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drawing / imaging
integrative studio / seminar 1
integrative studio / seminar 2
objects as history
space / materiality
sustainable systems
time
electives
intro to political economy
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quantitative reasoning 1
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Drawing / Imaging
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First Year Student Workshop: Boxes, Buildings, Urban Grids | Linear Perspective Explained
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Space / Materiality
First Year Student Workshop: Intro to Plaster Casting & Alginate Molds
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First Year Student Workshop: Ace the Sketchbook
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First Year Student Workshop: Making Patterns for Sewing & Construction
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Parsons First Year Student Workshop: Intro to Orthographic Drawing
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Parsons First Year Student Workshop: Figure Drawing
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Space / Materiality
First Year Student Workshop: Intro to Woodworking | A Simple Wooden Box
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First Year student workshop: The Time In-Between
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Space / Materiality
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Wire Sculpture Student Workshop
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First Year Summer Clubs continue!
Drawing / Imaging
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Virtual Figure Drawing Club – Summer 2022!
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Newspaper Club is back for the Summer!
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Open Figure Drawing – Continued!
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End of semester PARSONS MAKES workshops!
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Conquer your Finals by taking a PARSONS MAKES! workshop!
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Space / Materiality
Parsons MAKES is back with more workshops!
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Student Open Figure Drawing
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First Year Student Workshop: Printmaking Off the Press
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New PARSONS MAKES WORKSHOPS!
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Objects as History
Faculty Workshop: Creative and Effective Assignments for Objects as History (A Time to Share)
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First Year Student Workshop: Intro to Adobe Audition
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First Year Student Workshop: Intro to Illustrator
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First Year Student Workshop: The Weird and Wild World of NFTs
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Meet Your Major 2022 Events
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PARSONS MAKES Workshops
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First Year Student Workshop: Blob intelligence – Collaborating with Slime Molds in Art & Design
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First Year Student Workshop: Melting Creative Blocks and Creativity Boost Experiential Workshop
Drawing / Imaging
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Drawing and Imaging Sketchbook Competition
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First Year Student Workshop: The Sketchbook as a Powerful Tool
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First Year Student Workshop: Embodied Design
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First Year Student Workshop: The Organic Indigo Vat: Making, Tending and Dyeing
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First Year Student Workshop: Applying Social Science Research Methods to Design Projects!
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First Year Student Workshop: Dyeing with Regional Plants!
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Choose Your Major Panel – coming up!
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First Year Community Day, Monday April 19th!
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Time
First Year Workshop: Punk Rock Pastels and Paint "Empowering techniques for greater creative expression"
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First Year Workshop: Sashiko Mending and Improvisational Stitching
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Sustainable Systems
First Year Student Workshop: Dyeing with Regional Plants
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First Year Student Workshops – Friday, March 26th!
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Meet Your Major 2021! "Tuesday, February 16 EST"
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First Year Virtual Open Studios Hub!
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Summer Art Challenge 2020 Responses!
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Integrative Studio / Seminar 1
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Parsons First Year Summer Art Challenge #3
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Time
Parsons First Year Summer Art Challenge #2
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Space / Materiality
Parsons First Year Summer Art Challenge 2020
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First Year Summer Socials!
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HERE: An Online Screening of First Year Student Work
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Parsons First Year Online Event: HOME by Nadia DeLane Screening "Film screening and discussion"
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Parsons First Year Online Events "Public Domain Film Screening of Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr."
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Workshop: “I’m Over It: Dealing with Creative Burnout and Performance Anxiety”
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First Year Pro Tips, Second Edition!
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First Year Spring 2020 Workshop Series
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First Year Pro Tips
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Meet Your Major 2020
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Spring 2020: Lunch and Learn Seminar Series!
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Time
Public presentation of First Year Time student works