Alaiyo Bradshaw

Alaiyo Bradshaw has worked as a fine artist and illustrator for over 30 years and her career teaching art at the college level began in 1995. Teaching art history, painting, digital design, printmaking, and clay building has afforded Bradshaw a wide range of experiences sharing her knowledge. She has taught at Long Island University, Montclair State, Montclair Art Museum, and for over 20 years at Parsons School of Design. She is currently a Professor of Fine Arts and Director of the First Year program of over 300 faculty and 1400 students. Throughout her time at Parsons, she has built a new art and design curriculum. Bradshaw now manages the operations of the First Year and oversees effective curriculum delivery, maintaining and developing academic and pedagogical capacities with faculty throughout the program, building faculty culture, and understanding and meeting evolving student needs and interests. In addition, she is the Vice President of the Brooklyn Watercolor Society, a prestigious body of long-standing signature artists. Her role on the executive board is to oversee our programming for our associate members, help plan our events, and organize guest speakers and gallery exhibitions along with the President, Treasurer, and Secretary.