SVA's Summer Residency Program welcomes artists, designers and creative thinkers from across the globe to join an ever-growing community reaching far beyond the contours of New York City. We are proud of our diversity and aim to foster an environment of support and solidarity. Our new Fertile Ground Series highlights alumni, faculty and friends of the Summer Residency Program on their home turf, a fertile ground for creativity and community.
Our Alumni
Tazeen Ahmed
Painting and Mixed Media
Duke Albada
City as Site: Public Art as Social Intervention
Carl Alviani
Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive
Aliza Augustine
Photography
Barnett Cohen
Photography
Magdalena Dukiewicz
From the Laboratory to the Studio: Interdisciplinary Practices in Bio Art
Sarah Allen Eagen
From the Laboratory to the Studio: Interdisciplinary Practices in Bio Art
Josseline Engeler
City as Site: Public Art as Social Intervention
Sandra Erbacher
Painting and Mixed Media
Lily Feinberg
Typography as Language: Practice and Theory
Maria Fragoudaki
Painting and Mixed Media
Helene Giansily
Lens and Screen Arts: The Still and Moving Image
Emiliano Granado
Photography
Jay Hendrick
Painting and Mixed Media
Laura Hines
Illustration and Visual Storytelling: Art and Industry
Sarra Idris
Lens and Screen Arts: The Still and Moving Image
Irina Koryagina
Typography as Language: Theory and Practice
Line Kramer
Sculpture, Installation and New Media Art
Mercedes Kraus
Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive
George Larkins
Sculpture, Installation and New Media Art
Perryne Lee Poy Lokhandwala
City as Site: Public Art as Social Intervention
Abraham Morales
Illustration and Visual Storytelling: Art and Industry
Tom Muntisov
Typography as Language: Theory and Practice
Meaghan Ogilvie
Lens and Screen Arts: The Still and Moving Image
Marta Olczak
Typography as Language: Theory and Practice
Lorella Paleni
Painting and Mixed Media
Leanne Prain
Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive
Alice Quaresma
Painting and Mixed Media
Mariana Ribeiro
Impact! Design for Social Change
Brad Robson
Illustration and Visual Storytelling: Art and Industry
Francesca Romana Pinzari
Sculpture, Installation and New Media Art
Tim Roseborough
Sculpture, Installation and New Media Art
Daniel Shieh
City as Site: Public Art as Social Intervention
Alejandro Strus
Painting and Mixed Media
Justin Randolph Thompson
Sculpture and Installation
Aimée van Drimmelen
Illustration and Visual Storytelling: Art and Industry
Willemijn van Poppel
Lens and Screen Arts: The Still and Moving Image
Eddie Villanueva
Painting and Mixed Media
Lucia Warck-Meister
Public Art
Liz Zito
Lens and Screen Arts: The Still and Moving Image
Our Faculty
Vince Aletti
Photography critic, The New Yorker; curator
Suzanne Anker
Chair, BFA Fine Arts Department, School of Visual Arts; fine artist; theorist
Yomar Augusto
Principal, graphic type designer, The Office of Yomar Augusto (T.O.O.Y.A.)
Ron Baron
Fine artist, sculptor
Max Blagg
Writer; fine artist; contributing editor, 10 Magazine
Corinne May Botz
Visual artist, photographer
John Bruce
Co-founder and principal strategist, Forward Mapworks; senior strategist, Free Range Studios
Elinor Carucci
Photographer
Andrea Champlin
Fine artist
Ofri Cnaani
Fine artist
Gregory Coates
Fine artist
Steve DeFrank
Sculptor
Jarrett Earnest
Writer, critic
Media Farzin
Art historian, curator
Michael Foley
Photographer; owner, Foley Gallery
Tobias Frere-Jones
Typeface designer
Peter Garfield
Fine artist
Molly Heintz
Chair, MA Design Research Department, School of Visual Arts; co-founder and managing director, Superscript
Steven Heller
Co-chair, MFA Design Department, School of Visual Arts; special assistant to the president, School of Visual Arts; co-founder, MFA Design Criticism, MPS Branding, MFA Interaction Design, MFA Products of Design programs, School of Visual Arts; contributing editor: Print, Eye, Baseline; contributing writer: Metropolis, Design Bureau, Port, IDPure; columnist, The New York Times Book Review
Kendal Henry
Public art, urban design consultant; visual artist; curator
Paul Hoppe
Illustrator; author; cartoonist
Peter Hristoff
Fine artist
Karrie Jacobs
Columnist, contributing editor, Metropolis; contributing editor, Travel + Leisure
Tobi Kahn
Fine artist
Viktor Koen
Illustrator, designer
Alois Kronschlaeger
Fine artist
Adam Harrison Levy
Documentary producer/director; interviewer; contributing writer, Design Observer
Miguel Luciano
Fine artist
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Visual artist; arts administrator, MAPP International Productions
Joseph Maida
Artist, photographer, videographer; department chair, BFA Photography and Video Department, School of Visual Arts
Judy Mannarino
Fine artist
Aaron Meshon
Illustrator, children’s book writer and illustrator
James Montalbano
Designer, principal, Terminal Design, Inc
Amy Myers
Fine artist
Saul Ostrow
Critic, curator
Danica Phelps
Fine artist
Robin Pogrebin
Culture reporter, The New York Times
Greg Pond
Photography director
Anna Raff
Illustrator
Mark Randall
Principal, creative director, Worldstudio; president, Worldstudio Foundation
Daniel Rhatigan
Type director, Monotype
Tarah Rhoda
Bio Lab manager, School of Visual Arts
David A. Ross
Chair, MFA Art Practice Department, School of Visual Arts; writer; curator
Tyler Rowland
Operations manager, BFA Fine Arts Department, School of Visual Arts
Victoria Rushton
Type designer
Jerry Saltz
Art critic, New York magazine; contributing editor, Art in America
Todd Shalom
Performance artist, visual artist
Nicolas Touron
Sculptor, ceramist
Mark Tribe
Chair, MFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts; visual artist; founder, Rhizome
Andrea Tsurumi
Illustrator, cartoonist
Will Varner
Illustration director
Rob Walker
Journalist
Ed Woodham
Artist
Caroline Woolard
Visual artist
Fertile Ground Series
