Italian Vogue!

This month, Vogue Italia featured the glasses design of Parsons Scholar alum Thi Wan (and current Parsons junior). Keep up the good work, Thi– we’re proud of you! Scholars + […]

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National Portfolio Day

On Sunday, November 13th, the scholars attended the annual National Portfolio Day. The top art and design schools were in attendance along with their prospective students. The art schools that […]

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Young Artist: Bryan Urea

Scholar Bryan Urea recently had an amazing experience. He opened Paper Magazine the other day and saw his work in the magazine! The young artist has an entire spread featuring […]

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Horror Films!

Halloween is finally here – a holiday of spooks and frights, however, this day came early for our junior scholars. On the twenty-ninth of October the scholars gathered ’round in […]

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Crossword Puzzle Madness.

The junior scholars gather in the morning to break bread with one another and also partake in Crossword Puzzle Madness!Photographed below are some of our winners! The juniors are taking […]

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Big Apple College Fair

On Saturday October 22nd, the scholars attended the Big Apple College Fair. At the fair, the scholars were able to visit a variety of colleges and gain an idea of […]

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Portfolio Redefined

Saturday was a very educational day for high school students from all over the city. They had the chance to learn about Parsons Admission, the Parsons Challenge and how to […]

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It all begins now!

Its the second week here at Parsons. The Juniors are learning and preparing for College with the help of crossword puzzles and a presentation by Nadia Williams. The Juniors were […]

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Saturdays!!!

Our scholars are back! Getting together again for their classes on Saturday and working hard as always, but enjoying it as well. Besides enjoying their classes the students met once […]

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Storm King field trip!

At the end of the Spring semester, the entire Parsons Scholars program took a day trip upstate to the breathtaking Storm King Art Center. Although the May sky threatened us […]

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Parsons Scholars in Paris!

This just in: a recent snapshot of the lovely group of Parsons Scholars & Alumni who received a full scholarship to attend the Parsons Summer Intensive program in Paris. From […]

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“The Kitchen”

April 16th, 2011 At “The Kitchen” in Chelsea scholars met the artist, Kenya (Robinson), featured in the gallery. She spoke of her featured work, Kenya Eats A Cracker. On this […]

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Preparing for the Parsons Festival

We’ve been working hard at preparing the upcoming program-wide exhibition in the new annual Parsons Festival which will highlight the progress and achievements of participants in the Parsons Scholars program. […]

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Braiding Workshop!!!

It’s an understatement to say that our seniors have been working hard all year– balancing college applications, maintaining good grades in school, and attending our Saturday program and monthly meetings, […]

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Artist: Hank Willis Thomas

Yashua and Shola’s Scholars welcomed Hank Willis Thomas to their Saturday Program March 5th. Laniqua Sprull said, “While viewing the artitst’s work many of us took on the analyzation that […]

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Forbes Galleries Visit!

Shola’s group of Scholars participated in a mini scavenger hunt during their visit to Forbes Galleries February 26th. They were broken up into groups and asked to work together. Not […]

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Artist: Jeff Sims

Jeff Sims presented his work to the Parsons Scholars February 19th!     The scholars were engaged and asked plenty of questions that Jeff was more than happy to answer.   […]

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Whitney Museum

*This post was written by New Sophomore Scholar Amy G., Class of 2013* New Scholars Adventures On February 12th, Shola’s group of Scholars went on a trip to the Whitney Museum […]

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Create Your Own: SHIRT

The Senior Scholars have felt the commitment of marriage – wedded to the Senior Project and bound to create within the limitations of the project. Their coordinators, Nadia and Ananda, […]

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Senior Project

We’ve recently passed the third week into the Senior Project and for those of you not involved, here’s an update! On February 5th, the Seniors were introduced to a Collaboration […]

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