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- 3/28/13: Cultural Critic Greil Marcus to Speak at School of Visual Arts 2013 Commencement Exercises
Cultural Critic Greil Marcus to Speak at School of Visual Arts 2013 Commencement Exercises
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 1pm
Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas
Private event; Press seats available at 212.592.2010 or proffice@sva.edu
School of Visual Arts announced today that distinguished journalist and cultural critic Greil Marcus has accepted the College’s invitation to speak at this year’s commencement exercises. The event takes place on Thursday, May 9, 2013, 1pm, at Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas, New York City. The ceremony is a ticketed event and open to students and invited guests only. It will be streamed live via a webcast at www.sva.edu/commencement.
Greil Marcus, author of the highly acclaimed book Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ’n’ Roll Music (1975), first began writing criticism in 1968 at Rolling Stone, where he remains a contributing editor. He has since written as a music, film, television, and literary columnist for City (San Francisco), Politicks, Artforum, Creem, The Village Voice, Salon, New West/California, Interview, The New York Times, Esquire, City Pages (Minneapolis) and The Believer, where his “Real Life Rock Top 10” column appears regularly. His work has also appeared in Die Zeit, The London Review of Books, The Sunday Times of London, Another Room, and other publications.
Mr. Marcus’ 1989 book Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century—a study of the hidden voices of counterculture in 1970s London, 1950s Paris, and Zurich and Berlin in the nineteen-teens—inspired a soundtrack album by Rough Trade and a theatrical adaptation by the Rude Mechanicals of Austin, Texas. His many other publications include Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession (1991), The Dustbin of History (1995), The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes (1997), Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives (2000), The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice (2006), and most recently The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years (2011). He co-edited A New Literary History of America (2009) with Werner Sollors and The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad (2004) with Sean Wilentz.
Since 2000, Mr. Marcus has taught at Princeton, University of Minnesota, New York University, and most frequently at the New School and the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Oakland, California.
Greil Marcus will join a distinguished group of leaders in the arts, humanities and public service who have spoken at SVA’s commencement exercises in past years, including multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, playwrights Edward Albee and Tony Kushner, historian Robert A. Caro, Governor Mario Cuomo, biologist Dr. Gerald Edelman, opera singer Ronan Tynan and actor B.D. Wong as well as New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof and Frank Rich.
SVA President David Rhodes will confer BFA, MAT, MFA and MPS degrees on more than 1,100 degree candidates in SVA’s 2013 graduation class at the commencement exercises.
School of Visual Arts is a comprehensive college of art and design offering the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in advertising; animation; cartooning; computer art, computer animation and visual effects; film and video; fine arts; graphic design; illustration; interior design; photography; and visual and critical studies; the degree of Master of Fine Arts in art criticism and writing; art practice; computer art; design; design criticism; design for social innovation; fine arts; illustration as visual essay; interaction design; photography, video and related media; products of design; social documentary film; and visual narrative (beginning summer 2013); the degree of Master of Professional Studies in art therapy; branding; digital photography; fashion photography; and live action short film; the degree of Master of Arts in critical theory and the arts; and the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching in art education.
With over 6,000 students and 1,100 faculty members, SVA represents one of the largest and most influential creative communities in the world. SVA counts some of the world's most acclaimed artists among its more than 27,000 alumni. Many thousands of them constitute the core of the cultural capital of the world, New York City, while thousands of others can be found throughout the U.S. and in over thirty countries. Some notable alumni include: fine artists Inka Essenhigh, Rodney Alan Greenblat, Keith Haring, Suzanne McClelland, Elizabeth Peyton, Alexis Rockman, Kenny Scharf, Gary Simmons and Sarah Sze; photographers Guy Aroch, Renée Cox, Justine Kurland and Lorna Simpson. Others include Paul Davis, principal, Paul Davis Studio; Sal DeVito, creative director, DeVito/Verdi; Pete Hamill, author and journalist; Patrick McDonnell, creator, Mutts comic strip; Bill Plympton, Academy-Award nominee, Guard Dog; Bryan Singer, director, X-Men, Usual Suspects; Carlos Saldanha, director, Ice Age: The Meltdown and Rio; Harris Savides, cinematographer, Zodiac and Milk.
School of Visual Arts has been a leader in the education of artists, designers, and creative professionals for more than six decades. With a faculty of distinguished working professionals, dynamic curriculum, and an emphasis on critical thinking, SVA is a catalyst for innovation and social responsibility. Comprised of more than 6,000 students at its Manhattan campus and 35,000 alumni in 100 countries, SVA also represents one of the most influential artistic communities in the world. For information about the College’s 31 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, visit sva.edu.Media Contact: Lisa Batchelder, 212.592.2164, lbatchelder@sva.edu.
- 6/23/12: School of Visual Arts Announces a New Master of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Narrative
School of Visual Arts Announces a New Master of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Narrative
New York, NY, June 23, 2012—Beginning in the summer of 2013, the School of Visual Arts (SVA) will offer an MFA in Visual Narrative. The MFA is built on an innovative approach to storytelling: the education of the “artist as author,” which puts equal emphasis on creative writing and visual expression. This flexible, low-residency 60-credit program is designed for working professionals and recent graduates from all creative disciplines who are interested in incorporating visual narrative into their art practice.
The program will be chaired by editorial illustrator and comic book artist Nathan Fox, who graduated from SVA in 2002 with an MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay. Fox announced the program’s launch during his presentation at this year’s Heroes Convention (HeroesCon 2012) in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Great visual storytellers challenge our notions of self and truth, engaging an audience to its core,” Fox said beforehand. “That level of visual narrative becomes an experience, a moment not soon forgotten, a memory forever cherished. These works have withstood the test of time, becoming part of our history and cultural identities.”
Students in the program will be on campus in Manhattan for three intensive eight-week summer residencies. During the fall and spring semesters, they will work online, synthesizing the skills and crafts presented in the summer sessions. During the summer, students will attend classes and seminars and work in the studios for eight to ten hours per day, six days a week. The summer sessions will concentrate on advanced writing, digital media and the process and craft of visual storytelling.
Courses include “History of Visual Storytelling: The Picture Book,” “Form, Empathy and Character Play” and “Web and Digital Media.” In the third year, each student will produce, curate and/or publish a narrative thesis in both analog and digital form that will be exhibited in a group show in one of the SVA galleries. “Since visual communication technologies are advancing rapidly in such areas as e-books, interactive websites, podcasts, social media outlets and mobile devices,” said Fox, “the program is geared toward preparing students for the challenges and opportunities in this digital marketplace.”
Applicants with a figurative art background in any medium are welcome. Fox said that there is a growing demand for talented and original content creators in all forms of advertising, fine arts, game design, picture books, graphic novels, film, illustration and animation. He continued, “The MFA Visual Narrative Department at SVA will enable students to become creative, responsible arbiters of visual storytelling, able to shape their own identities, artistic voices and narrative art, regardless of medium.”
Faculty members include Jennifer Daniel, illustrator and graphics director; Edward Hemingway, feature reporter, comic writer and children’s book author; Ross MacDonald, author, illustrator and designer; Matt Madden, writer and artist; Leonard Marcus, children’s book illustration expert; Benjamin Marra, comic book writer and artist, founder and publisher of Traditional Comics; Dan Nadel, author and owner of PictureBox, Inc.; Matt Rota, illustrator; and Ben Zackheim, senior product manager and director for AOL Games.
Additional information about the MFA Visual Narrative Department at SVA can be found at http://sva.edu/mfavisualnarrative.
Nathan Fox is an editorial illustrator and comic book artist. His work has appeared in the The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine, Interview, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Wired, ESPN The Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, Spin, Mad Magazine, Image Comics, Vertigo, Dark Horse Comics and Marvel. In addition, his art has been featured in projects for MTV, the Burton US Open 2009, the Nike House of Hoops, the 1800 Tequila 2012 Essential Artist Series Bottles, Instant Winner, REAL Skateboards and many others.
School of Visual Arts is a comprehensive college of art and design which has been authorized by the New York State Education Department to confer the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in advertising; animation; cartooning; computer art, animation and visual effects; film and video; fine arts; graphic design; illustration; interior design; photography; and visual and critical studies; and to confer the degree of Master of Fine Arts in art criticism and writing; art practice; computer art; design; design criticism; design for social innovation; fine arts; illustration as visual essay; interaction design; photography, video and related media; products of design; social documentary film; and visual narrative. SVA also offers the degree of Master of Arts in critical theory and the arts; and the degree of Master of Professional Studies in art therapy; branding; digital photography; fashion photography; and live action short film; and the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching in art education.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For further information or to arrange interviews with Nathan Fox, please contact the Office of Communication at 212.592.2010 or proffice@sva.edu.
- 5/1/12: School of Visual Arts Launches “23 on 23,” the 23rd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival
Reeves Lehmann, chair of the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), announced today that the 23rd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival, or “23 on 23,” will be held in New York City on Sunday, May 6 through Wednesday, May 9, 2012. The four-day event will showcase more than 100 films and animations from students graduating this spring, as well as celebrate 23rd Street as a home for the college and the theater. Annie Flocco, producer/filmmaker and SVA faculty member, will produce the event; Meredith Engstrom will co-produce. This year’s headlining sponsors are: AbelCine; Act Zero Films; Adorama Rental Company; AJA Video Systems; Animation Magazine; Avid Technology, Inc.; Blue Sky Studios; Bryan Singer; CAVA – SVA Computer Store; Eastman Kodak Company; Emmett/Furla Films; Feature Systems/Kits and Expendables; Foto Care; Future Media Concepts; Gotham Sound & Communications, Inc.; Machinima, Inc.; National Board of Review; New York Women in Film & Television; Nice Shoes; Rota6; Scheimpflug; and SCS Agency, Inc. One hundred percent of the sponsors’ donations will benefit thesis students in the form of grants and in-kind gifts.
The festival kicks off with three days of film and animation screenings, and concludes with an awards ceremony on May 9. Thirteen awards—including Outstanding Film and Achievement in Directing, Outstanding Documentary, Outstanding Traditional and Stop Motion Animation, and the New York Women in Film and Television Award—are given to students in recognition for outstanding thesis work. All festival screenings and the awards ceremony are free to the general public and will take place at SVA’s state-of-the-art theater, located at 333 West 23rd Street, NYC. The final list of presenters and special guests will be made public at a later date, and an outdoor screening in June, which will highlight many of the winning films, is in the works.
“We are proud the Dusty Film and Animation Festival is celebrating its 23rd year, and pleased to have the College and the theater on bustling 23rd street,” says Reeves Lehmann. “What better way to meet our neighbors than to host ‘23 on 23’! We hope the public will enjoy another great year of work from SVA’s filmmakers and animators, who we know will entertain and provide food for thought for diverse audiences.”
The Dusty Film and Animation Festival was established and named after SVA Founder Silas “Dusty” H. Rhodes with the mission of introducing films made by BFA Film, Video and Animation Department students to a wider audience. “Our festival receives industry-wide recognition and is considered one of the top student film festivals in the country,” Annie Flocco notes.
SVA is widely regarded as one of the leading art schools in the country for its innovative curriculum, unparalleled faculty of more than 1100 creative professionals, and its participation in the larger arts community of New York City. BFA Film, Video and Animation Department alumni have received accolades from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Sundance Film Festival; International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France; American Film Institute; Women in Film; and the National Board of Review, among many renowned institutions and organizations.
SVA in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction for their artistic vision.
For more information on the 2012 Dusty Film and Animation Festival or to speak with one of the experts available for interview, please contact Justin Loeber, Loren Kegler or Alex Hammond at 212-260-7576 or Media@MouthPublicRelations.com.
- 4/4/12: The MFA Design Department at the School of Visual Arts Presents "Designer As ___"
The MFA Design Department at the School of Visual Arts Presents "Designer As ___"
18 Students Showcase Products, Campaign, Apps and More
Wednesday, April 18, 1 - 7:30pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
The MFA Design Department at the School of Visual Arts, also known as Designer as Author + Entrepreneur, presents Thesis Forum 2012: “Designer As ___,” a showcase of proposals for products, campaigns, apps, and more, reflecting the multitude of roles that designers play in order to offer entrepreneurial solutions for today’s complex social and commercial marketplace. The Thesis Forum takes place on Wednesday, April 18 from 1 - 7:30pm at the SVA Theatre, located at 333 West 23 Street. It is a free event targeted to designers, editors and hiring managers. Register in advance at http://designeras.eventbrite.com.
The annual Thesis Forum and Thesis Launch are platforms for MFA candidates to introduce their wares to the public and receive feedback. Each graduating student presents a conceptual pitch and promotional video as a well-crafted narrative that highlights the reasons for, and consequences of, the project. This is a launching pad for innovation and inspiration, as well as creative and business development.
Here are brief descriptions for several of the projects that will be presented:
• Jesse Yuan presents “Talewind,” a storytelling website that aims to bring value back to unknown artifacts and bridge the gap between multigenerational families. Combining interactions around the family dinner table, Talewind creates opportunities for families to have more meaningful conversations through object-based storytelling.
• Leen Sadder introduces “Beinetna,” a Beirut-based youth initiative that promotes open dialogue about women’s health and sexuality among college girls in Lebanon. It does this by launching as a private online platform where college-aged girls can have anonymous conversations with their peers, starting with a single question.
• Joanna Kuczek revives Polish culture with “Krasula,” a pop-up restaurant that brings Polish pierogi to the single-food scene in New York City. By reinterpreting the traditional pierogi and using farm-fresh ingredients, she brings gourmet to the streets.
• Elliott Walker releases the first issue of “Day Job,” a biannual print publication that explores contemporary work culture through the personal pursuits and values of people around the world.
• Elisa Bates screens “Away,” a short documentary film that takes a look at the counter-culture lifestyle of NYC surfing through the lenses of three women, divulging the highs and lows of riding waves at Rockaway Beach.
• Sylvia Villada presents “Rock & Rad”, the stars of a digital book series designed to help children ages 5 to 8 and their families understand how healthy eating and staying active positively affects their physical, mental and emotional habits of mind.
• Bruno Zalum show “LFNTV”, a mood-based video experience for iPad and iPhone devices. It adds wonder to one’s daily downtime by delivering hand-picked content through an immersive and personal televisual experience.
The MFA Design Department, now known as Designer as Author + Entrepreneur, launched in 1998 as an alternative to traditional masters’ programs that emphasize form over content. The MFA in Design provides the education, inspiration, and experience to insure that students transcend the common definition of designers as service providers to become individual and collaborative authors. As they become productive members of the larger media world, the community of MFA Design alumni grows more influential each year.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact Gayle Snible at 212.592.2209, or e-mail gsnible@sva.edu.
- 3/8/12 : New School of Visual Arts Website Highlights Visual and Social Media Content Created by the SVA Community
New School of Visual Arts Website Highlights Visual and Social Media Content Created by the SVA Community
New York, March 8, 2012 – School of Visual Arts launched a redesigned website today, with a dynamic and visually rich online presence that aggregates media feeds of various types – social, video, image, text – to reflect the breadth of the SVA community and bring its collective artistic output to the forefront. The site can be viewed at sva.edu.
“The new SVA site isn’t just an online brochure,” says SVA Executive Vice President Anthony P. Rhodes. “It’s more like a family portrait that changes every day. With over 1,100 faculty members, 6,000 students and 27,000 alumni, SVA is a pretty big family. From the homepage to every other page on the site, we’re showing off the best work made by our students, faculty and alumni – their words, images, blogs, tweets and more.”
Built on contemporary open-source architecture, the new site provides an easy-to-navigate framework for finding information and discovering new content created by students, faculty and alumni in SVA’s thirty academic and studio departments. The landing webpage is curated daily, reflecting SVA’s ever-growing pool of talent in the fine arts, design, advertising, film and photography communities. The rich visual content also enables users to tap into SVA’s exhibitions and public programming, which appeal to the New York arts community at large. The website’s redesign was led by SVA Director of Design and Digital Media Michael Walsh and implemented by the New York-based interactive agency Funny Garbage.
School of Visual Arts is a comprehensive college of art and design offering the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in advertising; animation; cartooning; computer art, computer animation and visual effects; film and video; fine arts; graphic design; illustration; interior design; photography; and visual and critical studies; the degree of Master of Fine Arts in art criticism and writing; art practice; computer art; design; design criticism; design for social innovation; fine arts; illustration as visual essay; interaction design; photography, video and related media; products of design; social documentary film; and visual narrative (beginning summer 2013); the degree of Master of Professional Studies in art therapy; branding; digital photography; fashion photography; and live action short film; the degree of Master of Arts in Critical Theory and the Arts; and the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching in art education.
With over 6000 students and 1100 faculty members, SVA represents one of the largest and most influential creative communities in the world. SVA counts some of the world's most acclaimed artists among its more than 27,000 alumni. Many thousands of them constitute the core of the cultural capital of the world, New York City, while thousands of others can be found throughout the U.S. and in over thirty countries. Some notable alumni include: fine artists Inka Essenhigh, Rodney Alan Greenblat, Keith Haring, Suzanne McClelland, Elizabeth Peyton, Alexis Rockman, Kenny Scharf, Gary Simmons and Sarah Sze; photographers Guy Aroch, Renée Cox, Justine Kurland and Lorna Simpson. Others include Paul Davis, principal, Paul Davis Studio; Sal DeVito, creative director, DeVito/Verdi; Pete Hamill, author and journalist; Patrick McDonnell, creator, Mutts comic strip; Bill Plympton, Academy-Award nominee, Guard Dog; Bryan Singer, director, X-Men, Usual Suspects; Carlos Saldanha, director, Ice Age: The Meltdown and Rio; Harris Savides, cinematographer, Zodiac and Milk.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media contact: For images or additional information, contact Gayle Snible at 212.592.2209 or proffice@sva.edu.
- 2/24/12: “The Gertrude Stein Paradox: Michèle Cone heads a panel of renowned Stein scholars”
“The Gertrude Stein Paradox: Michèle Cone heads a panel of renowned Stein scholars”
A panel discussion on Stein’s role as writer, thinker and art patron
Monday, April 2, 2012, 7pm
SVA Theatre
333 West 23 Street, New York City
Free and open to the public
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents The Gertrude Stein Paradox, a roundtable discussion led by historian and SVA faculty member Michèle C. Cone about Gertrude Stein, patron of the arts and mercurial author and thinker. The panel discussion coincides with “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde,” the exhibition on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from February 21 – June 3, 2012. Dr. Cone will be joined in conversation by Mary Ann Caws, distinguished professor of English, French and comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Catharine Stimpson, University Professor and Dean Emerita of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University; and Barbara Will, professor of English at Dartmouth College. Presented by the BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department, the panel will take place on Monday, April 2, 2012 at 7pm at the SVA Theatre, located at 333 West 23 Street, New York City.
“A hundred years ago, a young American expatriate named Gertrude Stein became a public figure in Paris, loved by some and mocked by others. To this day—she died in 1946—her writing, thinking and art collecting continue to stir passion and controversy,” remarks Dr. Cone. “The panel will confront some of the most difficult questions about Stein: An intellectual and a student of William James in her youth, why did she love popular literature so, including detective stories? A modernist whose friends Picasso and Max Jacob flirted with anarchism in the 1900s, why did she become, during the years of persecution of Jews and gays, a supporter of the Vichy regime?”
