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Parsons School of Design
Parsons School of Design was founded in 1896 in New York City, and it grew over the following century into one of the most prominent fashion and design schools in the world, eventually becoming part of The New School university system in 1970. The school built an especially strong reputation in fashion design, and its notable alumni include numerous prominent American fashion designers, giving Parsons an outsized influence specifically on the American fashion industry relative to its size as an academic program. Parsons gained significant mainstream visibility through the reality television competition show "Project Runway," which for years prominently featured Parsons as the program's home institution, exposing the school's name and design philosophy to a broad general television audience beyond the fashion industry itself. Parsons School of Design's combination of its outsized influence on the American fashion design industry and its mainstream visibility through "Project Runway" has made it one of the most publicly recognized art and design schools in the country.
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago was founded in 1866, making it one of the oldest art schools in the United States, and it has operated in close connection with the adjacent Art Institute of Chicago museum, giving students direct access to one of the largest art museum collections in the country. The school built a particularly strong reputation in fine arts and has historically emphasized experimental and conceptual approaches to art-making, and its notable alumni include influential figures across painting, photography, and contemporary art more broadly. The school's deep integration with a major encyclopedic art museum is relatively unusual among American art schools, letting students study working artworks spanning thousands of years of art history as a direct extension of their own studio training. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's combination of its status as one of the oldest American art schools and its unique direct integration with a major world-class art museum has made it one of the most academically distinctive art schools in the country.
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