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FROM THE PRESIDENT | 2

MYSVA | 3

An alumnus reimagines the SVA logo

SVA CLOSE UP | 4 News and events from around the College

WHAT’S IN STORE | 12

Products and services by SVA artists and entrepreneurs

CREATIVE LIFE | 22 How to host in-person and virtual studio visits

PORTFOLIO: NONA FAUSTINE | 24

The photographer and SVA alumnus’s “love letters” to New York, family and hidden history

PERFUME GENIUS | 36

SVA alumnus Donna Ramanauskas on the art and science of fragrance

A LINE ON HISTORY | 42

Author and SVA alumnus

Nora Krug takes on war and tyranny

Q+A: TAK HOON KIM | 54

A conversation with the animator, educator and SVA alumnus

FROM THE ARCHIVES | 60

Artist Joyce Kozloff’s 1970s course on women in the arts

ALUMNI AFFAIRS | 62 For Your Benefit

A Message From the Director SVA Alumni Society Awards

Donors

Alumni Notes and Exhibitions In Memoriam Corporate Partners for the Arts

PERFUME GENIUS

“It’s great to try to push the boundaries from time to time.”

A LINE ON HISTORY

“I never know what I’m going to draw when I start.”

PORTFOLIO | NONA FAUSTINE

“It’s truth-telling and healing— rectifying the record a bit.”

VISUAL ARTS JOURNAL

Spring/Summer 2023

Volume 31, Number 1

EDITORIAL STAFF

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Greg Herbowy, editor

Tricia Tisak, copy editor

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Brian E. Smith, design director

Mark Maltais, art director

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COVER

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FROM THE PRESIDENT

AAs I write this, the School of Visual Arts is several weeks away from concluding the 2022 –2023 academic year, and our 75th anniversary.

Absent continued COVID-19 precautions, the year was like any other in our recent history. We welcomed new and returning students from all over the world to campus in late summer, kept a full calendar of exhibitions and events, and visited with our growing and active alumni communities in Seoul, Miami and San Francisco. Soon we will celebrate the latest graduates of our 31 bachelor’s and master’s degree programs at our commencement exercises at Radio City Music Hall.

Few would have predicted such a future for the institution upon its founding in 1947 as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, with just three faculty members and 35 students. This success is a testament to the vision of SVA’s founders, Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth, and the extraordinary talent and efforts of our students and faculty, past and present, like longtime BFA Design faculty member Carin Goldberg, who died earlier this year.

SVA began as a place for up-and-coming talents to learn from established professionals, who understood their discipline from firsthand experience. Carin exemplified that ideal, serving as a mentor to countless students while pursuing her own remarkable, award-winning career. As former student and current faculty member Santiago Carrasquilla (BFA 2012 Graphic Design) said in MPS Branding Chair Debbie Millman’s tribute to Carin in Print, “Simply put, Carin taught me how to think and how to see.”

I hope you enjoy this issue of the Visual Arts Journal

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MY SVA

SHANTANU SHARMA

loved painting from an early age, but his own practice fell by the wayside when he moved to New York and began his design education at SVA. After graduating, he joined advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy, for which he has worked on packaging, branding, motion graphics, films and more for such clients as Corona, KFC and Nike.

On a recent trip to Delhi to visit his family, however, he picked up a brush again, studying for several weeks with a sign painter, Kafeel Ahmad (@painterkafeelartist), whose art had popped up a few months prior on Sharma’s Instagram feed. Ahmad lives and works in a historic section of the city near the Jama Masjid mosque, where Sharma would travel every few days for informal lessons.

“There’s a big culture of sign painting in India,” says Sharma, whose peripatetic childhood, as the son of two journalists, also included time spent living in Sri Lanka, Singapore and Dubai. “There are hand-painted signs on the street, on the sides of trucks, outside of shops— everywhere.” Living in the U.S.—and spending long hours designing on his computer— gave him a new appreciation for the form’s beauty and physicality. “I stopped taking for granted the things that I used to see every day,” he says.

As luck would have it, Mark Maltais, art director of the Visual Arts Journal, offered Sharma this issue’s MySVA assignment during his apprenticeship with Ahmad. The teacher and student collaborated to create the canvas pictured here, featuring four renditions of the SVA letters, each in a different style and all ringed with an ornate border.

Shantanu Sharma

BFA 2021 Graphic Design shantanu.work / @shantanu.sharma

CLOSE UP

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Artists and SVA alumni Anastasia Warren (left) and Adebunmi Gbadebo at the opening for “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina,” 2022 – 2023, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; installation view, “Hear Me Now”; Gbadebo working in the studio, photo by David Orrell; K.S. , 2021, one of two Gbadebo works in “Hear Me Now,” and which is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Gbadebo at the Met; installation view of “Hear Me Now” with Gbadebo’s work in the foreground; reception for “Hear Me Now” at the Met; the Met. Installation photos by Eileen Travell and K.S. photo by Aaron Wilson Watson, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. All other images courtesy of Adebunmi Gbadebo.

Past Made Present

From September to February, the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina,” an exhibition of ceramics made by African American potters in the 19th century along with select works by contemporary artists Woody De Othello, Theaster Gates, Simone Leigh, Robert Pruitt and Adebunmi Gbadebo (BFA 2017 Fine Arts).

Gbadebo contributed two pieces to “Hear Me Now,” each made with soil she collected from True Blue Cemetery in South Carolina, located on a former plantation where her ancestors were enslaved and buried, as well as Black human hair donated for use in her art. Since her time at SVA, Gbadebo has based her practice on hand-sourced materials that resonate with the history of her own family line, as well as the larger histories of the African diaspora, slavery and colonialism.

“The clay I work with is not neutral,” Gbadebo says. “It has the literal biological matter of my ancestors. It

holds both their terrors and their joys.”

She sculpted and fired the works at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, where she is an artist in residence; other pieces from the series were on view at “Remains,” her solo show at the Claire Oliver Gallery in Manhattan from January to March. (Additionally, artist and BFA 2018 Visual & Critical Studies graduate Anastasia Warren assisted Gbadebo in research for the work.)

“Hear Me Now” is now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which has also acquired one of Gbadebo’s two works in the show. The exhibition will be on view there until July, after which it travels to the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, then the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. In February, Gbadebo gave a lecture hosted by BFA Fine Arts, which is now available to watch on the SVA YouTube channel. For more information on her work, visit adebunmi.carbonmade.com.

[Greg Herbowy]

News and events from around the College

Diamond Jubilee

Throughout the 2022 –2023 academic year, the School of Visual Arts has celebrated—and been celebrated for—its 75th anniversary.

In late October, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine signed a proclamation recognizing the many ways SVA improves and enriches life in the city—from its educational programs to its public exhibitions to its archives of design history and more—and designating November 1 as School of Visual Arts Appreciation Day in Manhattan.

On December 16, the New York City Council issued its own proclamation honoring the College, signed by Carlina Rivera, council member for District 2. And that evening, at the College’s annual year-end gathering of faculty and staff, New York City’s cultural affairs commissioner, Laurie Cumbo, presented SVA President David Rhodes with a third proclamation—this one from Mayor Eric Adams—that paid tribute to SVA’s

contributions to the city and its culture.

“Congratulations to the School of Visual Arts on 75 years of educating students and serving as a continual source of new energy and ideas in our city’s arts community,” Cumbo said. “I’m proud to join Mayor Adams in proclaiming Friday, December 16, 2022, in the city of New York as School of Visual Arts Day!”

For that same event, Shannie C. Mitrovich (BFA 2004 Graphic Design), who created the custom SVA “birthday” cake for the cover of the fall/winter 2022 Visual Arts Journal, baked a supersized version for the crowd, large enough to serve 476.

To cap the year, a commemorative 75th anniversary book, produced by SVA’s in-house studio, the Visual Arts Press, and originally planned for earlier this year, is now due to arrive by the fall; it will now include coverage of the proclamations and the College’s 2023 commencement. The Press additionally designed special anniversary flags, which have flown outside of campus buildings since last fall, and an anniversary logo animation pinned at the top of SVA’s Instagram, @svanyc. [GH]

ABOVE, FROM LEFT SVA External Relations Executive Director and alumnus Angie Wojak, New York City Cultural Affairs Commissioner Laurie Cumbo, SVA President David Rhodes, Chairman of the SVA Board Lawrence Rodman and Eric Rhodes, son of SVA Executive Vice President Anthony P. Rhodes.

BELOW Baker and SVA alumnus Shannie C. Mitrovich.

Photos by Joseph Sinnott (BFA 1988 Photography).

HEARD AT SVA

“I don’t expect politicians to be sincere. I think the important thing is to pressure them to act in ways that improve our future and improve our chances of having a future.”

—Frances Fox Piven, social scientist, scholar and activist. From a talk hosted by the SVA Honors Program and BFA Visual & Critical Studies.

“It’s important to think about the long game. That’s what I kept saying to myself: ‘I want a long career, not a fast career.’”

—Sarah Zapata, artist. From a talk hosted by MFA Fine Arts.

Photo Finish

On Sunday, May 21, at 1:00pm, the School of Visual Arts will hold its 2023 commencement exercises at Radio City Music Hall, featuring a keynote address from photographer and 2022

Effecting Change

In August, BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects at SVA will change its name—and the name of the degree it offers— to BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects.

The New York State Education Department and Middle States Commission on Higher Education have approved the change, which is already in effect on the SVA website and the program’s Instagram, @svacomputerart. However, the new name will not be official until shortly before the returning and latest incoming classes begins the fall

SVA Masters Series honoree Lynsey Addario.

Over the course of a distinguished career that has spanned more than 25 years, Addario has photographed conflicts and humanitarian crises all over the world, drawing international attention to genocides, wars, famines, the plight of refugees and women’s rights issues. Most recently, she has documented the war in Ukraine for The New York Times; her work has also appeared in National Geographic and Time, among other publications, as well as in her books Of Love & War (2015) and the best-selling memoir It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War (2018). Her recognitions include a 2009 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2009 Pulitzer Prize and a

2022 Eliza Scidmore Award for Outstanding Storytelling from the National Geographic Society.

Addario’s Masters Series exhibition, originally planned for 2020 but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was on view at the SVA Chelsea Gallery last fall. The show proved worth the wait, drawing more than 2,700 visitors over an extended run and earning coverage from such outlets as The New York Times, NPR and Vanity Fair.

The 48th annual SVA commencement exercises will celebrate the achievements of some 1,250 bachelor’s and master’s degree candidates enrolled in the College’s 31 degree programs. The exercises will also stream live online, and be archived thereafter, at sva.edu/ commencement. [GH]

2023 semester, and after the current class of graduating students have received their degrees.

“This change embraces what we do best while being succinct and clear about who we are,” says department chair Jimmy Calhoun (BFA 2003 Animation). “But while our department name

has become more specific, the interests and artistic methods of our community will continue to be as eclectic as ever. We will continue to experiment and push the boundaries of technology, and the delivery methods of those end results will continually grow and change as well.” [GH]

Concept art by BFA 2023 Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects alumni Ollie Yao and Heather Yun. In August, the department changes its name to BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects.

News and events from around the College

A Valediction

SVA’s latest posters, on view in New York City subway stations since February, honor the late MFA Illustration as Visual Essay founder and chair Marshall Arisman, who died last year at the age of 83 and was one of the most influential and admired educators at the College. In his nearly 60 years as a faculty

member and program chair at SVA, Arisman served as mentor and inspiration for several generations of creative professionals, while also carrying on his own inimitable career as an artist and storyteller.

Each of the three posters in the series features a previously unpublished Arisman drawing of a monkey, one of

his favorite subjects. Each also features a unique tagline that serves as a meditation on the labor and rewards of artmaking. All were written by Dee Ito, Arisman’s widow and the writer of some of SVA’s most well-remembered campaign slogans, such as “Having a talent isn’t worth much unless you know what to do with it” (1974 – 1978) and “To be good is not enough, when you dream of being great” (1978 – 1987). Also, this winter the SVA Campus Store introduced a line of T-shirts and crewnecks featuring Arisman and Ito’s work. [GH]

LEFT SVA’s spring/summer 2023 subway-station posters, with art by the late Marshall Arisman and writing by Dee Ito.

Best in Show

In January the American Library Association announced its annual Youth Media Awards, recognizing exemplary achievements in the field, and the 2023 Randolph Caldecott Medal—widely considered the highest honor for a picture book in American literature—went to Hot Dog (2022), written and illustrated by BFA Illustra-

tion faculty member Doug Salati (MFA 2014 Illustration as Visual Essay).

Salati is the third SVA graduate to have won one of the ALA’s top awards in recent years. In 2020, BFA 1984 Media Arts alumnus Jerry Craft’s New Kid was the first graphic novel to win a John Newbery Medal, and in 2014 Locomotive, by Brian Floca (MFA 2001 Illustration as Visual Essay), received a Caldecott. (Additionally, The Cat Man of Aleppo, illustrated by BFA Illustration faculty member and MFA 2003 Illustration as Visual Essay graduate Yuko Shimizu, won a 2021 Caldecott Honor.)

Hot Dog, published by Alfred A. Knopf, tells the story of a dog’s escape

from the oppressive heat of summer in the city. Though Salati has illustrated five books to date—including 2019’s Lawrence in the Fall, written by his partner, SVA Admissions Director Matthew Farina (MFA 2014 Art Writing and Criticism), for which both were named Ezra Jack Keats Award Honorees,

and the forthcoming The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow, by Elaine Dimopoulos (see page 20)—this was the first that he had also authored.

Salati and his fellow award recipients will be honored at the ALA Newbery Caldecott Legacy Banquet later this year. For more information, visit ala.org. [GH]

Doug Salati portrait by Erin V. Carr. Hot Dog artwork courtesy Alfred A. Knopf.

HEARD AT SVA

News and events from around the College

Speaking Up

Last summer, artist Cat Del Buono (MFA 2008 Photography, Video and Related Media) traveled to Naples, Italy, on a Fulbright scholarship. Del Buono often focuses on social issues in her practice, which includes film, performance and installation work. While in Naples, she conducted art-based research on the rise in domestic violence and femicide during the country’s COVID-19 lockdowns.

In December, with support from the University of Naples Federico II and the U.S. Consulate General Naples, Del Buono presented the resulting project, titled “Voci” (“Voices”), at Castel Nuovo, a 13th-century castle in the city. Fourteen monitors played her interviews with local domestic violence survivors, abusers in treatment, counselors and advocates, and Del Buono led a panel discussion with a University of Naples professor, a senator who had led a femicide commission in the Italian Parliament, and representatives from the consulate and the Naples mayor’s office. Earlier in her stay, she also hosted

a conversation between an American therapist who works with male abusers and an Italian psychologist who works with abuse survivors. Their talk revealed a lot of common ground, she says, but underscored the lack of communication and information-sharing among organizations devoted to domestic violence prevention and treatment.

Del Buono is now exploring ways to expand on the work. “Everyone who was involved wants to continue the project,” she says, “because there’s so much more to do.” [GH]

Home Team

After three years in which every New Yorker’s life transformed, the Museum of the City of New York’s first photo triennial, “New York Now: Home,” offers a space for reflection, contemplation and new beginnings, and includes work by three SVA alumni.

Drawing on a range of interpretations of the theme of “home,” from the personal to the political, “New York Now” includes documentary, narrative and experimental photography. The work of Maureen Drennan (MFA 2009 Photography, Video and Related Media) examines small communities or worlds that often dance between a sensation of vulnerability and resilience. The mix of emotive and critical imagery in the work of Nona Faustine (BFA 1994 Photography) engages invisible histories within contemporary contexts—often, but not limited to, performance, gender and race (see page 24). And the work of Anders Jones (MFA 2017 Photography, Video and Related Media) is rooted in photo-based, multi-material explorations, including a collaborative wallpaper project with noted photographer Jamel Shabazz (see page 15).

“New York Now: Home” is on view through 2023; for more information, visit mcny.org. [Diana McClure]

“We are now extensions of our devices. We are now their prostheses. It often feels like our devices know what we want before we do. They remember what we forget, and are often the first thing people see in the morning and the last thing before they go to sleep.”

—Shumon Basar, writer. From “The Algorithmic State: Art in the Expanded Technological Field,” a talk hosted by MA Curatorial Practice.

“I believe that healing is something that happens in a very subconscious way. So when you heal, it has a healing effect around you.”

—Rahim Fortune, photographer. From a talk hosted by MPS Digital Photography.

ABOVE Maureen R. Drennan, Shannan, 2015, and Ed’s Egret , 2013. Courtesy the artist.

Carin Goldberg IN REMEMBRANCE

On January 19, celebrated designer and longtime School of Visual Arts faculty member Carin Goldberg died at the age of 69. During her four-decade career at the College, Goldberg taught close to 2,000 students, many of whom went on to distinguished work in design, education, advertising, publishing and branding, all while pursuing her own singular, award-winning career in design and branding. She is survived by her husband, James Biber, and her son, Julian Biber.