Each panelist will weigh in on a particular aspect of what Dr. Cone calls the “Stein Paradox.”
Michèle Cone will introduce the “Stein Paradox” by contrasting the collector’s early taste for Picasso and Gris with her later interest in the kitsch Picabia and the neo-Romantic stage designers of the 20s and 30s. Mary Ann Caws will address the modernist Gertrude Stein and discuss Stein’s writings on Picasso and Gris. Catharine Stimpson will confront the mystery surrounding Stein’s love of detective stories and Barbara Will will discuss the difficult and complex problem of Stein's attraction to—and work on behalf of—the Vichy regime during WWII.
About the panelists:
Mary Ann Caws is distinguished professor of English, French and comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A prolific writer, she has been chiefly concerned with contemporaries of Gertrude Stein, men and women who were active in Europe during the interwar era. She has written on French Surrealism, as well as the British Bloomsbury group, Picasso and Dora Maar, Dali and Motherwell.
Michèle C. Cone, longtime faculty member at SVA, divides her writing between modern art and the Vichy (Pétain) years in France. She is the author of French Modernisms: Perspectives on Art Before, During and After Vichy (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Artists under Vichy (Princeton University Press, 2001) and The Roots and Routes of Art in the 20th Century (Horizon Press, 1975). She is currently completing the story of her family during WWII in Vichy France and preparing an article on Gertrude Stein’s extensive network during WWII.
Catharine R. Stimpson is University Professor and Dean Emerita of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University. A founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and the author of some 150 monographs, essays, stories and reviews in Transatlantic Review, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review and Critical Inquiry, she served as co-editor of the two-volume Library of America edition of the Works of Gertrude Stein (Library of America, 1998).
Barbara Will is professor of English at Dartmouth College. She has written extensively on modernist literature and culture and is a specialist on the work of Gertrude Stein. She has contributed several important essays on Stein in the interdisciplinary journal Modernism/Modernity. Her current book, Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ and the Vichy Dilemma (Columbia University Press, 2011), considers the relationship between Stein and the French scholar Bernard Faÿ, chief of anti-masonic repression during the Vichy regime in France.
The BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department at SVA is designed for ambitious students who want a strong connection between their academic and studio work. This unified, interdisciplinary approach allows students to develop the ability to understand and interpret the art, philosophy and visual thinking of the past and present; and to make new art while learning the history of practices, theories and artworks.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty comprises professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact Keri Murawski at 212.592.2164 or e-mail kmurawski@sva.edu.Image: Fracis Picabia, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1933, Oil on Canvas, 45 5/8 x 23 3/4 inches, Copyright 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York /ADAGP, Paris.
- 2/21/12: School of Visual Arts Announces the SVA/BBC Design Film Festival
School of Visual Arts Announces the SVA/BBC Design Film Festival
Presented by SVA’s MFA Design Departments, Festival includes design documentaries about products, advertising in the 60s and the NYC debut of The Book: The Last Chapter?
Saturday, March 24, 1 - 9pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street, New York City
$15 pass includes all screenings
School of Visual Arts presents the SVA/BBC Design Film Festival featuring a once-in-a lifetime chance to view groundbreaking BBC films that have never previously been screened in the United States. The program includes design, advertising, and book-related films on topics such as the future of the book, the history of Levi’s 501 Jeans and the Barcelona chair, and real-life stories of the ad men—and women—behind the fictional television series Mad Men. Curated by Steven Heller, co-chair of the MFA Design Department at SVA, and Adam Harrison Levy, faculty member in the MFA Design Criticism Department at SVA, the festival takes place Saturday, March 24, 1 - 9pm, at the SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street. Tickets are $15 for the entire day of screenings and available from Eventbrite at http://svabbc-auto.eventbrite.com/.
The festival marks the New York premiere of The Book: the Last Chapter?, an inventive and thought-provoking documentary about the fate of the book in the age of the iPad and the Kindle. Writers including Gary Shteyngart and Douglas Coupland, publishing entrepreneurs and literary agents weigh in on this crucial cultural question.
Selling the Sixties: How Madison Avenue Invented a Decade tells the story of the advertising world that inspired the hit television series Mad Men. Including interviews with luminaries such as Gay Talese and legendary advertising creative George Lois (famous for his Esquire covers, Xerox ads, work with Andy Warhol and Muhammad Ali and his reinvention of MTV), Selling the Sixties relays the story of consumerism in America. George Lois, the original Mad Man, will be present and taking questions after the screening.
The SVA/BBC Design Film Festival spotlights the filmmaking career of Alan Yentob, the creative director of the BBC. Yentob is an award-winning filmmaker and creator of the innovative BBC arts series Arena. In 1988 he became Controller of BBC2, where he commissioned the first films that focused specifically on design. He has since become the creative director of the BBC and presenter of the arts series Imagine. Mr. Yentob will be present for the premiere and will be in a conversation with Adam Harrison Levy. He will be taking questions from the audience.
“BBC Documentaries are among the greatest in the world,” says SVA’s Steven Heller. “Early on, its producers took an interest in design. Put those two things together, and the result is a library of great design films. We wanted to show a few at SVA for our students and the general public. The amazing thing is that they have not been seen in the United States. Now, we can all benefit.”
The SVA/BBC Design Film Festival is presented by the following SVA departments: MFA Design, MFA Design Criticism, MFA Design for Social Innovation, MFA Interaction Design and MFA Products of Design.
SVA/BBC Design Film Festival schedule
from the Objects of Desire BBC series:
1pm: Levi 501s
1:35pm: Barcelona Chair
2:10pm: Sony Walkman
4:30-5:30pm: Selling the Sixties: How Madison Avenue Dreamed the Decade
5:30 - 6pm: George Lois Q&A
7 - 8pm: The Book: The Last Chapter?
8 - 8:30pm: Alan Yentob Q&A
Alan Yentob is the creative director of the BBC and editor and presenter of the Imagine series. A celebrated and award-winning program maker, Yentob quickly came to personify the creative spirit of the BBC. From 1973 to 1975 he was a producer/director with Omnibus, where his films famously included Cracked Actor: David Bowie. In 1978 he created the mold-breaking arts series Arena and was editor until 1985. In 1985 Alan became head of music and arts and stayed in the post until 1988 when he was appointed controller of BBC Two. Under his five-year stewardship BBC Two was revitalized and introduced many programming innovations including The Late Show, Have I Got News For You?, Absolutely Fabulous and Wallace and Gromit’s The Wrong Trousers. Yentob was appointed controller of BBC One in 1993. He became director of programmes in 1997, then director of television in 1998. In June 2004 he became the BBC’s creative director.
George Lois practically invented advertising as we know it. He is famous for countless marketing miracles that have transformed our culture from popularizing Xerox, providing the visual punch for the famous covers of Esquire magazine in the 1960s, to the reinvention of MTV. His images are some of the most iconic of the 20th century including Andy Warhol famously drowning in a can of Campbell’s Tomato soup and Muhammad Ali pierced with arrows like a latter day St. Sebastian on the cross. Lois even made the unknown Tommy Hilfiger famous with just one ad. Prolific, proletarian and profane, Lois is the author of many books including his autobiography George, Be Careful and George Lois and his Creation of the Big Idea. In 2008 the Museum of Modern Art celebrated his achievements with a year-long exhibition of 38 of his famous covers for Esquire.
Steven Heller is co-chair (with Lita Talarico) of the SVA MFA Design/Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program and the SVA Masters Workshop in Rome. He writes the “Visuals” column for The New York Times Book Review, a weekly column for The Atlantic online and everyday for The Daily Heller/Imprint online. He is a co-founder of SVA’s MFA Interaction Design (with Liz Danzico), MPS Branding (with Debbie Millman) and MFA Products of Design (with Allan Chochinov). Heller has written more than 140 books on graphic design, illustration and political art, including The Design Entrepreneur (with Lita Talarico), Paul Rand, Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century, Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design, Citizen Designer, Stylepedia: A Guide to Graphic Design Mannerisms, Quirks, and Conceits (with Louise Fili), The Anatomy of Design: Uncovering the Influences and Inspirations in Modern Graphic Design, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State, and 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design. He is a contributing editor for Print, Baseline, Design Observer and Eye. He writes for Port, Design Bureau and other publications. Heller is the recipient of the Art Directors Club Special Educators Award, the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement, the School of Visual Arts’ Masters Series Award and the 2011 National Design Award for "Design Mind."
Adam Harrison Levy is a writer and filmmaker. He specializes in interviews for BBC television documentaries covering art, film and history. He was the U.S. producer for Selling the Sixties, a cultural history of the world of advertising in New York and Close Up about the artist Chuck Close. His directing credits for the BBC include: Step Right Up (about the relationship between culture and technology), War Machine (about the relationship of war and technology) and Wood Against Steel (about the role of the longbow at the battle of Agincourt). He wrote a catalog essay for Hiroshima: Ground Zero, 1945 at the International Center of Photography (2011) and Saul Leiter at the Deichterhallen, Germany (2012). He is a contributing writer for Design Observer. Levy teaches a class on “the Art of the Interview” for SVA’s MFA Design Criticism department.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media contact: For images and interviews, contact Gayle Snible at 212.592.2209 or gsnible@sva.edu.
- 01/10/12 : SVA Announces Spring 2012 Art in the First Person Lecture Series
School of Visual Arts Announces Spring 2012 Art in the First Person Lecture Series
23 Talks with Notable Artist, Critics and Curators
School of Visual Arts (SVA) announces the Spring 2012 Art in the First Person lecture series, 23 talks that bring together notable artists, critics, curators and historians for in-depth discussions on issues in contemporary art. Offering a 360-degree perspective on art today, speakers this season include:
- artists Susan Bee, Kathe Burkhart, Susan Hefuna, Milagros de la Torre and Carrie Moyer
- critics Mark Dery, Max Kozloff, Bettina Mathes and Robert Storr
- historians Mary Ann Caws, Michele C. Cone, Catharine Stimpson, Barbara Will and Anne Wagner
Admission to all Art in the First Person events is free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. No reservations are required. Please visit the Art in the First Person Web page or call 212.592.2010 for more information.
Event Details
Steve Winter
Monday, January 16, 7pm
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Photographer Steve Winter’s world travels for National Geographic assignments have taken him to Brazil, where he was stalked by jaguars; Myanmar, where he was trapped in quicksand in the world’s largest tiger reserve; the Himalayas, where he was camped for six weeks at 30 degrees below photographing snow leopards; and Iceland, where he flew over erupting volcanoes. Winter will discuss the strategies, skills and technology required to photograph the most elusive subjects in the toughest environments. His talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.
David Graeber: On Bureaucratic Technologies and the Future as Dream-Time
Thursday, January 19, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
The twentieth century produced a very clear sense of what the future was to be, but we now seem unable to imagine any sort of redemptive future. Anthropologist and writer David Graeber asks,"How did this happen?" One reason is the replacement of what might be called poetic technologies with bureaucratic ones. Another is the terminal perturbations of capitalism, which is increasingly unable to envision any future at all. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
Jeremy Sigler: A Reading of Selected Poetry
Tuesday, January 24, 6:30pm
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Jeremy Sigler is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including Crackpot Poet (Black Square Editions, 2010), Mallet Eyes (Left Hand Books, 2000) and To and To (Left Hand Books, 1998), as well as the digital book, Math. A senior editor at Parkett and a contributor to The Brooklyn Rail, Sigler was recently awarded a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, Texas. He is a lecturer in the sculpture department at Yale University. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.
Gerald Cyrus
Monday, January 30, 7pm
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Photographer and SVA alumnus Gerald Cyrus (MFA 1992 Photography and Related Media) is best known for his body of work exploring the nightclubs and jazz musicians of Harlem, which was published in the monograph Stormy Monday: New York’s Uptown Jazz Scene (2008). He will present an overview of past and recent projects, including new works from Camden, New Jersey and Bahia, Brazil. His talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.
Kathe Burkhart
Thursday, February 2, 7pm
209 East 23 Street,3rd-floor Amphitheater
Kathe Burkhart is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in painting, drawing, installation, photography, performance and video who is well known for her Liz Taylor Series of paintings. She has published three books of fiction and has been on the faculty of New York University since 2000. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Art Department
Monday, February 13, 7pm
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Lee Kyung Kim and Shawn Brydges discuss their approach to the business of photography and the roster of artists they represent at their agency, Art Department. Their talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.
Anne Wagner: Time Lines: On the Drawings of Anthony McCall
Tuesday, February 14, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Art historian Anne Wagner will explore artist Anthony McCall’s engagement with memory and loss. For McCall, time is of the essence. The question is how to represent it, now that the age-old tropes of skull, scythe and hourglass have had their day. Wagner will consider the artist’s expansion of the means of time’s depiction--an expansion that rested on his development of a new graphic language. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
The Case for Appropriation: A Panel Moderated by Joy Garnett
Thursday, February 16, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Artist and NEWSgrist blogger Joy Garnett is joined in conversation by curator Christopher Phillips, art historian and attorney Virginia Rutledge, critic and curator Robert Storr, and artist Oliver Wasow to discuss the creative methods and ideas associated with appropriation art today, as issues of appropriation enter the broader public and legal debate and copyright infringement lawsuits between artists are on the rise. The panelists will discuss why appropriation and other forms of visual referencing are important elements in art making and how to defend these practices in and beyond the courtroom. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.
Max Kozloff: As Luck Would Have It: The Element of Chance in Photography
Tuesday, February 21, 6:30pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Photography may be considered the ideal medium for fishing out things, appearances and events that don’t make sense or otherwise defy reason. In this lecture art historian and critic Max Kozloff will discuss the havoc wreaked upon the notion of story in photography by writers sympathetic to the element of chance, maintaining that as an explanatory principle to explain what happens, chance explains nothing. This will be illustrated by various photographs featuring the smiles of women. Presented by the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department.
Susan Bee: Recalculating: Paintings and Collaborations
Thursday, February 23, 6:30pm
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Susan Bee is a painter, editor and book artist living in New York City. Bee is the co-editor with Mira Schor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artist’s Writings, Theory, and Criticism, published by Duke University Press in 2000, and the co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online. She has published many artist’s books, including collaborations with Susan Howe and Johanna Drucker. In addition to numerous solo and group shows, her artwork is included in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, The New York Public Library, and Harvard University Library. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Amy Stein
Monday, February 27, 7pm
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Amy Stein is a photographer, educator and blogger based in New York City on faculty at SVA. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. She will present an overview of her critically acclaimed monograph, Domesticated (Photolucida, 2008), and discuss her most recent work in progress, Stranded. Her talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.
Fixing Shadows: Milagros de la Torre in Conversation with Charles Traub and Carla Stellweg
Tuesday, February 28, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
In conjunction with the exhibition “Observed: Milagros de la Torre” on view at the Americas Society Gallery, Peruvian artist Milagros de la Torre will will discuss the many facets of her research. She will be joined in conversation by photographer Charles Traub, chair of the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department at SVA, and art historian and curator Carla Stellweg, faculty member in the Art History program at SVA. De la Torre is one of the foremost conceptual photographers active today. Her images often project an eerie beauty and visual seduction that precedes their thoughtful and at times haunting proposal. “Observed: Milagros de la Torre” is on view at Americas Society Gallery, 680 Park Avenue, February 8 - April 14. Panel presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.
Justine Reyes
Monday, March 19, 7pm
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Photographer Justine Reyes presents her most recent body of work, Vanitas, which takes its inspiration from Dutch vanitas paintings and incorporates personal artifacts within the traditional construct of still life. Vanitas explores the power of objects to bear witness to intangible ideas and emotional truths. Her talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.
Sasha Wolf
Monday, March 26, 7pm
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Gallerist Sasha Wolf, owner of Sasha Wolf Gallery in New York City, specializes in contemporary photography with a special emphasis on documentary and post-documentary work. She is also co-founder of the Exhibition Lab, a modern-day salon and study center for people interested in engaging with the diverse photographic community of New York City. Her talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.
Michael Sappol: How to Be Modern with Scientific Illustration: Fritz Kahn, Popular Medicine and the Visual Rhetoric of Modernity, 1916-1960
Thursday, March 29, 6:30pm
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Fritz Kahn (1888-1968), a German-Jewish physician and popular science writer, was one of the first proponents of modernist scientific illustrations, which were conceptual, metaphorical and self-consciously modern in their aesthetics. Historian Michael Sappol will situate Kahn’s illustrations and larger agenda within Weimar cultural politics, analyze key images and genres and discuss the global diffusion of modernist conceptual scientific illustration. Sappol is a curator and historian at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He is the author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in 19th-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2002), Dream Anatomy (National Institutes of Health, 2006) and co-editor of A Cultural History of the Body in the Age of Empire, 1800-1920 (Berg Publishers, 2010). Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Timothy Sexton
Monday, April 2, 7pm
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Timothy Sexton’s retouching work graces the covers of the world’s top fashion magazines. His clients include Patrick Demarchelier, Mario Gadlewiski, Collier Schorr and David Sims, among many other leading photographers in the fashion industry. His talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.
The Gertrude Stein Paradox: Michele Cone heads a panel of renowned Stein scholars
Monday, April 2, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Coinciding with the exhibition “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde” on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, historian and SVA faculty member Michele C. Cone will lead a roundtable discussion on the sometimes problematic and mercurial figure of Gertrude Stein as a writer, thinker and patron of the arts. Dr. Cone will be joined by Mary Ann Caws, distinguished professor of English, French and comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Catharine Stimpson, university professor and Dean Emerita of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University; and Barbara Will, professor of English at Dartmouth College. With each panelist weighing in on a particular aspect of what Dr. Cone calls the “Stein Paradox,” the discussion will range from Stein’s early embrace of Picasso and Gris and her own cubist writings to her later collecting of works by theater designer neo-Romantics, her absorption in detective stories and her attraction to the fascist regime of Marshal P?tain during WWII. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.
Carrie Moyer
Tuesday, April 3, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Carrie Moyer is a painter and writer. Her paintings have been exhibited extensively both in the US and Europe in such venues as MoMA PS1; the Tang Museum, the Weatherspoon Art Museum and the American University Museum. Her first solo museum show, “Carrie Moyer: Interstellar,” will open at the Worcester Museum in February 2012. With photographer Sue Schaffner, she co-founded one of the first queer interventionist projects, Dyke Action Machine!, a public art project which ran from 1991-2008. Moyer is a contributor to Art in America, Artforum, Modern Painters and The Brooklyn Rail. She serves as a governor for the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is an associate professor in the art department at Hunter College. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Joan Richardson: Into the Cosmic Weather: Imagination as Value
Thursday, April 12, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Scholar Joan Richardson, whose work reflects an interest in the way that philosophy, natural history and science intersect with literature, will give a talk on the influence of Darwin on Ralph Waldo Emerson and those following him into newly imagined territories of becoming. The title of the talk is from a 1948 Wallace Stevens lecture, where he called mind "the most terrible force in the world," "a violence from within that protects us from a violence without." Stevens also said imagination “creates images that are independent of their originals.” Richardson will consider these aspects by tracing Stevens back to Emerson. Richardson is professor of English, comparative literature and American studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and the author of numerous books and essays on Wallace Stevens, Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James, among others. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
Stephen Wilkes
Monday, April 16, 7pm
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Photographer Stephen Wilkes will describe the process behind his most recent series, Day to Night, for which he photographs a scene for a minimum of ten hours from the same perspective, harnessing the power of hundreds of single images to create a fluid visual narrative of day into night within a single frame. His talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.
