This collection consists of visual and textual documentation of student work created in the Fine Arts Department of Parsons School of Design. New School Archives staff brought these materials together from multiple sources to form the collection.

Color slides document student projects over a roughly two decade span, although not all years are covered. Most of the slides document BFA work. There is only one folder of MFA slides from the late 1990s. According to Art, Media, and Technology Senior Office Assistant Michael Palumbo, who coordinated the transfer of the slides to the Archives, it had been the department's historical practice to retain the textual components of theses for a few years before destroying then, only retaining the visual documentation of student work.

The other primary format of documentation consists of thesis papers, the majority of which are by MFA students. BFA student papers are only present for one year. The papers represent a brief window of time in the early 2010s.

Finally, one discrete MFA thesis from 2009 is included in the collection on optical media as a DVD.