This program aims directly at enabling the whole artist: body, mind, and spirit. We foster the development of soulful artists who make art to nurture and to challenge all that is best in human life.

The work our students create can be seen in TV shows, films, commercials, and video games. This is where you belong if you are interested in the animated films of Pixar, Disney, Dreamworks, and Sony ...

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 ...

SVA Features: SVA Features: SVA Alumnus Vivienne Medrano and Her Show Hazbin Hotel Hazbin Hotel centers on a young woman named Charlie, the daughter of Lucifer, as she attempts to reduce the ...

From there came the characters, each one with more personality than the last. Eda, a very cool, clever, and rebellious witch, "is very much based off my nana, my aunt and my mom—the women who raised ...

What better way to beat the heat than in the cool climes of SVA’s galleries and studios this month? End-of-year showcases from graduates in art education, photography, digital and narrative art, and ...

Fall has arrived, and a full slate of exhibitions and events awaits at SVA. The College’s theatre, classrooms, and gallery spaces, as well as its new Graduate Center, host sculpture, painting, ...

Renowned artist James Jean (BFA 2001 Illustration) seems to rarely skip a year without creating a movie poster for some popular film that has entered the cultural zeitgeist. In recent years, he ...

Acclaimed animator, storyteller, and filmmaker Rebecca Sugar (BFA 2009 Animation) made a huge cultural mark with their critically acclaimed Cartoon Network show, Steven Universe. Heralded for its ...

1. Leo Porto (BFA 2015 Design), Little Prince Museum of Surrealism. The Portfolios network is free to all SVA alumni, faculty members and degree-seeking students (members can add projects here).

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 ...

Raised in Harlem, Ray Billingsley (BFA 1979 Cartooning) was still a kid himself when he started drawing for the magazine Kids at the age of 12. He attended SVA on a full four-year scholarship and, ...