Yes, You Don’t Know Me--Susan Hefuna in Conversation with Bettina Mathes
Tuesday, April 17, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
If truth is never naked and facts are always dressing up, what does it mean to be an expert? If to find ourselves we must get lost, what do the patterns, grids and notations we invent to navigate our inner and outer worlds look like? If space is a corporeal map, where do we draw the lines? Author and cultural critic Bettina Mathes will talk with German-Egyptian artist Susan Hefuna about disguise and dis/orientation as formal strategies and about Hefuna’s collaboration with choreographer Luca Veggetti for the dance performance “point-move-line” at The Drawing Center. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.
The Pathological Sublime: Morbid Anatomies, Medical Grotesqueries
Saturday, May 12, 10am - 6pm
335 West 16 Street
First theorized by cultural critic Mark Dery, the “pathological sublime” is a kind of fascinated revulsion inspired by medical grotesqueries and anatomical oddities - from taxidermy gone wrong to the Anatomical Venuses of the 18th century to operating-room photos of living bodies. This event brings together cultural theorists, medical historians, artists and curators of private cabinets of curiosities for a day-long conference and a companion exhibition of artworks, oddities and curiosa, the first devoted to this burgeoning field of study and artistic activity. Speakers include Mark Dery, author of The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink (Grove Press, 1999) and Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century (Grove Press, 1996); Joanna Ebenstein, multidisciplinary artist and founder of the blog Morbid Anatomy and the Morbid Anatomy Library; and Suzanne Anker, visual artist, theorist and chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
TEDxChelsea Conference: Ideas Worth Spreading
Friday, June 1, 9am
335 West 16 Street
TEDxChelsea is the first TEDx conference to engage with the art world. TEDx conferences are independently organized events held throughout the world which focus on the convergence of technology, entertainment and design and aim to stimulate dialogue at the local level. TEDxChelsea will bring together three key art constituencies: gallerists, emerging artists and academia. The event is organized by Suzanne Anker, chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA; artist Phil Buehler (MFA 2003 Photography and Related Media); and photographer Reven Wurman, producer of the original TED conferences. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department. Tickets will be available at http://tedxchelsea.org. Registration on the day of the event begins at 8am.
Admission to all events is free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. For a complete schedule of lectures, exhibitions and other public programs organized by the College, please visit the SVA Events page. To receive our weekly e-newsletter and monthly calendar, please visit the SVA calendar signup page.
About SVA
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact the Office of Communication at 212.592.2010 or proffice@sva.edu.
- 9/30/11 : SVA Launches Graduate Program in Critical Theory and the Arts
School of Visual Art Launches Graduate Program in Critical Theory and the Arts
New Degree to Address the Connection Between the Arts and Contemporary Social Issues
Beginning in the fall of 2012, School of Visual Arts (SVA) will offer a Master of Arts degree in Critical Theory and the Arts. The program brings together leading minds in philosophy, sociology and art criticism to examine critical theory in relation to contemporary culture and the arts. The program will be chaired by Dr. Robert Hullot-Kentor, a widely-published philosopher who has taught philosophy, literature and art theory at Boston University, Harvard University and Stanford University, as well as SVA. Students in the new one-year interdisciplinary graduate program will explore critical theory in conjunction with sociological, political and art historical texts, as they delve into the connections between current, pressing social issues and art practice.
"While artists of earlier generations once struggled to disguise the thinking labor that went into their work, today art theory has become part--often an explicit part--of all art-making. To an unprecedented degree, developments in art theory even directly transform art,” explains Hullot-Kentor.
The MA in Critical Theory and the Arts is an intensive 36-credit, three-semester program modeled on the approach of the Frankfurt School of Social Research. It is structured on a foundation of coursework in art theory, aesthetics, art history, social theory and social criticism, accompanied by two seminars -- the Proseminar and the Serious Times Lecture Series. For the program's inaugural year, the Proseminar will focus on the "Convergence of the Arts in the 21st Century" and the Serious Times Lecture Series will be dedicated to the topic, "Why doesn’t the United States make social progress?"
Robert Hullot-Kentor is a distinguished Adorno scholar, the translator of several of T. W. Adorno main works--including Aesthetic Theory and Philosophy of New Music. He is also the author of Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno (Columbia University Press, 2008); Ice Flow: Essay and Commentary on David Salle (Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, 2001); and Terra Infirma: The House that Mowry Baden Built (Open Space, 1998). He has been an external and resident scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Mellon Faculty Fellow at Harvard University and Boston University, and lectured at the Cooper Union and the University of California at Berkeley, among other institutions. Hullot-Kentor has taught in the BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department and the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department at SVA. Hullot-Kentor’s recent essay "Severe Clear," on the architectural plans for Ground Zero, was included in the exhibition catalog for "September 11," currently on view at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.
Joining Hullot-Kentor as members of the core program faculty are social philosopher and media studies scholar Devi Dumbadze; BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department Chair Tom Huhn; and writer and modern American poetry scholar Ellen Levy. In addition to the core faculty, Hullot-Kentor has assembled a group of scholars and artists to serve as visiting instructors in the program, including: artist Cory Arcangel, sculptor Mowry Baden, artist Paul Chan, social critic Frances Fox-Piven, historian Martin Jay,composer Stefan Litwin, art historian Molly Nesbit, scholar Spyros Papapetros, social critic Adolf Reed, curator Jay Sanders, artist Jessica Stockholder, philosopher Robert Paul-Wolff and essayist Eliot Weinberger, among many others. Hullot-Kentor has also gathered a group of graduate associates in a variety of academic backgrounds to work closely with the program participants during their study, including: social philosopher Jacob Blumenfeld; economist John Clegg; sociologist Jeremy Cohan; painter Nora Griffin; and musicologist Robert Wood.
School of Visual Arts is a comprehensive college of art and design offering the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in advertising; animation; cartooning; computer art, computer animation and visual effects; film and video; fine arts; graphic design; illustration; interior design; photography; and visual and critical studies; the degree of Master of Fine Arts in art criticism and writing; art practice; computer art; design; design criticism; design for social innovation (beginning fall 2012); fine arts; illustration as visual essay; interaction design; photography, video and related media; products of design (beginning fall 2012) and social documentary film; the degree of Master of Professional Studies in art therapy; branding; digital photography; fashion photography (beginning fall 2011); and live action short film; and the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching in art education.
School of Visual Arts is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. SVA is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), the International Association of Independent Schools for Art and Design (AIAS) and the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD).
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Prospective students can request more information through the Office of Graduate Admissions at SVA by calling 212.592.2107 or via email at gradadmissions@sva.edu. Information sessions for the new program will be held on October 26, 2011 and November 19, 2011.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact Keri Murawski, publicist, at 212.592.2164 or e-mail kmurawski@sva.edu.
- 8/19/11 : School of Visual Arts Announces Fall 2011 Art in the First Person Lecture Series
School of Visual Arts Announces Fall 2011 Art in the First Person Lecture Series
23 Talks with Notable Artists, Critics and Curators
School of Visual Arts (SVA) announces the Fall 2011 Art in the First Person lecture series, 22 talks that bring together notable artists, critics and curators for in-depth discussions on issues in contemporary art. The spring series begins on September 13 with a panel discussion led by Lindsay Pollock, editor-in-chief at Art in America. Offering a 360-degree perspective on art today, speakers this season include:
- artists Rochelle Feinstein, George Gittoes, Liz Magic Laser, Carolee Schneeman, Alan Sonfist, James McMullan and Edward Sorel
- critics David Cohen, Linda Nochlin, Robert Storr and Livia Tenzer
- curator Elisabeth Biondi and Peter Eleey
Event Details
Panel Discussion on "The Influentials"
Tuesday, September 13, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
In conjunction with the exhibition "The Influentials: SVA Women Alumni Invite Artists Who Have Shaped Their Work," Lindsay Pollock, editor-in-chief at Art in America, leads a panel discussion among several of the participating artists. "The Influentials" celebrates distinguished female alumni of the College and the diverse group of artists who have influenced their practice, tracing the creative lineages across generations, continents and media. Co-curated by Amy Smith-Stewart and Carrie Lincourt, "The Influentials" is on view at the Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, 15th floor, through September 21, 2011.
Sabine Flach: Art as Knowledge Production
Thursday, September 15, 6:30pm
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Dr. Sabine Flach is an art historian and theorist whose research and teaching range from art and art theory to science studies and interdisciplinary issues of modern and contemporary art. Flach is on the faculty at SVA and the head of the international research team Aesthetics, Aisthesis and Media of Embodiment. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
The Role of Women in Photography: Are We There Yet?
Thursday, September 22, 6:30pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Free with a valid college ID. $10 for general public.
An independent curator and former visuals editor at The New Yorker, Elisabeth Biondi moderates a panel on the role of women in photography. Panelists include photography critic Vince Aletti, curator and writer Lyle Rexer and photographers Martine Fougeron, Lisa Kereszi and Sarah Silver. Presented by the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department in partnership with Professional Women Photographers.
Robert Storr: Making It Visible
Thursday, September 22, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Beginning with a consideration of Gerhard Richter's painting September, in the context of a commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, artist and critic Robert Storr discusses the challenges artists face in making their subjects visible. Storr will also look at the alternative "realism" found in the work of Robert Ryman and examine the broad theme of what can and cannot be painted. Storr is dean of the Yale University School of Art. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
Toward an Ethics in Art Writing
Tuesday, October 4, 7pm
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
In a panel discussion moderated by writer Aimee Walleston, contemporary art writers Adam Kleinman, Quinn Latimer, Patricia Milder and Matthew Schum investigate the problem of ethics in relation to their own work and to criticism as a whole. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
Maureen Connor: How to Be an Artist-in-Residence
Thursday, October 6, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Maureen Connor is a visual artist whose work combines elements of installation, video, design, human resources and social justice. Since 2000, she has been developing Personnel, a series of interventions concerned with the art institution as a workplace, which explore the attitudes, needs and desires of the staff at various institutions. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Artists' Rights and Wrongs: Property and Propriety, Invention and Intention
Tuesday, October 11, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
David Cohen, publisher and editor of artcritical.com, probes the philosophical and art historical implications of several recent cases that have gripped art world attention. They include the dispute between Swiss installation artist Christophe Buchel and MASS MoCA, the lawsuit brought against Richard Prince by photographer Patrick Cariou, John Baldessari's altercations with the Giacometti Foundation, and the case of the Warhol Foundation vs. Simon-Whelan. Karen Gover, professor of philosophy at Bennington College, and artist and artnet magazine Editor Walter Robinson respond. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.
Susan Bright and W.M. Hunt: Unseen in The Unseen Eye
Wednesday, October 12, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Author, curator and faculty member Susan Bright interviews author, curator, collector and fellow faculty member Bill Hunt about his new book The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious (Aperture 2011). In addition to the book, their conversation focuses on photographs and ideas that didn’t make it into The Unseen Eye, Hunt’s life as a collector and the passion he has for photography as a non-practitioner. Presented by the BFA Photography Department.
Janelle Lynch
Thursday, October 13, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Photographer and alumnus Janelle Lynch (MFA 1999 Photography and Related Media) discusses and signs copies of her new book, Los Jardines de Mexico (Radius Books, 2011). The book unites four series of photographs taken between 2002 and 2007, three from Mexico City and one from Chiapas. Simultaneously celebratory and sad, the photographs embrace loss as a necessary facilitator of growth. Presented by the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department.
Carolee Schneeman: Mysteries of The Iconographies
Thursday, October 13, 7 pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
In the visual lecture Mysteries of the Iconographies, artist Carolee Schneeman travels backwards and forwards in time to analyze the recurring formal properties in her work. Beginning with her obsessive childhood drawings of a staircase, Schneeman tries to unravel the mysteries of a notched stick, paper folds, indentations and the slice a line makes in space that have followed as unexpected structural motifs. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
The Nelson Manobar
Tuesday, October 18, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Jimbo Blachly and Lytle Shaw, editors of The Chadwick Family Papers, discuss the Nelson Manobar, an occupiable scale model of Admiral Nelson’s HMS Victory that was long a fixture at Chadwick Manor. At once a theatrical stage set for recitations of Nelson’s death speech, and a nautically-themed pub, the Manobar was thought lost until its recent rediscovery in a remote storage unit belonging to the Victoria and Albert Museum in Mumbai. The discussion includes the circumstances of the Manobar’s rediscovery, the saga of its passage back to the United States, and its singular place within the Chadwicks’ larger nautical collections. Gloria Kury, whose Periscope Publishing brought out The Chadwick Family Papers: A Brief Public Glimpse, moderates the lecture; artist Steve Dibenedetto is a respondent. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.
Roslyn Bernstein and Shael Shapiro - Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo
Thursday, October 20, 6:30pm
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Journalist Roslyn Bernstein and architect Shael Shapiro present an intimate portrait of 80 Wooster Street, one of first artist co-ops that was started by George Maciunas, founder of the Fluxus art movement. Hundreds of artists including Trisha Brown, Richard Foreman, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik and Andy Warhol showed their work in and around 80 Wooster Street. By examining one single building over 40 years, Bernstein and Shapiro highlight the complexity of artist co-ops and the benefits and challenges of gentrification. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Edward Sorel in Conversation with James McMullan
Tuesday, October 25, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Hailed by The New York Times as "one of America’s foremost political satirists," illustrator Edward Sorel has amused magazine readers for decades with his social critiques, political satires and whimsical picture essays. Joining him in conversation is artist James McMullan, best known for his signature posters created for the Lincoln Center Theater. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "The Masters Series: Edward Sorel," on view October 7 - November 5, 2011 at the Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, 15th floor.
Mitchell Joachim: Future Ecological Cities
Horst Bredekamp: The Vector Under the Line: Drawings by Galileo, Campanella, Merian
Friday, October 28, 6:30pm
335 West 16th Street
Part of Embodied Fantasies. Conference registration required.
In a two-part event, Mitchell Joachim discusses the intersections among art, cities and technology that would contribute to sustaining a healthy planet. Dr. Joachim is a leader in ecological design and urbanism and co-founder at Planetary ONE and Terreform ONE. His project Fab Tree Hab has been exhibited at MoMA and widely publicized. Following Joachim, Horst Bredekamp, PhD, discusses his extensive research on the drawings of Tommaso Campanella, Galileo and Matthaus Merian. The author of many books, Horst Bredekamp is a professor of art history at Humboldt University in Berlin, where he directs the research institute Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department in conjunction with the conference Embodied Fantasies, which takes place October 28 - 30, 2011. Please call 212.592.2510 for more information.
The Reluctant Doctorate: PhD Programs for Artists?
Thursday, November 3, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Can pursuing the doctorate remove the artist from the art-making practice? Does an artist pursuing a PhD need an MFA? What are some of the economic consequences of widespread PhD programs for artists in the US? These questions are examined by a panel of artists and academics that includes: media artist and UCLA Professor Victoria Vesna, PhD; artist Tim Gilman-Sevcik, doctoral candidate at the European Graduate School in Switzerland; MIT Associate Professor Ute Meta Bauer; and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Associate Professor Mary Anne Staniszewski, PhD. Moderated by artist, educator and former President of the College Art Association Ellen K. Levy. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
George Gittoes: The Miscreants of Taliwood
Thursday, November 3, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Iconoclastic painter, activist and documentarian George Gittoes presents his film The Miscreants of Taliwood (2009), followed by a conversation with David Levi Strauss, author and chair of the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department. Using photography, paintings and video, Gittoes has recorded war zones for over 20 years. Filmed in Pakistan's northwest frontier region, Miscreants chronicles the local Pashto movie industry, which faces violent suppression by the Taliban. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
SOSW BALLET
Tuesday, November 8, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
SOSW BALLET is an experimental film that revolves around the creation of discourse through movement. Created by Anna Gaskell, the short film is choreographed and performed by the children of the Special School of Podgorki (SOSW) in Poland, a 40-year-old academy and boarding school for children ages eight to 18, some with mild to severe learning disorders. In SOSW BALLET, dance becomes a means of challenging barriers to communication. A conversation with director Anna Gaskell and choreographer Jessica Sand moderated by faculty member Micaela Martegani follows the screening. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.
Livia Tenzer
Thursday, November 10, 6:30pm
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Livia Tenzer discusses her process of creating books and literary journals in collaboration with others. Tenzer illustrates how books and journals can be viewed as artistically crafted objects, when writing, cover art, layout, and interior design all come together guided by an editorial vision. Tenzer is the managing editor of the quarterly journal Social Text, published by Duke University Press, which discusses race, sexuality, gender and other social and cultural issues. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Liz Magic Laser: I Feel Your Pain
Sunday, November 13, 4 - 9pm
Monday, November 14, 4 - 9pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
As part of Performa 11, New York-based artist Liz Magic Laser presents a new multi-media performance drawing on the Russian Constructivist idea of a "living newspaper" to restage America's recent political contestations as a romantic drama. The artist's Performa commission remixes agitprop theater tactics, examining how emotion is used to establish credibility and authenticity on America’s political stage. Laser received an MFA from Columbia University and is a graduate of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. She is currently on faculty at SVA and a resident artist at Smack Mellon. Co-presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department, BFA Fine Arts Department and Performa.
Peter Eleey
A Picture Held Us Captive
Monday, November 14, 6:30 pm
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Seating is limited. Please arrive early.
MoMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey discusses the challenges posed to art by the image culture of the post-9/11 era and how he sought to navigate some of these challenges in organizing “September 11,” an exhibition at MoMA PS1 marking the tenth anniversary of the attacks. Before his appointment at MoMA PS1, Eleey was the visual arts curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where he organized the exhibitions, “The Talent Show” (2010), “The Quick and the Dead” (2009), and a survey of the dancer and choreographer Trisha Brown’s work on paper (2008). Presented by the MA Critical Theory and the Arts Department, which will open in the fall of 2012.
Alan Sonfist
Tuesday, November 15, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Alan Sonfist is an artist and designer who engages with natural landscapes to evoke what he sees as the hidden narrative of the Earth. His vision and green art projects cross borders to inspire ecological sensibility and conservation. Sonfist holds an MA from Hunter College and spent time at Ohio State University, where his research with Gestalt psychologist Hoyt Sherman focused on the language of visual culture and its relationship with human psychology. He also held a research fellowship in visual studies at MIT. Sonfist promotes his message of ecological sustainability and timeless respect for the fragility of nature in each of his "green art" projects. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department
The Talkers: A Panel Moderated by Rochelle Feinstein
Tuesday, December 6, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
The number of symposia, panels, and lectures offered in New York in any one week is overwhelming. Whatever etymology, the discussion is usually based upon "THE TOPIC." The Talkers is an evening that ventures from this format, in which there will be five topics, one proposed by the each of the participants. Each "Talker" presents his or her thoughts; generating a megalopolis of ideas. Their responses and conversations unfold in this public forum. Panelists enact the role of talk, talking and talkers as an enterprise of currency in contemporary art and culture. The Talkers include visual artists, writers, educators and curators. Rochelle Feinstein is a New York-based painter and printmaker on the faculty at Yale. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.
