Textiles (MFA)

Parsons School of Design in New York City – recently named the Best School for Art and Design in the US and ranked 2nd in the world – has offered innovative approaches to design education since its founding in 1896. Today, Parsons is the only major American art and design school within a comprehensive university: The New School. At Parsons, you can master establish established creative practices and spark new ones while studying across all university disciplines.

About

Textiles are literally and figuratively woven into human history and culture. Today communities of makers, designers, and scholars are exploring textiles — from locally crafted materials to 3D knitted matter to hand-embellished fabrics — and pioneering textile-based industries and theory. The Master of Fine Arts in Textiles, launching in fall 2018, enables you to explore these dynamics creatively and reflectively, dissolving the boundaries between technology and craft. In the process, you are prepared for the growing array of creative and professional opportunities related to textiles in fashion design, product design, interior design, textiles research, set design, fine arts, architecture, and hybrid fields.

Program highlights

• Be a part of Parsons’ School of Fashion, a world-renowned institution for forward-looking creatives and groundbreaking industry leaders.
• Establish expertise in a growing array of creative and professional opportunities related to textiles in product and interior design, fashion design, textiles research, set design, fine arts, architecture, and hybrid fields.
• Develop a critical understanding of textiles’ sociocultural and environmental dimensions, and investigate the rapidly changing intersections between craft and innovative technology.