The Lunar New Year marks the arrival of spring and the beginning of the year on the lunisolar calendar. Celebrations are taking place around the world as the first new moon of the calendar year ...

In 2013, comics publisher Top Shelf Productions released March: Book One, the first installment of a three-volume graphic-novel memoir by civil rights hero and U.S. Congressman John Lewis. Co-written ...

We have something like 20 series in production. Twenty years ago, that would have been almost the whole animation industry. “It’s very surreal. I don’t really believe it,” says Shannon, who is ...

Next week, SVA Galleries presents “Plasticulture: The Rise of Sustainable Practices with Polymers,” an exhibition of works by 15 artists from Project Vortex, an artist collective innovating with ...

Last year, designer and art director Pablo Delcan (BFA 2012 Graphic Design), whose work often appears in The New York Times, turned this idea on its head with Prompt Brush, his non-AI generative art ...

The 2024 SVA Alumni Scholarship Awards winners have been announced, with 86 thesis or portfolio projects out of 204 applications receiving a total of $62,000. This assistance helps the artists realize ...

Milton Glaser, the legendary graphic designer behind the “I ♥ New York” logo, longtime School of Visual Arts faculty member and acting chairman of the SVA Board—whose eclecticism and humanism ...

For years, celebrated graphic novelist, illustrator and SVA faculty member Sarah Varon (MFA 2002 Illustration as Visual Essay; she’s currently taking a break from teaching at the College) has ...

When Caspar David Friedrich was just a child in Greifswald, Germany, his brother fell through thin ice and died tragically young. Historians debate the truth of the events that unfolded, but Friedrich ...

“It’s hard work to be a full-time artist for all of your life,” says Kembra Pfahler (1982 Fine Arts), and, by her own admission, she has not made it easy on herself. Pfahler was still a student at SVA ...

Can a symbol ever escape its most nefarious usages and connotations? And should it? Renowned art director and writer Steven Heller, co-chair of MFA Design at SVA, has spent much of his career ...

Forty-five years ago this year, actor John Hurt, director David Lynch, and producer Jonathan Sanger took the stage at Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium following a showing of their new film, ...