Linda Nochlin: Gericault and Goya and Images of Misery
Thursday, December 8, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Dr. Linda Nochlin explores the underlying themes in the work of Theodore Gericault and Francisco de Goya. Nochlin is known for her critical writings that focus attention on social and political issues in art. She is the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Art / New York University, and has previously held professorial chairs at Yale, CUNY and Vassar College. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
About SVA
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact the office of communication at 212.592.2010 or proffice@sva.edu.
- 8/17/11 : School of Visual Arts Honors Edward Sorel with Masters Series Award and Exhibition
School of Visual Arts Honors Edward Sorel with Masters Series Award and Exhibition
"The Masters Series: Edward Sorel"
October 7 - November 5, 2011
Reception and Award Presentation: Thursday, October 13, 6 - 8pm
Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
Edward Sorel in Conversation with James McMullan
Tuesday, October 25, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
School of Visual Arts (SVA) will honor Edward Sorel with the Masters Series award and retrospective exhibition. Hailed by The New York Times as “one of America’s foremost political satirists,” Edward Sorel has delighted magazine readers for decades with his social critiques, political satires and whimsical picture essays. “The Masters Series: Edward Sorel” will be on view from October 7 through November 5, 2011, at the Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th Floor, New York City.
Edward Sorel has used his pen to lampoon politicians, businessmen, celebrities and even himself; his subjects have ranged from Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George W. Bush to Leo Tolstoy, Frank Sinatra and Madonna. With over 100 drawings, caricatures and illustrations, “The Masters Series: Edward Sorel” reveals a major American artist whose intelligence and humor are matched by his cunning storytelling and incisive social commentary.
Born on March 26, 1929, in the Bronx, Sorel co-founded the internationally renowned Push Pin Studios in 1953 with fellow Cooper Union classmates Seymour Chwast and Milton Glaser but soon left to establish his lifelong freelance career. His potent spoofs of public figures first appeared in left-wing periodicals, then later in mainstream magazines. Over the last four decades, his work has appeared in American Heritage, The Atlantic, Esquire, Fortune, Forbes, GQ, Harper's, New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Time and The Village Voice. Sorel is now most frequently seen in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, for which he has done 45 covers.
Sorel is the writer and illustrator of several children books, including The Saturday Kid (Margaret K. McElderry, 2000). A collection of his caricatures, Unauthorized Portraits, was published by Knopf in 1997, and his book Literary Lives was published by Bloomsbury USA in 2006. That same year, Sorel completed a mural for the Waverly Inn, in New York City, which was later turned into the book, The Mural at the Waverly Inn: A Portrait of Greenwich Village Bohemians (Patheon, 2008).
In 1998 the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., devoted several rooms to an exhibition of his caricatures. Other one-man shows include the Graham Gallery and the Davis and Langdale Gallery in New York City, the Susan Conway Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Boston, and Galerie Bartsch & Chariau in Munich, Germany. He is a recipient of the Augustus St. Gaudens Medal for Professional Achievement from The Cooper Union, the Hamilton King Award from The Society of Illustrators, the Page One Award from the Newspaper Guild, the Best in Illustration Award from the National Cartoonists Society, the George Polk Award for Satiric Drawing, and the "Karikaturpreis der deutschen Anwaltschaft" from the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover, Germany. In 2001, the Art Directors Club of New York elected Sorel to their Hall of Fame.
On Tuesday, October 25, at 7pm, Sorel will discuss his career with artist James McMullan, best known for his signature posters created for the Lincoln Center Theater. The conversation will take place at the SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street, New York City. Admission is free and open to the public.
About The Masters Series
In 1988, SVA founder Silas H. Rhodes instituted the College’s Masters Series, award and exhibitions honoring great visual communicators of our time. Although the achievements of many groundbreaking designers, illustrators, art directors and photographers are known to and lauded by their colleagues, their names often go unrecognized by the general public. The Masters Series is intended to bring greater exposure to those whose influence has been felt strongly and by many, yet without widespread recognition.
Masters Series laureates are Marshall Arisman, Saul Bass, Ivan Chermayeff, Seymour Chwast, Paul Davis, Lou Dorfsman, Heinz Edelmann, Jules Feiffer, Shigeo Fukuda, Milton Glaser, April Greiman, Steven Heller, George Lois, Mary Ellen Mark, Ed McCabe, Duane Michals, Tony Palladino, Paula Scher, Deborah Sussman, George Tscherny, Paul Rand and Massimo Vignelli.
About SVA
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact John Wyszniewski, at 212.592.2209 or jwyszniewski@sva.edu.
- 7/29/11 : School of Visual Arts Partners With Behance To Launch SVA Portfolios
SVA Partners With Behance To Launch SVA Portfolios
Online Destination Highlights Creativity from SVA Alumni, Faculty and Students
New York, July 29, 2011 - School of Visual Arts (SVA) has partnered with Behance to launch SVA Portfolios, an exclusive online network powered by Behance where SVA alumni, faculty members and degree-seeking students can showcase their original work and connect with one another. SVA is the first college to launch a network with Behance, joining organizations like the AIGA, the professional association for design, the relaunched I.D. magazine brand, and the Art Directors Club--whose gallery showcases the work by winners of the prestigious Young Guns Award, an annual honor for creative professionals under age 30.
"SVA Portfolios will provide greater exposure for the collective creativity of the SVA community," said Jennifer Phillips, director of the College’s Office of Career Development. "The network will not only connect members, but also provide a venue where potential clients, recruiters and creative enthusiasts can discover the work produced by SVA alumni, faculty members and degree-seeking students." The Web site is designed to feature work from all degree programs at the College, including original animation, design, film, fine art, illustration and photography.
SVA Portfolios is open to all SVA alumni, faculty members and degree-seeking students. Members can upload an unlimited number of digital files to create an online portfolio and multimedia gallery of projects for others to view and share. Their work will be showcased on both the SVA Portfolios site and in the larger Behance Network, which attracts over 10 million visitors per month.
"With the launch of SVA Portfolios, Behance is thrilled to help showcase all the amazing talent that lives within the SVA community," said Alex Krug, vice president of Behance.
Behance was designed to support the creative and business aspects of being a creative professional, so projects on SVA Portfolios can be built with text, images, audio or video. Members can share tips and media, collaborate on projects, and get feedback from peers or mentors. They can also promote their work directly on Facebook and Twitter, and sync their portfolio with their LinkedIn account.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
The Behance Network is the leading online platform for creative professionals, receiving over 10 million visitors per month. The network also powers portfolio galleries for LinkedIn, AIGA, Adweek and other organizations as well as a series of other industry sites across the web. Behance also oversees The 99 Percent, a think tank and annual conference devoted to execution in the creative world; and Action Method, a popular online/mobile productivity application and line of organizational paper products for creative professionals. Behance recently launched Prosite, a fully customizable, personal website builder that syncs with your Behance Network projects. As a company, Behance empowers creative professionals to make ideas happen.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact John Wyszniewski, assistant director of communication, at 212.592.2209 or jwyszniewski@sva.edu.
- 7/7/11 : Jessica Miller Wins 2011 AuthentiCity Photography Contest
Jessica Miller Wins 2011 AuthentiCity Photography Contest
Newly-created work by 3 finalists will be on exhibit in New York from July 8 - 27, 2011
NEW YORK and MILAN - July 7, 2011: illy issimo - the ready-to-drink coffee-based beverage developed from a joint venture by illycaffe and The Coca-Cola Company (ILKO Coffee International) - announced the winner of the second edition of "AuthentiCity." Created in cooperation with the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York, AuthentiCity is a photography project aimed at supporting emerging talent.
Facade is the title of Jessica's work, which uses faceless human bodies as an extension of urban structures. The work focuses on the fluidity of the body interacting with the rigidity of the city's infrastructure, fusing the two to create temporary pieces of public art. Jessica's work was considered by the jury particularly interesting and compelling in its unconventional use of human body in the urban space. Her response to the contest's theme offers a unique and poetic commentary on urban life and the ways in which we inhabit the city.
The jury panel - including representatives of ILKO Coffee International, illycaffe, SVA and Elisabeth Biondi, former visuals editor of The New Yorker - previously selected three finalists from over 200 applicants, all of whom were educated at SVA and were charged with "discovering new lifestyles in the urban context." The three finalists - Phil Kline, Jessica Miller and David Rapoport - were commissioned to create a new body of work for the exhibition on view in New York from July 8 to 27 at the SVA Gallery, 209 East 23 Street (Monday - Friday, 9am - 7pm, Saturday 10am - 6pm). Each finalist received a cash prize of $3000 while the winning photographer received an additional cash prize of $10,000.
The contest's theme - discovering new urban lifestyles - serves as an inspiration to use photography as a means of discovering new lifestyles, social dynamics and ways of interacting with the city.
The inaugural AuthentiCity contest was launched in 2010, with the goal of investigating the city, the ideal reference point for illy issimo, and "revealing purity and authenticity in urban life." The winner of the 2010 competition was SVA alumnus Igor Aronov (BFA 1997 Photography) for his photo series Reflection of the City.
Images and information about both editions of the AuthentiCity project are available on the global Facebook page of illy issimo (facebook.com/illyissimo), in the dedicated Flickr album (flickr.com/illyissimoglobal), in the illy issimo YouTube channel (youtube.com/illyissimocw) and at www.illyissimo.com.
Jessica Miller was born in Bangor, Maine in 1977. She began making photographs at a young age, and has always been fascinated with narrative images. She earned a BFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, as well as a BA in Psychology from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. Jessica's work will be featured in the PDN Annual as well as in the Guggenheim Museum's Stillspotting project. Her work is also held in the permanent collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is currently enrolled in the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Ilko Coffee International is a global joint venture between illycaffe and The Coca-Cola Company, established to manufacture and distribute premium quality ready-to-drink coffee beverages internationally.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose. For more information, please visit the SVA Web site.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact Chantelle Marcelle, at 212.592.2985 or e-mail cmarcelle@sva.edu.
- 6/20/11 : School of Visual Arts Announces Fall 2011 Exhibitions
School of Visual Arts Announces Fall 2011 Exhibitions
This fall, the School of Visual Arts (SVA) showcases three generations of important living American artists in a series of public exhibitions organized by SVA. They include a career survey of political satirist Edward Sorel, a group exhibition of female graduates from SVA and their influences, a crowd-sourced photo essay on life in New York City on 9/11, and a multi-artist exhibition that looks at the American experience in the 21st century. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. Please call 212.592.2010 for more information.
Exhibition Details
“The Influentials: SVA Women Alumni Invite Artists Who Have Shaped Their Work”
August 26 - September 21, 2011
Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
“The Influentials: SVA Women Alumni Invite Artists Who Have Shaped Their Work” is an exhibition that celebrates the creative talent to emerge from the School of Visual Arts, highlighting the work of notable female alumni and the diverse group of mentors and peers that have influenced their artistic practice. Participating SVA artists include: Kate Gilmore, Mika Rottenberg, Phoebe Washburn, Marianne Vitale, among others, who have in turn invited a group of artists that include: Huma Bhabha, Francesco Clemente, Marilyn Minter, Judy Pfaff, Bela Tarr and Riot Grrl. Co-curated by Amy Smith-Stewart and Carrie Lincourt, “The Influentials” is as much an investigation into the lineage and relationships between artists as it is a dialogue between mentors, mentees and even former strangers -- one that crosses generations, gender and locale to give form to an interconnected creative community that enriches contemporary art practice.
“here is new york: Revisited”
September 6 - 17, 2011
Westside Gallery, 141 West 21 Street
“here is new york: Revisited” is a community-sourced project that began at a vacant storefront in SoHo in the wake of the devastation of 9/11. From a single picture taped in a window, the idea arose among a few photographers to invite all New Yorkers to share their images of that day and to bring those images together in one place. An open call was issued and soon after photographs of the attacks and their aftermath began to stream in from photojournalists, emergency responders, schoolchildren, passersby, tourists and others to form a candid, multifaceted and affecting look at 9/11. “here is new york: Revisited” documents a community’s attempt to grapple with events that continue to haunt both the city and the nation.
“The Masters Series: Edward Sorel”
October 7 - November 5, 2011
Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
Hailed by The New York Times as “one of America’s foremost political satirists,” Edward Sorel has delighted magazine readers for decades with his social critiques, political satires and whimsical picture essays. Sorel has used his pen to lampoon politicians, businessmen, celebrities and even himself -- ranging from Nixon, Ford and Bush senior to Tolstoy, Sinatra and Madonna. This fall, the School of Visual Arts will honor Sorel with the Masters Series Award and retrospective exhibition. With over 100 drawings, caricatures and illustrations, “The Masters Series: Edward Sorel” reveals a major American artist whose intelligence and humor are matched by his cunning storytelling and incisive social commentary. Formerly a regular contributor to The Nation, New York magazine and The Atlantic, Sorel is now most frequently seen in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, for which he has done 45 covers.
“Being American”
November 22 - December 21, 2011
Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
The latest U.S. Census shows a nation that not only eludes any singular definition but is defined by its pluralities. “Being American” is an exhibition that explores the poles of experience in American society today and the many inherent tensions and contradictions contained within. Spanning mainstream media headlines and personal stories, “Being American” includes a heterogeneous mix of photography, illustration, animation, painting and video works which actively comment upon the social environment from which they arise. Participating artists include: Steve Brodner, Edward Burtynsky, Jessica Craig-Martin, Alfredo Jaar and Martha Rosler, among many others.
School of Visual Arts is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact the Office of Communication at 212.592.2010 or proffice@sva.edu.
- 5/9/11 : School of Visual Arts (SVA) and illy issimo Announce Finalists of the 2011 AuthentiCity Photography Contest
School of Visual Arts (SVA) and illy issimo Announce Finalists of Photo Competition
Newly-Created Work by Three Finalists will be on Exhibit in New York from July 8 - 27, 2011
NEW YORK and MILAN - May 16, 2011: illy issimo - the ready-to-drink coffee-based beverage developed from a joint venture by illycaffe and The Coca-Cola Company (ILKO Coffee International) - announced the names of the three finalists of the second edition of “AuthentiCity.” Created in cooperation with the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York, AuthentiCity is a photography project aimed at supporting emerging talent.
The following three artists were chosen by the jury panel to present their work at the AuthentiCity exhibition, which will be on view in New York from July 8 to 27 at the SVA Gallery, 209 East 23 Street (Monday - Friday, 9am - 7pm, Saturday 10am - 6pm): Phil Kline, Jessica Miller and David Rapoport. As finalists of the contest, they each received a cash prize of $3,000 along with a commission to develop a new body of work over the next months related to “discovering new urban lifestyles,” which will be presented at the exhibition. The final winner will be announced at the exhibition reception and will receive a prize of $10,000.
The contest’s theme - discovering new urban lifestyles - serves as an inspiration to use photography as a means of discovering new lifestyles, social dynamics and ways of interacting with the city.
The jury panel - including representatives of ILKO Coffee International, illycaffe, SVA and Elisabeth Biondi, visuals editor of The New Yorker - selected the three finalists from over 200 applicants.
The inaugural AuthentiCity contest was launched in 2010, with the goal of investigating the city, the ideal reference point for illy issimo, and “revealing purity and authenticity in urban life.” The winner of the 2010 competition was Igor Aronov (BFA 1997 Photography) for his photo series “Reflection of the City."
Images and information about both editions of the AuthentiCity project are available on the global Facebook page of illy issimo (facebook.com/illyissimo), in the dedicated Flickr album (flickr.com/illyissimoglobal), in the illy issimo YouTube channel (youtube.com/illyissimocw) and at www.illyissimo.com.
Ilko Coffee International is a global joint venture between illycaffe and The Coca-Cola Company, established to manufacture and distribute premium quality ready-to-drink coffee beverages internationally.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact Keri Murawski, publicist, at 212.592.2164 or e-mail kmurawski@sva.edu.
- 5/11/11 : School of Visual Arts 22nd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Film Festival Announces Winners
School of Visual Arts 22nd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Film Festival Announces Winners
Awards Ceremony Celebrates Outstanding Achievements for 2011
School of Visual Arts (SVA) proudly announced the winners of the 2011 Dusty Film and Animation Festival and Awards, now in its 22nd year, at an award ceremony held on May 10 at the SVA Theatre in New York City (333 West 23rd Street). Highlighting over 100 films by students graduating from the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department, the annual awards were bestowed at the invite-only event. This year's Dusty presenters included notables from the world of film, television and animation including, Edward Burns, Doug Liman, Chris Newman, Annie Sundberg, Andrew Mondshein, Aaron Augenblick, Joan Brooker-Marks, Alex Levi, James Janowsky, George Lavoo, and Frankie DeMarco, and was hosted by radio personality Valerie Smaldone and SVA animation faculty member Sheila Evans. For more info and event images, please visit the Dusty Film and Animation Festival Web site.
The 2011 Dusty winners are:
Outstanding Film: Victoria Rivera for Retrato De Una Familia (Portrait of a Family)
Outstanding Achievement in Directing: Victoria Rivera for Retrato De Una Familia (Portrait of a Family)
Outstanding Achievement in Screenwriting: Joseph Paolucci for Blades of Grass
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Lewis Meyer for In the Grass
Department Award for Outstanding Body of Work in Cinematography: Spencer Katz for Retrato De Una Familia (Portrait of a Family)
Outstanding Achievement in Editing: Ryan Halasz for Project Enigma
Department Award for Outstanding Body of Work in Editing: Nick Noyes for Retrato De Una Familia (Portrait of a Family)
Outstanding Achievement in Sound: Melvin Cubero II
Outstanding Documentary: Jacquelyn Lobel for Tengenenge
Traditional Animation Awards:
Outstanding Achievement in Traditional Animation: Zachary Bellissimo for Blenderstein and Michael Ruocco for Destiny is for the Birds
Outstanding Achievement in Traditional Character Design: Zachary Bellissimo for Blenderstein
Outstanding Achievement in Traditional Production Design: Mirella Toncheva for Treasure of the Golden Skull
Stop-Motion Animation Awards:
Outstanding Achievement in Stop-Motion Animation: Zachary Williams for Pineapples and Pork in...BAD WRAPS
Outstanding Achievement in Stop-Motion Character Design: Zachary Williams for Pineapples and Pork in...BAD WRAPS
New York Women in Film and Television Award: Aubrey Carp
National Board of Review Human Spirit Award: Brittany Brothers
"We are very happy to be presenting Outstanding Achievement Awards this year, marking our 22nd year of the Dustys, recognizing the fine works of these many filmmakers and animators, and giving members of the industry the opportunity to see the work of the next wave of talented and hard-working individuals," said Reeves Lehmann, chair of the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at SVA. "We are pleased to celebrate the successes of our students with professionals from the worlds of film and animation. We also want to extend our appreciation to the many great sponsors and supporters, some who have been with us a number of years and others who joined more recently. And we'd like to call special attention to the truly remarkable work by festival producer Annie Flocco and co-producer Meredith Engstrom for another year of excellence. Also a big thanks to the crew at the SVA Theatre."