Goldberg was born and raised in New York City. Within a few years of receiving her BFA from Cooper Union in 1975, she was working in album-cover design,

creating the record sleeves for such artists as Yo-Yo Ma and Sly and the Family Stone—as well as the famous cover for Madonna’s selftitled 1983 debut. She soon expanded into editorial and publication design and branding work, amassing a client list that included Citigroup, the Humane Society and country singer Tim McGraw. She joined the SVA faculty in 1982. In 2010, she designed a collage-based subway poster for the College.

Among Goldberg’s professional distinctions and honors were a 2008 Art Directors Club Grandmasters Award for Excellence in Education, a 2009 AIGA Gold Medal, a 2012 Cooper Union Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award and a 2014–15 Cynthia

Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize for Design. She served as an AIGA NY board president and exhibited her work at such venues as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York.

“Carin’s standards were high and she made no bones about her expectations, period,” BFA Advertising and BFA Design Chair Gail Anderson (BFA 1984 Media Arts), a former student, says. “We knew she loved us, no matter what, but pleasing Carin left you walking on air for the rest of the day.”

“In my 50 years at SVA,” says retired BFA Advertising and BFA Design Chair Richard Wilde, “I had the opportunity to hire over 900 instructors, including laureates of the Art Directors Club and One Club halls of fame, recipients of lifetime achievement awards from AIGA and the Type Directors Club and others with many other notable distinctions. Carin arguably ranks as the greatest design instructor of them all.” [GH]

Coming Attractions

For more information on SVA events, visit sva.edu/events.

SVA Shows

Screenings and exhibitions featuring work by graduating students in SVA degree programs. Online and various locations through September Full schedule at sva.edu/shows.

Milton Glaser: POP

An exhibition featuring the late designer, illustrator and SVA faculty member’s 1960s and ’70s work (see page 12).

Wednesday, May 17 –Monday, June 5 SVA Gramercy Gallery, 209 East 23rd Street

Summer Residency Programs Exhibition

Featuring work by artists in SVA Continuing Education’s summer residencies.

Wednesday, May 31 –Thursday, June 8 SVA Flatiron Gallery, 133/141 West 21st Street Practice Lecture Series MFA Art Practice hosts talks by artists, writers and curators.

Tuesdays, June 20 through July 25, 5pm Full schedule at artpractice .sva.edu.

After School Special 2023

Screenings and talks with SVA alumni working in animation, film and television.

Week of September 18

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street

GOLDBERG PORTRAIT: LUISE STAUSS

WHAT’S IN STORE

Milton Glaser: POP

THE MONACELLI PRESS Hardcover, $65

What does pop mean in Milton Glaser’s art? Milton Glaser: POP, a groovy new book from three longtime SVA community members, aims to answer that question. In this bold graphic tome, celebrated author and MFA Design Co-Chair Steven Heller; designer, illustrator and activist Mirko Ilić, who has taught in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program; and Beth Kleber, head archivist at SVA and the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives, explore and curate Glaser works from the 1960s and ’70s, or what they have distinguished as

the late designer and longtime SVA faculty member’s “pop” era.

“Chronologically, pop fits a specific time span that largely coincides with the Vietnam War era,” Heller writes. “Aesthetically, it is a marketing shift from midcentury realism to visual forms and formats that appealed to a young new audience of media and product consumers. Practically, it gave [Glaser’s 1954-founded design studio] Push Pin a brandnew client base that needed their styles. We understand it as a liberal, inclusive idea, including the notion of an energy bursting with discoveries that had popular appeal.” Each of the three authors had personal and professional connections to Glaser.

Heller and he were SVA colleagues for more than 40 years, and Glaser taught in Heller and co-chair Lita Talarico’s MFA Design program. Kleber has overseen, written on and interviewed Glaser about his vast archive of illustrations, artworks and designs since he donated it to the College in 2003. Ilić, whose studio was on the top floor of Glaser’s building on 32nd Street, often collaborated with the elder designer and became a close friend.

(The book’s editor, Alan Rapp, is part of the SVA family, too, having graduated in 2010 from the College’s MFA Design Criticism program.)

Heller, Kleber and Ilić began POP in 2020, narrowing Glaser’s wide-ranging body of work from his partnership with Seymour Chwast at Push Pin Studios. The hundreds of pieces featured in the book—including book and album covers, posters, magazine covers, brand identities and advertisements—were

largely drawn from Ilić’s own collection and the Glaser Archives, housed in the SVA Library. Many have not been seen since their original publication, and others have never been published before. Still, they are likely to feel familiar due to what the authors posit—and prove— is Glaser’s undeniable influence on design of this period and design yet to come.

Milton Glaser: POP is more than a closer look at some of the designer’s grooviest output, a time in his career toward which he often expressed ambivalence. It is a celebration of Glaser’s impactful experimentation with whimsical, bright color, drawing and collage, and ultimately a demonstration of the cultural shift that would transform the look of pop culture forever.

[Maeri Ferguson]

Images courtesy The Monacelli Press and the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives.

WHAT’S IN STORE

Gordons CHEESECAKES AND COOKIES

11,500₩ – 30,000₩

43-2 Dokseodang-ro 14-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul shopgordons.com / @shop.gordons

Named after a fictional grandfather who lived in a red brick house and loved jazz, Gordons is a baked-goods shop in Seoul started by Jungmi “Jorie”

Cho (BFA 2009 Graphic Design) and Jina Lee (BFA 2010 Fine Arts) in 2021. The brand offers a selection of Basque-style, flourless cheesecakes—baked at high heat for a burnt crust and caramelized center—as well as cookies with such flavors as s’more, hazelnut and a savory, Italian-inspired biscuit called pastaralli.

Gordons offers online ordering and also keeps a second-floor shop in Seoul.

[Greg Herbowy]

So There’s This PODCAST

designthatdisappoints.com

In the spring of their oneyear program at SVA, MA 2022 Design Research, Writing and Criticism classmates Cornelia Smith and Brooke Viegut hosted a weekly hourlong spot on the College’s radio station, WSVA, which they used to talk about designs that they found frustrating—blackboard

LEFT,

chalk, for example, or “popping” mic sounds in audio recordings.

That project has grown into their weekly podcast, So There’s This, now available on all major streaming services as well as its own website. On each episode, Smith and Viegut each bring an example of a poorly designed product or experience in a specific category to discuss. Together, they have dissected the shortcomings of candy packaging, water bottles, vacations and more.

Outside of So There’s This, Smith is a writer, design researcher and performance artist; Viegut is a design researcher, theater director and choreographer and experience designer. [GH]

ABOVE Cookies from Gordons, founded by SVA alumni Jungmi “Jorie” Cho and Jina Lee.

FROM TOP SVA alumni Brooke Viegut and Courtney Smith, hosts of So There’s This

Publicaciones

ASSORTED MERCHANDISE AND APPAREL

$3 – $100 fjpublicaciones.bigcartel.com

Mexico City–based illustrator Alfonso de Anda (MFA 2018 Illustration as Visual Essay)—who created the artwork for the spring/summer

2021 Visual Arts Journal

Creative Life feature, “Creative Accounting”—stocks his online shop with original T-shirt designs, artworks, stickers, blankets and zines, all done in his distinctively sweet storybook style. His line’s motto? “Mas libros, meños pantallas”—more books, fewer screens. [GH]

Back in the Days

WALLPAPER

Price upon request etherandearth.com

Back in the Days, a collaborative wallpaper project between artist and textile designer Anders Jones (MFA 2017 Photography, Video and Related Media) and legendary photographer Jamel Shabazz, has been years in the making.

Friends for nearly four decades, the two met on the streets of Brooklyn in the early 1990s as photographers. Both artists witnessed the hope, possibility and creative genius of the era, developing a mutual trust that undergirded the process behind Back in the Days. Shabazz’s influential oeuvre centers on the style and dignity—through both pose and fashion—of New York City’s Black and Latino communities, among others; his sensibility is often associated with the emergence of street style. Jones’s renderings of a curated selection of Shabazz images, paired with a classic design and textured layers of subtle color, come together to create a warm and elegant tribute to thriving Black life.

In addition to online sales, Jones and Shabazz’s wallpaper is currently on view in the Museum of the City of New York’s first photography triennial, “New York Now: Home” (see page 10).

[Diana McClure]

WHAT’S IN STORE

stamp from the U.S. Postal Service that celebrates the popularity and competitive strength of girls’ and women’s soccer in America. (With several World Cup titles and Olympic medals to its name, the national women’s team is considered among the best in the world.) MacMillan was a devoted fan and player of the sport, and later did illustration work for Major League Soccer and several of its teams.

Noah MacMillan Illustrations

U.S. POSTAGE STAMP AND ART PRINTS

“Forever” postage $0.63; prints from $28 usps.com society6.com/ noahmacmillan

Last summer, the SVA community suffered a tragic loss when artist and MFA Illustration as Visual Essay student Noah MacMillan died of cancer at the age of 33. A successful illustrator before and during his time at the College, MacMillan’s imaginative work had already been featured in the Communication Arts and American Illustration annuals, and his clients included The New York Times, Adidas and Pepsi.

One project that was dear to MacMillan’s heart had its debut this spring: a “Forever”

Antonio Alcalá, the art director for the stamp, offered MacMillan the job after seeing his soccer-related work online. “It was clearly produced by someone who had an understanding and appreciation for the game,” Alcalá says. Taking inspiration from photos of Alcalá’s daughter, a former player, kicking a ball, MacMillan created an image that communicates the speed and dynamism of soccer even when scaled down to stamp size, and in the red, white and blue of the American flag. “Working with Noah was easy,” Alcalá says. “All of his ideas were strong.”

In addition to his stamp, MacMillan’s art prints of landscapes, cityscapes and fantastical scenes continue to be sold through Society6. Proceeds benefit a scholarship supporting high school students participating in the pre-college art program at Washington University in St. Louis, MacMillan’s undergraduate alma mater. [GH]

LEFT I The U.S.P.S. “Women’s Soccer” Forever stamp, illustrated by the late Noah MacMillan. BELOW Prints by MacMillan, with proceeds benefiting a scholarship in his name.

SoMad ART GALLERY, PERFORMANCE VENUE AND WORKSPACE

34 East 23rd Street somad.nyc

In 2018, friends and classmates Sara Arno, Serichai Traipoom, Paul Simon and Carla Maldonado (all MFA 2019 Photography, Video and Related Media) began SoMad, their arts venture committed to building and supporting an inclusive, women- and queer-led creative community, by renting out space in a building at the southern end of Madison Avenue (hence the name). Two years later, they began presenting exhibitions with a focus on underrepresented

voices, many of which have featured contributions from fellow SVA community members. An early show, featuring work by female artists, was curated by BFA Photography and Video faculty member Patricia Voulgaris (BFA 2013 Photography); “(Un)fixed,” on view last year (see page 68), was curated by Jay Elizondo (MFA 2020 Fine Arts) and Lorenzo Triburgo (MFA 2005 Photography, Video and Related Media).

Today, Arno and Traipoom have expanded SoMad to occupy three floors, which they are now outfitting to create a number of multipurpose spaces, all of which they aim to have fully operational by this time next year. One floor is dedicated to exhibitions, performances and screenings; another hosts a

production, recording and photography studio; and one serves as a flex area for artists to work together or individually on larger projects. SoMad TV, which streams online, features video works created on site, like poet and theater artist Lester Mayer’s spoken-word and conversation series Love Lessons With Lester. This spring an openmic series launched, turning over the space to like-minded artists and performers looking for a venue to stage their events. And when the renovations are finished, Traipoom says, the production facilities will be available for commercial rentals to generate funds for future SoMad ventures.

The SVA alumni–founded SoMad Gallery features space for events, exhibitions and multimedia installations and productions. Images courtesy SoMad.

WHAT’S IN STORE

Mars Hobrecker

TATTOO ARTIST

Rates vary

@marshobrecker / @somewhere.nyc

One need only step inside the industrial Brooklyn studio of tattoo artist Mars Hobrecker (BFA 2015 Photography) to sense his devotion to photographs, lovingly displayed as a gallery wall of framed vintage images that feel akin to those he creates with ink on skin. His gift for capturing the beauty and complexity of people—the warmth of a facial expression, bodies in varying stages of euphoria, dancing, diving or embracing—comes through in the figurative style of tattooing that has become his signature in the seven years since graduating from SVA.

“I’ve always been incredibly interested in photo history and looking through archives,” Hobrecker says. “That’s still where most of my image references are coming from. Even when I’m working in a more illustrative style, it feels closely related to photography.”

Hobrecker’s illustration style for his tattoos is influenced mainly by the fine lines of woodcut printmaking; he has never taken any formal drawing or painting classes. Recently, though, he has begun incorporating larger scale works which, he says, push him to his limits creatively and physically. “These newer pieces use a much thicker line weight, but with much less detail, and allow pieces to migrate from one area of the body to another,” he explains. “It’s a really wonderful shift in focus to alternate between working on incredibly detailed small and tender figures, to a very loose and rough full back piece in the same day. They each scratch an itch in different parts of my brain, and inform one another even if they look completely separate.”

Whether he’s working on the soft curves of a sensual nude in repose or a giant bucking bronco with each muscle carefully carved, Hobrecker sees tattooing as

an intimate and collaborative process. “So much of what’s memorable about the work that I do is rooted in the connection I develop with clients,” he says.

In the application process to receive a Hobrecker tattoo, he asks for a potential client’s inspiration and then typically offers several flash designs for them to choose from on the day of the appointment. Each drawing is unique, perhaps in a slightly different position or phase of movement, some with a corresponding “shadow” done in a contrasting red, blue or purple. “Sometimes it’s the really small or simple pieces that can have a huge impact

based on the conversation that was shared during the process,” he says.

Hobrecker tattoos by appointment only at Somewhere, a studio on the border of Bushwick, Brooklyn, and Ridgewood, Queens. His books open on the first of every other month, with availability for the following two months. Rates vary depending on size. [MF]

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Mars Hobrecker portrait by David Oramas, tattoo photos by Hobrecker, studio photo by Will Warasila (BFA 2015 Photography).

Screen time with SVA alumni and faculty

by Laura Valenza

Watch List

City Island

City Island is a new PBS animated series created by Aaron Augenblick (BFA 1997 Animation) and the studio that he cofounded, Future Brain Media. Featuring background direction by Jeremy Jusay (BFA 1998 Cartooning), the show follows the civic-minded initiatives of Watt, a light bulb and resident of the titular town

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

From director Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou) comes this biopic about the late music legend Whitney Houston, with a cast that includes Naomi Ackie and Stanley Tucci. Academy Award–winning Mark Ulano (1975 Film and Video) worked on sound mixing for the film, which is now streaming

Remote

This debut feature by artist Mika Rottenberg (faculty, MFA Fine Arts; BFA 2001 Fine Arts) was co-created with producer Mahyad Tousi and inspired by the early COVID-19 lockdowns. The film is screening this spring and summer at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia.

Fingers in the Wind

Fingers in the Wind, the first feature by writer–director Chad Murdock (BFA 2019 Film), is currently on the film festival circuit. A coming-of-age story, this mystery/romance explores friendship and desire among its young Black queer characters and directly confronts the need for better, more diverse representation on screen.

Life & Beth

Comedian Amy Schumer explores a heartfelt and darker side of humor in this Hulu TV series, whose first season aired last year Life & Beth is edited by Casey Brooks (BFA 2005 Film and Video) and features Michael Cera and Murray Hill (MFA 1997 Photography and Related Media) in supporting roles; a second season has been announced.

The Stroll

Co-directed by Zackary Drucker (BFA 2005 Photography) and Kristen Lovell, this documentary explores the history of transgender women of color who turned to sex work in New York City’s Meatpacking District when they were cut out of the job market due to discrimination. The film won a Clarity of Vision Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival

WHAT’S IN STORE Shelf Liners

Books by SVA alumni and faculty

ART/PHOTOGRAPHY

Anxious Pleasures

Amy Elkins (BFA 2007

Photography)

Kris Graves Project Hardcover, $54

August

Collier Schorr (BFA 1985

Communication Arts)

MACK Books

Hardcover, $55

Bedfellow

Caroline Tompkins (faculty, BFA Photography and Video; BFA 2014 Photography)

Palm* Studios

Hardcover, £45

The Letters of Bernadette and Rosemary Mayer

1976 – 1980

Bernadette Mayer and Rosemary Mayer (1969 Fine Arts)

Walther Koenig/ Swiss Institute

Paperback, $25

Lorna Simpson (revised and expanded)

Lorna Simpson (BFA 1982 Photography), with an essay by Chrissie Iles (faculty, MA Curatorial Practice)

Phaidon Hardcover, $69.95

Oceanus

Alexis Rockman (BFA 1985 Fine Arts)

Rizzoli Electa Hardcover, $50

Vacant

Charles H. Traub (chair, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media), with an essay by Lyle Rexer (faculty, MPS Fashion Photography; BFA Photography and Video; MFA Photography, Video and Related Media)

Paperback, $10

CHILDREN’S/PICTURE/ YOUNG ADULT

A Trip to Mars Coloring Book

Steven James Petruccio (BFA 1983 Media Arts)

Dover Books

Paperbook, $3.99

Boney Carey Fagan; illustrated by Dasha Tolstikova (MFA 2012 Illustration as Visual Essay)

Groundwood Books

Hardcover, $18.99

Doodles From the Boogie Down Stephanie Rodriguez (BFA 2011 Illustration) Kokila Hardcover/paperback/e-book, $20.99/$13.99/[$8.99]

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragon Club—Roll Call Molly Knox Ostertag (BFA 2014 Cartooning); illustrated by Xanthe Bouma HarperAlley

Hardcover/e-book/audio, $15.99/$10.99/$14.99

I Have Seven Dogs

Molly Horan (faculty, Humanities and Sciences); illustrated by Dana Wulfekotte Nancy Paulsen Books Hardcover/e-book, $18.99/$10.99

Jump In!

