The MacArthur Fellowship is awarded each year by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more.

Two School of Visual Arts alumni have been selected for this year’s Rising Artists, the video series from WNET that celebrates the next generation of creative talent in New York City. Morgan Jourdin ...

Lindsey Sarria, a BFA Photography and Video senior at the School of Visual Arts, spent this past summer photographing New York Mets games at Citi Field in Queens as the second Marc Levine Mets ...

The Mourning Garden is a series of piped paintings constructed from layered acrylic mediums. Drawing on the visual language of gardens, the works explore mourning as both a site of loss and a space ...

BFA Comics and BFA Illustration present a talk on “Brad Holland: Making It Personal,” a survey of works by the late American illustrator Brad Holland. Curator Jonathan Twingley (MFA 1998 Illustration ...

This month, SVA Galleries, in collaboration with several academic programs at the School of Visual Arts and external partners, is presenting three shows at its on-campus exhibition spaces, just in ...

It’s been an exciting start to the fall semester, with new undergraduate and graduate students arriving at SVA for in-person information sessions, virtual events, facility tours, and social activities ...

This summer, the School of Visual Arts (SVA) BFA Animation department partnered with Mighty Oak, the Emmy and Clio Award-winning, woman-and-queer-owned creative studio, to host the Stop Motion Puppet ...

There may not be a chill in the air just yet, but the fall 2026 semester at SVA starts this month, and with it comes a full slate of events and exhibitions, all free and open to the public. Special ...

SVA presents an exhibition of work by graduates of the MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media class of 2026, organized by program faculty Randy West and Erin Davis (MFA 2016 Photography, Video, and ...

What do you get when you mix an Appalachian Mountains-set found footage horror, with a screwball comedy about a New York City pigeon who dresses in a business suit to climb the corporate ladder, with ...

A fallen star tries to find its way back home. Mythical creatures intermingle with urban legends. Alternate realities come to life before our eyes. These are just a handful of highlights in this ...