The 22nd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival kicked off Friday, May 6, and ran through Tuesday, May 10, highlighting over 100 films by students graduating from the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at SVA. The program included screenings of short films, videos and animations; and an awards ceremony with notable presenters from the film and animation industry. This year's Screenwriters Night, held on Saturday, May 7, was presented in collaboration with Susan Batson Studio. Scenes by SVA screenwriting thesis students were performed live on stage. Screenwriters Night was directed by Susan Batson, founder of Susan Batson Studio, and produced by film producer and SVA faculty member Annie Flocco.
Over its more than two-decade history, the Dustys introduced many graduates of the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department who have gone on to earn national and international recognition. Among recent alumni, Joe Minasi (BFA 2010 Film and Video) and Rob Kolodny (BFA 2010 Film and Video) have been awarded prizes for their thesis films. Minasi's film, In the Key of D, was winner of the Best Student Film in the Silk City Flick Festival; Best Picture and Best Cinematography in the NYC Filmmakers Film Festival; and Best Picture of the Audience Choice award in the East End Film Festival. Kolodny was awarded Best Set Design and Best Cinematography in the Manalapan Film Festival for his film Shelter, and his film Land of Nod was screened at NYC's Anthology Film Archives. Dot, a short comedy directed and produced by Dusty Award and 2010 NYWIFT Next Wave scholarship recipient Bennett Elliott (BFA 2010 Film and Video), was named Best Narrative Short at the 2011 Garden State Film Festival. Also represented at the Garden State Film Festival was Kyle Mumford (BFA 2010 Film and Video), who debuted his first feature film, His Naked Mind. Beyond the Class of 2010, alumnus William Wedig's (BFA 2006 Film and Video) film Forged was named the Best Domestic Feature at the 2010 New York International Latino Film Festival. Another Dusty Award recipient is making headlines is Jake Armstrong (BFA 2009 Animation), whose award-winning animation The Terrible Thing of Alpha 9! was featured on the Web site Cartoon Brew.
The 2011 Dusty Film and Animation Festival headlining sponsors include AbelCine, Act Zero Films, Adorama Rental Company, AJA Video Systems, Animation Magazine, Avid Technology, Inc., Boxx Technologies, CAVA-SVA Computer Store, Eastman Kodak Company, Feature Systems / Kits and Expendables, Foto Care, Gotham Sound and Communications, Inc., Mient.com, National Board of Review, New York Women in Film & Television, Nice Shoes, Panavision New York, SCS Agency, Inc., Sony Electronics Inc., Susan Batson Studio.
The Dusty Film and Animation Festival began in 1990 when the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department sought to bring its year-end screenings of student thesis films to a wider audience. With sponsorship, a venue, and the support from the film industry, the event came to life. To pay tribute to School of Visual Arts Founder Silas H. Rhodes, the event was named "Dusty" after the nickname Mr. Rhodes had as a soldier in World War II.
School of Visual Arts is widely regarded as one of the finest art schools in the United States for its innovative curriculum, unparalleled faculty of more than 1000 creative professionals and its participation in the larger arts community of New York City. SVA alumni have received accolades from such renowned institutions and organizations such as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Sundance Film Festival; International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France; American Film Institute; Women in Film; National Board of Review and many others. Find more information at www.sva.edu/dusty
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.Media Contact: For more information, please contact Patrick Paris or Travis DeLingua at 212.260.7576.
- 4/25/11 : School of Visual Arts Presents "Photo Global: New Releases 2011"
SVA Presents
May 5 - May 15, 2011
Reception:
Thursday, May 5, 6 - 8:30pm
111 Front Street Galleries
111 Front Street, Suite 226
Brooklyn, NY
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "Photo Global: New Releases 2011," an exhibition of work by artists who participated in the 2010-2011 Photo Global program, a one-year residency for emerging photographers from around the world offered by the BFA Photography Department at SVA. Curated by Marc Joseph Berg, Peter Garfield and James Williams with the generous support of Two Trees Management and the New York Photo Festival, "Photo Global: New Releases 2011" will be on view May 5 - May 16 at Front Street Galleries, 111 Front Street, Suite 226, in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, New York.
The exhibition will feature work by six international photographers:
Jean Bettingen, Luxembourg
www.jeanbettingen.com
Jean Bettingen was born and raised in Luxembourg. In 2010 he left behind his previous career in business and started pursuing photography. His work as a fine art and commercial photographer puts an emphasis on intimacy and emotional quietness. Bettingen has exhibited in New York and his work has been published in magazines in Luxembourg and Austria.
Simon Lewis, Australia
www.simonlewisstudio.com
Simon Lewis is an Australian photographer currently based in New York. With a background in travel photography, Lewis spent a number of years circling the globe, an experience that influenced all aspects of his life. It was the idea of representing a global perspective and the emotional and spiritual impact of his travels that drove Lewis' work to a more abstract, conceptual form in his new series Memoria. Lewis has previously exhibited his series One World in Australia and Europe.
Monica Lozano, Mexico
www.monicalozano.com
Monica Lozano is a Mexican-American photographer born in El Paso, Texas and raised across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Her work is inspired by real stories of courage, determination and strength, particularly of those who have lived through difficult experiences in border towns throughout the world. After receiving her BA in visual arts, Lozano worked as a graphic artist and commercial photographer for CBS Television. In 2008, Lozano received her master's degree in photography in Madrid, Spain, where she produced Borders, a series selected for various international photo competitions and grants including the Air Dolomiti (Lufthansa) Prize at the ITS#EIGHT competition in Italy. Lozano's work has been exhibited in Italy, Spain, Germany, Mexico and the United States.
Dhruv Malhotra, India
www.dhruvmalhotra.com
Dhruv Malhotra grew up in Jaipur, India and graduated from Mumbai University in 2006 with a degree in economics. As a chronic insomniac, he photographs at night. His work focuses on urban areas and cities, and engages with issues of progress, modernity and the otherworldly. Dhruv's photographs were included in a group exhibition at the 2010 Hyeres Festival, where he was awarded the Photo Global Prize to study at SVA. His first body of work, Noida Soliloquy was exhibited at Photoink, New Delhi, in 2010. Photographs from his body of work, Sleepers, were included in the exhibition "New Ways of Looking" at the 2010 Brighton Photo Biennial.
Maciej Markowicz, Poland
www.maciejmarkowicz.com
Maciej Markowicz's photographic practice is an outgrowth of his sustained interest in sculpture and painting. Exploring the boundaries of photography, he strives to achieve sculptural qualities within the surface of a print. As an interdisciplinary artist, Markowicz's main motivation comes from a desire to understand things through a multi-sensory experience and to investigate the contexts for creating tangible things.
Marco Scozzaro, Italy
www.marcoscozzaro.com
Marco Scozzaro’s early life was spent moving around Italy. After earning his degree in psychology, he played in several punk, post-rock and electronic bands before making the transition to life as a visual artist in pursuit of the practice of photography. Scozzaro's work addresses the detachment of living in contemporary society, of being both comfortable and uncomfortable in a place at the same time, and of living as an outsider. With his environmental and studio portraits, he points to feelings of loneliness, disappointment, alienation, conformism and the urge to connect with others. Scozzaro's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Italy, France and Macedonia.
Photo Global is an intensive residency offering international artists the opportunity to work in technologically advanced facilities with renowned photographers. By engaging participants in critique, lectures, dialogue with other participants and visits to museums and galleries, Photo Global brings critical rigor to the work of the advanced photographer. A program of the BFA Photography Department, Photo Global taps into the unparalleled resources of SVA and New York City.
The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday 12 - 6pm, and Sunday from 12pm - 5pm. SVA acknowledges Two Trees Management and the New York Photo Festival for their generous support of the exhibition. For more information about the Photo Global program, please visit www.sva.edu/photoglobal.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media contact: Keri Murawski, 212.592.2010 or proffice@sva.edu.
- 4/13/11 : School of Visual Arts Announces Presenters for the 22nd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Awards Ceremony
SVA Announces Presenters for the 22nd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Awards Ceremony
Awards Ceremony: Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Featuring Notables from the world of Film & Animation
The 22nd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival -- taking place May 6 - 10 -- culminates with an awards ceremony, Tuesday, May 10 at 6:30pm at the SVA Theatre (333 West 23rd Street) and features a full roster of names from the world of film and animation. More info: www.sva.edu/dusty
Presenters include director/actor Edward Burns (Tribeca Film Festival 2011- Newlyweds, Saving Private Ryan, The Brothers McMullen) presenting the Outstanding Achievement in Directing Award; Academy Award-nominee and Sundance Grand Prize-winning director Tim Hetherington (Restrepo, Cameraman - The Devil Came on Horseback, Liberia: an Uncivil War) presenting the Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Award; Academy Award-winning production sound mixer Chris Newman (The Godfather, Amadeus, The English Patient) presenting the Outstanding Achievement in Sound Award; Academy Award-nominated editor Andrew Mondshein (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Chocolat, The Sixth Sense) presenting the Outstanding Achievement in Editing Award; SVA alumnus and animator Aaron Augenblick (Daria, Ugly Americans, Superjail) presenting the Animation Awards; New York Women in Film & Television President Alex Levi (managing partner, Element Financial Group) presenting the New York Women in Film & Television Award; cinematographer Declan Quinn (Leaving Las Vegas, Rachel Getting Married, Pride and Glory) presenting the Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Award; writer/actor Tom McCarthy (Win Win, Up, The Station Agent) presenting the Outstanding Achievement in Screenwriting Award and director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Fair Game) presenting the Outstanding Film Award. (Current presenters names are confirmed as of press time, additional presenters will be announced at a later date).
“We are happy to announce this year’s list of Dusty presenters,” said Reeves Lehmann, chair of the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at SVA. “With these awards we celebrate the many successes of our illustrious class of filmmakers and animators, as well as a stellar roster of SVA friends and allies from the world of film and animation.”
The Dusty awards are presented to the winning thesis students from the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at the School of Visual Arts. The award winning films and animations are chosen from over 100 thesis students' works. The awards ceremony is part of the Dusty Film and Animation Festival -- May 6 -10 -- which includes screenings of short films, videos, and animations, all of which are FREE and open to the general public. More information at www.sva.edu/dusty
The 2011 Dusty Film and Animation Festival is produced by film producer and SVA faculty member Annie Flocco, with co-producer Meredith Engstrom. This year’s Dusty awards will be hosted by radio personality Valerie Smaldone and SVA animation faculty member Sheila Evans.
2011 Festival Schedule:
Friday, May 6 - Monday, May 9: Screenings*
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street
Saturday, May 7: Screenwriters Night
SVA Theatre, 6pm
Sunday, May 8: Animation Screenings*
SVA Theatre, 7 - 11pm
Tuesday, May 10: Awards Ceremony
SVA Theatre, 6:30pm
RSVP is required for the Awards Ceremony and for Screenwriters Night. For public inquiries regarding tickets, please contact 212.592.2124. Events marked with an asterisk * above are free and open to the public. Updated event information will be available on the SVA DUSTY Web site: www.sva.edu/dusty
Past Dusty Awards presenters have included SVA alumni, industry notables and award-winners such as Patricia Clarkson, James Gandolfini, Phil Donahue, John D. Dilworth, Chris Newman, Stephen Rotter, Nancy Schreiber, James C. Strouse, Danny Aiello, Ellen Burstyn, Sean Combs, Wes Craven, Griffin Dunne, Harvey Keitel, Kevin Kline, David Koepp, Mira Nair, Bill Plympton, John Patrick Shanley, Bryan Singer, Treat Williams and more.
The 2011 Dusty Film and Animation Festival headlining sponsors include AbelCine, Act Zero Films, Adorama Rental Company, AJA Video Systems, Animation Magazine, Avid Technology, Inc., Boxx Technologies, CAVA -- SVA Computer Store, Eastman Kodak Company, Feature Systems / Kits and Expendables, Foto Care, Gotham Sound and Communications, Inc., National Board of Review, New York Women in Film & Television, Nice Shoes, Panavision New York, SCS Agency, Inc., Sony Electronics, Inc., and Susan Batson Studio.
The Dusty Film and Animation Festival began in 1990 when the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department sought to bring its year-end screenings of student thesis films to a wider audience. With sponsorship, a venue, and the support from the film industry, the event came to life. To pay tribute to School of Visual Arts Founder Silas H. Rhodes, the event was named “Dusty” -- after the nickname Mr. Rhodes had as a soldier in World War II.
School of Visual Arts is widely regarded as one of the finest art schools in the United States for its innovative curriculum, unparalleled faculty of more than 1000 creative professionals and its participation in the larger arts community of New York City. BFA Film, Video and Animation alumni have received accolades from such renowned institutions and organizations such as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Sundance Film Festival; International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France; American Film Institute; Women in Film; National Board of Review and many others..
School of Visual Arts in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For further information or press tickets to film screenings, animation screenings, Screenwriters Night, or the Awards Ceremony, please contact Patrick Paris at (212) 260-7576 or Patrick.Paris@mouthpublicrelations.com or Travis DeLingua at (212) 260-7576 or Travis.Delingua@mouthpublicrelations.com.
- 4/8/11 : The Division of Continuing Education at the School of Visual Arts Presents Hispanic Professionals in the Arts: Mesa Redonda
The Division of Continuing Education at SVA Presents Hispanic Professionals in the Arts
Monday, May 16, 2011, 6:30 - 8pm
School of Visual Arts
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Free and open to the public
RSVP to pcrousillat@sva.edu by Monday, May 9
The Division of Continuing Education at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents Hispanic Professionals in the Arts: Mesa Redonda, the inaugural event in a series of lectures and panel discussions featuring some of New York's most accomplished Latino creative professionals. Moderated by MTV2's Desi Sanchez, the panel will explore some of the visual communication challenges and opportunities in the Hispanic community and how bilingual and bicultural designers and illustrators are responding. Panelists include: Laura Alejo, art director at HUSH; Rafael Esquer, principal at Alfalfa Studio; Mad cartoonist Felipe Galindo (Feggo); Jessica Perilla, creative director at JPD Studio; and Jose Luis Ortiz Tellez, a designer, consultant and educator. Conducted in English, the discussion will take place on May 16, 6:30 - 8:30pm at the SVA Amphitheater, 209 East 23rd Street, New York City. Admission is free and open to the public. RSVP by Monday, May 9 to pcrousillat@sva.edu.
Born and raised in New York City and educated at SVA, Desi Sanchez is a TV personality, artist and musician with credits in print, broadcast and online media. Best known for her VJ work on MTV2, Sanchez is the former host of the syndicated television program LatiNation, which airs on Fox and MyNetwork. Sanchez also lends her voice to nationwide radio imaging on Sirius XM Radio for stations such as Octane and HairNation.
Award-winning designer, illustrator and artist Laura Alejo is an art director at New York-based design and direction studio HUSH, whose clients include Discovery Channel, Nike, Nokia and Sony Ericsson. She is a contributor to Copyright Magazine and founding member of Studio Copyright, a Barcelona design studio where her clients included MTV Italia, Paramount Comedy and Canal+, among others. She has also exhibited her work in galleries in Brooklyn, Barcelona and Madrid. For more information, visit http://www.lauraalejo.com
Mexican-born Rafael Esquer is principal at Alfalfa Studio, a New York interdisciplinary graphic design studio, and former creative director at @radical.media, where his work earned a 2004 National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. His clients have included Bjork, the Houston Rockets, IBM, El Museo del Barrio, Nike, Scholastic, Target and The New York Times Magazine.
Born in Mexico, Felipe Galindo is an artist, illustrator, cartoonist and animator whose drawings have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, Nickelodeon, Mad magazine and INXart.com. He is the author of Manhatitlan, a book of humorous drawings about the intertwining of Mexican and American cultures in New York. Galindo is currently working on Frida NY, a whimsical animation about the several visits the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo made to New York City in the 1930s. For more information, visit www.felipegalindo.com
Founder and creative director at JPD Studio, Jessica Perilla is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, entrepreneur and educator. Through The Mural Project, a community-based arts initiative she started in 2007, she has led volunteers in creating wall murals for the Montefiore Children’s Hospital, Mt. Sinai Hospital, and St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx.
Born in Mexico City, Jose Luis Ortiz Tellez studied and trained at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in art and design, and went on to create the graphic identity for the XIX Olympic Games. His work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts; AIGA and the Art Directors Club, and is in the collections of the Library of Congress and the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, among others.
Upcoming events in the series will feature distinguished Latino creative professionals talking about their process, inspiration, and how Hispanic culture has influenced their work.
For information or to RSVP, contact Paloma Crousillat at pcrousillat@sva.edu or 212.592.2057.
The Division of Continuing Education at SVA offers a broad curriculum for personal enrichment and professional development encompassing visual communications, entertainment media, and fine arts, as well as corporate training and courses for undergraduate credit. Each semester, an average of 2,400 continuing education students come to SVA to choose from a selection of courses in advertising, animation, computer art, drawing, film and video, graphic design, illustration and cartooning, interior design, jewelry, painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture. The Division of Continuing Education also offers: Summer Residency Programs, which give participating artists access to studio space, faculty critiques, guest lectures and gallery tours; Pre-College Programs, intensive three-week courses for high school students to explore their fields of interest; Art for Kids, children's classes that incorporate a wide variety of materials and techniques; Arts Abroad, which offers students the opportunity to study and practice art overseas; and Ralph Appelbaum's Filmmakers Dialogue, where participants preview new studio and independent releases and meet the actors, directors, producers and writers involved.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a
clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact Michael Grant, 212.592.2011 or mgrant@sva.edu.
- 4/4/11 : School of Visual Arts Proudly Announces Screenwriters Night as Part of the 22nd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival
SVA Proudly Announces Screenwriters Night as Part of 22nd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival
Saturday, May 7
School of Visual Arts proudly announces Screenwriters Night, Saturday, May 7, 2011, as part of the 22nd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival. Set to take place at the SVA Theatre at 6pm (333 West 23rd Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues), the invite-only event is presented in collaboration with Susan Batson Studio. Screenwriters Night will present five-minute scenes by SVA’s screenwriting thesis students performed live on stage. The scenes will be directed by Susan Batson, founder of Susan Batson Studio, and produced by film producer and SVA faculty member Annie Flocco. "We are thrilled to be collaborating with Susan Batson on Screenwriters Night this year," said Flocco. "And we’re excited to see Susan and her actors bring to life the words of our talented screenwriters."
Susan Batson has been called a "technician of the spirit" by The New Yorker. She has enjoyed the privilege of working with Nicole Kidman, Juliette Binoche, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, Sean Combs, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Connelly, and countless others. Susan Batson is the author of the book Truth: Personas, Needs, and Flaws In The Art of Building Actors and Creating Characters and has been profiled in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Backstage.