Shadra Strickland (MFA 2005 Illustration as Visual Essay) Bloomsbury Children’s Books Hardcover/e-book, $18.99/13.29

School Trip

Jerry Craft (BFA 1984 Media Arts)

Quill Tree Books

Hardcover/paperback/ e-book/audio, $24.99/$14.99/$10.99/$27.99

She Sang for India: How

M.S. Subbulakshmi Used Her Voice for Change

Suma Subramaniam; illustrated by Shreya Gupta (MFA 2017 Illustration as Visual Essay) Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hardcover/e-book, $18.99/$10.99

Slip

Marika McCoola; illustrated by Aatmaja Pandya (BFA 2014 Illustration) Workman Paperback, $17.95

The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow

Elaine Dimopoulos, illustrated by Doug Salati (faculty, BFA Illustration; MFA 2014 Illustration as Visual Essay) Charlesbridge Hardcover/e-book, $17.99/$9.99

Tomorrow Is New Year’s Day

Aram Kim (MFA 2014 Illustration as Visual Essay; BFA 2009 Illustration) Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hardcover/e-book, $18.99/$10.99

COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS

Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism

Jess Ruliffson (faculty, PreCollege Program; BFA 2008 Illustration)

Fantagraphics

Hardcover, $24.99

Living & Dying in America: A Daily Chronicle, 2020 – 2022

Steve Brodner (faculty, BFA Illustration)

Fantagraphics Hardcover, $29.99

Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of Underground Comix

Drew Friedman (BFA 1981 Cartooning)

Fantagraphics Hardcover, $34.99

One Eight Hundred Ghosts

G. Davis Cathcart (MFA 2021 Visual Narrative)

Paperback, $14.99

Fantagraphics

Spontania: There Once Was a Town Called Tranquility

Carl Philip Paolino (faculty, BFA Fine Arts; BFA 1982 Film and Video); illustrated by Mauricio Vargas Comic Book Kid Publishing Paperback/e-book, $7.41/$1.99

NONFICTION

The Laws of Creativity

Joey Cofone (BFA 2013 Design) Baronfig Hardcover, $28

Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion

Sara Raza (faculty, MA Curatorial Practice)

Black Dog Press Paperback, $16

Starting Your Career as an Artist: A Guide to Launching Your Creative Life (third edition)

Stacy Miller, EdD, and Angie Wojak (BFA 1990 Media Arts) Allworth Press Paperback/e-book, $24.99/$13.99

CREATIVE LIFE

Studio Etiquette

Sound advice for hosting in-person and virtual visits of your work

by stacy miller, e d d, and angie wojak

Preparing for effective studio visits is an essential part of becoming a professional artist. Guests may visit your studio for a variety of reasons: Friends and colleagues may want to view your latest work and give feedback, while curators, gallery owners and collectors may want to determine whether they want to include you in an exhibition, represent your work, or buy from your collection. These visitors will expect you to describe your process, inspirations and intentions, as well as the history and context of your work. In a sense, this is much like putting your artist’s statement into a dynamic dialogue.

It’s All About Attitude

It’s understandable that artists of all levels can find studio visits stressful and somewhat mysterious. A common mistake is to assume that your work speaks for itself, so you don’t have to speak for it. If you enter into a conversation with the wrong attitude, you can come off as passive or negative. Be in the right frame of mind and ready to hear all sorts of feedback.

Another misconception is that each visit should end in a tangible result, like a show or a sale. Instead, view it as a learning and networking opportunity, a chance to gain insight into how different viewers perceive your work and a means of gauging how

well you succeed at communicating your ideas. Studio visits teach you how to engage in meaningful dialogue. You learn to negotiate and steer conversations toward the topics you feel are most important and be a good listener and not overly defensive if your guests’ questions or comments seem critical.

Setting the Stage

No one expects an artist’s studio to be spotless, but make an effort to take care of the basics. Mop the floor and clean the bathroom. Provide clean cups to serve your guests a beverage if desired, and clean chairs for you and your guests to sit on.

Navigating the great wide world of work

Try to clear out everything but the recent art that you want to show. Place older work or works in progress out of sight or in storage, though you may want to keep older work accessible, in case a guest wants to see the evolution of your work.

Timing and Refreshments

Consider what time of day the visit is occurring and plan refreshments accordingly. You don’t want someone leaving because they are thirsty or hungry. It’s best to avoid scheduling studio visits at mealtimes, or you’ll need to provide food. It’s also best not to drink alcohol yourself during a visit or open studio. Remember, you wouldn’t drink while working and you want to be professional and fully in command, but you can offer a glass of wine, if appropriate, in the evening. An example of a simple, thoughtful gesture is to present guests with a plate of cookies or fruit and a beverage such as water, coffee or tea. At a minimum, any guest should be offered water and a clean seat.

What—and How Much— to Show

One of the most common studio visit mistakes is showing too much. Select only your best and most recent work for viewing. Set out what you want to focus on and prepare to show it in a professional format. Have a clear, clean

wall where you can put up and take down pieces throughout the conversation. Demonstrate respect for your own work in how you handle it. Mishandling a piece in front of a guest signals that you don’t consider it valuable. For example, when showing works on paper, you should not pull out a wornout, overstuffed portfolio. Have your paperworks nicely formatted, sorted and protected under glassine.

Additional documents to have on hand include your CV, artist’s statement, business card, recent show brochures or postcards.

Preparing for Different Guests

Before they arrive, you should know what to expect from a particular dealer, curator or collector. Research them and learn their professional history. Visit the gallery your guest represents and talk to other artists who might know them to gain insight into their interests and how they typically behave when visiting studios. If you have a curator visiting, know what they are currently curating or what their past shows have involved.

Try to speak with another artist that your guest has worked with to gauge what their personality is like and if they tend to do brief or long visits. Some collectors will drop by for 20 minutes; others will expect to stay for

more than an hour. Some dealers may expect a warm, in-depth conversation; others may want to just sell your work and not have an interest in knowing you on a more personal level.

How Much to Share

Prior to a visit, review your artist’s statement for ideas and develop the ability to “pitch” your work in a clear, concise manner. Practice talking about your work in two- to three-minute sound bites. Try a mock interview with a friend: Role-play as if you were meeting with a curator or collector. Ask your friend to write a summary of the meeting, write your own account and compare the two. Do your spoken and written words mesh? Are you conveying what you want about the work or are you digressing or unclear? Think about what you do and don’t need to say. Don’t overshare—the guest is not your best friend. Rather, present yourself as a professional with a coherent body of work that is fully realized and ready to be shown. ◆

Stacy Miller, EdD, is an artist, educator and nonprofit administrator. Angie Wojak (BFA 1990 Media Arts) is the executive director of External Relations at the School of Visual Arts.

This article has been adapted from Starting Your Career as an Artist: A Guide to Launching a Creative Life (Third Edition), published in 2023 by Allworth Press. (See page 20.)

What About Virtual Studio Visits?

COVID-19 or not, remote studio visits are here to stay: they afford artists, curators and collectors the opportunity to expand their reach and give those with small or transient spaces a venue for showcasing their work. Here are some things to keep in mind when hosting a virtual visit.

Think big and far. You can invite anyone in the world to a virtual studio visit. Broaden your research and—always with intention—reach out via email or social media to invite curators, dealers, writers and more. Prep your visitor. Share links and materials in advance—anything they’ll need to better understand your work. This is especially important if you have long audio or video pieces that take time to experience in their entirety.

Be professional and engaging. Start with your video turned on so your visitor enters feeling welcomed. Sit up straight and make eye contact (i.e., look into your webcam). Dress as you would for an in-person visit, from head to toe, to get into the proper mindset.

Plan ahead. Be prepared to talk about your work, and to ask for feedback. Have a loose agenda in your mind (or written down for yourself) to make sure you mention or ask things that are important to you. Cue up your work. Have preselected files cued up and ready for a screen share, as well as additional work to show them if there is time or they ask for more. Practice your presentation with a friend in advance.

Be creative. Think about how to best display your work, then think of other views that might be helpful. You may want to screen-share a high-quality image of a work and then stand next to it in your studio to show scale. If you use reflective or other materials that are challenging to photograph, you can show the piece live and move it around to demonstrate how it changes with the viewer’s perspective.

Test your platform. Use the video-call platform of your guest’s choice and practice with its interface ahead of time, especially if it is new to you.

Check your lighting. You and any work you’re showing live should be visible and clear. Don’t sit with your back to a window or another light source. Add a lamp in front of you to light your face. As always, test your setup in advance.

Keep calm. Digital lag is real, so allow time for others to finish their thoughts. Check that your Internet connection is strong. And have a backup plan. Exchange numbers with your guest before the meeting, so you can call them if the connection is lost. When tech issues arise, it’s easy to get flustered. Don’t give up. Suggest a next step, such as emailing more images or a video walk-through, and try scheduling a follow-up.

—Anna Ogier-Bloomer (MPS 2017 Digital Photography)

NONA

FAUSTINE

BY

“If we are going to live in a new kind of world and society, one of equal footing, and acknowledge past hurts and pains, we have to get real.”

DAN HALM

with scholars and historians, and hunted through archives and libraries. “It’s not easy, but you have to just first start reading and then find a love for it,” she says. “A lot of times you have the information finding you.”

New York City’s role in America’s history of slavery and the slave trade still surprises many, but so many New Yorkers were invested in the sale and import of Africans that there was rioting in resistance to the government’s drafting of soldiers to fight in the Civil War. Uncovering the painful, buried history of the city gave Faustine a purpose and focus.

“I wanted to make a statement about who New York City really is,” she says. “It’s a love letter to my ancestors and the city, but it’s also truth-telling and healing—rectifying the record a bit. At the center is a very proud history, pride in my ancestors and what they have done. I feel their presence and a deep connection to the responsibility to do what I do.” The work is also autobiographical, expressing the joy and beauty of being a Black woman and a native New Yorker.

TANDING DEFIANTLY ON A WOOD BLOCK placed on a Manhattan street, wearing only a pair of white shoes, artist Nona Faustine (BFA 1994 Photography) commands you to confront America’s tragic past. For her acclaimed series “White Shoes”—works from which have been presented at museums and galleries worldwide and which was published as a book last year by Mack—Faustine presents herself nude or semi-nude in places where the enslaved people of New York City lived, died and were buried—and along the way built much of the metropolis we inhabit. She uses her body as a monument to mark these sites, many of them unknown to the general population.

An exception is Wall Street, a location whose namesake structure was built by enslaved African people in the 17th century. “Enslaved people were sold at the water’s edge where ships would pull in with their cargo—merchandise—to be unloaded,” Faustine says. “In the morning, traders would sell African people, First Nations people as well—they were the first commodity for Wall Street.”

Some of the locations seen in “White Shoes” still hold markers of the past: a plantation home on Shelter Island, the Lefferts Historic House in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, a wheat plantation in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Others have receded into history, like the area around Greenwich Village known as the “Land of the Blacks.” Dutch colonists gave this land to formerly enslaved people, with the caveat that they must supply a certain amount of wheat and other provisions every year or risk re-enslavement, and viewed it as a buffer between themselves and the native Lenape people. To find these lesser-known landmarks, Faustine consulted and corresponded

The series’ namesake shoes, which Faustine wears in each photograph, were chosen to symbolize and evoke the lasting effects of white patriarchy. “Wherever Black people in the world go, there’s nothing we can’t do without that whiteness and the effects of whiteness on the Black body,” she says. By placing her own body, often nude, in the compositions, she represents what is missing from New York’s sanitized mythology and history, reclaiming space and the power of representation and visibility.

While Faustine composed and authored each image in “White Shoes,” her sister was an important collaborator, accompanying her on location for security and assisting in shoots that required efficiency. Faustine had previously worked with her sister, as well as her mother and daughter, on “Mitochondria,” an intimate series documenting their life together as a Black, female-led family—a reality not often honored in media. “This was something I thought was important,” she says. “My sister only appears in a few images because she doesn’t like to be photographed. But my daughter and my mother, who passed in 2021, were the center of those images.”

Three years ago, Faustine was one of the inaugural class of artist Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal Residency, through which international artists live and work in Dakar for one to three months. The residency ended up being a full-circle moment: upon returning to the U.S., she found out that she was a descendant of the Mandinka people of Senegal.

“Going to these different sites in Africa spoke to me,” she says. “The most important and significant was the House of Slaves on the Island of Gorée. Enslavers had their homes and below were the dungeons where enslaved people were kept until they entered the door of no return—onto the slave ships to leave for the Americas.” She was granted permission to

OPENING Nona Faustine , Dr. J. Marion Sims , 2019

PREVIOUS Nona Faustine, Walk to Freedom Frederick Douglass , 2015

OPPOSITE Nona Faustine, Matriarch, 2013.

All images © Nona Faustine.

photograph there and the image she created, Descendant Daughter Returns, Door of No Return, Maison des Esclaves, Gorée Island, has been acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). She has also been working with textiles she collected in Senegal, wrapping herself in them for images.

While she was working on “White Shoes,” Faustine began a conceptual silk-screened series, “My Country,” as an effort to bring to the fore the unsung contributions and unspoken meanings behind some of America’s most famous icons, like the Washington and Lincoln monuments and the Statue of Liberty. “I wanted to get people thinking and talking about these hidden histories and that conceptual Black alignment that goes through them,” she says. “Enslaved men rolled into battle with their masters—and in some cases for their masters—and fired the first shot or took the first bullets. But Washington and Lincoln get all the credit.”

Through these and other projects, Faustine is attempting to right historical wrongs and recalibrate viewers’ notions of what America is, who Americans are and how we got here.

“If we are going to live in a new kind of world and society, one of equal footing, and acknowledge past hurts and pains, we have to get real,” she says. “Really at the core of art is healing. Art can uncover and question—it’s a reason why certain politicians go after artists.”

In addition to her SVA degree, Faustine holds an MFA from The International Center of Photography at Bard College. In 2019, she was the recipient of an NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship and, the inaugural BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize, and was a finalist in the Outwin Boochever Competition at the National Portrait Gallery. Her work will be on view this year at “New York Now: Home,” Museum of the City of New York (see page 10), and “Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics,” LACMA, and is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; David C. Driskell Center, Maryland State University; and Studio Museum of Harlem. ◆

RIGHT Nona Faustine, Liberty or Death, Sons of Africa, 2019.

FOLLOWING PAGES, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Nona Faustine , There are few markers left but your black body is the marker. The land does hold the memory of your existence. You only have to put it there in its

natural state to remember.

– Harriet Tubman, 2021; Jackson, Mississippi, 2018; Land of Freedom’s Heaven

Defended Race , 2019; No Rest for My Weary Soul, Queens, NY, 2021.

CLOSING PAGES Nona Faustine, In Praise of Famous Men No More , 2019.

All images

© Nona Faustine.

IT IS SAID THAT THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TO SPACE THAN THERE ARE

PROFESSIONAL PERFUMERS—

and it is this element of rarity that drew Donna Ramanauskas (BFA 2007 Advertising), perfumer at fragrance and flavor manufacturer Robertet, to her job. “Not a lot of people know about it—it’s fascinating and special,” she says.

DONNA

The path to professional perfumery is not easy. Generally, you need an undergraduate degree in science, preferably chemistry, an advanced degree in perfume studies (only a handful of highly selective programs in France offer this option), or even both. Or you can get your foot in the door with a fragrance company and try to work your way up, which is what Ramanauskas did.

materials are used—if a company wants the ingredients to be 100% natural, or if they need to adhere to a certain store’s clean beauty standards. For example, to receive a “Clean at Sephora” label, a perfume would need to be free of more than 50 ingredients, like parabens and phthalates, that have been linked to human health issues.

Some briefs are clear about what type of fragrance the client is looking for, like a citrus floral, while others are openended and allow for more creativity. “These are a catch-22,” Ramanauskas says, citing her work on Commodity Gold as an example. “A perfumer always wants these briefs, but then you think, ‘Where do I start?’” Ramanauskas, however, finds this exciting. “You really don’t know where you’re going to land, so you can try materials you don’t always get to work with.”

