises, discursive critiques, and discussions in the Core Seminars.
Art and design history and theory courses give you the research, writing, and critical reasoning skills you need to contextualize and share your ideas and concepts. Access to an array of lecture courses and electives in the humanities, social sciences, media studies, and business further develops your conceptual and critical abilities for a professional art career.
NYC: Art Capital
Learn by living in one of the most diverse arts communities in the world. Internships, visiting artist lectures, and professional practice courses broaden your perspective and expose you to real-world practices. In New York City, you have access to legendary local institutions such as the
New Museum; the
Museum of Modern Art; the
Whitney Museum of American Art;
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; and the
Guggenheim, in addition to innumerable art galleries and nonprofit art institutions.
Future Opportunities
Graduates find success in fields such as fine art; arts administration; curatorial studies and practice; museum, auction house, gallery, and art fair management; art history and criticism; education; and publishing.