The 22nd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival will highlight over 100 films by students graduating from the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at the School of Visual Arts (SVA). The festival includes screenings of short films, videos and animations, and culminates in an awards ceremony with notables from the film and animation industries. All festival screenings, the Awards Ceremony and Screenwriters Night will take place at the SVA Theatre (333 West 23rd Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues). Many events are FREE and open to the general public. For more event information, please visit: www.sva.edu/dusty.
2011 Festival Schedule
Friday, May 6 - Monday, May 9: Screenings*
SVA Theatre
333 West 23rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)
Screening schedule will be available on the Dustys Web site in late April.
Saturday, May 7: Screenwriters Night
SVA Theatre, 6pm
Sunday, May 8: Animation Screenings*
SVA Theatre 7 - 11pm
Tuesday, May 10: Awards Ceremony
SVA Theatre, 6:30pm
RSVP is required for Screenwriters Night and Awards Ceremony. For public inquiries regarding tickets, please contact 212.592.2124. Events marked with an asterisk * above are free and open to the public. Updated event information will be available on the SVA DUSTY Web site: www.sva.edu/dusty
The 2011 Dusty Film and Animation Festival is produced by film producer and SVA faculty member Annie Flocco, with co-producer Meredith Engstrom.
The 2011 Dusty Film and Animation Festival headlining sponsors include AbelCine, Act Zero Films, Adorama Rental Company, AJA Video Systems, Animation Magazine, Avid Technology, Inc., Boxx Technologies, CAVA - SVA Computer Store, Eastman Kodak Company, Feature Systems / Kits and Expendables, Foto Care, Gotham Sound and Communications, Inc., National Board of Review, New York Women in Film & Television, Nice Shoes, Panavision New York, SCS Agency, Inc., Sony Electronics, Inc., and Susan Batson Studio.
The Dusty Film and Animation Festival began in 1990 when the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department sought to bring its year-end screenings of student thesis films to a wider audience. With sponsorship, a venue, and support from the film industry, the event came to life. To pay tribute to School of Visual Arts Founder Silas H. Rhodes, the event was named “Dusty” - after the nickname Mr. Rhodes had as a soldier in World War II.
School of Visual Arts is widely regarded as one of the finest art schools in the United States for its innovative curriculum, unparalleled faculty of more than 1000 creative professionals and its participation in the larger arts community of New York City. BFA Film, Video and Animation alumni have received accolades from such renowned institutions and organizations such as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Sundance Film Festival; International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France; American Film Institute; Women in Film; National Board of Review and many others. Find more information at www.sva.edu/dusty
School of Visual Arts in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For further information or press tickets to film screenings, animation screenings, Screenwriters Night, or the Awards Ceremony, please contact:
Patrick Paris, Patrick.Paris@mouthpublicrelations.com
Travis DeLingua, Travis.Delingua@mouthpublicrelations.com
212.260.7576
- 3/31/11 : New Degrees from School of Visual Arts Expand the Role of Designers in Society
New Degrees from School of Visual Arts Expand the Role of Designers in Society
MFA in Design for Social Innovation and MFA in Products of Design offered at SVA Beginning in Fall 2012
Two new advanced degree programs in the field of design will be offered at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) beginning in the fall of 2012. The MFA in Design for Social Innovation provides designers with the experience and skills they need to create, develop, scale and collaborate on world changing initiatives for the good of society and the environment. The department will be chaired by Cheryl Heller, founder of Heller Communication Design and board chair of PopTech. The MFA in Products of Design aims to transform designers into strategic agents of change who can tackle the global challenges facing product design and the business of making. The department will be chaired by Allan Chochinov, industrial designer and partner of Core77.
"Design has transformed the world. Now the world is demanding the transformation of designers." says Chochinov. "The MFA in Products of Design addresses the contemporary design challenge of production and consumption, encouraging new approaches to industrial-age methodologies and orthodoxies. Designers aren’t in the artifact business anymore; they’re in the consequence business."
Heller explains, "Social innovation strengthens society and creates new models and technologies through which we can address the challenges we face. By training designers to achieve results, the MFA in Design for Social Innovation helps practitioners move beyond good intentions to good outcomes, and creates a respected role for design in the world of social innovation."
These two MFA degree departments join a roster of established design programs at SVA that are socially responsible, environmentally aware and grounded in the principals of entrepreneurship and innovation. They include the ground-breaking MFA Design Department, also known as the Designer as Author program, which prepares students to excel as entrepreneurs and creators of original concepts across a broad range of media. Founded just over a decade ago and co-chaired by Lita Talarico and Steven Heller, the program's alumni include Deborah Adler (MFA 2002 Design), whose thesis re-invented the prescription bottle and was later acquired by Target. Launched in 2010, Impact! Design for Social Change is a six-week summer intensive that introduces designers to the growing field of design for social advocacy. Chaired by Mark Randall, principal at Worldstudio, the program asks participants to address a pressing need of a New York-based non-profit organization or underserved community through design.
About the MFA in Design for Social Innovation
The MFA in Design for Social Innovation is a two-year program that prepares designers to apply new strategies and models in addressing global challenges and strengthening society. Individuals will unlock new worlds of potential through a mastery of design thinking, innovation, social technologies, data visualization, and communication design. Students will be given opportunities for hands-on experience using design in the classroom and the design lab, in corporations and in the field with non-profits and social entrepreneurs around the globe. The curriculum encompasses a broad range of issues including poverty, aging, women's rights, food and agriculture, social justice, environment, working conditions, fair trade, education, community development and health.
The faculty will include: Tracy Brandenburg, PhD, expert on indigenous cultures, researcher, writer and founder, The Wells College Innovation Lab; Mary Corliss Pearl, PhD, conservation biologist and CEO of The Garrison Institute; Jane S. Englebardt, former foundation head and grant maker, founder, Upshot Advisors; DK Holland, writer, founder, Citizen:ME; Julie Engel Manga, PhD, leadership consultant and faculty member, New Ventures West and Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship; Lisa Nugent, global creative director, cross-sector innovation & design, Johnson & Johnson; Despina Papadopoulos, technology designer and founder, Studio 5050; Marc Rettig, ethnographer, founder and principal, Fit Associates; and Lina Srivastava, pioneer in using culture for social innovation and principal, Lina Srivastava Consulting.
Cheryl Heller is the founder of Heller Communication Design and Board Chair of PopTech, a laboratory for disruptive innovation focused on technology and social change. She is a pioneering communication designer and business strategist, and has twice been nominated for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Communication Design. Heller has been successfully practicing social innovation and sustainability for many years, with major corporations like Seventh Generation, L'Oreal, Hachette Filipacchi and Sappi, non-profits such as the World Wildlife Foundation, Audubon, International Development Enterprises, The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education and the Girl Scouts of America. In 1999 she created the Ideas that Matter program for Sappi, which has since given over $10 million to designers working for the public good. She also advised Paul Polak and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum on the exhibit "Design for the Other 90%". Heller has been a core faculty member for the PopTech Social Innovation and Science Fellows, mentoring social entrepreneurs as they create and scale new models for solving issues around poverty, water, health care, energy and conservation. She has also served as faculty for the School of Visual Arts and the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.
More information about the MFA in Design for Social Innovation, including advisors, partners and guest lecturers, can be found at http://dsi.sva.edu/.
About the MFA in Products of Design
The MFA in Products of Design is a two-year program that trains practitioners for leadership roles in the shifting terrain of design. The program is response to the current explosion of creative investigation around making, meaning and the role of objects in our culture. Through a combination of design thinking, design making, and design doing, students are immersed in hands-on physical exploration, rigorous investigation, and strategic intent-helping them discover and define a strong point of view and professional readiness for new value creation. Equipped with confidence and signature project experience, graduates will be prepared to hold professional positions at top design firms, to create valuable enterprises of their own, and to become lifelong advocates for the power of design.
The faculty will include: Marc Alt, consultant, Open Source Cities; Paola Antonelli, senior curator, architecture and design, The Museum of Modern Art; Emilie Baltz, founder and creative director, Fork & Design; Ayse Birsel, co-founder and creative director, Birsel + Seck; Scott Chapps, designer and co-founder, ChappsMalina; Brian Chui, industrial designer, Smart Design; Michael Chung, freelance industrial designer and filmmaker; Dr. Andrew Dent, vice president, Material ConneXion; Carla Diana, senior designer, Smart Design; Tina Roth Eisenberg, founder, SwissMiss Studio; Ingrid Fetell, human factors specialist, IDEO; Bart Haney, program manager, Fuseproject; Claire Hartten, designer, Dirt Cafe; Steven Heller, author, design historian and co-chair, MFA Design Department at SVA; Monica Khemsurov, co-founder, Sight Unseen; Julie Lasky, editor, Change Observer; David Malina, designer and co-founder, ChappsMalina; Sigi Moeslinger, partner, Antenna Design, Dr. Jay Parkinson, physician and founder, Hello Health; Andrew Schloss, director, Reinstein/Ross; Jason Severs, principal designer, frog design; Jill Singer, co-founder, Sight Unseen; Sinclair Smith, freelance industrial designer, S3ID; Becky Stern, associate editor and video producer, CRAFT / MAKE; Manuel Toscano, principal, Zago; Richard Tyson, senior strategy consultant, Helsinki Group; Masamichi Udagawa, partner, Antenna Design; Jennifer van der Meer, strategist, Drillteam; Rob Walker, author and contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine; Helen Walters, writer, researcher and consultant, Monitor Group; Amy Whitaker, consultant, Locus Analytics; and John Zapolski, entrepreneur, designer and educator, Fonderie47.
The faculty at large will include: William Drenttel, partner, Winterhouse; Natalie Jeremijenko, director, XDesign; Bill Moggridge, director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; and John Thackara, director, Doors of Perception.
Allan Chochinov writes widely on design education and the impact of design on contemporary culture. He has been a guest critic at various design schools including Yale, New York University, University of Minnesota, Rochester Institute of Technology, Emily Carr and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and is a frequent design competition juror. Chochinov lectures around the world and at professional conferences including the Industrial Designers Society of America, AIGA: the professional association for design, and the Interaction Design Association. He is also a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts. He is the editor-in-chief of Core77.com, the widely read design Web site, Coroflot.com design job and portfolio site and DesignDirectory.com design firm database. Prior to Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical and diagnostic fields as well as on consumer products and workplace systems. (Projects included work for Herman Miller, Johnson & Johnson, Federal Express, Kodak, A.C. Nielsen, Oral-B, Crunch Fitness and others.) Chochinov has been named on numerous design and utility patents and has received awards from I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, the Art Directors Club and The One Club. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts and serves on the boards of the Designers Accord, Design Ignites Change, and DesigNYC.
More information on the MFA in Product of Design, including guest lecturers and workshop leaders, can be found at http://productsofdesign.sva.edu/.
About SVA
School of Visual Arts is a comprehensive college of art and design offering the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in advertising; animation; cartooning; computer art, computer animation and visual effects; film and video; fine arts; graphic design; illustration; interior design; photography; and visual and critical studies; the degree of Master of Arts in critical theory and the arts (2012); the degree of Master of Fine Arts in art criticism and writing; art practice; computer art; design; design for social innovation (2012); design criticism; fine arts; illustration as visual essay; interaction design; photography, video and related media; products of design (2012); and social documentary film; the degree of Master of Professional Studies in art therapy; branding; digital photography; fashion photography; and live action short film; and the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching in art education.
School of Visual Arts is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. SVA is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), the International Association of Independent Schools for Art and Design (AIAS) and the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD).
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information or to speak with Allan Chochinov or Cheryl Heller, contact John Wyszniewski, assistant director of communication, at jwyszniewski@sva.edu or 212.592.2209.
- 3/24/11 : School of Visual Arts Launches New Series of Books
School of Visual Arts Launches New Series of Books
The MFA Design Criticism Department (D-Crit) at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) announces the launch of its first chapbook series with the publication of At Water's Edge on April 6, 2011. This inaugural volume collects essays written by students in author and SVA faculty member Akiko Busch's "Reading Design" class, a first-year course in the D-Crit curriculum. The chapbook is available to purchase at lulu.com for $10.
The D-Crit Chapbooks present work written and edited by students under the aegis of a faculty member. The first in the series, At Water's Edge, gathers the essays written in Spring 2010, after students in “Reading Design” saw two exhibitions on view at the time: "Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609--2009" at The New York Public Library and "Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront" at The Museum of Modern Art. The first exhibition offered views to the port of New Amsterdam with documents ranging from maps of an unfamiliar shore to those revealing how the New York harbor was shaped and reshaped four centuries ago. The models, drawings, and films in the second exhibition proposed various solutions to the presumed reconfiguration of the city's waterfront with the advent of climate change over the course of the next century.
With such perspectives to both past and future, students were then asked to select particular areas of the New York waterfront for their own consideration. Their subsequent essays explore Wave Hill, The Little Red Lighthouse, Hudson River Greenway, Hunters Point, Water Taxi Beach, Pier 51, East River State Park, the Staten Island Ferry, the Red Hook piers and the Gowanus Canal. In collecting these pieces, At Water’s Edge charts its own view of the New York shoreline.
For more information including images, excerpts, interviews or additional copies of the chapbook, please contact the MFA Design Criticism Department at 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu.
At Water’s Edge was edited by current D-Crit students Saundra Marcel and Vera Sacchetti along with faculty member Akiko Busch; it was designed by Walker Design and Ryan G. Nelson in Minneapolis, MN. As the first in the D-Crit chapbook series, it provides a forum to showcase the work of students in this innovative program.
The MFA in Design Criticism trains students to interrogate and evaluate design, architecture and urban infrastructure. Working alongside New York’s best respected editors, authors, critics, curators and historians, students learn to hone their writerly voices and to communicate their unique perspectives through a range of media including exhibitions, radio podcasts, events, blogs and books. Drawing on the broadest possible definition of design, the curriculum addresses graphic, Web and product design as well as fashion, urban planning and network systems. For more information about the two-year graduate program, please visit www.dcrit.sva.edu
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information contact John Wyszniewski, assistant director of communication, at jwyszniewski@sva.edu or 212.592.2209.
- 3/22/11 : Nobel Prize-Winning Biologist Dr. Gerald M. Edelman To Speak At School of Visual Arts 2011 Commencement Exercises
Nobel Prize-Winning Biologist Dr. Gerald M. Edelman To Speak At SVA 2011 Commencement Exercises
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 10am and 2pm
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
Private event; Press seats available at 212.592.2010 or proffice@sva.edu
Nobel Prize-winning biologist Dr. Gerald M. Edelman has accepted an invitation from the School of Visual Arts to speak at the 2011 commencement exercises. The event will take place on Thursday, May 12, 2011, 10am and 2pm, at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York City. The ceremony is a ticketed event and open to students and invited guests only. A live webcast will be streamed.
Dr. Edelman is director of The Neurosciences Institute and President of Neurosciences Research Foundation, a publicly supported not-for-profit organization that is the Institute's parent. Separately, he is professor at The Scripps Research Institute and chairman of the Department of Neurobiology at that institution. His early studies focused on the structure, diversity, and function of antibodies. In 1972, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on antibodies, which transformed our understanding of the immune response. His subsequent work led to the discovery of cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), which have been found to guide the fundamental processes by which an animal achieves its shape and form and by which nervous systems are built. To understand higher brain functions, Dr. Edelman and his colleagues designed and constructed a series of mobile devices with simulated brains. These brain-based devices (BBDs) were shown to be capable of learning, operant conditioning, and episodic memory. Dr. Edelman has also formulated a detailed theory to explain the development and organization of higher brain functions. This theory was presented in his volume Neural Darwinism (Basic Books, 1987). More recently, he described a theory of consciousness in his book Wider Than The Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness (Yale University Press, 2004). His latest book, Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge (Yale University Press), appeared in October 2006.
Dr. Edelman will join a distinguished group of leaders in the arts, humanities and public service who have spoken at SVA’s commencement exercises in past years, including playwrights Edward Albee and Tony Kushner, historian Robert A. Caro, Governor Mario Cuomo, opera singer Ronan Tynan and actor B.D. Wong as well as New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof and Frank Rich.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
- 3/22/11 : School of Visual Arts Kicks Off 22nd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival Friday May 6
School of Visual Arts Kicks Off 22nd Annual Dustys Film and Animation Festival Friday May 6
Film and Animation Festival: May 6 - 10 2011
Awards Ceremony: Tuesday, May 10, 2011
The 22nd Annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival kicks off Friday, May 6 and continues through Tuesday, May 10 highlighting over 100 films by students graduating from the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at the School of Visual Arts (SVA). The program includes screenings of short films, videos and animations, and culminates in an awards ceremony with notables from the film and animation industries. This year's Screenwriters Night is in collaboration with Susan Batson Studio featuring SVA graduating screenwriters' selected scenes performed live by professional actors. All festival screenings, the Awards Ceremony and Screenwriters Night will take place at the SVA Theatre (333 West 23rd Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues). Many events are FREE and open to the general public. For more event information, please visit: www.sva.edu/dusty.
"We are pleased to kick off our Dusty Film and Animation Festival May 6," said Reeves Lehmann, chair of the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at SVA. "We're proud to celebrate another great year for our filmmakers and animators with a festival that offers audiences the chance to see the works of remarkable new talent. And this year, our 22nd year, promises to be one filled with many colorful, dramatic, funny and remarkable stories - all through the amazing world of film, video and animation!"
Awards are presented to students from the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at the School of Visual Arts who are recognized for outstanding thesis work. The 2011 Dusty Film and Animation Festival and Awards are produced by film producer and SVA faculty member Annie Flocco, with co-producer Meredith Engstrom.
Past Dusty Awards presenters have included SVA alumni, industry notables and award-winners such as Patricia Clarkson, James Gandolfini, Phil Donahue, John D. Dilworth, Chris Newman, Stephen Rotter, Nancy Schreiber, James C. Strouse, Danny Aiello, Ellen Burstyn, Sean Combs, Wes Craven, Griffin Dunne, Harvey Keitel, Kevin Kline, David Koepp, Mira Nair, Bill Plympton, John Patrick Shanley, Bryan Singer, Treat Williams and more. The 2011 presenters will be announced in the coming weeks.
Screenwriters Night, Saturday, May 7, 2011, is presented in collaboration with Susan Batson Studio. Five-minute scenes by SVA's screenwriting thesis students are set to be performed live on stage. Screenwriters Night will be directed by Susan Batson, founder of Susan Batson Studio, and produced by film producer and SVA faculty member Annie Flocco. "I am thrilled to be collaborating with Susan Batson on Screenwriters Night this year," said Flocco. "And excited to see Susan and her actors bring to life the words of our talented screenwriters."
Susan Batson has been called a "technician of the spirit" by The New Yorker. She has enjoyed the privilege of working with Nicole Kidman, Juliette Binoche, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, Sean Combs, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Connelly, and countless others. Susan Batson is the author of the book Truth: Personas, Needs, and Flaws In The Art of Building Actors and Creating Characters and has been profiled in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Backstage.