Similar to the advertising agency world, fragrance houses compete for projects. They’re given anywhere between several weeks to several months to come up with a fragrance that responds to the brief. Then it’s up to the client to choose. Every so often, clients allow—or even ask for—a fragrance they’ve selected to be further refined. But most of the time, “you only get one shot to win,” she says.

Inspiration + Materials

Her father, a former Robertet perfumer, helped her get a summer marketing internship at the company. During her senior year at SVA, she got experience “working the bench,” mixing fragrance formulas in a lab for perfumers. “It was fate that they were even willing to train me, because it’s very rare that companies give you the opportunity to become a perfumer,” she says.

She wasn’t sure whether she wanted to go into advertising or perfumery when she graduated, but she stuck with the latter in part due to its uniqueness. “It’s being creative in a different way, using all of your senses,” she says.

Ramanauskas has worked on scents for many types of products, from shampoo to kitty litter. She now focuses on fine fragrance and candles for clients like Commodity (Gold, Paper, Moss and others), Régime des Fleurs (Rock River

Melody) and LAFCO New York (the Lavender Flower Absolute candle). Though she left advertising for good, the process behind creating a fragrance for a client isn’t so different from creating a campaign for an agency. For Ramanauskas, the process begins with a brief.

The Brief

Fragrance briefs are a couple of pages long (and sometimes include a mood board and packaging pictures), describing the target audience, age group, budget, and other specifics and requirements. Some of these influence which

Ramanauskas gets inspired by researching the market, being outdoors and visiting different niche stores “in towns like Hudson, New York, where artists come together and inspire each other.”

When it comes to materials, “every perfumer has a signature in terms of what they like, and I love roses,” she says. “If I get a brief that allows for a floral, that’s what I gravitate toward.” If she gets a more open-ended brief, like for Commodity’s Gold, she uses the same strategy—starting with favorites like musks, sandalwood and ambery notes (all of which made it into the final fragrance).

Sometimes projects with bigger budgets—like those that require the use of only natural ingredients—allow her to

SVA alumnus and perfumer Donna Ramanauskas in the Robertet fragrance lab. Image courtesy Seth Pasternack/Robertet, Inc.

use high-end materials like Jasminum sambac and orris butter. “Any time I can use it, it’s a dream,” she says of the latter, which is distilled from iris rhizomes and is said to cost $50,000 or more per kilogram, depending on quality.

Though jasmine and iris might conjure fantasies of a lush garden, some of her go-tos are less romantic. When creating gourmands, which are fragrances with edible notes, like caramel and chocolate,

Naturals and Synthetics

she likes to use trace amounts of milk lactone—a compound used to mimic the scent and taste of dairy foods. “On its own, it smells horrendous, like stinky white cheese and sour milk,” she says. “But it gives you that extra oomph of realism.”

The Robertet lab has its own special air-circulation system, but some ingredients are so overpowering they’re kept under a specially ventilated hood. These

Perfumes can be created using natural materials (like essential oils and absolutes distilled from plants) and synthetics (aroma molecules and blends that mimic naturals like cassis and rose). Most often, perfumes are created using a mix of both, with synthetic materials—which can be less costly and easier to use— making up the majority of the concentrate. And though naturals come from the earth, they aren’t necessarily safer. Some undiluted citrus essential oils, like the ever-popular bergamot, can cause skin irritation when exposed to light. But don’t fear—there are plenty of restrictions and guidelines in place to make sure perfumes on the market are safe.

include pyrazines, which lend nuttiness to gourmands, and mercaptans, also useful in gourmands but which “smell almost like skunk,” Ramanauskas says. “You use these in a private room with your lab coat on and wash it directly after.” And, inevitably, there are accidents. “When you get a ‘hood item’ all over yourself, you go home and your husband says, ‘You stink!’”

The Process

One of the first things Ramanauskas does is brainstorm with her fragrance evaluator about what might work best. “An evaluator is like a book editor,” she

evaluator. They test on blotters and on the skin, “because things tend to stick out on the skin. Maybe we’ll lower a top note if it’s too pungent or make the base more creamy,” she says. The number of versions she creates varies depending on the project. Sometimes it’s three or four, but other times it can go beyond 15.

For candles, the process is slightly different. They are smelled “cold” (the same way they’re experienced in a store) and then burned in an odor booth. In addition to fragrance, she and the evaluator examine elements like flame height and smokiness.

During the process, even pros like Ramanauskas can get nose fatigue. She says the best way to combat this is to get fresh air or smell your own skin. And perfumers, just like any other type of creative, can get stuck. To help push past this, she goes to food markets and local arboretums to smell spices and flowers.

Another trick is to “overdose” a material—use more of something than you normally would, which leads to “happy accidents,” she says. “We’re taught to use these materials in a certain way or at a certain level, so it’s great to explore and try to push the boundaries from time to time.”

says. ”When [perfumers] are so close to their fragrances, they fall in love with them, so evaluators can help guide us.”

The way she constructs scents is often determined by the direction in the brief. “If they are asking for a citrus, you start with the top. If they’re looking for a floral, you start with the middle,” she says. Once a lab tech has mixed up a scent Ramanauskas wants to share, she reviews it with her

Ramanaskaus also works with the regulatory team to test fragrances for stability—sometimes during creation, sometimes after selection—to address problems like discoloration or insolubility. “You could have a heavily gourmand fragrance turning brown or pink or purple,” she says. “Then the problem-solving comes in. How are you going to replace the materials causing the issue and have it smell the same?”

Much like as it would be in an agency setting, Ramanauskas finds herself competing against coworkers. Multiple in-house perfumers will work on scents for the brief, and it’s the evaluator’s job to screen all of them and select one final candidate to submit to the client. But the atmosphere is supportive, not cutthroat. “A win for one of my teammates is a win for all of us. We celebrate collectively,” she says.

ABOVE, OPPOSITE The Robertet Group facilities and offices in Mount Olive, New Jersey; SVA alumnus and Robertet perfumer Donna Ramanauskas. Images courtesy Seth Pasternack/Robertet, Inc.

Ramanauskas is always excited to see her products out in the world. “I love seeing TikTok videos of people commenting on the products—good and bad alike, I want to know.”

Final Notes

The amount of time it takes for a selected fragrance to end up in stores depends on the project. “Sometimes it hits the shelves within a few months, and other times we’re working on projects for the year ahead,” Ramanauskas says. She’s always excited to see her products out in the world, and social media makes it even more thrilling. “I love seeing TikTok videos of people commenting on the products—good and bad alike, I want to know.”

Experimenting with fragrance day in, day out has had some interesting effects on her daily life. She can’t wear perfume to the lab—not that she notices anymore—and she struggles with certain flavors that she associates with her work. “It’s hard for me to eat or drink anything that has mango or grapefruit,” she says. “Smell and taste go hand-in-hand.”

That’s a small price to pay for the gratification Ramanauskas feels when people connect with her creations— especially because fragrance is so personal. “A woman wears a fragrance you created that she absolutely loves,” she says, “and then 20 years from now, her son or daughter might smell that scent and think, ‘This reminds me of my mom!’ You’re creating everlasting memories from generation to generation, which is really cool.” ◆

The Perfume Pyramid

Top

CITRUSES, FRUITS, CERTAIN HERBS AND PLANTS

Examples: grapefruit, basil, mint, eucalyptus

FLORALS AND SPICES

Examples: rose, lavender, cardamom

Base

WOODS, RESINS, MUSKS, ROOTS, CERTAIN PLANTS

Examples: sandalwood, frankincense, vetiver, patchouli

Whether they’re for a fine perfume or a laundry detergent, fragrances are often constructed with top notes, middle/heart notes, and base notes. Top notes tend to hit your nose first but also disappear the fastest—often in less than 30 minutes. Middle notes can be detected for an hour or more, while base notes hit your nose last but have the best staying power. Depending on how they’re blended, however, ingredients often live between classifications.

A LINE ON HISTORY

Artist and writer Nora Krug shines a light on humanity’s darker corners

BY GREG HERBOWY

Photograph by DEBORAH FEINGOLD

Each installment consisted of two short columns that presented brief, diary-like accounts of everyday life during wartime. The left column, colored with a warm palette, told the story of a Ukrainian journalist, who is identified only as K. The right column, rendered mostly in blues and greens, told the story of an anti-war Russian artist, identified as D.

The two correspondents, both distant acquaintances of Krug’s, each relay grim stories, though the point of the work, she says, is not to draw an equivalence. To the contrary, D.’s experiences pale next to those of K., who separates from her children, mourns

the deaths of friends and colleagues, and witnesses the merciless destruction of her homeland. In one early strip, K. plots to evacuate her kids while laying awake at night listening to bombs explode; D., meanwhile, is explaining to his children why Nintendo has stopped doing business in Russia. Still, war also poisons an aggressor nation’s citizens, regardless of their degree of complicity. D., fearing conscription and his government’s crackdown on dissent, eventually separates from his family, too, fleeing the country.

Krug’s series ran, either in its entirety or excerpted, in the Los Angeles Times, in the U.S.; El País, in Spain; L’Espresso, in Italy; Süddeutsche Zeitung, in Germany; and De Volkskrant, in Holland, until its conclusion at the end of February, marking the war’s one-year anniversary. In August, it will be collected and published as a book, Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts From Ukraine and Russia, by Ten Speed Press.

“Diaries of War has a clear political standpoint,” she says. “Ukraine is suffering an unprovoked attack, Russia is the perpetrator, and what’s happening in Ukraine and Russia cannot be blamed on a single, despotic leader and his propaganda alone.”

Since the publication of Belonging, her graphic-novel memoir, in 2018, Krug has been widely acclaimed for her dexterous, visually inventive meditations on everything from cherished cultural and folkloric traditions to the horrors of bigotry, totalitarianism and war. In Belonging, Krug investigates her family’s involvement in and experience of Nazi Germany, and her own feelings of shame and responsibility for her country’s dark past; the book won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators and was named a “best book of the year” by The New York Times and other publications. In 2021, she created the art for an illustrated edition of On Tyranny, historian Timothy Snyder’s book on how democracies

Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February of last year, an unusual series of nonfiction comics by Nora Krug (MFA 2004 Illustration as Visual Essay), a German-born, Brooklyn-based writer and illustrator, began appearing in American and European newspapers.

OPPOSITE Interior pages and the cover from Belonging , SVA alumnus Nora Krug’s best-selling 2018 graphic-novel memoir.

ABOVE Krug’s Red Riding Hood Redux (2009) retells the fairy tale from the perspective of each main character. Photos by Conway Liao.

can devolve into authoritarian states, which won a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators, along with other honors. Both Belonging and On Tyranny are international bestsellers, each having been translated into more than a dozen languages.

In March, “Nora Krug: Belonging,” an exhibition of art from her visual nonfiction work, opened at the Norman Rockwell Museum, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where it will be on view through June 13. This comes on the heels of the exhibitions “Illustrator as Witness,” held in 2022 at the Society of Illustrators in Manhattan, and “On Tyranny,” which was on view from late 2021 through last year at the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, in Germany.

At a talk held as part of the Munich exhibition, Snyder spoke about how, after deciding to produce an illustrated edition of On Tyranny, he chose to work with Krug. “When I read Belonging, I thought, ‘It has to be her,’” he said, going on to call their combined effort “a much better book than what it was before. . . . When I now re-read my own book, I see aspects and dimensions that weren’t there before. It was a collaboration, in that sense, and Nora added so many new things.”

KRUG GREW UP IN KARLSRUHE , a city in southwest Germany near France’s Alsace region, where some towns keep old World War II tanks on display, their cannons pointed toward Germany. “I remember my father explaining this to me when biking through Alsace as a child,” she says. “A political lesson learned early!” As a

teenager, she focused her creative energies on classical music and the violin. She always drew and painted, but “didn’t realize at the time that it could be a ‘real profession,’” she says. “I didn’t personally know any illustrators.”

After high school Krug moved to England to attend the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, founded by Paul McCartney in 1996. While there, her interest shifted to the visual arts. She studied set, costume and lighting design in class and designed album covers for friends’ bands on the side.

She also developed an interest in nonfictional narrative. For her final project, she traveled twice to Sarajevo to film a documentary about the city’s precarious state in the wake of the Bosnian War, “after all the international media had left and when the rest of the world didn’t seem to care anymore,” she says. She visited an abandoned zoo, a psychiatric hospital and the city’s disused stadium, built for the 1984 Winter Olympic games. After graduating from LIPA, Krug returned to Germany and studied at The Berlin University of Arts. “I had abandoned documentary film, but realized I’m really a nonfiction person, and I didn’t want to let go of that side of myself,” she says. One instructor in particular, artist Henning Wagenbreth, encouraged her to think of illustration as a tool for active engagement with the wider world. Inspired, she applied to the MFA illustration program at SVA and moved once more, this time to New York City, where she continues to live, work and teach—in addition to her professional practice, she has been an associate

FAR LEFT Illustrator, author and SVA alumnus Nora Krug. Photo by Hanna Hrabarska, courtesy Nora Krug. LEFT, BELOW From 2021 through 2022, the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism presented an exhibition of archival material and original art from Krug’s memoir, Belonging (2018), and On Tyranny (2021), her collaboration with historian Timothy Snyder.

Adolf’s Aberration, a comic by illustrator, author and SVA alumnus Nora Krug about the troubled 19th-century Swiss “outsider” artist and composer Adolf Wölfli.

Quicksand: The Tumultuous Life of Isabelle Eberhardt , Krug’s comic about a Swiss-Russian writer and expatriate who passed as a man in late 19th- and early 20th-century Algeria.

professor at Parsons School of Design for 16 years. “The field in America is just so much broader,” she says. “I think that there is a stronger awareness here of what illustration can do—of all the ways that it can be applied—and a greater openness toward experimentation.”

For her thesis at SVA, Krug chose to reinterpret the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale, creating four mini-books that each focused on a different main character from the story. This gave rise, several years later, to her first professionally published book project, Red Riding Hood Redux (2009), a set of five volumes presenting wordless, synchronized narratives from the perspectives of Red Riding Hood, her mother, the hunter, the grandmother and the wolf. (A set of the books is in the collection of the U.S. Library of Congress, as is Krug’s limited-edition 2014 book, Shadow Atlas, which catalogs legendary ghosts and spirits from various cultures around the world.)

Not long after completing her MFA, Krug met the art director and designer Monte Beauchamp, who invited her to submit work to BLAB! (later known as BLAB WORLD), the comics, art and illustration anthology that he had founded in 1986 and published more or less annually, under various imprints, through 2012. (A new incarnation, Comics and Stories That Will Make You BLAB!, debuted in April from comics publisher Dark Horse.) BLAB! contributors include fellow alumnus Drew Friedman (BFA 1981 Media Arts; see page 20), and former and current SVA faculty Bill Griffith, Peter Kuper and Gary Panter.

“BLAB! reminded me of the kind of underground comics anthologies that I was familiar with from Germany and Switzerland,” she says. “Monte’s early support, for which I’m still very grateful, really allowed me to explore my most personal ideas and made me realize that not only the most commercial work is publishable.”

Krug’s three nonfiction comics for the anthology told the stories of former U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, who defected to North Korea during the Korean War; Swiss-Russian writer Isabelle Eberhardt, a convert to Islam who traveled through North Africa and dressed as a man; and the troubled Swiss “outsider” artist and composer Adolf Wölfli. The works bear many of the narrative and visual hallmarks for which she is now well known: a line evocative of European folk art, as well suited for humor as it is for tragedy; storytelling informed by historical research; and inventive panel and page construction.

“All of Nora’s work for BLAB! has been exceptional,” Beauchamp says, “but graphically, her take on the life of Wölfli is a tour de force in the genre of comic art, and I think it’s her sensibilities as an illustrator and designer that make it so. Her line work is experimental and captivating, as is her color palette and ability to spin a yarn, and her characters are emotionally charged in a stylistic abstract manner that is uniquely her own. She’s a gem of a creator.”

KRUG’S THREE MOST RECENT BOOKS have each offered a new challenge. Belonging required unflinching personal honesty. On Tyranny, a work devoted to ideas, not narratives, was an opportunity to work in a more conceptual mode—“attempting to add a poetic layer to Snyder’s political texts,” she says. Freed from the obligation to maintain continuity, she tried to devise a new illustrative approach for each spread.

“DIARIES OF WAR,” KRUG HAS “TAKEN ON THE RESPONSIBILITY OF REPORTING IN REAL TIME.”

For Diaries of War, says Kimmy Tejasindhu, Krug’s editor at Ten Speed, Krug has chosen, for the first time in her career, to tell a still-unfolding story. “She’s taken on the responsibility of reporting heartbreaking events in real time,” she says, “serving as a kind of human filter through which these personal stories flow.”

