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“Stay Sharp” (2024) poster by Riccardo Vecchio on a subway platform (left); more SVA subway posters by (clockwise from top right) Peter Hristoff, Marshall Arisman, Gary Panter and Carol Fabricatore.
Interior of SVA Library (left); students working in a classroom facility.
New York City skyline as seen from the 23rd Street Residence, which exclusively houses first-year students.
An SVA drawing class circa 1960, courtesy of SVA Archives.
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Known for creating popular animation shows such as ‘Steven Universe,’ Rebecca Sugar (BFA 2009 Animation) has tapped into their musical side for a new career evolution.
Faculty member Pinar Yolaçan, Mother Goddess, photograph. Yolacan’s new book Mother Goddess was published earlier this year—read more about the book in AnOther Magazine.
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BFA Advertising and BFA Design Chair Gail Anderson collaborated with BFA Design faculty Joe Newton to design Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s new book from Letterform Archive, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer. The monograph tells Kennedy’s inspiring story and contextualizes his work within the entwined legacies of Black printing and Black protest.
SVA faculty member Frances Jetter’s new book, Amalgam: An Immigrant, His Labor Union, and His American Family in Brooklyn, was released today by Fantagraphics. Through visual narrative, Amalgam connects Jetter’s own life to her ancestors’ and their interweaving ties to the 20th-century labor movement. See a preview here.
SVA students are invited to a night of dancing, arcade games, desserts, and music by WSVA at this year’s VASA Halloween Party! Poster design by BFA Illustration student Alex Kraus.
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Lasley Kam Shu Lui’s (MPS 2024 Film Directing) short film After Dinner won Best Short at the New York Odyssey Film Festival this year. See After Dinner at the SVA Theatre tonight, September 27, 8:00pm, as part of After School Special 2024.