NEWS & EVENTS
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EXHIBITIONS at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 9 React: The Feminine Mystique at 50 New School students interpreted passages from The Feminine Mystique in artworks created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Friedan’s feminist classic. In Out of Her, MOLLY OBERHOLTZER, BFA Integrated Design ’13, plays with motifs historically associated with women to comment on stereotypes.
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PROJECTS
10 Prototype: An Exhibition in the Cloud In this exhibition, organized by Parsons’ School of Art, Media, and Technology and the media arts department of the University of the Arts, Berlin, artists used prototyping as a creative tool. Housed online, the projects were downloaded and exhibited globally.
13 Drop by Drop/Living Arts City The colloquium shown here, an event at which participants explored the arts and urbanism in Phnom Penh and New York, was part of the Season of Cambodia Festival. Parsons and Eugene Lang College students curated a related multimedia exhibition.
11 Sophie Gimbel: Fashioning American Couture Partnering with Saks Fifth Avenue, Parsons instructor BETH DINCUFF CHARLESTON presented original designs by pioneering American fashion designer Sophie Gimbel.
14 BFA Illustration–Dudebox Competition BOB, a toy character created by BFA Illustration student LOREN KANG ’13 in Illustration Concepts, a class taught by CATY BARTHOLOMEW, was selected to be put into production by the toy company Dudebox.
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12 The Public Private CHRISTIANE PAUL curated an exhibition exploring the effects of social media and new technologies on the public and private realms.
15 The End Is the Beginning Parsons’ SIMONE DOUGLAS taught a study abroad course in Beijing and in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. Student teams created photographic works using an “exquisite corpse”– style process. Shown here is a photograph by Douglas of Sara Jimenez and Kaitlyn Redell performing at the Great Wall. 14
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16 Fab.com x BFA Illustration Professors STEVEN GUARNACCIA and NOËL CLARO recently teamed up with BRADFORD SHELLHAMMER, AAS Fashion Design ’08, a founder of the e-commerce retailer Fab.com, to create an online pop-up shop selling students’ work. Shown here is a print by COLLEEN REINHART.
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