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Regardless of the project, Krug likens her process to that of a sculptor’s or editor’s—time consuming, exploratory and self-questioning. “I never know what I’m going to draw when I start,” she says. “It’s like a negotiation with the blank page. I’ll add elements and then take them off and try something else. I erase a lot. The work isn’t always enjoyable. I’m very critical throughout.”

Artwork by SVA alumnus Nora Krug from the 2021 illustrated edition of On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder.

OPPOSITE An excerpt from Krug’s upcoming book Diaries of War, which collects her serialized comic documenting the lives of two correspondents, one Ukrainian and one Russian, over the first year of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Sometimes, the composition incorporates historical artifacts and found objects to simultaneously zoom out the perspective while adding a tactile quality. “Found objects reflect both a personal and collective narrative,” she says. “They can communicate stories and emotions in a different way, and give the reader a different insight or access into a particular period of time.”

Ultimately, every decision is made in service to Krug’s overarching artistic mission.

“I want to convey that we don’t exist in a vacuum,” she says. “It’s our responsibility to face our histories.” ◆

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Q+A Tak Hoon Kim

BY HSIANG CHIN MOE

Last November, the Korean Alumni Association—the longest-running SVA alumni affinity group—gathered at a hotel ballroom in Seoul to honor the outgoing association president Tak Hoon Kim (MFA 2005 Computer Art; BFA 1997 Animation) for his four years of service and to hand over the organization’s reins to Kenny Kim (BFA 1994 Graphic Design). (See page 63.)

Tak Hoon Kim’s stewardship of KAA, during which the group established a student-scholarship fund and membership grew to more than 3,000, is one of many accomplishments in his three-decade journey as an animator and educator. Shortly after completing his undergraduate degree at SVA, MTV recruited Kim for Celebrity Deathmatch (1998 – 2002), its claymation series spoofing professional wrestling and America’s obsession with pop culture. He joined the SVA faculty just a few years later, teaching stop-motion animation to undergraduate and continuing education students.

In 2007, Kim returned to his hometown of Seoul, where he joined the faculty of Chung-Ang University’s graduate school of advanced imaging science and established Tak Toon Enterprise, dedicated to 2D animation for advertising and television. Several years later, he also established Central Animation Studio, for stop-motion work. The studios’ projects include the

The Curious World of Linda

BELOW Stills from the 2D animated series The Curious World of Linda (2020 – ), co-produced by Studio ACORN and SVA alumnus Tak Hoon Kim’s Tak Toon Enterprise.

BOTTOM LEFT Animator and educator Tak Hoon Kim, founder of Tak Toon Enterprise and Central Animation Studio in Seoul. Photo by Sangmoo Han.

teen and children’s programs The Forks With Spiky Hands (2016), Teenie Scouts Big Five (2019 – 2021) and The Curious World of Linda (2020 – ), as well as a new series, The Boo Boo Man, set to premiere this year on Korean television.

Recently, Kim connected over Zoom with his friend and fellow alumnus, Hsiang Chin Moe (MFA 2008 Computer Art), chair of BFA Animation at SVA and chair of education for the nonprofit Women in Animation, for a talk about their experiences as educators, Kim’s career and the underappreciated art of stop-motion animation.

frame by frame.” I was, like, “Oh, my God!”

Right away I started thinking that maybe I wanted to do that kind of thing. Because I’d always enjoyed making

and I worked on the series from its first frame to its last. [Laughs.] I have so many stories from my time at MTV!

Tell me!

When I first got there, there was a big language barrier. Speaking English in school and speaking it at work is totally different, right? At school you only speak to teachers and hang out with friends, so there isn’t really any problem. But when I was working, I’d have trouble. The director would ask for something, and I’d misunderstand and do it wrong.

Okay, first things first. Why did you decide to study at SVA, and why animation?

I had studied photography as an undergraduate in Korea, and I was interning at a studio my junior year when I realized that I probably didn’t want to do this for my entire life, and that maybe I wanted to do something with motion pictures instead. And the School of Visual Arts was just so famous, and I saw that they had a film department.

It’s funny, because I chose to pursue animation not because of any class in my program, but because of my English as a Second Language class. The teacher, Lynda Wismer, showed us a clip from [Tim Burton’s] The Nightmare Before Christmas [1993] and explained, “This is called stop-motion animation. It’s not puppetry. It’s not live action. It’s made

things, like figures, when I was young. So that woman really changed my life.

Not long after graduating, you started working on one of the better-known claymation shows of the last 25 years, Celebrity Deathmatch . How did that happen?

At the end of my senior year as an undergraduate, I was a winner at the Dusty Awards [an annual event at SVA for graduating BFA students in animation and film, held from 1990 to 2018]. A lot of people from major studios came to the event, and I met Machi Tantillo, who was at that time the director of animation at MTV.

About six months after graduation, they called me and said they were starting a show, Celebrity Deathmatch. That was my first full-time job in animation

After a couple of weeks of that, the director gave me a shitty job, like animating a crowd of people or something. I was like, “How can I prove my talent?” So I started to go in every weekend, lock the door, stay late and just practice animating. Afterward, I showed him every shot that I did by myself and he said, “Hmm, okay.” And from that day, I started to get more important shots.

After three years, there was a big merger going on with CBS and MTV, and they were going to lay off, like, 30 percent of their employees. Everybody was scared, and I was, too, because I’m a foreigner, and I figured I was going to be the first one to get fired. But the producers called me in and said, “We’re going to make you the supervising animator.” I was shocked.

Stills from Jack the Leader, a 2022 stopmotion animated short directed by SVA alumnus Tak Hoon Kim and produced by his Central Animation Studio in Seoul.

Jack the Leader

Were there any other international employees working on the show when you were there? No, actually. Six or seven months after I got hired, I had to ask the studio for help with my visa, and the producers didn’t know what I was talking about— they didn’t understand the process. They said I was the first H-1B visa at MTV Animation.

Do you think that being in that environment forced you to step out of your comfort zone a bit more with regards to the language or the culture?

Yeah. Like, animators always get

They were all nice, but at one of my first work lunches we went to the deli and everyone just walked up to the counter, like, “I want a Reuben on this bread with this cheese and this and that.” And then they looked at me— “What do you want?” There’s no menu. There are no options that I can see to choose from. I just stood there until I finally said, “I’m gonna have what you ordered.”

Those are the moments you don’t learn at school but by being at work and having people that can help you with those sort of cultural or language barriers. Right.

as a joke, but I was so shocked! That was a big memory from my childhood.

Did you show the movie to your mom? Yes. She laughed so hard.

Only a few years after graduating from the BFA program you were teaching in it. How did that happen?

Celebrity Deathmatch had ended in 2002, and SVA called to say that John Gati, who had been my stop-motion animation teacher, was sick and couldn’t teach anymore, and had recommended me as his substitute. [A filmmaker and

together for lunch. And one day in my first month I realized that everyone had left for the restaurant without me! I thought that maybe they did it on purpose because I was different, the only foreigner in the office, like maybe they were being racist. I left on my own to get a hamburger and ran into them on the street and they said, “Tak! Where are you going?” I said, “McDonald’s.” And they all said, “Oh, no!” They hadn’t left me out intentionally—they just hadn’t realized.

I had a similar experience. I came to the U.S. from Taiwan to study and I had a cohort of Taiwanese friends, so I was able to stay in that comfort zone for many years. But then I got an internship, and I was the only person there whose first language wasn’t English.

Let’s go back to your time at SVA. Can you tell me about the film you made that won at the Dustys?

It was called Christmas Lament. I got so much help on it from other SVA students, like Korean friends in illustration and sculpture. They helped me with the sets, with the characters, with everything.

It was about a disappointing Christmas where the kid is expecting a present and just gets chewing gum. It was my story. When I was in kindergarten, the teacher told us, “If you’re good, you’ll get a good present at Christmas. But if you’ve been bad, you’re going to get chewing gum.” I told my mom about that, and on that Christmas she put chewing gum in my stocking. She did it

Holocaust survivor, Gati taught at SVA from 1989 until his death in 2002.]

I visited Mr. Gati and asked him, “Why did you choose me?” And he said, “Because you were the first one who came to the class and the last one to leave. You would set up all the equipment at the start and pack it up at the end.” Also, he was Hungarian and had a language barrier like me, so I think maybe we had that connection.

I taught stop-motion at SVA from 2002 to 2007. For a while I was working on a new show, The Wrong Coast [2004], attending the MFA Computer Art program and teaching all at the same time.

Teenie Scouts Big Five

The Forks With Spiky Hands

I love the craft of stop-motion, but it can be a challenge to get students to sign up for classes on it. What’s the interest in it like at Chung-Ang University? Well it’s a bit different, because I’m at the graduate school. There are only eight students each year, and typically four of them will be doing CG, two or three of them will do 2D and only one is doing stop-motion. So I’ll teach them personally. But I think all of the animation schools have the same issue with stop-motion, where only a few people are interested in it.

My Central Animation Studio is for stop-motion, and it’s hard to find people to hire. I’ll put a job listing on a professional site and get no responses. But if I put it on a hobby site, like for people who make dioramas or plastic models, then I’ll get some interest.

It can be hard to get people to think of animation outside of its predominant commercial modes. While access to streaming services opened the door to more varieties of animation than usual, it seems like people are returning to the comfort zone of their pre-pandemic viewing habits.

I see it the same way, too. I have, like, five or six concepts for more personal, you know, “ages 15 and up” projects that I hope to make. It’s just about finding investors who are interested.

So, what are you aiming to do as the BFA Animation chair? I’ve always thought of SVA’s animation program as more independent and artistic than other colleges’, and I like that. I take pride in that.

With undergraduates, a lot of them are navigating their own identity—in themselves as well as in their art—and that’s okay. I’ll have students who are really ambitious. They’ll have experimental animation and 3D and stop-motion, and they’re combining everything together, and that’s great. I also have students who are taking it one day at a time. Either way, the goal is for them to have a project that they care about to focus on and finish. Because when you finish it, that’s a great accomplishment in itself. Of course we pay attention to what the industry requires, but I want to support students in creating with intention.

The finishing part is very important, I think. It took me four years to figure out that photography was not for me, but I worked hard and was good at it. I don’t

OPPOSITE, TOP Stills from Teenie Scouts Big Five (2019 – 2021), a stop-motion animated series produced at SVA alumnus Tak Hoon Kim’s Central Animation Studio in Seoul.

OPPOSITE, BELOW Stills from The Forks With Spiky Hands (2016), a 2D animated series produced by Kim’s Tak Toon Enterprise.

RIGHT Sets for Galaxy Kids (2015 – 2016), a stopmotion animated series produced at Central Animation Studio. All images courtesy Tak Toon Enterprise.

think that time was wasted, though, because just having that realization was worthwhile.

Tell me about your time as the Korean Alumni Association president. What are you most proud of having accomplished during your tenure?

I guess we kind of made it more “official.” We drafted rules and built a website, I had cabinet members, and we did more fundraising to support our scholarship for Korean students.

Right now, we’re working on getting permission from Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to register the association as a nonprofit, so it’s a lot of paperwork.

What do you see as KAA’s mission? It seems like you’ve created a real community and a strong network of alumni from all of these different majors.

It’s all about pride and confidence. We’re all from SVA and we’re all celebrating each other’s achievements.

It’s mostly about building friendships but we all support and help each other professionally, too.

With everything you have going on, what do you do to unplug? Do you get any downtime? Sure, I take Sundays off to play with my kids and take them out to eat, and to visit my parents.

But you know, two years ago I was having a really hard time. My studios almost closed down. I was so stressed— I’m responsible for my family, my staff. Luckily, I got some funding from the government, and the work started coming in again.

Now whenever I get tired or feel like, “Oh God, this is hell,” I’ll just think about how things were two years ago. So even when I’m busy, I’m okay. I’m happy.

I work hard now, because maybe when I’m 60 or 70, nobody’s going to want me for work. [Laughs.] ◆

This conversation has been condensed and edited.

Pages from the two-part publication Interviews With Women in the Arts (1975 –1976), written and produced by students in the Women in the Arts course taught at SVA by artist Joyce Kozloff in 1973.

The early 1970s marked a time of renewed energy in the feminist movement’s second wave. The Ad Hoc Committee of Women’s Artists was founded in 1970 to protest the lack of women artists in the Whitney Museum’s Painting and Sculpture Annual (which later became the Whitney Biennial). In 1972 the committee published the Rip-Off File, created by artists Joyce Kozloff and Nancy Spero to document discrimination against women in the art world. Women artists, largely ignored by commercial galleries, formed cooperative galleries to show their work; first among them was A.I.R. (Artists in Residence), in 1972. (Also in 1972, Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment, guaranteeing equal legal rights for women, which 50 years later continues to await ratification by the requisite number of states.)

That same year, critics, curators and SVA faculty Marcia Tucker and Lucy Lippard proposed that the College offer a new course, Women and the Arts. Artist May Stevens was initially slated to teach it but she was away at the time,

and asked her friend Kozloff to take it over when the course ran in the fall of 1973. (Stevens returned to teach the class in 1974; it continued to run through the end of the decade.)

“I was 20 years younger than [May], and she put a lot of confidence in me because I had never done anything like that before, and it was a very large class,” Kozloff says. “I was young, and I was a little nervous. There was this field of eager faces. I think there were two or three men who stayed in the back.”

Though new to teaching, Kozloff was active in the feminist art movement: in addition to her work with the Ad Hoc Committee, she organized the first meeting of the L.A. Council of Women Artists in 1971 to protest the lack of women in the Los Angeles County Museum. She later co-founded the Heresies publishing collective, which produced a feminist magazine, and was an originating member of the Pattern and Decoration movement, which sought to break down Western art’s “high/low” hierarchies. She has created many works of public art, and later moved into works based in cartography.

Kozloff still has her files from the class, including a week-by-week account of lectures and studio visits. Guest speakers included Lippard, Camille Billops, Sheila de Bretteville, Jill Freedman and Howardena Pindell. The class met with Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Denes in their studios and toured a Lee Krasner retrospective at the Whitney with Krasner herself. Originally intended to run for one semester, the students successfully petitioned SVA to expand the course to a full year.

The coursework culminated in the production of a two-part publication, Interviews With Women in the Arts, eventually printed in 1975 and 1976. Participating students chose their interview subjects, who ran the gamut from painters and sculptors to photographers and graphic designers; many embraced feminism, but others were loathe to call themselves feminists. Artists interviewed included alumni Adrian Piper and the late Rosemary Mayer (both 1969 Fine Arts); SVA faculty Alice Baber, Sheila Berger, Barbara Nessim and Spero; and Martha Clamage and Barbara Zucker. Each Q+A ran with images of work by both the artist and the student interviewer. In a contemporaneous review in the Women Artists Newsletter, photographer Judy Seigel wrote: “This is one of those publications that can almost make you starry-eyed about the Women’s Movement again.”

—Beth Kleber is the head of archives at the School of Visual Arts.

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BENEFITS

• Alumni receptions and networking events

• Continued access to SVA MyID and @sva.edu email

• Subscriptions to the monthly alumni newsletter and the Visual Arts Journal

• Career Development workshops and access to the job board

• Education pricing on all Apple products and 15% discount on SVA-branded products at the SVA Campus Store

• 20% tuition discount on in-person and online SVA Continuing Education courses

For complete details and up-to-date information visit sva.edu/alumni

Questions? Contact SVA Alumni Affairs at 212.592.2300 or alumni@sva.edu

ALUMNI AFFAIRS

We’re Back!

Greetings to all and happy spring. It has been an eventful year for SVA Alumni Affairs, as both we and several SVA alumni affinity groups have returned to a more robust schedule of in-person gatherings, and I am pleased to say there is much to report.

Last November, the School of Visual Arts Korean Alumni Association gathered for its first formal event in four years at a reception and dinner at the Westin Josun hotel in Seoul. Spirits were high as more than 150 alumni reunited after a long pandemic pause and welcomed a new KAA president, Kenny Kim (BFA 1994 Graphic Design), and his new cabinet, succeeding Tak Hoon Kim (MFA 2005 Computer Art; BFA 1997 Animation) following his four-

year tenure (see page 54). The event was the culmination of a week of alumni and cultural engagement organized by SVA’s New York and Seoul offices. And on the occasion of SVA’s 75th anniversary year, it was particularly meaningful to mark the moment with our Korean alumni. The KAA, founded more than 25 years ago, is a significant part of the College’s legacy and community. With nearly 3,000 KAA members worldwide, the association remains committed to strengthening relationships among its members and supporting the next generation of Korean SVA alumni.

Also last fall, in-person events were hosted by the Chinese Alumni Association and Latinx Alumni Together in the Arts, two SVA alumni affinity groups established in late 2019. Despite the challenges of the past few years, both have endured and continued to grow.

