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April Greiman, Does it make sense?, Design Quarterly #133, Walker Arts Press, 1986
All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
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VISUAL ARTS MUSEUM
209 East 23 Street
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 7pm; Saturday, 10am - 6pm
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The Masters Series: April Greiman
Through December 13
SVA honors April Greiman with the Masters Series Award and retrospective exhibition. One of the first American designers to embrace digital technologies, Greiman has explored the intersection of art, design and architecture for more than a quarter century.
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VISUAL ARTS GALLERY
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
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The Book Show
Through December 13
An exhibition of books by students in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department. The works on view include children’s books, graphic novels and comic books and explore themes from treasure-hunting to hydrophobia. Curated by Department Chair Marshall Arisman and faculty member Carl Nicholas Titolo.
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Credible Correspondence (Travels of the Imagination)
Through December 13
In an age when letter writing has all but disappeared, the postcard endures as a form of personal correspondence, connecting people through time and space. This exhibition of works by first- and second-year students in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department features found and fabricated postcards, all bearing the marks of passage and postage. Curated by faculty member Carl Nicholas Titolo.
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The Call of Cthulhu
Through December 13
An exhibition of sequential narratives based on the 1928 horror story The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft. Unified only in their depiction of “the ultimate monster,” the images take many forms, including paintings on wood, ink drawings, watercolors and digital compositions of typography. Curated by faculty member Viktor Koen.
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Transitions
Through December 13
An exhibition of work by students in the BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department including painting, photography, video, drawing, collage and artist’s books. Curated by Department Chair Tom Huhn.
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WESTSIDE GALLERY
133/141 West 21 Street
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 7pm; Saturday, 10am - 6pm
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Reconstructing Destruction
December 5 - December 17
Reception: December 6, 12 - 2pm
The MAT Art Education Department and the Liberty Partnerships Program (LPP) present a multimedia exhibition of work by students from The High School of Art & Design. The works explore the many ways a discarded object can be transformed and re-contextualized to give it a new purpose. Curated by LPP Program Director Molaundo Jones and the LPP staff.
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OPEN STUDIOS
Open studios are an opportunity to see new works by current students in the studio setting and are free and open to the public.
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MFA Fine Arts Department
133 West 21 Street, 8th and 9th floors
Friday, December 12, 12 - 8pm
Saturday, December 13, 12 - 6pm
Reception: Thursday, December 11, 5 - 9pm
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BFA Fine Arts Department: Sculpture
30 West 17 Street
Saturday, December 6, 12 - 6pm
Sunday, December 7, 12 - 6pm
Reception: Monday, December 8, 5 - 9pm
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BFA Fine Arts Department: Painting and Video
133/141 West 21 Street, 4th, 5th and 6th floors
Reception: Thursday, December 11, 5 - 9pm
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GRADUATE INFORMATION SESSIONS
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MPS Digital Photography Online/Summer-Residency
An introduction to the new MPS in Digital Photography Online/Summer-Residency, this session takes place online. Prior to the event participants will receive the URL and log-in information.
Monday, December 8, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Prospective students must register with the department at mpsphoto@sva.edu.
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MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department
This information session is intended for individuals who are planning to apply to the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department for Fall 2009. The department chair and faculty members will be present to review work. Prospective students are required to bring portfolios and related creative work; video artists should bring video samples on DVD.
Thursday, December 11, 3 - 5pm
214 East 21 Street
Prospective students must register with the department at 212.592.2360 or mfaphoto@sva.edu.
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LECTURES/EVENTS
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Pat Kirkham: Writing Critical Monographs
Tuesday, December 2, 6pm
Pat Kirkham has written extensively on the intersections of design, gender and film and is a professor of design history and cultural studies at the Bard Graduate Center in New York. Her recent publications include Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century (1998) and Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference (2002). Her latest book, on the work of graphic designer and filmmaker Saul Bass, examines short films he made in collaboration with his wife Elaine. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited at this venue. Please RSVP to 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu.
