Wednesday, September 11 – Tuesday, October 1 | “Copy, Cut + Paste: The Visual Language of Ivan Chermayeff” | SVA Gramercy Gallery

SVA Archives presents a collection of nearly 50 rarely seen collage works by the late Ivan Chermayeff, following a significant donation of hundreds of the design legend's works by his family to the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives in 2020. While Chermayeff is best known for revolutionizing the field of visual communication and designing hundreds of recognizable corporate and institutional logos as one-half of Chermayeff & Geismar—the design firm he co-founded with Tom Geismar in the late 1950s—the pieces on view are largely personal works. His collages were his own form of drawing, by which he could both exploit the meaning held by the items and create new, unexpected associations.

Thursday, September 12 – Tuesday, September 24 | “The Mental Health Poster Project” | SVA Flatiron Gallery

SVA presents “The Mental Health Poster Project,” an exhibition of 24 posters by undergraduate, graduate, and Continuing Education students, curated by BFA Illustration and BFA Comics chair Viktor Koen. From pragmatic to esoteric, this is a series of quote-based posters expressing the complex and psychosomatic implications of the most delicate contributor to psychological and emotional well-being. Just a few years after a relentless world pandemic that redefined health, both physical and mental, on the individual and collective levels, this exhibition grapples with its effects by trying to engage viewers through a method that could possibly be described as pictorial therapy.

Thursday, September 12 – Tuesday, September 24 | “ILLO / COMX PREVIEW” | SVA Flatiron Gallery

An exhibition of work by BFA Comics and BFA Illustration graduates from the class of 2024, showcasing the upcoming BFA Illustration and BFA Comics year-end publication. The exhibition and publication feature some of the best senior pictorial and storytelling accomplishments from the programs’ most recent graduates, as well as conversations between esteemed faculty and alumni, and thought-provoking essays from industry luminaries.

EVENTS

Tuesday, September 3, 6:30 – 8:30pm | MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Thesis Screening 2024 | SVA Theatre

A film screening of works by four graduates of the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media class of 2024: Anastasia Caulfield, Guanyu Liu, Jiani Wang, and Royee Weng. These four films explore the range of possibilities that today’s young video artists can make, from documentary to experimental.

Wednesday, September 4, 9:00 – 10:00am | The Curatorial Roundtable: Filipa Ramos (Tokyo) | Online

MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with writer and curator Filipa Ramos, PhD. Ramos is Lecturer at the Arts Institute of the HGK/FHNW, Basel. Her research focuses on how contemporary art engages with nature and ecology. Her upcoming book, The Artist as Ecologist, will be published by Lund Humphries in 2025.

Tuesday, September 10, 7:00 – 8:30pm | i3 Photo Lecture: Eric McNatt | 136 W 21st St, room 418F

MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with photographer Eric McNatt, part of its i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, curated this fall by Julie Grahame. With a career spanning two decades, McNatt’s work has been featured in a variety of publications, including The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue, ESPN: The Magazine, People, O Magazine, Interview, Paper, Vibe, Spin and New York Magazine. His commercial portfolio includes collaborations with notable clients such as A&E Entertainment, Sony/Columbia BMG, NBC/USA Network, and EURO RSCG (now HAVAS). Additionally, McNatt has engaged in artistic projects with luminaries like Yoko Ono (in conjunction with Gallery LeLong), choreographer Miguel Gutierrez (Whitney Biennial) and choreographer Sarah Michelson (BAM Next Wave Festival).

Features

The semester kicks off with a new Masters Series exhibition, curator and photography talks, alumni film screenings, and more.