“I aspire to authentically listen to and support my family, friends, colleagues and students by decentering myself. But for myself, I’d like to get more sleep and play with dogs!”

—Cathy Rosamond, MA/MAT Art Education chair

“We need to focus on the good and learn from the bad as we go forward.”

—Dr. Carol Bentel, BFA Interior Design: Built Environments chair

“1) To drink more water and to take more breaths. 2) To only mansplain to men, not to women. 3) To spend more time outside. 4) To make more messes with my art. 5) To expand my kitchen repertoire to more than five recipes.”

—Stephen Savage (MFA 1996 Illustration as Visual Essay), BFA Illustration faculty member

“I am breaking up with my best friend this past year ... my refrigerator. We have been much too close ... Going to try for six feet apart!”

—Val Sereno, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT, MPS Art Therapy special programs and projects coordinator and faculty member

“My resolution is to establish the foundations of a history of exhibitions at SVA. 2021 marks my thirtieth year at SVA—the second, much fuller half of SVA’s 60-odd years of mounting shows. I feel that it is both a duty and privilege to begin tracing the arc of this aspect of the SVA story.”

—Francis Di Tommaso, director of SVA Galleries

“Read more books, and keep this resolution past the month of March!”

—Adam Krumm, assistant director of SVA Residence Life

“I took up running in 2020 and I rode my bike over 1,300 miles in all five boroughs, so my New Year’s resolution is to keep up these exercise habits. They get me out of the house, relieve stress, and I never regret doing them!”

—Phoebe Stein, digital services librarian, SVA Library

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