Selected Events

Interior Motives
Friday, May 24 – Saturday, June 15
Reception: Monday, June 3, 5:00pm
Westside Gallery, 133/141 West 21st Street
Free, open to the public

SVA presents “Interior Motives,” an exhibition of video, photography and prints by current students and recent alumni exploring romantic relationships and domestic family life. Curated by Richard Brooks, assistant director of Student Galleries. The artists represented are Amy Davis (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media), Anna Costa e Silva (MFA 2013 Fine Arts), Keith Negley (MFA 2013 Illustration as Visual Essay) and Sinan Tuncay (MFA 2013 Photography, Video and Related Media). For more information, click here.


Image credit: Amy Davis (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media)

i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration Lecture Series: Bryan Formhals
Thursday, June 13, 7:00pm
136 West 21st Street, Room 418F
Free, open to the public

Bryan Formhals is the founder and publisher of LPV, an influential web and print publication focused on contemporary fine art and documentary photography. Immersed in digital media culture, Formhals is one of the essential voices and taste-makers in contemporary photography. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department; click here for more information.




Image credit: Jaime Permuth (MFA 1994 Photography and Related Media, MPS 2009 Digital Photography)

i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration Lecture Series: Jaime Permuth
Thursday, June 27, 7:00pm
136 West 21st Street, Room 418F
Free, open to the public

Fresh back from his solo exhibition at Ryugaheon Gallery in Seoul, photographer Jaime Permuth (MFA 1994 Photography and Related Media, MPS 2009 Digital Photography) talks about the publication of his first monograph, Yonkeros (La Fabrica Editorial, Madrid). His presentation will offer an overview of the project itself and how it was conceptualized, produced and packaged as a book. For more information, click here.

"Story: Visualized"
Friday, May 24 – Saturday, June 15
Reception: Friday, May 31, 4:30pm
Westside Gallery, 133/141 West 21st Street
Free, open to the public

"Story: Visualized" celebrates the June launch of the newest SVA graduate program. MFA Visual Narrative is a groundbreaking approach to visual storytelling. An exhibition of works by a dozen professional visual storytellers from the faculty of the new MFA Visual Narrative Department. For more information, click here.

The Pond, the Mirror, the Kaleidoscope

Image credit: Jean-Pierre Arboleda, Confrontacion, color pencil, graphite acrylic on paper, 10.5 x 7 inches

Visual Arts Gallery
Tuesday, August 20 – Saturday, September 14
Reception: Wednesday, September 11, 6:00pm
601 West 26th Street, 15th floor
Free, open to the public

Save the date for “The Pond, the Mirror, the Kaleidoscope,” the 2013 alumni exhibition curated by Thomas Woodruff, chair of the BFA Illustration and Cartooning Department.  The artists in the exhibition are influenced by Symbolists. Their subjects may be environmental (“the Pond”), societal and cultural (“the Mirror”) or a post-apocalyptic, futuristic mash-up (“the Kaleidoscope”), but the intention of the artists is clear: They want the viewer to enter into a world of ideas and images that challenge and engage.  

Among the artists included are Jean-Pierre Arboleda (BFA 2004 Illustration), James Bascara (BFA 2011 Illustration), George Boorujy (MFA 2002 Illustration as Visual Essay), Michael Combs (BFA 1994 Illustration, MFA 1996 Illustration as Visual Essay), TM Davy (BFA 2002 Illustration), Steve Ellis (BFA 1994 Illustration), Scott Harrison (MFA 1999 Illustration as Visual Essay), James Jean (BFA 2001 Illustration), Mark Lang (MFA 1990 Illustration as Visual Essay), Sakura Maku (BFA 2004 Illustration), Alison Moritsugu (MFA 1991 Illustration as Visual Essay), Tim Okamura (MFA 1993 Illustration as Visual Essay), Mu Pan (BFA 2001 Illustration, MFA 2007 Illustration as Visual Essay), Matt Panuska (BFA 2012 Illustration), Rachel Pontious (BFA 2011 Illustration), Lane Twitchell (MFA 1995 Illustration as Visual Essay), Martin Wittfooth (MFA 2008 Illustration as Visual Essay) and Jason Yarmosky (BFA 2010 Illustration).  

Pre-Commencement Reception for the Class of 2013

Image of the Alumni Society Award Recipients with the Alumni Society Board

On May 8th, The Office of Alumni Affairs honored the best and the brightest of the Class of 2013 at the annual Pre-Commencement Reception. Alumni Society award recipients, and other students graduating with honors, accolades or awards all mingled and celebrated together at the Visual Arts Gallery. The night was a huge success, with 260 graduates and their guests in attendance.

Save the Date: Summer Alumni Mixer

Monday, July 15
6:30 – 8:30pm

Radegast Hall & Biergarten
113 North 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY
Admission is free, exclusive to alumni

Back by popular demand, the Alumni Affairs office invites you to an evening of networking and mingling at this friendly Williamsburg biergarten. The first drink is on the house; program details to follow shortly on our Upcoming Events page. RSVP to alumnirsvp@sva.edu and note "Summer Alumni Mixer" in the subject line.

Featured Alumnus Story

SVA alumni Rachel Loube (MFA 2011 Social Documentary Film) and John Mattiuzzi (MFA 2012 Computer Art) are among the select winners of the 40th Annual Student Academy Awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to recognize and encourage the best student filmmaking at the college level in the U.S. To become finalists, students participated in one of three regional competitions with films representing drama, documentary, animation and alternative film. Heading into the final round, SVA had more films than any other school in the running.

To learn more about this alumni success story and others, visit
SVA Close Up.