Over its more than two-decade history, the Dustys has introduced many graduates of the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department who have gone on to earn national and international recognition. Alumnus and Los Angeles-based film producer Randall Emmett (BFA 1994 Film and Video) has teamed up with Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson to shoot a series of films in West Michigan. Among the accomplishments of last year's graduates of the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department, Joe Minasi (BFA 2010 Film and Video) and Rob Kolodny (BFA 2010 Film and Video) have been awarded prizes for their thesis films. Minasi's film In the Key of D was winner of the Best Student Film in the Silk City Flick Festival; Best Picture and Best Cinematography in the NYC Filmmakers Film Festival; as well as Best Picture of the Audience Choice award in the East End Film Festival. Kolodny was also awarded Best Set Design and Best Cinematography in the Manalapan Film Festival for his film Shelter, and his film Land of Nod was screened at NYC's Anthology Film Archives. Dot, a short comedy directed and produced by 2010 NYWIFT Next Wave scholarship recipient Bennett Elliott (BFA 2010 Film and Video), kicks off the Garden State Film Festival this year. Also at the same festival, Kyle Mumford (BFA 2010 Film and Video) will have a special sneak screening of his first feature film, His Naked Mind. Alumnus William Wedig's (BFA 2006 Film and Video) film Forged was named the Best Domestic Feature at the 2010 New York International Latino Film Festival. Another Dusty Film and Animation Award recipient making headlines is Jake Armstrong (BFA 2009 Animation). His animation The Terrible Thing of Alpha 9! was featured on the website Cartoon Brew. Notable alumni of the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at SVA also include Michael Giacchino (BFA 1990 Film and Video), who won a 2010 Academy Award for his score for Up.
2011 Festival Schedule
Friday, May 6 - Monday, May 9: Screenings*
SVA Theatre
333 West 23rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)
Screening schedule will be available on the Dustys website in late April.
Saturday, May 7: Screenwriters Night
SVA Theatre, 6:30pm
Sunday, May 8: Animation Screenings+
SVA Theatre 7 - 11:30pm
Tuesday, May 10: Awards Ceremony
SVA Theatre, 6:30pm
RSVP is required for Screenwriters Night and Awards Ceremony. For public inquiries regarding tickets, please contact 212.592.2124. Events marked with an asterisk * above are free and open to the public. Updated event information will be available on the SVA DUSTY website: www.sva.edu/dusty
The 2011 Dusty Film and Animation Festival and Awards headlining sponsors include AbelCine, Act Zero Films, Adorama Rental Company, AJA Video Systems, Animation Magazine, Avid Technology, Inc., Boxx Technologies, CAVA - SVA Computer Store, The Eastman Kodak Company, Feature Systems / Kits and Expendables, Foto Care, Gotham Sound and Communications, Inc., National Board of Review, New York Women in Film & Television, Nice Shoes, Panavision New York, SCS Agency, Inc., Sony Electronics, Inc., Susan Batson Studio.
The Dusty Film and Animation Festival and Awards began in 1990 when the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department sought to bring its year-end screenings of student thesis films to a wider audience. With sponsorship, a venue, and the support from the film industry, the event came to life. To pay tribute to School of Visual Arts Founder Silas H. Rhodes, the event was named "Dusty" - after the nickname Mr. Rhodes had as a soldier in World War II.
School of Visual Arts is widely regarded as one of the finest art schools in the United States for its innovative curriculum, unparalleled faculty of more than 1000 creative professionals and its participation in the larger arts community of New York City. BFA Film, Video and Animation alumni have received accolades from such renowned institutions and organizations such as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Sundance Film Festival; International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France; American Film Institute; Women in Film; National Board of Review and many others. Find more information at www.sva.edu/dusty
School of Visual Arts in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact:
For further information or press tickets to film screenings, animation screenings, Screenwriters Night, or the Awards Ceremony, please contact:
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- 3/17/11 : Design Experts Converge at SVA for Public Forum
Design Experts Converge at SVA for Public Forum
Event Features Paola Antonelli, Adam Harrison Levy, Bjarke Ingels, Olympia Kazi, John Seabrook, Linda Tischler and Rob Walker
"Objects tell stories, and we all tell stories about our objects. But not all stories are equal, and not all stories are true." -- Rob Walker
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents Present Tense: The 2011 D-Crit Conference, conceived and organized by graduating students of the MFA Design Criticism Department (D-Crit) at SVA. Moderated by documentary film producer Adam Harrison Levy and with a keynote lecture by New York Times contributor Rob Walker, the second annual event will feature thesis presentations by all 11 graduating D-Crit students. The conference concludes with a panel discussion that includes MoMA's Paola Antonelli, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, Van Alen Institute's Olympia Kazi, The New Yorker's John Seabrook and Fast Company's Linda Tischler, who will join Levy and Walker onstage to debate the future of design discourse. The fast-paced, day-long forum will be held at the SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, on Wednesday, May 4 and begins at 1pm with the panel discussion taking place at 6pm.
"Situated at the intersection of commerce and culture, design is a field of activity that touches the lives of everyone," says Alice Twemlow, chair of the MFA Design Criticism Department at SVA. “Yet, while forums for design commentary have increased, there is a crucial need for more intellectually rigorous and imaginative approaches to design criticism.”
Present Tense: The 2011 D-Crit Conference will showcase new contributions to the design discourse. Topics will range from the design of playgrounds to an exploration of Detroit's design and rebuilding initiatives. Other areas of investigation include decay and impermanence in design, music videos in the internet age and the cultural significance of the afro. The participating students and projects are:
- Kim Birks, "Recreate: New Grounds for New York's Playgrounds"
- Sarah Cox, "The Detroiter: Resident Design Initiatives in a City Reshaping"
- Molly Heintz, "Myth to Megaphone: Behind the Creation of the Designer’s Public Identity"
- Stephanie Jonsson, "Designing Sound: Aural Agency in the Twenty-First Century"
- Aileen Kwun, "Mirror Image Maker: Looking at Music Videos of the Internet Age"
- Saundra Marcel, "Living Licensed: Consuming Characters in Girls’ Popular Culture"
- Avinash Rajagopal, "Tinkering with Design: Preparing for the Convergence of Design and Hacking"
- Zach Sachs, "Permanence as a Criterion"
- Vera Sacchetti, "Design Crusades: A Critical Reflection on Social Design"
- Michele Washington, "Untangling the Naps: The Cultural Significance of the Afro and How it is Imagined Today"
- Amelie Znidaric, "Listen to Your Chair: Design and the Art of Storytelling"
About the participants
Paola Antonelli is senior curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art. Since 1994, Paola has curated several landmark exhibitions and in 2006 was awarded the Design Mind Award by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum for her work. She was also appointed senior fellow at the Royal College of Art, London and given an honorary doctorate by Kingston University. Prior to joining the staff at MoMA, Paola was the editor of Abitare and a contributing editor to Domus. Among the books she has written are: Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design and Objects of Design from the Museum of Modern Art (Harper Collins Design, 2005). She has also written on design for Harper’s Bazaar, Harvard Design, I.D., Seed, Metropolis, Nest, and Paper.
Adam Harrison Levy is a writer and freelance documentary film producer and director. For the past 15 years, he has worked on a wide range of historical and arts films, primarily for the BBC. He was the U.S. producer for Selling the Sixties, a cultural history of the world of advertising in New York in the early 1960s, as well as for the BBC films Close Up, about the artist Chuck Close, and David Ogilvy: Original Mad Man. For the BBC and Channel 4 he has produced and directed countless interviews with a wide range of actors, writers, musicians and filmmakers.
Bjarke Ingels is a Danish architect and creator of BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, founded in 2005. Previously, he co-founded PLOT Architects in 2001 after working at OMA in Rotterdam. Through his award-winning design projects and buildings, Ingels has come to be known as a member of a new generation of architects balancing shrewd and practical analysis, playful experimentation, social responsibility and humor. With BIG, Ingels' portfolio includes the Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, 8 House in Copenhagen, the new Danish national Maritime museum in Elsinore, hotel projects in Norway, and a museum overlooking Mexico City. Last fall Ingels opened the New York office of BIG and recently unveiled plans for a residential complex on West 57th Street in Manhattan in development by the Durst Organization.
Olympia Kazi, a critic and curator of architecture, is the executive director of the Van Alen Institute in New York. A graduate of the Architecture Department at the University of Florence, Kazi served as junior curator at the Milan Triennale (2002-04) and fellow of architecture and urban studies at the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art (2006-07) before becoming Director of the Institute for Urban Design, New York (2007-09). "Urban Design Week," her last project at the Institute for Urban Design, was a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 2009 Cultural Innovation Fund. Kazi has served as architecture editor of Wound magazine and has written for The Architect’s Newspaper and Architectural Design, among other publications.
John Seabrook is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His articles have addressed a range of issues, including technology, genealogy, design and natural history. He is the author of Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace (Simon & Schuster, 1997), Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing the Marketing of Culture (Knopf, 2000), and Flash of Genius and Other True Stories of Invention (St. Martin's, 2008). His work has also appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Travel + Leisure, and The Village Voice. He has taught narrative nonfiction writing at Princeton University and lives in New York City.
Linda Tischler is a senior editor at Fast Company, where she writes about the intersection of business and design. She is responsible for the magazine’s "Master’s of Design" issue, which celebrates the people in the forefront of design thinking. She also oversees design coverage and blogs on FastCompany.com, where she launched the site’s team of expert design bloggers. In 2006, Tischler won the Society of Professional Journalists’ top award for feature writing. She has also written on art and design for Metropolitan Home, the Boston Globe, Better Homes and Gardens, and Maybourne Style, and held editing and writing jobs at Boston Magazine, the Boston Herald and Microsoft’s sidewalk.com.
Rob Walker is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, and the author of Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are (Random House, 2008) and Letters From New Orleans (Garrett County Press, 2005). He is the co-founder, with Joshua Glenn, of Significant Objects (book version forthcoming in 2011 from Fantagraphics); co-founder, with Ellen Susan and G.K. Darby, of The Hypothetical Development Organization; and founding collaborator of the Unconsumption project. Walker is often called on as an expert commentator on the subject of material culture and branding, notably in the documentary Objectified. He lives in Savannah, GA.
About SVA
The MFA in Design Criticism trains students to interrogate and evaluate design, architecture and urban infrastructure. Working alongside New York’s best respected editors, authors, critics, curators and historians, students learn to hone their writerly voices and to communicate their unique perspectives through a range of media including exhibitions, radio podcasts, events, blogs and books. Drawing on the broadest possible definition of design, the curriculum addresses graphic, Web and product design as well as fashion, urban planning and network systems. For more information about the two-year graduate program, please visit www.dcrit.sva.edu
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact John Wyszniewski at 212.592.2209 or jwyszniewski@sva.edu.
- 3/15/11 : The Alumni Society of School of Visual Arts Announces the 2011 Alumni Scholarship Award Recipients
The Alumni Society of School of Visual Arts Announces the 2011 Alumni Scholarship Award Recipients
The Alumni Society of School of Visual Arts recently announced the 2011 Alumni Scholarship Award recipients. The awards, which help support emerging SVA artists in their creative pursuits, are given to fourth-year undergraduates and final-year graduate students in all majors to aid in the completion of their final thesis or portfolio project.
The 2011 recipients are: Angela Branco, MFA 2011 Fine Arts; Sachio Cook, BFA 2011 Animation; Michelle Czajkowski, BFA 2011 Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects; Daniel Fishel, MFA 2011 Illustration as Visual Essay; Erin Franke, BFA 2011 Visual and Critical Studies; Sasha Friedlander, MFA 2011 Social Documentary Film; Carly Gaebe, MFA 2011 Photography, Video and Related Media; Ben Gewant, BFA 2011 Fine Arts; Susie Hong, BFA 2011 Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects; Maya Kaplun, BFA 2011 Graphic Design; Spencer Katz, BFA 2011 Film and Video; Mark Kendall, MFA 2011 Social Documentary Film; Shien-Yuin Lai, BFA 2011 Animation; Ying Hsu Lai, MFA 2011 Computer Art; Lillian Lee, MFA 2011 Design; Sara Macel, MFA 2011 Photography, Video and Related Media; Drew Magner, BFA 2011 Film and Video; William Russell Maschmeyer, MFA 2011 Interaction Design; Jinah Min, MFA 2011 Design; Kimberly Moy, BFA 2011 Interior Design; Tempest NeuCollins, MFA 2011 Fine Arts; Alex Nunez, BFA 2011 Photography; Nathan Ramirez, MFA 2011 Photography, Video and Related Media; Christopher Sellas, MFA 2011 Photography, Video and Related Media; Olena Shmahalo, BFA 2011 Visual and Critical Studies; Sarah Stephenson, MFA 2011 Art Criticism; Michael Williams, BFA 2011 Film and Video; Zack Williams, BFA 2011 Animation; and Selim Yang, BFA 2011 Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects.
Recent Alumni Scholarship Award winner Natan Dvir (2010 MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) explains, “The award helped me to complete my series Eighteen, which focuses on Israel’s Arab population. The time I spent at SVA helped me to define my position as an artist, and to use documentary language, coupled with my own photographic instincts and research, to explore issues of social relevance.” Eighteen has received international press coverage and has been the recipient of numerous photography awards, including winner of the social documentary essay category at the 2010 New York Photo Awards. The work has been exhibited at The Center for Photography at Woodstock; Schneider Gallery, Chicago; Blue Sky Galley, Portland; and Columbia University Hillel, New York. Eighteen will be on view later this year at the Ramat Gan Museum, Israel; the Houston Center for Photography; the War Museum, Dubrovnik, Croatia; the Central European House for Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia; and the New York Photo Festival.
Applications for the awards are reviewed by a panel comprised of SVA alumni and their recommendations are approved by The Alumni Society Board of Directors. In addition to the Alumni Scholarship Awards, The Alumni Society also gives out several named scholarships established in honor of alumni, former students or faculty, which include:
The 727 Fund was established in 2005 by a group of BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department alumni and is designated for students in graphic design, illustration, cartooning and advertising.
The William C. Arkell Memorial Scholarship Fund was established in 2002 by an anonymous SVA alumnus. The annual award is made in support of senior thesis projects by BFA Film and Video majors working in the narrative film genre.
The Robert I. Blumenthal Memorial Scholarship Fund was established by Anthony Porpora (1956 Advertising), close friend and executor of the estate of Robert Blumenthal, and is designated for the benefit of senior graphic design majors.
The Will Eisner Sequential Art Scholarship Fund was established in 2008 in memory of SVA faculty member Will Eisner, whose work was key to establishing the graphic novel as a form of literature.
The Amelia Geocos Memorial Scholarship Fund was established in memory of alumnus Amelia Geocos (BFA 2007 Fine Arts). The scholarship is designated for BFA Fine Arts majors whose work is video and or performance based.
The Bob Guglielmo Memorial Scholarship Fund was established to commemorate the passing of former Office of Alumni Affairs Director and SVA alumnus Bob Guglielmo (BFA 1984 Cartooning). The annual award is given to the highest ranked BFA Cartooning applicant in the Alumni Scholarship Award pool.
The Sylvia Lipson Allen Memorial Scholarship Fund was established in memory of Sylvia Lipson Allen, an SVA evening student. The award is given annually to the highest ranked BFA Fine Arts applicant in the Alumni Scholarship Award pool.
The Thomas Reiss Memorial Scholarship was established in memory of Thomas Reiss (MFA 1993 Photography and Related Media) and is designated for MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department students whose final project addresses a humanitarian issue.
2011 marks the inaugural year for two new scholarships presented by The Alumni Society, the Illustration as Visual Essay Scholarship, awarded in support of second-year MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department students, and the Illustration and Cartooning Scholarship, awarded in support of undergraduate illustration and cartooning majors.
The complete list of 2011 recipients of named scholarships is available online here.
The Alumni Society of School of Visual Arts, Inc. is an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, which exists to service the needs of SVA students and alumni. The Alumni Society hosts programs and events, which connect SVA’s 28,000 alumni with one another and the College.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
- 2/3/11 : Popular Cultural Podcast Design Matters Begins Spring Season in New Studio at SVA
Popular Cultural Podcast Design Matters Begins Spring Season in New Studio at SVA
Guests include Gail Anderson, Kate Betts, Grace Bonney, Dominique Browning, Jonathan Ford, Kalle Lasn, Jonah Lehrer, Eddie Opara, Rob Walker and Alina Wheeler
The Master of Professional Studies (MPS) Branding Department at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) announces the spring 2011 season of the popular cultural podcast Design Matters. Hosted by design champion and chair of the MPS Branding Department Debbie Millman, Design Matters brings thought-provoking conversations with leaders in design and culture to the public at no charge. Aired exclusively on leading cultural destination Design Observer, the new season begins at 2pm on Friday, February 4 with author and journalist Rob Walker who writes the "Consumed" column for The New York Times.
Design Matters is recorded in front of a live student audience at The Branding Studio at SVA. Upcoming guests include:
Gail Anderson, designer, educator, and former creative director of design at SpotCo;
Kate Betts, fashion journalist, contributing editor at TIME magazine, and columnist for The Daily Beast;
Grace Bonney, writer and editor-in-chief of Design*Sponge;
Dominique Browning, writer, editor, and former editor-in-chief of House & Garden;
Jonathan Ford, designer and co-founding partner of Pearlfisher;
Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbusters;
Jonah Lehrer, contributing editor at Wired and author of How We Decide (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007) and Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009);
Eddie Opara, interactive and graphic designer and new partner at Pentagram; and
Alina Wheeler, brand consultant, designer, and author of Designing Brand Identity (Wiley, 2009).
Design Matters is a thought-provoking cultural podcast which profiles industry-leading graphic designers, change agents, artists, writers and educators. Design Matters currently has about 200,000 listeners and was voted a "favorite podcast" on IF's Marketing Podcast survey at PSFK. The show is aired exclusively on Design Observer and is also available as podcasts on iTunes, where over 50,000 people download the show every month. The show is also regularly in the Top 10 audio Design podcasts on iTunes as well as a featured podcast on the site.
Debbie Millman is a partner and president of the design division at Sterling Brands, one of the leading brand identity firms in the country. Millman is president of AIGA, and chair of the MPS Branding Department at SVA. She is a contributing editor to Print magazine. She is the author of How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer (Allworth Press, 2007), The Essential Principles of Graphic Design (Rotovision, 2008) and Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design (How Books, 2009).
The MPS in Branding at SVA focuses on the intellectual link between design and business. Students examine the power of design thinking and learn how to combine creative skills with problem-solving and decision-making processes in order to take advantage of new market opportunities, and to deliver innovative, successful and sustainable project outcomes in the worlds of design, advertising, marketing and business.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information please contact John Wyszniewski, assistant director of communication, at jwyszniewski@sva.edu or 212.592.2209.
- 2/2/11 : School of Visual Arts Presents Beyond Kandinsky: Revisiting The Spiritual in Art
School of Visual Arts Presents Beyond Kandinsky: Revisiting The Spiritual in Art
SVA Symposium and Film Screening Take Up Legendary Painter's Legacy
Symposium: March 30 - April 8, 2011
Online at www.beyondkandinsky.net
Film Screening: Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street, New York City
"Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions." -Wassily Kandinsky, On the Spiritual in Art
In commemoration of the centennial anniversary of the publication of Wassily Kandinsky's seminal text On the Spiritual in Art, the BFA Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) has invited renowned artists and scholars to participate in Beyond Kandinsky: Revisiting the Spiritual in Art, a ten-day online symposium beginning March 30, 2011. The symposium will examine the book's influence on artists and writers throughout its 100-year history, as well as its relevance and interpretation within a contemporary context.
