SVA Hosts Launch for UNCF’s ‘The Art of Giving Back’
UNCF (The United Negro College Fund) is the largest minority education organization in America, serving more than 60,000 students nationwide through scholarships and other programs. On September 28, SVA hosted a reception for The Art of Giving Back, a new fund-raising initiative launched by UNCF aimed specifically at providing scholarships to talented minority visual arts [...]
Designathon for Corporate Social Responsibility
On September 16-17, one of SVA’s newest graduate programs, the MFA Design for Social Innovation Department, hosted a “Designathon for Corporate Social Responsibility.” The event was aimed at teaching business leaders the role design can play in solving their company’s challenges. Six teams were selected from a pool of 38 corporate applicants and included representatives [...]
Three SVA Faculty Shows in NYC Galleries
Photographer and MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department faculty member Elinor Carucci explores the complexity of familial intimacy in her new show “Born.” For this series of photos, Carucci turns her lens on her children, and the results are at once unsettling, poignant, and beautiful. On view at Sasha Wolf Gallery, 548 West 28 [...]
