April 12, 7:00 – 8:30pm ET | Joe Quint | Online

A talk from Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker and photographer Joe Quint, part of MPS Digital Photography's i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series. Quint’s work consists largely of telling well-intentioned and respectful stories about the human condition and people on journeys—those who are either experiencing great challenges or who have overcome such challenges. Quint has an ongoing project about the impact of gun violence on a diverse group of Americans and he’s recently completed an award-winning film about a gun violence and a domestic violence survivor who has channeled her traumas into service.

April 13, 6:00 – 9:00pm | Venture 22: REIMAGINE | SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street

At this year's Venture 22 Forum, MFA Design: Designer as Entrepreneur students reimagine design and revel in the future. See 13 students in the class of 2022 present their innovative ventures streamed live and on stage at the SVA Theatre. This next generation of designers have challenged themselves to conceive and produce fresh ideas for ingenious products destined to add value to our lives. Get inspired, entranced and entertained by their creative reimaginings.

April 14, 6:00 – 7:30pm | Identity, Art and Migration: Artist Refugees from Nazi Germany and Today | 133/141 West 21st Street, Room 101C

In honor of The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art's virtual exhibition “Identity, Art and Migration,” BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the SVA Honors Program present this panel discussion which probes historical and all-too contemporary fault lines of persecution, migration, intolerance, cultural complexity and art. Historians, curators and artists come together to discuss the life and work of artists who were persecuted by the German Nazi regime and came to the US during the first half of the 20th century, while also hearing from living artists who are facing the challenge of relocation to the US and its transformative effect on individual identity today. How do artists, with their particular set of sensibilities, respond in their work and life to migration and exile?

April 15, 12:00 – 1:30pm ET | Maria Lind: Art & Life in Critical Zones | Online

A talk from Maria Lind, the counselor of Cultural Affairs at the Embassy of Sweden in Moscow and formerly director of the Testa konsthall, part of MA Curatorial Practice's The Public Seminars, an ongoing series bringing world-renowned artists, curators and thinkers to a global audience for presentations and discussions. Set in the Russian provincial capital of Izhevsk, Lind’s new exhibition, "Art & Life in Critical Zones," homes in on artists whose practices break from the centuries-long idea that there is a split between nature and culture, signaling new ways to inhabit what French philosopher Bruno Latour calls "critical zones"—"the skin of the living earth" now at a moment of incredible fragility, calling out for extraordinary re-thinking of such things as land, landscape, territory and homeland.

April 26, 7:00 – 8:30pm ET | Chris Buck | Online

A talk from photographer and director Chris Buck, known for his distinctive conceptual and intimate portraits, part of MPS Digital Photography's i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series. Buck's clients include Coca-Cola, Google, Microsoft, GQ, the New Yorker, Guardian Saturday and the New York Times Magazine.

April 28, 5:00 – 9:00pm | MFA Fine Arts Spring 2022 Open Studios | 133/141 West 21st Street

For one night only, 64 artists will open their studios for a behind-the-scenes look into their practices and an open conversation. See what the MFA Fine Arts class of 2022 has been working on and get to know the class of 2023.

For the latest on spring thesis events, see The New Creators: SVA Shows 2022.

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The arrival of spring brings a bounty of year-end exhibitions and thesis shows to the College and Brooklyn.