In the book, Kandinsky discusses the responsibilities of the individual artist, arguing passionately against materialism and urging artists to engage in a "spiritual revolution." Symposium participants will revisit Kandinsky's themes in relation to current art world culture and individual artistic practices. Some of the discussion points include: How have attitudes toward the spiritual in art changed with the wane of Modernism? Is the notion of transcendence still viable in contemporary art? How have recent changes in artistic practice impacted the spiritual content of works of art? What is the role of art criticism in offering interpretive frameworks that recognize the spiritual in art?
Organized and moderated by artist, writer and SVA faculty member Taney Roniger and writer and filmmaker Eric Zechman, the symposium will open a dialogue between participating art historians, media historians, critics, visual artists and filmmakers on how the questions raised by On the Spiritual in Art can be explored within the current cultural landscape. Symposium participants include: Suzanne Anker, visual artist, theoretician and BFA Fine Arts Department Chair at SVA; Jan Avgikos, art historian, critic and curator; Laura Battle, artist and professor of studio arts at Bard College; Connie Beckley, visual artist, composer and performance artist; Nathaniel Dorsky, filmmaker; James Elkins, professor of art history, theory and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and head of the history of art at University College, Cork, Ireland; Max Gimblett, artist; Tom Huhn, philosopher, curator and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department and Art History Department Chair at SVA; Atta Kim, photographer; Daniel A. Siedell, assistant professor of modern and contemporary art history, theory and criticism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; and David Levi Strauss, scholar, critic and MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department Chair at SVA, among others. A complete list is available at www.beyondkandinsky.net
In conjunction with the symposium, SVA will present a screening of three works by acclaimed avant-garde filmmaker and symposium participant Nathaniel Dorsky at the SVA Theatre: Sarabande (2008), Compline (2009) and Aubade (2010). Dorsky has been creating poetic, often silent films since 1964 and is the author of Devotional Cinema (Tuumba Press, 2003). According to The New York Times, "in his cinematic world, human consciousness at its most spiritually attuned is a sequence of fleeting moments, a long ecstatic series of goodbyes." Dorsky's films have been screened at museums and festivals worldwide, including the Louvre, Paris; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and a one-person show at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York. In 2001, The Museum of Modern Art, New York held a twelve-film retrospective screening of his work. The three films will be presented on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 7pm at the SVA Theatre, located at 333 West 23 Street in New York City. The screening is free and open to the public.
Beyond Kandinsky: Revisiting the Spiritual in Art symposium participants will begin posting their introductory statements online on February 15, 2011. To read these and to follow the ten-day event, please visit www.beyondkandinsky.net
The BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA prepares students to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing field head on. With a faculty of approximately 100 active artists, critics and curators, a distinguished roster of guest lecturers and various exhibition opportunities, the department offers direct and multifaceted engagement with the largest art community in the world. From coursework in anatomy, figure drawing and color theory, to interdisciplinary workshops in digital and photo-based media, the curriculum provides the broadest possible means of expression. A digital lab with state-of-the art recording, editing and projection technology, fully-equipped printmaking facilities and sculpture studios with computerized (CNC) milling machines are among the department’s many resources.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact Keri Murawski, publicist, at 212.592.2164 or e-mail kmurawski@sva.edu.
- 1/26/11 : School of Visual Arts Announces Spring 2011 MFA Design Criticism Lecture Series
School of Visual Arts Announces Spring 2011 MFA Design Criticism Lecture Series
February 15 - April 12
School of Visual Arts (SVA) announces the Spring 2011 lectures in the MFA Design Criticism Department. Now a fixture of the New York design community, these public programs consist of thoughtful presentations, lively Q&A sessions, and intimate receptions where designers, critics and design enthusiasts can continue the conversation with the featured speaker.
Speakers for the Spring lineup are selected and hosted by the current first-year students, and include industrial designer and lab chief at Rockwell Group Tucker Viemeister; fashion historian and FIT Museum curator Valerie Steele; design historian Linda King; television critic and “The Medium” columnist Virginia Heffernan; Pentagram partner and writer Michael Bierut; and Wall Street Journal wine critic Lettie Teague.
All lectures take place on Tuesdays from 6 - 8pm at 136 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor, New York City. Admission is free and open to the public; RSVP to 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu.
February 15: Tucker Viemeister, "Play=Design=Learning"
Young Frank Lloyd Wright played with his blocks. Eames played with bent wood, Buckminster Fuller played with tensegrity. In order to succeed today, designers need to play with all kinds of complex and contradictory factors. Industrial designer and Fast Company blogger Tucker Viemeister will talk about the role of play in designing, learning and its relationship to design criticism.
Tucker Viemeister is lab chief at Rockwell Group. The Lab experiments with interactive digital technology in objects, environments and stories--blurring the line between the physical and virtual. Since joining Rockwell Group in 2004, Viemeister has been instrumental in the design and development of projects including JetBlue's Marketplace at the JFK International Airport; "Hall of Fragments," an installation that opened the Corderie dell'Arsenale at the 2008 Venice Biennale; and MGM City Centre in Las Vegas. Prior to joining Rockwell Group, Viemeister helped launch frogdesign NY, Razorfish, Smart Design (where he led the design of the widely-acclaimed Oxo "GoodGrips" universal kitchen tools), and Springtime USA.
March 1: Michael Bierut, "Designing, Writing, Teaching: Not My Real Job"
Michael Bierut has worked as a designer, writer, editor, blogger, and teacher. He will describe the pleasures and perils of working for 30 years with an intentionally confusing job description.
Michael Bierut is a partner in the New York office of Pentagram Design, and was previously vice president for Graphic Design at Vignelli Associates. He is the author of Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007), which collects some of his contributions to Design Observer, the design blog he co-founded with Rick Poynor, Jessica Helfand and William Drentell. Bierut is the co-editor of the anthology series Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design (Allworth Press) and co-editor of Tibor Kalman, Perverse Optimist (Princeton Architectural Press, 2000). He is a recipient of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Design Mind Award and frequently contributes commentaries on graphic design in everyday life to the Public Radio International Program "Studio 360."
March 22: Linda King, "Fly Irish: US and Dutch Influences on Aer Lingus Advertising"
Ireland's receipt of Marshall Aid funding put pressure on successive Irish governments to modernize Ireland’s tourism industry. By the 1950s Aer Lingus was operating as a de facto tourism authority and had embarked on an ambitious advertising strategy led by Dutch immigrant designers recruited from KLM Airlines. Design historian Linda King demonstrates how these designers introduced a radical visual modernity into Irish graphic design practice, which still resonates today.
Dr. Linda King is a lecturer in Design History, Theory and Visual Communication at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin. She has lectured and published widely on her research interests, which include the graphic design and advertising strategies of the former Irish national airline, Aer Lingus; the expression of national identity through design; the professionalization of Irish design practice; and the material culture of tourism. She is an invited member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) and is on the editorial board of the journal Artefact. Her co-edited volume Ireland, Design and Visual Culture: Negotiating Modernity, 1922-1992, will be published in March 2011.
March 29: Virginia Heffernan, "The Pleasures of the Internet."
"The Pleasures of the Internet" is about the delight--and anxiety--of digital existence. From YouTube to e-books to WikiLeaks, media critic Virginia Heffernan will address the specific ways that digital culture has already superseded analog, and how that's both terrifying and exhilarating.
Virginia Heffernan is a television critic for The New York Times and writer of "The Medium" column in The New York Times Magazine. Started in 2006, "The Medium" reviews and analyzes our web, television, video and ever-changing media culture and the "way we watch now." Prior to her work at the Times, Heffernan was a fact-checker for The New Yorker. She served as an editor at Harper's and Talk magazines, and as TV critic for the online magazine Slate.
April 5: Lettie Teague, "The Language of Wine Labels"
Everyone has their own method of buying wine--sometimes it just involves labels less than grapes or their origin. Wine labels are as diverse and individual as book jackets. The old adage says you can't judge a book this way, and wine follows suit. What, then, can we learn from the label of a wine bottle? Wine columnist Lettie Teague explores the nuances of wine labeling that clue us in to the contents of a bottle and reveals that sometimes all is not as it seems.
Lettie Teague is a wine columnist and staff writer for The Wall Street Journal. Her column appears on alternate Saturdays in the Off Duty section of WSJ Weekend. She joined the publication in March of 2010, after 12 years as the wine editor and columnist at Food & Wine magazine. Her monthly column, "Wine Matters," won the 2003 James Beard M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award and the 2005 James Beard Award for Magazine Columns. She is the author of Educating Peter, an introduction to wine (Scribner, 2007) and the co-author of Fear of Wine (Bantam, 1995). Her work can also be found in the 2009 Best of Food Writing Guide (DaCapo). Teague splits her time between New York City and the North Fork of Long Island's wine country. She loves most wines of the world except Pinotage.
April 12: Valerie Steele, "Fashion Theory"
Valerie Steele, the founder and editor-in-chief of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, published by Berg, will discuss the origins and development of this influential, interdisciplinary journal and consider its contribution to the development of Fashion Studies as a field.
Valerie Steele is a fashion historian, author, chief curator and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She has curated over 20 exhibitions, and has written many books, including Gothic: Dark Glamour (Yale University Press, 2008); The Corset: A Cultural History (Yale University Press, 2001); Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power (Oxford University Press, 1996); and The Black Dress (Harper Collins, 2007). She is also the editor-in-chief of Fashion Theory, a journal she founded in 1997, to showcase critical analysis of the dressed body. Steele, who has been referred to by The New York Times as a "High-Heeled Historian" and was listed in the New York Daily News as one of "Fashion's 50 Most Powerful," lectures frequently and has appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" as well as "Undressed: The Story of Fashion" (BBC 4 and Bravo).
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact John Wyszniewski, assistant director of communication, at 212.592.2209 or jwyszniewski@sva.edu.
- 1/25/11 : Inka Essenhigh to Lecture at New York's School of Visual Arts
Inka Essenhigh to Lecture at New York's School of Visual Arts
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 7pm
SVA Theatre
333 West 23 Street, New York City
The Alumni Society of School of Visual Arts (SVA) welcomes acclaimed artist Inka Essenhigh (MFA 1994 Fine Arts) as part of the Distinguished Alumnus Lecture Series. Widely praised for her unique vision and color sense, Essenhigh is influenced by the surrealists, the symbolists and comic book art to create mystical landscapes populated by hybrid creatures. In the preface to a recent Art in America interview with the artist, Noah Becker said, “Essenhigh is masterful at drawing us into her paintings under the notion that we are in familiar territory, from which her work then pushes the viewer to re-consider the effects of distorted figuration and abstraction on our powers of recognition.” The event takes place on Thursday, March 3, 2011, 7pm at the SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street. Admission is free and open to the public.
Born in Belfonte, Pennsylvania, Inka Essenhigh received a BFA from the Columbus College of Art & Design in 1991 and earned her MFA in Fine Arts at SVA in 1994. She had her first New York solo exhibition in 1997 and first came to prominence for paintings depicting cartoonish figures floating on monochromatic backgrounds that helped to resurrect the public’s interest in figurative painting through their graphic narratives. Her work has been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; the Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; and the Contemporary Art Museum of Virginia. Essenhigh’s work is held in public art collections such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Denver Art Museum, Denver; MoMA PS1, New York; Tate Gallery, London; Saatchi Gallery, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She has had solo exhibitions at 303 Gallery, New York; Victoria Miro Gallery, London; and Mary Boone Gallery, New York. Essenhigh is represented by 303 Gallery in New York and Victoria Miro Gallery in London. She lives and works in New York City.
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Media Contact: For further information please contact Alia Dalal, communication coordinator, at 212.592.2010 or adalal@sva.edu.
- 1/4/11 : School of Visual Arts Announces the Spring 2011 Art in the First Person Lecture Series
School of Visual Arts Announces the Spring 2011 Art in the First Person Lecture Series
12 Talks with Notable Artists, Critics, Writers and Filmmakers
January 20 - April 12, 2011
School of Visual Arts (SVA) announces the Spring 2011 Art in the First Person lecture series, 12 free talks that bring together notable artists, critics and writers for in-depth discussions on issues in contemporary art.
All Art in the First Person events are free and open to the public. No reservations are required. Please visit www.sva.edu/events or call 212.592.2010 for more information.
Event Details
Thursday, January 20, 7pm
Cuauhtemoc Medina
Biennale Interventions: Curatorial-Critical Experiences
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Critic, curator and historian Cuauhtemoc Medina will examine two specific biennale interventions as political attempts to introduce a critical discourse into the system: Teresa Margolles' exhibition at the Mexican Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2009, and the Domino Canibal (Cannibal Dominoes) project for the PAC in Murcia, Spain, in 2010. Medina is based in Mexico City and is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
Tuesday, January 25, 6:30pm
Jeanne Silverthorne
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Artist Jeanne Silverthorne will discuss her investigation of the notion of vanitas, including the studio itself as a kind of ruin. She is best known for using rubber as a medium for sculpture that is at once dark, earthy and humorous. Silverthorne has been a member of the SVA faculty since 1993, and her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.
Thursday, January 27, 7pm
Quips and Cranks Series, Discussion #2
Poetry as Music: A Different Way of Thinking
136 West 21 Street, Room 220
A panel discussion featuring poets Anselm Berrigan and Kimberly Lyons, who join painter and publisher Phong Bui to discuss ways in which musical forms can be seen as fruitful terms for a poetics of difficult or willfully obscure art that does not yield easily to analysis. Moderated by poets Vincent Katz and Tim Peterson, the panel will attempt to trace some of the commonalities of expression and analysis across different art forms. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
Thursday, February 3, 7pm
Joe Fig
Inside the Painter's Studio
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Artist and SVA alumnus Joe Fig (BFA 1991 Fine Arts; MFA 2002 Fine Arts) explores the working life of professional artists in diorama-like miniature reproductions of their studios, including those of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Fig's book Inside the Painter's Studio (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009) includes his interviews with other artists about their creative processes, alongside images of his sculptures documenting their studio spaces. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Tuesday, February 8, 6:30pm
Karen Lang
Caspar David Friedrich, Gerhard Richter: Painting in the State of Becoming
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Karen Lang is an associate professor of art history at the University of Southern California's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Her primary focus is on modern German art and aesthetic theory, and her book, Chaos and Cosmos: On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History (Cornell University Press, 2006), examines the conceptual foundations of the discipline of the history of art. Lang's talk will explore the relationship between Friedrich and Richter and show how Richter's understanding of artistic tradition dovetails with the implications of Nietzsche's philosophy. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.
Thursday, February 10, 7pm
Viral Venture
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
A discussion featuring artist and SVA faculty member Joseph Nechvatal and composer Rhys Chatham, moderated by MFA Art Practice Department Chair David Ross. Following the discussion will be a screening of Viral Venture, a digital projection by Nechvatal with a score by Chatham. Viral Venture consists of Nechvatal's most recent artificial-life computer virus attacking his digital paintings of human retinas and anuses; Chatham's score consists of his 2005 composition for 400 electric guitars, A Crimson Grail. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Tuesday, February 22, 7pm
Marcelline Delbecq
Impressions, Shadows (2009) and Showtime (2007)
209 East 23rd Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Artist Marcelline Delbecq will give a performance-lecture that uses both cinematic narrative and the artist’s own voice to create an uncanny world where texts, turned into sound, inspire mental images shifting from description to fiction and from past to present. She was in residency at Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, in Paris in 2005; and was the French resident at Triangle in Brooklyn in 2007 - 2008. Presented by the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department, with the generous support of the Cultural Services, French Embassy, New York.
Thursday, February 24, 7pm
Johanna Burton
Taking Pictures
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Critic and art historian Johanna Burton discusses art history's recent attention to "the 80s." What’s gained and what’s lost when the recent past is deemed a proper historical object? Burton was associate director and senior faculty member at the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program from 2008 - 2010, and is currently director of the graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
Tuesday, March 1, 7pm
T.J. Clark
Looking Again at Picasso's Guernica
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Art historian T.J. Clark will discuss Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica (1937), examining how a work of such enduring political resonance emerged from Picasso's deeply private and "difficult" artistic universe. The lecture looks at the step-by-step making of Guernica, taking advantage of the set of photographs of the work in progress taken by Dora Maar. Clark was a professor of modern art at the University of California, Berkeley from 1988 - 2010. His books include The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers (Princeton University Press, 1985), The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (Yale University Press, 2006) and the forthcoming Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
March 30 - April 8
Beyond Kandinsky: Revisiting the Spiritual in Art
Online at beyondkandinsky.net
The year 2011 marks the centennial of the publication of Wassily Kandinsky's On the Spiritual in Art. Organized by artist and faculty member Taney Roniger and writer and filmmaker Eric Zechman to revisit the concerns raised in that now classic text, this online symposium brings together alumnus and art historian Anney Bonney (MFA 2010 Computer Art); media historian Deirdre Boyle; filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky; alumnus, critic and faculty member Jeff Edwards (MFA 2009 Art Criticism and Writing); James Elkins, professor of art history, theory and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department Chair Tom Huhn; Roger Lipsey, author of An Art of Our Own: The Spiritual in Twentieth Century Art (Shambhala, 1988); and artist and faculty member Joseph Nechvatal. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Thursday, April 7, 7pm
Lucy Lippard
Ghosts, the Daily News and Prophecy: Critical Landscape Photography
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Based on her book The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society (New Press, 1997), activist, curator and writer Lucy Lippard will examine the role and effectiveness of photography in generating responsibility for place. She has published more than 20 books on art, feminism and politics, including Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change (E.P. Dutton, 1984), The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art (The New Press, 1995) and On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place (The New Press, 2000). Lippard has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Criticism from the College Art Association and the 2011 Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
Tuesday, April 12, 6:30pm
Ellen Sue Levy
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Writer Ellen Sue Levy is a visiting associate professor at Pratt Institute. Her articles and poems have appeared in Dissent, Literary Imagination, Modernism/Modernity, Raritan and The New York Review of Books; her book, Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery and the Struggle Between the Arts, will be published in April 2011 by Oxford University Press. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
SVA’s Jake Barton and Paula Scher Win National Design Awards
MFA Interaction Design Department faculty member Jake Barton and BFA Design Department faculty member Paula Scher have both been named winners of 2013 National Design Awards. Conceived by the
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Marina Abramovic Shares Portrait by SVA Student Chemin Hsiao
A portrait of Marina Abramovic created by current MFA Illustration as Visual Essay student Chemin Hsiao recently caught the attention of the legendary performance artist—so much so that...
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Monday, May 20, 2013
SVA Students Brand MoMA Design Store’s ‘Destination: NYC’
Is the pigeon New York City’s unofficial mascot? There may be more people who think so this week, following the global unveiling of Destination: NYC, a collection of 200 New York-designed...
