NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR FALL 2012!
M.A. Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design
Parsons The New School for Design and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
For three decades, this esteemed collaborative program, based within the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum of the Smithsonian, has trained students in the history of European and American decorative arts and design from the Renaissance to the present. Its curriculum emphasizes object-based teaching utilizing the museum's collections, and courses address a wide range of issues in decorative arts and design, including social, economic, and cultural history, critical theory, style, and techniques.
The experience of graduate school in a professional setting facilitates the transition from academic training to career. Students gain invaluable practical experience and have opportunities to intern in the Cooper-Hewitt's curatorial departments, or at other major New York museums or auction houses, and to teach in the undergraduate history of design program at Parsons. Graduates have gone on to become distinguished curators, authors, critics and historians of the decorative arts and design
Full- and part-time programs of study available.
For more information or to apply, visit
http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/ma-history-decorative-arts-design/
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phone 1-212-849-8344
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