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On view: November 2– November 12, 2024

Reception: Saturday, November 2, 2pm–4pm

214 East 21st Street, 2nd Floor Gallery

The SVA BFA Photography and Video department is pleased to present "We The Public: Engagement, Action, and Each Other" based on our 2024 global contest for high school students.

Giving voice to up-and-coming creative talents in photography and video, "We The Public" showcases a wide range of perspectives that explore the civil and the civic. We asked high school students to submit work considering: What are our hopes, needs, and responsibilities, both individually and collectively? How do we participate in community, caring for each other and our shared resources? And how can we affect change on local, state, national, and global levels?

The resulting submissions were numerous and compelling, with images of groups, both familiar and anonymous to each other or the viewer; images of the street and public spaces, both occupied and vacant; images of collective leisure and sport; and images of accumulated remnants of daily life that suggest multiple layers of histories. In addition to this exhibition, we will also be hosting an online exhibition, which includes a broader selection of submissions later this semester.

"We The Public" underscores the SVA BFA Photography and Video department’s commitment to community and one another. We are proud to host this timely exhibition of the next generation of students’ work, which gives a look into where we currently find ourselves and where we might be headed as individuals of diverse backgrounds and experiences, who, together, constitute the public.

 — Joseph Maida, Chair

The following students were selected for the In-Person Exhibition:

Lexi Acevedo from Miami Arts Charter School, FL 

Karla Armas from Miami Arts Charter School, FL

Briana Ballester from Miami Arts Charter School, FL 

Mateo Barbieri from Miami Arts Charter School, FL 

Miri Black from High School of Art and Design, NY 

Derrian Bolden from George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology, MD 

Daria Borisevich from Miami Arts Charter School, FL 

Justin Caulfield from Northport Senior High School, NY 

Malachi Crawford from Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, CA 

Jennifer Cuevas from Miami Arts Charter School, FL 

Oona Cutter from Etobicoke School of the Arts, ON, Canada 

Delfina Eddy from Miami Arts Charter School, FL 

Valentina Elguezabal from Miami Arts Charter School, FL 

Idia Enoma from Miss Hall's School, MA 

Marcus Fernandez from Miami Arts Charter School, FL 

Kaia Graham from Miami Arts Charter School, FL 

Jaiden Granger from High School of Art and Design, NY 

Eliana Greco from Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, NV 

Chloe Hemion from St. James High School, SC 

Adam Himelfarb from Northport High School, NY 

Eileen Kim from Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, CA 

Jordan Kuo from Northport High School, NY 

Sofia Lopresti from Tappan Zee High School, NY 

Oliver McQuary from New Mexico School For The Arts, NM 

Jaevian Mercado from Miami Arts Charter School, FL 

Eva Mota from Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, CA 

Tatiana Parker from George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology, MD 

Daniel Pasternak from Miami Arts Charter School, FL 

Nolan Reardon from Northport High School, NY 

Simn Robinson from Lawrence High School, KS 

Camila Rojas from Miami Arts Charter School, FL 

Deniro Singh from Locust Valley High School, NY 

Aryeh Snyder from George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology, MD 

Maxime Tourtollet from High School of Art and Design, NY 

Viktoria Valihora from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, NY 

Heronima Valledor from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, NY 

TJ Wright from Miami Arts Charter School, FL 

Christy Wu from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, NY