Drawing and Imaging
Parson’s Drawing/Imaging course is part of the first-year experience combining digital and analog drawing.
This course is an introduction to the way that meaning is constructed and communicated through visual images. Students use a variety of tools, skills, methods and media, to explore the creative process: to translate observations, analyze relationships, communicate visually, organize form, and foster the exploratory process of developing ideas.
Of primary importance is understanding how we respond to the visual world and how we use our unique and personal perceptual, physical and analytical abilities to bring two-dimensional works into being. Students explore visual organization and composition, and develop sensitivity to both representational and abstract form. Projects emphasize perceptual engagement through drawing, photography, digital image creation, and the integration of different forms of media. A sketchbook is used as an integral tool to explore the relationships between these different kinds of investigations.
Discussion, critique and written responses offer opportunities for students to communicate ideas about their projects and those of their classmates and to understand their work in historical and cultural context. The tools and methods in Drawing/Imaging form an introductory platform that Parsons students will build upon in their upper level disciplinary courses.
Melanie Vote Bio
Vote, born in 1973 originates from Iowa and is a painter and multimedia artist based in New York. She received a BFA from Iowa State University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 1998.
In addition to teaching Drawing and Imaging at the New School, she teaches painting at the New York Academy and has also taught at Pratt Institute. Additionally, Vote has been a visiting artist at numerous schools including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.
Her work has been exhibited nation-wide and internationally. In New York at Flowers Gallery, The Lodge Gallery, Sloan Fine Art and DFN Gallery where the she had her first solo exhibition in 2008. Also, her work has been shown at the Indiana Contemporary Art Center, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery of CA, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul, South Korea, and at ADAH, Abu Dhabi while an artist in residence there. Most recent solo exhibitions have been at Galleria Farina in Miami and Hionas Gallery of New York.
She was a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2006 and has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Jentel in Banner, Wyoming, KHNC for the Arts in Nebraska and the Vermont Studio Center with a full fellowship from the Dodge Foundation in 2003. In June 2017 she was an artist in residence in The Grand Canyon, sponsored in part by the New School with Part-time Faculty Grant. In March 2019 Vote was in residence in KSA, organized by ADAH.
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