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
Cay Yoon
Sculpture, Installation and New Media Art / Painting and Mixed Media
Liz Zito
Lens and Screen Arts: The Still and Moving Image
Our Faculty
Kelynn Z. Alder
Artist; writer; co-founder, Art Made Here
Vince Aletti
Photography critic, The New Yorker; curator
Suzanne Anker
Chair, BFA Fine Arts Department, School of Visual Arts; fine artist; theorist
Lisel Ashlock
Illustrator, designer
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
Michael Blakeney
Founder, director, Good Profit
Chad Boettcher
Senior vice president of social innovation, Weber Shandwick; founder, president, Goodzuma, LLC
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
Joseph DeGiorgis
Marine biologist
Media Farzin
Art historian, curator
Tobias Frere-Jones
Typeface designer
Peter Garfield
Fine artist
Mark Thomas Gibson
Visual artist
Michael Joaquin Grey
Visual artist, inventor
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
Jessica Hische
Letterer, designer
Paul Hoppe
Director, visual experience design, art director, Local Projects
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
Michelle Leftheris
Fine artist; systems administrator, network/video, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department, School of Visual Arts
Adam Harrison Levy
Documentary producer/director; interviewer; contributing writer, Design Observer
Miguel Luciano
Fine artist
Joseph Maida
Artist, photographer, videographer
Annie Rose Malamet
Visual artist, writer
Bob McKinnon
President, founder, YELLOWBRICKROAD Communications
James Montalbano
Designer, principal, Terminal Design, Inc
Michelle Mullineaux
Director of business development and marketing, ESI Design; acting director, desigNYC
Amy Myers
Fine artist
Angel Nevarez
Fine artist
Saul Ostrow
Critic, curator
Danica Phelps
Fine artist
Robin Pogrebin
Culture reporter, The New York Times
Anna Raff
Illustrator
Mark Randall
Principal, creative director, Worldstudio; president, Worldstudio Foundation
Daniel Rhatigan
Type director, Monotype
David A. Ross
Chair, MFA Art Practice Department, School of Visual Arts; writer; curator
Jerry Saltz
Art critic, New York magazine; contributing editor, Art in America
Nicolas Touron
Sculptor, ceramist
Mark Tribe
Chair, MFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts; visual artist; founder, Rhizome
Andrea Tsurumi
Illustrator, cartoonist
Rob Walker
Journalist
Ann Weathersby
Visual artist, photographer
Eric Weeks
Photographer
Laetitia Wolff
Director, DesigNYC; founder, futureflair
Ed Woodham
