The latest issue of SVA’s magazine celebrates the College’s 75th anniversary and features interactive art by alumnus Sol LeWitt, a history of SVA exhibitions, and more
The cover of the fall/winter 2022 Visual Arts Journal, featuring a custom cake by baker Shannie C. Mitrovich (BFA 2004 Graphic Design).
Illustration by BFA Design faculty member Paul Sahre.
Ths fall marks the 75th anniversary of the School of Visual Arts—a significant milestone in the institution’s history and a testament to the vision of founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth, who established the College as the Cartoonists & Illustrators School in 1947.
Accordingly, the latest issue of SVA’s magazine, the Visual Arts Journal—set to arrive on campus and in mailboxes later next week—commemorates the occasion with a variety of anniversary-themed content, along with its usual selection of features and news from the SVA community. Select content from the fall/winter 2022 Journal will appear on sva.edu in the weeks and months ahead, and a complete digital edition is available now on Issuu, where visitors can read, share or download the magazine as a free PDF.
From left: Jayson Atienza (BFA 1999 Advertising) poses with friends and colleagues Sean Williams, Joe Volpicelli and Joan Wood in front of “Art Headed,” his series of custom-painted helmets, at the 2015 SVA alumni exhibition “The Sports Show.”
Highlights of the fall/winter 2022 Journal include:
- an SVA “birthday” cake created by baker Shannie C. Mitrovich (BFA 2004 Graphic Design);
- previously unpublished “page drawings” by the late Sol LeWitt (1954 Illustration);
- an overview of SVA’s groundbreaking student and guest-artist exhibitions;
- a brief history of the School of Visual Arts;
- nine current and former SVA chairs and faculty on the past, present and future of the ever-growing discipline of design;
- tributes to the late MFA Illustration as Visual Essay founder and chair Marshall Arisman and MFA Computer Arts Chair Emeritus Bruce Wands.
An undated photo of SVA co-founder Silas H. Rhodes teaching a class at the College.
For more information on the Visual Arts Journal, visit sva.edu/journal. And happy birthday, SVA!