The SVA community was once again out in full force during Miami Art Week in December. The SVA Galleries booth at Untitled Art, curated by my colleague Dan Halm (MFA 2001 Illustration as Visual

Essay; BFA 1994 Illustration), showcased work by several 2022 alumni. Satellite Art Show, run by Brian Andrew Whiteley (MFA 2013 Fine Arts) and Quinn Dukes (MFA 2015 Art Practice), took place at Indian Beach Park and also featured fellow alumni. And Alumni Affairs hosted a mixer at the Broken Shaker at Freehand Miami, where alumni, faculty and staff mingled and networked with fellow artists.

Finally, this spring marks the launch of another alumni affinity group—the Queer Alumni Association—as well as a return to San Francisco for an alumni reception honoring MFA Design’s 25th anniversary, one of a few events the long-running graduate department has planned for 2023. Keep an eye out for more details in our monthly alumni e-newsletter, and perhaps we’ll have the chance to meet in person in the coming months!

For more information about future events and alumni affinity associations— including how to participate in an existing association or establish a new one—visit sva.edu/alumni. ◆

A message from Jane Nuzzo, director of Alumni Affairs and Development at SVA

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Recent SVA alumni gatherings in Seoul, Miami and Shanghai. Photos by Chongik Kim, Aylin Marcelo and Qingqing Liu ( BFA 2021 Photography and Video), respectively.

SPRING 2023 SVA ALUMNI SOCIETY AWARDS

727 AWARD

Doah Kwon, BFA Design ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

Anoushka Bhalla , MFA Fine Arts

Janine Brown, MFA Art Practice

Brooke Burnett , BFA Animation

Cheney Chen with thesis partners

Jin Park and Leo Tang , MFA Computer Arts

Yindi Chen, MA Curatorial Practice

Yuyue (Eunice) Chen, MA Curatorial Practice

Helia Chitsazan, MFA Fine Arts

Jaemin Cho, MFA Products of Design

Jingyi Gao, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media

Alex Guo with thesis partner

Joe Cahang , MFA Computer Arts

Emily He, BFA Animation

Yawen Hu, BFA Illustration

Jingyao Huang , MFA Fine Arts

Mia Incantalupo, BFA Animation

JJ Jung , BFA Design

Andy Kajie, BFA Photography and Video

Jee Kim, MFA Computer Arts

Boning Li, MFA Computer Arts

Difei Li with thesis partners Mio Ji and Julie Lee, MFA Computer Arts

Jiatong Li, MFA Computer Arts

Mary Lindstrom, BFA Computer

Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects

Fanyu Liu with thesis partner

Zhengyi Liu, MPS Directing

Lena Loveless, MFA Design

Yuetong Lu, BFA Photography and Video

Mona Luo, MFA Interaction Design

Sean Mac, MFA Visual Narrative

Wiebke Meyer-Lüters, MFA Design

Silvia Muleo, MFA Fine Arts

Alison Pasquini, MFA Art Practice

Hannah Rafkin, MFA Social Documentary Film

Pallavi Rawla , MFA Design for Social Innovation

Mickey Schneider with thesis partner Alex Vilar-Tedeschi, BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects

Xiaoying Su, MFA Social Documentary Film

Ky Tan with thesis partners Lance Haug , Grace Redclift and Vincent Wang , BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects

Rose Vincelli Gustine, MFA Visual Narrative

Cyle Warner, BFA Photography and Video

Yunge Wen, BFA Animation

Pei Hsuan Wu, MFA Computer Arts

Kacey Xu, BFA Design

Ollie Yao with thesis partner

Heather Yun, BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects

Robert Yu with thesis partners

Mulin Chen and Josh Marquez, BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects

Ryan Yu, BFA Fine Arts

Ruiling Zhang , MPS Directing

Mengyu Zhao, BFA Photography and Video

Chenyi Zhu with thesis partners

Xinyu Sun and Yingyu Zhu, MFA Computer Arts

AMELIA GEOCOS MEMORIAL AWARD

Nicholas DelCastillo, BFA Fine Arts

BFA ILLUSTRATION AND COMICS

AWARD

Haofang Dou, BFA Illustration

Rachel Gonzalez, BFA Illustration

Samantha Wang , BFA Illustration

Jehao Wu, BFA Illustration

BOB GUGLIELMO MEMORIAL AWARD

Yeabin Lee, BFA Comics

Jerry Lin, BFA Comics

Nahia Mouhica , BFA Comics

Xiomara Pardo Reyes, BFA Comics

EDWARD ZUTRAU MEMORIAL AWARD

Lu Xia , MFA Fine Arts

JACK ENDEWELT MEMORIAL AWARD

Spark Park , BFA Illustration

Maxine Zhou, BFA Illustration

JAMES RICHARD JANOWSKY AWARD

Annie Fleisch, BFA Film

LAWRENCE P. MOODY MEMORIAL

AWARD

Arnav Mangla , BFA Film

Kamal Rahyab with thesis partner

James Dettbarn, BFA Film

MFA ILLUSTRATION AS VISUAL

ESSAY AWARD

Maiyashu Chen, MFA Illustration as Visual Essay

Katy Freeman, MFA Illustration as Visual Essay

Raven Jiang , MFA Illustration as Visual Essay

Nicholas Nutting , MFA Illustration as Visual Essay

Weston Wei, MFA Illustration as Visual Essay

MICHAEL HALSBAND AWARD

Adamaris Ordonez, BFA Photography and Video

ROBERT I. BLUMENTHAL MEMORIAL AWARD

Jihyo Yu, BFA Design

SYLVIA LIPSON ALLEN MEMORIAL AWARD

Kiara Ocasio, BFA Visual & Critical Studies

THOMAS REISS MEMORIAL AWARD

Fan Yu, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media

WILLIAM C. ARKELL MEMORIAL AWARD

Mickel Cannon, BFA Film

Thanks to generous contributions from alumni and supporters, the SVA Alumni Society was able to grant a total of $63,500 in awards to these students in support of their thesis projects.

1. Janine Brown, Domestic Sampler (detail, work in progress), 2022, artist’s bank statements, bio rubber, crochet thread; 2. Cyle Warner, Is This Green Valley?, 2022, fabric, dye, inkjet, acrylic, burlap on stained wooden frame; 3. Yawen Hu, Dream Studio, 2022, digital; 4. Doah Kwon, rebranding for Noguchi Museum, 2022, digital; 5. Jehao Wu, Desert Botanical Garden, 2022, digital (risograph).

6. Ollie Yao and Heather Yun, still from Twin Sparks , 2023. 7. Alex Guo with thesis partner Joe Chang, Robot , 3D character model, 2022; 8. Mickel Cannon, still from Stupid Cupid, 2022; 9. Pei Hsuan Wu, Abusive Words , C4D, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator; 10. Annie Fleisch, still from Home Coming , 2022. All images courtesy of the artists.

DONORS

The Alumni Society gratefully acknowledges these SVA alumni who gave to the society from July 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022.

Kim Ablondi

BFA 1984 Photography

Evin Aksel

BFA 2010 Photography

Dawn E. Albore

BFA 1981 Media Arts

Evelyn M. Alfaro

BFA 1985 Media Arts

Adam P. Ames

MFA 1997 Photography and Related Media

Gail Anderson

BFA 1984 Media Arts

Anonymous (12)

Heidi Antman

BFA 1986 Media Arts

Sharon and George (alumnus) Arthur

1967

Judith Jailer Bluysen in memory of Effie Serlis (BFA 1976 Fine Arts)

BFA 1974 Media Arts

Anney Bonney

MFA 2008 Computer Art; 1979 Film and Video

John Bowdren

BFA 1982 Media Arts

Marguerita Zerillo Brinton 1976

Elissa L. Bromberg

BFA 1978 Fine Arts

Julianna (Ferriter) Bruce

BFA 1986 Fine Arts

Carol Caputo

1960 Graphic Design

Kevin J. Casey

BFA 1976 Photography

Paul Caullett

BFA 2000 Graphic Design

Andrew Chang

MFA 1987 Illustration as Visual Essay

Larry Chernoff

1973 Film and Video

Brian Chichi / Chichi Designs

BFA 1977 Media Arts

Jim Christiansen

1953 Graphic Design

Michele Clemmer

1968 Media Arts

Gordon Cowan

BFA 1977 Photography

John A. Cowan

BFA 1990 Photography

John Coyne

BFA 1980 Film and Video

Julia and Phil Coyne

BFA 1988 Media Arts

BFA 1986 Media Arts

Therese Curtin

BFA 1980 Media Arts

Peter S. Deak

BFA 1990 Film and Video

Cat Del Buono

MFA 2008 Photography,

Video and Related Media

Haydee Diaz

BFA 1986 Media Arts

Rachel June Donovan

BFA 2003 Graphic Design

Tracey Eng-Fowler

BFA 2001 Graphic Design

Diane Fienemann

BFA 1984 Photography

Brian Floca

MFA 2001 Illustration as Visual Essay

Lawrence Flood

BFA 1980 Fine Arts

Jaxon Flores

BFA 1997 Fine Arts

Toby Fox

BFA 1987 Media Arts

Martin Friedman

1969

Tyler Furey

BFA 2018 Illustration

Neil Gallo

BFA 1977 Media Arts

Andrea Golden 1985

Catherine K. Gura

BFA 1998 Illustration

Raymond Guzman

BFA 1977 Fine Arts

David Haas 1974

Denise M. Halpin

BFA 1977 Media Arts

Meghan Day Healey

BFA 1993 Graphic Design

Andres Hernandez

BFA 2006 Computer Art

Joseph Herzfeld

BFA 1991 Fine Arts

Barbara Huhn-Holt

BFA 1983 Fine Arts

Cybele Hsu

BFA 2003 Photography

Lynda M. Hughes

BFA 1981 Photography

Reginald Jenkins

1968

Nanette Mahlab Jiji

BFA 1981 Media Arts

Joanna Jimenez

BFA 1977 Film and Video

Yvette Kaplan

BFA 1976 Animation

Bonnie Sue Kaplan

Valentino

1971 Advertising

Melvyn Kay

1979

Dongjun Kim

MFA 2018 Computer Arts

Noëlle King

MFA 2013 Art Practice

Jesse Kirsch

BFA 2008 Graphic Design

Robert M. Kitson

BFA 1989 Film and Video

Sardi Klein

1970 Photography

Alexander Knowlton

BFA 1987 Media Arts

Kathi Koehler-Caspar

1974

Viktor Koen

MFA 1992 Illustration as Visual Essay

Barbara Kolo

BFA 1981 Media Arts

Korean Alumni Association of SVA

Abby Kreh 1962 Illustration

Steven Langerman 1972 Photography

Irina Lee

MFA 2010 Design

Michael Lehmann

BFA 1983 Media Arts

Nancy Potenzano LeMay

BFA 1978 Media Arts

Gary Leogrande

BFA 1978 Fine Arts

Elizabeth Libert

MFA 2010 Photography, Video and Related Media

Paula Madawick

1981

Blas Madera

BFA 2014 Design

Laura Maley

BFA 1978 Fine Arts

Peter Malone

BFA 1977 Fine Arts

Maria Mannino

BFA 1982 Media Arts

Jeanne Martin

BFA 1983 Media Arts

Thomas P. Menna

BFA 2010 Film and Video

Ilya Meshchaninov

1986

Wyatt Mills

BFA 2013 Fine Arts

Anand Mistry

MFA 2015 Computer Art

Jenny Moradfar Meyer

BFA 1980 Media Arts

Michael Morshuk

BFA 1985 Media Arts

Bethanie Deeney Murguia

MFA 1998 Illustration as Visual Essay

Erik Murphy BFA 1980 Media Arts

Nancy Boecker Oates 1980 Media Arts

Romaine Orthwein

MFA 2003 Photography and Related Media

Peter Papulis

BFA 1977 Fine Arts

Gary Petrini

1979 Media Arts

Sal Petrosino

BFA 1983 Film and Video

Todd L. Radom

BFA 1986 Media Arts

Paul Rappaport

1963 Fine Arts

Bob Ratynski

BFA 1984 Photography

Kate Renner

BFA 2008 Graphic Design

Lisa Rettig-Falcone

BFA 1983 Media Arts

Eileen Robert 1973

Stuart Rogers / RED Partners

MFA 2004 Design

Christine Romanell

BFA 1992 Graphic Design

Jaime C. Rosman

MPS 2014 Digital Photography

Marc Rubin

1969 Advertising

Joseph M. Rutt

BFA 1985 Media Arts

Linda Saccoccio

MFA 1991 Fine Arts

John Sanvidge

BFA 2006 Film and Video

Jean A. Schapowal

BFA 1987 Media Arts

Joel Scharf

BFA 1983 Media Arts

Mark Schruntek

BFA 1993 Advertising

Anthony Seminara

BFA 1974 Media Arts

Donald Shanley

BFA 1981 Fine Arts

Sirje B. Skerbergs

BFA 1987 Media Arts

Brian Smith

MFA 2006 Design

Rena Sokolow / one2tree

BFA 1986 Media Arts

William Sponn

BFA 1985 Media Arts

Vesper Stamper

MFA 2016 Illustration as Visual Essay

Art Stiefel BFA 1987 Media Arts

Philip Sugden

BFA 1977 Fine Arts

Retsu Takahashi

MFA 2002 Illustration as Visual Essay

Lianna Tarantin

BFA 2007 Photography

James Tung

BFA 1998 Graphic Design

Rosemarie Sohmer Turk

BFA 1980 Media Arts

Ana Vilarrasa

MFA 1989 Fine Arts

Suzanne Vlamis 1968 Photography

Tom Wai-Shek

1970 Advertising

Dennis Wierl

BFA 1996 Photography

Judith (alumnus) and Richard Wilde

MFA 1994 Illustration as Visual Essay; BFA 1979 Fine Arts

Steve Wirz

BFA 1984 Media Arts

Eunhae Yoon

BFA 2015 Design

Gary Nicholas Zaccaria

BFA 1981 Media Arts

We also thank these parents and friends of SVA who supported the SVA Alumni Society.

Ace-Atlas Corp

Anonymous (8)

Benefit Management Solutions

Joni Blackburn and David Sandlin

Andrea Bobbitt

The Bonadio Group

Bottom Line Savings

Richard Buntzen

Burnham Nationwide, Inc.

Thomas and Georgeann Carnevali

Gabriel Carras

Harry and Joan Clune

Colony Pest

Management, Inc.

Gary and Deirdre Condon

Christopher Cyphers

Francis and Carla

Di Tommaso

EP Engineering

Sue Epstein

Exclusive Contracting

Gabriel Falsetta

Elizabeth Fama and John

Cochrane

James Farek

Jon and Joya Favreau

Allen B. Frame

Noreen Gaschke

General Plumbing Corporation

Susan Ginsburg

Todd Glidden

Jesse and Christine Greene

Edith Gross and Yoseph Feit

Mr. and Mrs. John

Guglielmo

Ms. Maryhelen Hendricks and Mr. Robert Lewis

Jason Hill

Phyllis Hollis

Francisco Homs Quiroga

Dr. J. Isenberg

Dee Ito

Mary Joyce

Michael Kahn / Benefits Unlimited, Inc.

Joyce Rutter Kaye

Caitlin Kilgallen

KTM Electronics, Inc.

Lakeland Bank

LDI Connect

Soontak Lee

Karen and Michael Lefkowitz

Priscilla Lindenauer

Marty Linsky and Lynn Staley

Lipinski Real Estate Advisors LLC

Rita Longo

John and Niki Madias

Major Air Service Corp

Ronnie and Al Martella

William McAllister

Lynn and Jim McNulty

S. A. Modenstein

Margrit Morley

Hilary Moynihan

Maureen Nicolazzi

Jane Nuzzo

Diane Orlinsky

Mark Perry

Ned and Ellin Purdom

Debi Rednik

Anthony and Killeen

Rhodes

The Rosenwach Group

Janet Rossbach

James Rudnick

Safety Facility Services

Salomon Sassoon

Schindler Elevator Corp.

Frances Schorr

SCS Agency, Inc.

Maureen and Gary Shillet

Victor Stryszko

Jamie Thornton

TK Elevator

Cosmin Tomescu

Loraine and Michael Ungano, Sr.

Edward Van Hise

Webster Bank

Ms. Peggy Whitlock

Allen Yuricic

Emily Zelner

ALUMNI NOTES & EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EFFORTS

Alice Butts (BFA 1997 Advertising), Marc Mendes (BFA 2019 Cartooning) and Bird Warde (BFA 2019 Cartooning) were featured in “Meet the 7 LGBTQ+ Designers Getting Their Moment in the Spotlight at Target This Pride Month,” Popsugar, 6/1/22.

Adrian Piper (1969 Fine Arts) and Aya Rodriguez-Izumi (MFA 2017 Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone,” The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, 6/6/22-1/8/23.

