SVA. School of Visual Arts in New York City

School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City was founded in 1947 as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, with 35 students and three instructors. Today, SVA is one of the leading visual arts colleges in the U.S., with a student body of over 3,000 undergraduates, 400 graduate students and 2,200 continuing education students from almost every state in the U.S., as well as from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and Central and South America.

The college offers the BFA degree in advertising, animation, cartooning, computer art, film and video, fine arts, graphic design, illustration, interior design, photography, and visual and critical studies. The MFA degree is offered in art criticism and writing; computer art; design; design criticism (beginning fall 2008); fine arts; illustration as visual essay; and photography, video and related media. Also offered are the MPS degree in art therapy and digital photography; and the MAT degree in art education.

The students who contributed to this publication all hail from SVA’s MFA “Designer as Author” program, which prepares students to be content providers in a broad range of media. Drawing on fluency with the graphic design language of type and image, the program focuses on authorship as the independent creation of ideas. Students are empowered to create products that are responsible to the needs and wants of society, objects of worth that integrate the best design.
Faculty members include such renowned designers and thinkers as Paola Antonelli, Milton Glaser, Maira Kalman, Kevin O’Callaghan, Stefan Sagmeister and Veronique Vienne.

STUDENTS
Kim Bomina, Paige Freeman Hoover, Joshua Hester, Kevin McDonnel, Sophy Sorim Lee, Joseph Traylor, Ceren Zeynep Orbay

School of Visual Arts
MFA Design
209 East 23rd. St
New York, NY 10010 – 3994
www.schoolofvisualarts.edu