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26 Years of MFA Design at SVA with Steven Heller and Lita Talarico

The outgoing founders and co-chairs of the MFA Design Department at the School of Visual Arts look back on a quarter-century of their paradigm-shifting program.

May 22, 2024 by Anne Quito
Renaissance style portraits of the founding MFA Design co-chairs Steven Heller and Lita Talarico. Each of them is surrounded by ornamental illustrated frames, and they are facing each other. Below each of them are words that read "Double Visionaries" Renaissance style portraits of the founding MFA Design co-chairs Steven Heller and Lita Talarico. Each of them is surrounded by ornamental illustrated frames, and they are facing each other. Below each of them are words that read "Double Visionaries"

Portraits of MFA Design founders and co-chairs Steven Heller and Lita Talarico (MFA 2007 Art Criticism and Writing) by BFA Illustration faculty member Yuko Shimizu (MFA 2003 Illustration as Visual Essay).

Portraits of MFA Design founders and co-chairs Steven Heller and Lita Talarico (MFA 2007 Art Criticism and Writing) by BFA Illustration faculty member Yuko Shimizu (MFA 2003 Illustration as Visual Essay).

Credit: Yuko Shimizu
Credit: Yuko Shimizu