The New Faculty is making Anne Gaines’ position at Parsons Faculty of Design extra everlasting.
Having served because the interim dean of the Faculty of Vogue at Parsons, Gaines has been named the chief dean of Parsons Faculty of Design. The painter and educator grew up in rural Tennessee and earned a BFA from the Memphis Faculty of Artwork. After relocating to New York Metropolis, she first labored in a gallery and arrange a studio apply earlier than enrolling at Parsons as an MFA pupil.
Gaines, who has additionally labored as affiliate professor of Modern Artwork Follow, has taken on her new put up, which wraps up a world seek for Parsons’ new chief. She succeeds Yvonne Watson, who stay on the college in a brand new position.
Watson has been named vice provost for International Tutorial Technique and Partnerships, a brand new position within the Workplace of the Provost. Earlier than her February begin date, Watson will probably be taking a sabbatical this fall. She joined Parsons in 2010, and labored in such capacities as affiliate dean of Curriculum and Studying, the affiliate dean of the Faculty of Vogue, Parsons’ dean of Curriculum and Studying, adviser to the Provost’s Workplace on Curriculum, Parsons’ interim government dean, after which its government dean.
Educated in pedagogy, cultural critique and multidisciplinary creative practices, Gaines has taught design and studio arts in any respect ranges from pre-college and first 12 months by way of graduate research and persevering with teaching programs. Having joined Parsons college in 2000, Gaines’ expertise contains appearing as affiliate director of Parsons First Yr Program, director of Parsons Students Program and dean of Parsons Faculty of Artwork, Media and Know-how from 2012 by way of 2020.
The position of group and tradition in artwork and in massive cities like New York are of curiosity to Gaines, who beforehand made academic alternatives obtainable to the area people by way of her work on the college. Her early scholarship program improvement work with youth in New York Metropolis turned the Parsons Students Program. She has additionally served as co-director of the CareLab on the college.
The New Faculty’s president Joel Towers, mentioned, “Anne brings an distinctive file of shaping and main vital improvements for Parsons to this position, and has served all through her tenure as an revolutionary and devoted chief, administrator and mentor to our college students, college and workers. Her energy as a pacesetter and depth of expertise as a scholar, artist and change-maker comes at an important second for Parsons as we proceed to advance the extraordinary potentialities of our educational group.”