Many alumni participated in the Tribeca Film Festival, NYC, 6/8-6/19/22. Sakshi Jain (MFA 2019 Computer Arts) was an animator for Inner Wound Real (2022); Chris Prynoski (BFA 1994 Animation) and Shannon Prynoski (BFA 1994 Film and Video) co-produced Pantheon (2022- ); Crystal Moselle (BFA 2002 Film and Video) directed Sophia (2022); and Ryan Turek (BFA 1998 Film and Video) produced The Black Phone (2021), which all screened at the festival, and Gary Simmons (BFA 1988 Fine Arts) was selected for the 2022 Artist Awards Program.

Shawn Martinbrough (BFA 1993 Illustration) co-curated and Khary Randolph (BFA 2000 Cartooning) had work in the group exhibition “The Artist’s Experience: From Brotherman to Batman,” Society of Illustrators, NYC, 6/15-10/29/22.

Rebecca Sugar (BFA 2009 Animation) and Dana Terrace (BFA 2013 Animation) were featured in “LGBTQ+ Representation: 18 Queer TV Shows and Movies for Kids—and Why LGBTQ+ Representation Matters,” Ask, 6/24/22, and “Animated Shows Are Leading the Way for LGBTQ+ Representation—But Will That Continue?,” AV Club, 10/12/22.

Jay Elizondo (MFA 2020 Fine Arts) and Lorenzo Triburgo (MFA 2005 Photography, Video and Related Media) co-curated and had work, and Gabrielle Randall (BFA 2018 Film) had work in the group exhibition “(Un)Fixed,” SoMad Gallery, NYC, 6/17-8/5/22.

Gary Simmons (BFA 1988 Fine Arts) and Lorna Simpson (BFA 1982 Photography) had work in the group exhibition “30 Americans,” New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, 6/17-10/30/22, and were featured in “Contemporary Black Artists Claim Their Place in the World in ‘30 Americans’ Exhibit at NBMAA,” Hartford Courant, 7/3/22.

Karlos Cárcamo (BFA 1997 Fine Arts), Ashley Garrett (BFA 2008 Fine Arts), Allison Hester (MFA 2006 Fine Arts), Ruby Palmer (MFA 2000 Fine Arts), Linda Stillman (1972 Graphic Design) and Katherine Umsted (MFA 1990 Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Mountain High, Valley Low: Artists of the Hudson Valley,” LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, 6/18-7/31/22.

Guido Garaycochea (MFA 2015 Fine Arts) and Carlos Motta (BFA 2001 Photography) were selected for EFA Studio Program Membership, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC, 6/20/22.

Joe Burrascano (BFA 2002 Computer Art), founder of animation studio Nathan Love, co-directed and Alex Barsky (MFA 2018 Visual Narrative; BFA 2013 Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects), BFA Animation alumni K. Downs (2012) and Stieg Retlin (2005), and BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects alumni Suejee Lee (2018), Zack Lydon (2012) and Jim McKenzie (2011) worked on the music video for Eminem and Snoop Dogg’s “From the D 2 the LBC,” 6/24/22.

Srishti Dass (BFA 2021 Fine Arts) curated and fellow BFA 2021 Fine Arts alumni Matthew Perez and Farwah Rizvi had work in the group exhibition “Children’s Play Area,” Creator Casa, NYC, 6/24/22.

Jordan Cruz (MFA 2019 Photography, Video and Related Media; BFA 2015 Photography), Linda Nicholas (BFA 2006 Fine Arts), Sharon Steven (BFA 2013 Fine Arts) and George Taylor (BFA 1978 Film and Video) had work in the group exhibition “Tell Me More About Yourself,” Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, 6/25-8/5/22.

Bryan Fernandez (BFA 2022 Fine Arts) and Xayvier Haughton (MFA 2022 Fine Arts) were selected for the 2022 Residency Program, Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY, 6/26-8/12/22. MPS 2022 Branding alumni Rosemarie Albanese Nada AlYafei, Samantha Bellisfield, Whitney Bounty, Caroline Butterworth, Ollie Caldwell, Aprajita Chowdhury, Erin Cunningham , Giorgio Karolidis Jaehyun Kim , Steven Mayer,

SVA alumni achievements from June 1 through November 30, 2022. To submit an item, email alumni@sva.edu.

FROM TOP: MISCHELLE MOY (BFA 2016 Photography and Video) for Wing on Wo’s Lookbook II, 2019, and for My Sweet Grandma, 2022, digital photographs, from “Mischelle Moy Uses Rich Visuals and Bright Colors to Honor Her Culture,” Print , 11/14/22. Courtesy the artist.

Reema Mehta, Madhavi Itti Menon, Prachi Mevada Emily Meyer Amelia Nash Dayu

Ouyang , Rudi Petry, Gabriel Porras Carta, Ana Rice, Paola Rodriguez Borres , Robin Scheines , Chay Schmidt , Carolina Torres and Taylor Yoon were featured in “SVA Branding: 100 Days,” Print, 6/27-8/2/22.

Ja’Tovia Gary (MFA 2014 Social Documentary Film) and Lorna Simpson (BFA 1982 Photography) had work in the group exhibition “Black Melancholia,” Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 6/2510/16/22, and were featured in “At Bard College, a Poignant Exploration of Black Melancholy,” Vogue, 6/28/22.

Natalja Kent (BFA 2003 Photography) had a solo exhibition and Kazuhito Tanaka (BFA 2004 Photography) and Marianne Vitale (BFA 1996 Film and Video) had work in group exhibitions at the FGC July Exhibitions, The Foreland Gallery Coalition, Catskill, NY, 7/1-7/24/22.

MFA Photography, Video and Related Media

alumni Yael Eban (2014) and Rachel Papo (2005) and Kathy Shorr (BFA 1988 Photography) were recipients of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program for Photography, New York Foundation for the Arts, 7/12/22.

BFA Photography alumni Megan Bent (2004) and Nasrah Omar (2012) had work in the group exhibition “39th Center Annual: Living Creatures,” Houston Center for Photography, Houston, 7/13-9/4/22.

MFA Fine Arts alumni Bibi Flores (2010) co-curated and Habby Osk (2009) had work in the group exhibition “Uplifting, Connecting, Rising,” El Barrio’s Artspace PS109, NYC, 7/13-7/27/22.

BFA Fine Arts alumni Andrea Burgay (2005) and JoAnne Lobotsky (1982) had work in the group exhibition “Small Works Showcase 2022,” David Gibson Contemporary, NYC, 7/15-9/15/22.

Adam Cable (MFA 2017 Photography, Video and Related Media), Karl Hartman (MFA 1989 Fine Arts), Baoying Huang (BFA 2019 Illustration) and Stewart Siskind (BFA 1977 Media Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Break of Day, Edge of Night,” The Painting Center, NYC, 7/19-8/13/22.

Sophocles Plokamakis (BFA 2011 Cartooning) and Ivonne Tejada Cruel (MAT 2019 Art Education) had work in the group exhibitions “All Star Art Show,” 7/22-7/24/22, and “Museum of Now,” 11/4-11/6/22, One Art Space Gallery, NYC.

Ferguson Amo (MFA 2019 Fine Arts) curated and Ryan Cosbert (BFA 2021 Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Arrangements in Black,” Phillips, NYC, 7/27-8/19/22.

Ali Banisadr (BFA 2005 Illustration), Francesca Facciola (BFA 2016 Fine Arts) and Jenny Morgan (MFA 2008 Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Taxonomies of the Imagination,” Make Room, Los Angeles, 7/30-8/27/22.

Anna Gryglak (BFA 2020 Fine Arts); MFA 2021 Fine Arts alumni Xianglong Li Tong Wang and Xinyu Wo; and Xiangni Song (BFA 2020 Illustration), had work in the group exhibition “Double Trouble,” VillageOne Art, NYC, 8/29/3/22.

Yuan Fang (MFA 2022 Fine Arts) and Lyn Liu (BFA 2016 Fine Arts) were featured in “Western Galleries Are Scooping Up Female Chinese Artists Born in the 1990s. Here’s Who You Need to Know, and Why They Matter,” Artnet News, 8/15/22.

David Brandon Geeting (BFA 2011 Photography) was featured in and Caroline Tompkins (BFA 2014 Photography) wrote “In the Studio with David Brandon Geeting,” British Journal of Photography, 8/19/22.

Joseph Illidge (BFA 1990 Media Arts), Shawn Martinbrough (BFA 1993 Illustration) and Milo Stone (BFA 1996 Illustration) wrote and Christopher Jordan (BFA 1993 Illustration) illustrated Judge Kim and the Kids’ Court: The Case of the Missing Bicycle, 8/30/22, and The Doggie Defendant, 1/24/23, Simon & Schuster.

Malin Abrahamsson-Alves (BFA 1998 Fine Arts), Celeste Barnes (BFA 1982 Media Arts), Emiri Fujimoto (BFA 2022 Visual & Critical Studies) and Naomi Teppich (1967) had work in the group exhibition “Tilly Foster Farm Project 2022,” Collaborative Concepts, Brewster, NY, 9/3-10/29/22.

Dawoud Bey (1977 Photography) and Justine Kurland (BFA 1996 Photography) were featured

(MFA 2022 Fine Arts) had work in “Symbolism & The Aesthetic Resistance Between Art & Ritual”; and Eun Young Choi (MFA 2008 Computer Art) and Ketta Ioannidou (MFA 1999 Illustration as Visual Essay) co-curated “Tropic of Cancer.”

Doron Gild (MPS 2012 Fashion Photography; BFA 2005 Photography) had a solo exhibition, which David Miao (BFA 2005 Photography) curated, “Doron Gild Hudson Valley Debut,” Studio 44, Millbrook, NY, 9/9-9/10/22.

Michael De Feo (BFA 1995 Graphic Design), Nicholas Fraser (MFA 2008 Fine Arts) and KAWS a.k.a. Brian Donnelly (BFA 1996 Illustration) had work in the group exhibition

Kyra Husbands (BFA 2022 Visual & Critical Studies) and Kwesi Kwarteng (BFA 2014 Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Each Other As One,” Bed Stuy Art House, NYC, 9/30-10/2/22.

Rosemary Rivera (BFA 1991 Communication Arts) wrote and Mario Menjivar (1989 Media Arts) illustrated Myra and the Drawing Drama Imagine & Wonder, 10/1/22.

Karen Gibbons (MPS 2005 Art Therapy), Abby Goldstein (MFA 2003 Fine Arts), Meredith McNeal (BFA 1985 Fine Arts) and Linda Stillman (1972 Graphic Design) had work in the group exhibition “100 Works On Paper: Benefit Exhibition 2022,” Kentler International Drawing Space, NYC, 10/1-10/16/22.

MFA Photography and Related Media alumni Ok Hyun Ahn (2003), Jeong-seok Park (2007) and Jeongmee Yoon (2006) had work in the group exhibition “Vanished Elephant,” SVA Seocho Gallery, Seoul, 10/5-11/16/22.

Nathan Fox (MFA 2002 Illustration as Visual Essay) hosted a booth and Dana Terrace (BFA 2013 Animation) participated in the panel “The Owl House,” New York Comic Con, 10/6-10/9/22.

Jamie Nares (1975 Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition presented by Kasmin, the late Sol Lewitt (1954 Illustration) had work in David Zwirner’s “Frieze Masters” and Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.) (1995 Fine Arts), Andrew Brischler (MFA 2012 Fine Arts) and T.J. Wilcox (BFA 1989 Fine Arts) had work in an exhibition presented by Gavlak Gallery, Frieze, London, 10/7-10/22/22.

Emma Wilcox (BFA 2002 Photography) curated and Mary Valverde (BFA 1999 Fine Arts) and Heather Williams (MFA 2020 Art Practice) had work in the group exhibition “Multitudinous,” Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, 10/7-11/18/22.

JAY ELIZONDO (MFA 2020 Fine Arts), His Secret Was Killing His Shine , 2020, glitter on oak vanity set, sequins on Jergens Original Scent lotion, glitter on Precious Moments Baby Boy Sitting figurine, vinyl on Marlboro Special Blend Lights 100s cigarettes, and Swarovski crystals on Lemon Pledge can. On view at “(Un)Fixed,” a group exhibition curated by Elizondo and LORENZO TRIBURGO (MFA 2005 Photography, Video and Related Media), SoMad Gallery, NYC, 6/17-8/5/22. Courtesy SoMad.

in “17 Photographers Reflect on Key Images for Aperture’s Seventieth Anniversary,” Aperture 9/7/22.

Many SVA alumni participated in group exhibitions at Spring/Break Art Show, NYC, 9/7-9/12/22. Eva Mantell (MFA 1988 Fine Arts) had work in “Alighting”; Shiri Mordechay (MFA 2007 Fine Arts) had work in “Festum Existentialis”; Marianna Peragallo (MFA 2019 Fine Arts) and Hanna Washburn (MFA 2018 Fine Arts) curated and had work in “Greenhouse”; Dan Halm (MFA 2001 Illustration as Visual Essay; BFA 1994 Illustration) curated and Brian Finke (BFA 1998 Photography) and Wednesday Kim (BFA 2015 Fine Arts) had work in “Massive”; Stephanie McGovern (MFA 2022 Fine Arts) and Tiffany Smith (BFA 2005 Film and Video) had work in “Mystic Picnic”; Ted Riederer (MFA 2006 Fine Arts) curated “Negative Space Series”; Anna Souvorov (MFA 2011 Fine Arts) curated and had work in “Naturkraft”; Brian Whiteley (MFA 2013 Fine Arts) curated and fellow MFA Fine Arts alumni Amalia Mourad (2016) and Katherine Verdickt (2015) had work in “Original Sin”; Rebecca Goyette (MFA 2009 Fine Arts) had work in “Parlor Tricks”; Colleen Terrell Comer (MFA 2020 Art Practice) had work in “Party Beach”; Xayvier Haughton

“Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes,” Poster House, NYC, 9/9/22-2/12/23.

Carles Garcia O’Dowd (MFA 2021 Illustration as Visual Essay), Sarah Palmer (MFA 2008 Photography, Video and Related Media) and Richard Vivenzio (MFA 2016 Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Nafas,” The Invisible Dog, NYC, 9/10-10/15/22.

Several alumni were nominated at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, Los Angeles, 9/12/22: Ava Berkofsky (BFA 2005 Photography), Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour), Insecure ; Craig Gillespie (BFA 1989 Media Arts), Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, Pam & Tommy ; Chris Prynoski (BFA 1994 Animation), Shannon Prynoski (BFA 1994 Film) and Giancarlo

Volpe (BFA 1997 Animation), Outstanding Short Form Animated Program, The Boys Presents: Diabolical ; and Inaya Yusuf (MFA 2014 Social Documentary Film), Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program, Lucy and Desi Bryson Rand (MAT 2009 Art Education) and Patrick McNabb (MFA 2016 Photography, Video and Related Media) had work in the group exhibition “Harness,” The Empty Circle, NYC, 9/21-10/9/22.

Dawoud Bey (1977 Photography), Albert Chong (BFA 1981 Photography), Janet Henry (1965 Illustration), the late Rosemary Mayer (1969 Fine Arts), Jorge Luis Rodriguez (BFA 1976 Fine Arts) and Lorna Simpson (BFA 1982 Photography) had work in the group exhibition “Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces,” Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 10/9/22-2/13/23.

Jessica Pettway (BFA 2016 Photography and Video) and Signe Pierce (BFA 2011 Photography) participated in a panel discussion, “David LaChapelle and His Influence,” Fotografiska, NYC, 10/11/22.

Gail Anderson (BFA 1984 Media Arts) and Joseph Cofone (BFA 2013 Design) gave a talk, “Joey Cofone Presents The Laws of Creativity, in Conversation With Gail Anderson,” McNally Jackson Seaport, NYC, 10/13/22.

Peter Hristoff (BFA 1981 Fine Arts) and Anthony Iacono (BFA 2010 Illustration) participated in AIDS Memorial Quilt-Making Workshops, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, 10/14-10/15/22.

BFA Illustration alumni Nanette Fluhr (1998) and Manu Saluja (1997) had work in the group exhibition “Woman,” James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 10/20-12/20/22.

Christine Romanell (BFA 1992 Graphic Design) and Mary Young (BFA 2011 Fine Arts) had work in “Manufacturers Village Open Studios,” Manufacturers Village, East Orange, NJ, 10/20-10/22/22.

Daryl Myntia Daniels (MFA 2016 Fine Arts) and Heather Williams (MFA 2020 Art Practice) participated in “Boundaries & Connections Artist Talk,” ArtCrawl Harlem Art House, NYC, 10/22/22.

Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.) (1995 Fine Arts) and Débora Delmar (BFA 2011 Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Terms of Belonging,” Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, 10/22-12/3/22.

Daina Higgins (BFA 2001 Fine Arts) and Kurt Lightner (MFA 2004 Fine Arts) participated in “Fall Open Studio,” The LIC Studio Collective, NYC, 10/23/22.

MFA Photography, Video and Related Media alumni Jade Doskow (2008) and Natan Dvir (2010) had work in the group exhibition “In the Wake,” The Municipal Art Society of New York, NYC, 10/29/22-1/31/23.