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Byron Kim
Tuesday, December 2, 6:30pm
Byron Kim garnered international recognition for his contribution to the 1993 Whitney Biennial, Synecdoche, a multi-panel, minimalist grid that uses a palette of specific diverse skin tones to explore racial and social identities. Kim’s body of work includes landscape and photographic assemblages in addition to the masterful monochromes for which he is best known. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies Departments.
133 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public
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Artists Talk on Art Presents: Paul Brach Remembered
Friday, December 5, 7pm
An evening dedicated to the memory of Paul Brach, the celebrated and highly influential artist, teacher and founding dean of Cal Arts. Participants include Connie Fox, artist and teacher; Bill King, artist and former president, National Academy of Design; and Allan Hacklin, artist and professor of art. Molly Barnes, art dealer and radio personality, will moderate.
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Admission is free for SVA students, faculty, staff and ATOA members; $7 regular admission; $3 for SVA alumni, non-SVA students and seniors.
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The Interviewers
Monday, December 8, 6pm
In anticipation of its fall 2009 opening, the MFA Interaction Design Department at SVA presents “Dot Dot Dot,” a monthly public lecture series exploring interaction design, business and aesthetic inspiration. This month, four practitioners will explore the integral role interviewers play in shaping the final outcome of a project. Gary Hustwit, director, Helvetica, Objectified; Jason Severs, principal designer, frog design; Clive Thompson, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and columnist for Wired; and Elisabeth M. De Morentin, Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design, will explain how to get answers using disparate and unexpected research methods. Presented by the MFA Interaction Design Department.
White Rabbit
145 Houston Street
Free and open to the public. Please RSVP to mjeys@sva.edu or 212.592.2561.
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Chee Pearlman: Designing the Live Content Experience
Tuesday, December 9, 6pm
Chee Pearlman, director of the editorial and curatorial design consultancy Chee Company, has written for Newsweek, Travel + Leisure, Popular Science and The New York Times and is the former editor-in-chief of I.D. Magazine. She served as program director of the Art Center Design Conference in Los Angeles and founded the Chrysler Design Awards. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited at this venue. Please RSVP to 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu.
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Family Sculpting
Tuesday, December 9, 6:30pm
Internationally recognized family therapist Peggy Papp will demonstrate “family sculpting,” a therapeutic technique she developed in which family members position themselves and each other in a tableau that represents family roles and interactions. The therapist then helps them to construct a more harmonious picture. For this presentation, the audience will be invited to participate in the living sculpture. Presented by the MPS Art Therapy Department.
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Free and open to the public. Please RSVP to 212.592.2610 or arttherapy@sva.edu.
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W.J.T. Mitchell: The Future of the Image
Thursday, December 11, 7pm
Scholar and theorist of media, art and literature W.J.T. Mitchell will discuss the work of Jacques Ranciere, a contemporary French philosopher whose writings on the relationship between contemporary art and politics have garnered much attention in the art world. Mitchell is a well-known figure in the fields of visual culture and iconology, a professor of English and art history at the University of Chicago and the editor of the interdisciplinary journal Critical Inquiry. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free and open to the public
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Cathleen McGuigan: The Role of Design Criticism in the National Press
Tuesday, December 16, 6pm
Covering architecture, design and culture, Cathleen McGuigan is a senior editor and writer at Newsweek and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, Harper's Bazaar and ArtNews. She is also an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited at this venue. Please RSVP to 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu.
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The Camera Club of New York Presents: Michal Chelbin
Tuesday, December 16, 7pm
Based in New York City, Israeli-born photographer Michal Chelbin has shown in solo and group shows in the U.S. and Europe, most recently at Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York. She has done editorial work for The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine and Ten Men Magazine and her most recent monograph is entitled Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes and Other Traveling Troupes (Aperture, 2008).
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff; General admission $10, $5 for other students with ID.
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