Jennifer Chien (BFA 2005 Film and Video) was named a Documentary New Leader; Yuby Hernandez (MFA 2020 Social Documentary Film) was the associate producer of Aftershock (2022); Sara Khaki (MFA 2012 Social Documentary Film) participated in the Storyteller Incubator with in-progress film Cutting Through Rocks ; Jenni Morello (MFA 2011 Social Documentary Film) was the cinematographer of Skate Dreams (2022) and Aftershock ; Bao Nguyen (MFA 2011 Social Documentary Film) was included on the “40 Under 40” list; Sosena Solomon (MFA 2011 Social Documentary Film) directed Living While American (2022), which screened; and Sarah Wainio (MFA 2016 Social Documentary Film) was on the panel “Producing, Directing & Ethical Dilemmas,” DOC NYC 2022, NYC, 11/7-11/12/22.

Christopher Batista (1992 Film and Video), Will Rosado (BFA 1993 Illustration) and Felix Serrano (1993 Cartooning) were featured in “November Is Puerto Rican Heritage Month and We Have a List of Boricuas in Comics,” Latin Times, 11/8/22.

Rebecca Sugar (BFA 2009 Animation) and Chris McDonnell (BFA 2001 Animation) were featured in “The Best Coffee Table Books to Gift the Film Buffs in Your Life,” Variety, 11/15/22.

Phoebe Washburn (MFA 2002 Fine Arts) was featured in and Caroline Tompkins (BFA 2014 Photography) photographed “This ClosedLoop Design on Long Island Provides a Formula for an Eco-Friendly Lawn,” Dwell, 11/15/22.

Enle Li (BFA 2015 Design), Xinmei Liu (MFA 2020 Illustration as Visual Essay) and Jenny Mascia (BFA 2018 Design) were winners, and Megan Bowker (BFA 2016 Design) was a finalist, The Young Guns 20, The One Club for Creativity, NYC, 11/16/22.

INDIVIDUAL NOTES & EXHIBITIONS

1958

Louis Fulgoni (deceased) has an ongoing, virtual solo exhibition, “Louis Fulgoni: Memory + Legacy.”

1959

Paul Davis (Illustration) had a solo exhibition, “I Manifesti di Paul Davis,” Museo Magma, Civitanova Alta MC, Italy, 10/22-11/20/22.

1965

Janet Henry (Illustration) was featured in “A Utopian Space for Black Artists, Reimagined at MoMA,” The New York Times, 9/13/22.

1968

Richard Rutner (Media Arts) participated in the 2022 Austin Studio Tour, Austin, TX, 11/5-11/20/22.

1969

Bill Plympton (Cartooning) was featured in “Animation Legend Bill Plympton on How Pixar Has Fostered a Current ‘Second Golden Age of Animation,’” IndieWire, 6/6/22, and “Oscar Nominee Bill Plympton Boards ‘Guard Dog’

Series from Quirino Winner Cesar Cabral,” Variety, 6/9/22.

Nina Yankowitz (Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “‘Can Women Have One-Man Shows?’: Nina Yankowitz Paintings 1960s – 70s,” Eric Firestone Gallery, NYC, 9/9-10/22/22.

1970

Sal Mallimo was featured in “Staying Connected With the World and With One’s Self Through Art,” EIN Presswire, 6/29/22.

1972

Kathleen McSherry (BFA Media Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Sculpture Spotlight,” Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County, Township Library of Lower Southampton, Feasterville-Trevose, PA, 8/1/22-1/7/23.

Linda Stillman (Graphic Design) had work in the group exhibitions “Small Works: Cycle,” Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY, 7/15-9/11/22, and “Address:

Earth Art Expo,” The Gallery at the Visual & Performing Arts Center, Danbury, CT, 10/1312/4/22.

1973

Marilyn Church (Illustration) had a solo exhibition, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC, 9/8-10/22/22, and had work in the group exhibition “Passion’s Glow,” The Lucore Art Gallery, Montauk, NY, 10/13-11/1/22.

Robert Forte had a solo exhibition, “Close Encounters: An Exhibition of Figurative Paintings by Robert Forte,” Atlantic Gallery, NYC, 10/18-11/5/22.

Chris Stein (Fine Arts) was featured in “Debbie Harry and Chris Stein Look Back on Blondie’s Wild Ride,” Vogue, 8/23/22, and “Against the Odds: How Blondie Shattered the Conventions of Punk and Pop,” NPR, 8/25/22.

1974

Paul Giannone (Photography) and his Paulie Gee’s pizzerias were recognized as one of the 50 Top World Artisan Pizza Chains 2022, 50 Top Pizza, Madrid, 11/21/22.

1975

Margaret McCarthy (BFA Fine Arts) participated in the 11th New York City Poetry Festival, Colonels Row, Governors Island, NYC, 9/109/11/22, and had work in the group exhibitions “Vantage Point | The View from Here,” Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 6/21-9/12/22; “The Life of Water,” PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, 9/28-10/21/22; “13th Annual Self-Published Photobook Show,” Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY, 11/19-12/18/22.

Bill Murphy (BFA Media Arts) was interviewed in “Artist Snapshot: Bill Murphy,” LINEA 6/21/22.

Jamie Nares (Fine Arts) was featured in “8 Must-See London Shows During Frieze Week 2022,” Artsy, 10/7/22, and “James Nares Puts Poetry in Motion,” Frieze, 11/1/22, and participated in “Thinking on Camera: James Nares in Conversation With Hans Ulrich Obrist,” Kasmin, 10/14/22.

1976

Beth B (BFA Fine Arts) had a film series showcase, “Beth B Retrospective,” The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 9/13-9/25/22.

Theresa DeSalvio (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Life Patterns,” Croton Free Library, Croton-on-Hudson, NY, 5/3-6/29/22.

Yvette Kaplan (BFA Animation) was featured in “Deep in the Heart of Beavis & Butt-Head,” Texas Monthly, 7/1/22.

Jorge Luis Rodriguez (BFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Las Flores de Mi Pais,” The Arsenal Gallery at Central Park, NYC, 9/15-11/10/22, and was featured in “Just Above Midtown with Jorge Luis Rodriguez,” The Latinx Project, NYU, 11/22/22.

1977

Dawoud Bey (Photography) was featured in “Dawoud Bey and Tyler Mitchell Reveal Photography’s New Inspirations,” Cultured 9/26/22, and had work in the group exhibition “Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 11/17/22-1/22/23.

Laurence Gartel (BFA Media Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Gartel: Media Blitz Palm Beach,” The Box Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, 9/310/1/22, and designed the limited-edition Hope Boot, Roma Boots, 10/29/22.

Timothy Rollins (BFA Fine Arts; deceased) was featured in “Studio K.O.S., short for Kids of Survival, brings the art of social justice to LA,” Los Angeles Times, 7/18/22.

1978

Marcus Leatherdale (Media Arts; deceased) was featured in “The Punk Portraitist of New York’s Underground,” Aperture, 9/1/22.

Sally Lelong (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “READ,” St. Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, Ireland, 5/13-6/4/22, and had work in the group exhibition “Governors Island Fall Open Studios,” Triangle Arts, NYC, 10/29/22.

1979

Keith Haring (1979 Fine Arts; deceased) was featured in “More Than 120 Keith Haring Pieces Are Coming to LA Next Year—Here’s How to See Them,” Los Angeles Times, 10/12/22, and “Keith Haring Mural Auctioned for $945,000,” The New York Times, 11/17/22.

David Lubarsky (BFA Photography) had work in the group exhibition “Points of View,” Casa Colombo, Jersey City, NJ, 11/5-11/27/22.

Installation views of “Animales de Carga,” a solo exhibition of work by LEAH DIXON (MFA 2014 Fine Arts), Guadalajara90210, Jalisco, Mexico, 6/25-6/28/22. Photo by Ruben Garay, courtesy the artist and Guadalajara90210.

John Mixhael Pelech (BFA Media Arts) had work in the group exhibition “You Look Familiar: Celebrities in the Wild,” Salmagundi Club, NYC, 11/7-12/10/22.

Daniel Rosenbaum (BFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Slash and Burn,” 490 Atlantic, NYC, 11/5-12/18/22.

James Scruggs (BFA Film and Video) participated in “BLOOMING: A Flea Shindiggity,” The Flea Theater, NYC, 9/29/22.

Karen Starrett (Media Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Drawing Rooms,” The Art Project at The Oakman, Jersey City, NJ, 6/29/22-1/30/23.

1980

Patricia Bellucci (BFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “#TheGramUptown Virtual/Visceral,” NoMAA Gallery, NYC, 11/3/222/11/23.

James Crispo (BFA Media Arts) participated in the LBI Artists Open Studio and Gallery Tour, The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts + Sciences, Long Beach Island, NJ, 8/13-8/14/22, and was featured in “Open Studio, Gallery Tour Shows How LBI Artists See, Do, Grow,” The SandPaper, 8/18/22.

Michael Halsband (BFA Photography) was featured in “Vivo Imaging Academy Masterclass Series Opens with Photography Legend

Michael Halsband,” Gadgets, 7/5/22, and photographed “Heroes: Robin Newland,” V, 7/21/22.

Keith Williams (BFA Media Arts) gave a talk, “Comic Book Presentation With Artist Keith Williams,” West End Library, Harrisburg, PA, 9/10/22.

1981

Drew Friedman (BFA Media Arts) was featured in “Book Review: When Maverix and Lunatix Walked the Earth,” Book & Film Globe, 10/18/22, and “Drew Friedman’s Maverix and Lunatix: Icons Of Underground Comix: ‘A Masterpiece, a Treasure, an Encyclopedia,’” The Comics Journal, 11/21/22.

Barbara Kolo (BFA Media Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Art Market Hamptons,” Nova’s Ark Project & Sculpture Park, Water Mill, NY, 8/11-8/14/22.

Kenny Scharf (BFA Fine Arts) was featured in “Art In Conversation: Kenny Scharf with Jason Rosenfeld,” The Brooklyn Rail, 6/1/22, and had a solo exhibition, “New! Now! Good!,” Gallery Hyundai Gangnam, Seoul, 8/30-9/25/22.

Joji Tani (BFA Fine Arts) was featured in “Watch the Best and Goriest Scenes in Cinema,” No Film School, 10/26/22.

Gary Zaccaria (BFA Media Arts) was selected as the July 2022 Monthly Contest Winner, Chattanooga Writers’ Guild, Chattanooga, TN, 7/1-7/31/22.

1982

Kembra Pfahler (Fine Arts) was interviewed in “Kembra Pfahler: Putting It on the Record,” Artforum, 6/16/22.

Darice Polo (BFA Media Arts) wrote “Seeds of Colonialism: Ohio Forces in Puerto Rico,” The Latinx Project, New York University, 7/25/22.

Lorna Simpson (BFA Photography) had work in the group exhibition “The Condition of Being Addressable,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 6/18-9/4/22; designed cover art for “Brittney Griner and the Fight for Freedom,” Time, 7/27/22; had a solo exhibition, “Lorna Simpson: 1985-1992,” Hauser & Wirth, NYC, 9/7-10/22/22; and was featured on the podcast Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists, Artforum, 9/28/22.

Joey Skaggs (BFA Media Arts) screened Joey Skaggs: Metamorphosis, Cockroach Miracle Cure (2022), Changefest 2022, 9/12-11/12/22;

New Jersey Film Festival, 9/30/22; and NewsFest 2022, Santa Monica, CA, 11/11/22; and was featured in “Earlville Opera House Celebrates Golden Anniversary,” The Evening Sun, 7/14/22.

1983

Tony Geiger (BFA Media Arts) had work in the group exhibition “18th Annual Small Works Show,” 440 Gallery, NYC, 11/17-12/16/22.

Steven Petruccio (BFA Media Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Illustrated Folktales Gallery Showcase,” The Black Cow Coffee Co., Pleasantville, NY, 6/3-6/30/22, and was featured in “Past the Pages: Interview with Steven Petruccio,” Norwood House Press, 7/20/22.

Stephanie Pfriender Stylander (BFA Photography) had work in the group exhibition

an Amazing Fantasy #1000 Cover,” cbr.com, 7/13/22.

1985

Susan Barrasi (BFA Media Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Ocean View Series,” Geary Gallery, Darien, CT, 6/1-6/30/22.

Bob Capazzo ( Photography) was the 2022 Greenwich Sentinel Award Honoree, Greenwich Sentinel Award Event, Greenwich, CT, 6/30/22.

Pietro Cicognani (BFA Fine Arts) was featured in “In Rome, a 13th-Century Home Imbued With a Youthful Spirit,” The New York Times Style Magazine, 9/13/22.

Mark Dion ( Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art,” Brandywine

1986

Darrel Ellis (deceased) had a solo exhibition, “Darrel Ellis: Regeneration,” Baltimore Museum of Art, 11/20/22-4/23/23.

Joseph Gyurcsak (BFA Media Arts) was featured in “Letting the Paint Come Through: How Artistic Practice Can Change the Act of Seeing,” Artists Network, 11/7/22.

Annie Sprinkle (BFA Photography) had work in the group exhibition “The Venusians,” New Discretions, NYC, 9/9-10/22/22.

1987

Aleathia Brown (BFA Media Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Healing Spaces,” 1040 Creative Cultural Art Center and Gallery, Philadelphia, 9/16-10/28/22.

JEONGMEE YOON (MFA 2006 Photography, Video and Related Media), JUNGSUK PARK (MFA 2007 Photography, Video and Related Media), Director of SVA Communication

Joyce Rutter Kaye and Director of SVA Admissions MATTHEW FARINA (MFA 2014 Art Criticism and Writing), at Yoon, Park and OK HYUN AHN’s (MFA 2003 Photography and Related Media) (not pictured) exhibition “Vanished Elephant,” SVA Seocho Gallery, Seoul, 10/5-11/16/22.

“Art + Fashion,” Staley Wise Gallery, NYC, 6/25-9/10/22.

Kenneth Wenzel (BFA Photography) participated in “LoLa Art Crawl,” Squirrel Haus Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 9/17-9/18/22.

1984

Gail Anderson (BFA Media Arts) was featured in “The 2022 National Book Festival Poster and Designer Gail Anderson,” National Book Festival Blog, Library of Congress, 8/4/22. Lisa Argentieri (BFA Photography) had work in the group exhibition “Artist Talk Magazine Digital Exhibition,” Broadway Plaza, Times Square, NYC, 6/23/22.

Lydia Panas (BFA Photography) had a book signing, artist talk and film screening about “Sleeping Beauty,” Gallery 51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA, 6/3/22; gave a talk, “Lydia Panas in Conversation With Maggie Jones,” 2022 Silver Eye Book Fair, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, 10/8/22; and had work in the Silver Eye Center for Photography Benefit Auction 2022, The Aaronel deRoy Gruber & Irving Gruber Gallery, Pittsburgh, 9/2-10/24/22.

Joe Quesada (BFA Media Arts) was featured in “Joe Quesada Returns to Spider-Man for

River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA, 9/24/22-1/8/23.

Eric Haze (BFA Media Arts) was featured in “In Conversation W/ Eric Haze,” Bodega, 11/16/22.

Alexis Rockman (BFA Fine Arts) was featured in “How the Mystic Seaport Museum Is Making Waves in Visual Art, From Hosting a Smithsonian Show to Commissioning New Artwork,” Artnet News, 10/13/22.

Collier Schorr (BFA Communication Arts) photographed “Tessa Thompson Takes Her Time,” Harper’s Bazaar, 7/14/22, and “Damsels in Defiance,” V, 9/27/22, and was featured in “Collier Schorr’s New Photography Book August Is a Radical Reckoning With the Past,” Vogue, 7/22/22; “Collier Schorr’s Taboo Photographs of German Youth in the ’00s,” Vice, 8/16/22; and “Staging the Documentary: Collier Schorr Blends Fiction and Reportage to Reenact History,” Photo Vogue, 8/22/22.

Angel Suarez Rosado (MFA Fine Arts; BFA 1982 Fine Arts) had solo exhibitions, “Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month,” Arthaus, Allentown, PA, 8/18-10/6/22, and “The Percentage,” Arthaus, Allentown, PA, 9/16-9/21/22.

Susan Grove (BFA Photography) was featured in “150 Bay St. Has Artists Like You Wouldn’t Believe, and They’ll Show Their Stuff for JCAST,” The Jersey Journal, 9/28/22.

Lamont W. Harvey (BFA Film and Video) provided animations for “Launch of JPSS-2 Weather Satellite & LOFTID Mars Tech Demo (Official NASA Broadcast),” NASA, 11/10/22.

Liz Keough (BFA Media Arts) was featured in “‘No Magic Pill’ to Self-Acceptance: An Easton Transgender Woman’s Lifelong Quest for Comfort,” Lehigh Valley Live, 6/29/22.

Jim McKeon’s (BFA Media Arts) Breaking Glass Ceilings, a portrait of dancer and choreographer Camile A. Brown, was added to the permanent collection, Metropolitan Opera House, NYC, 9/12/22.

Elizabeth Peyton (BFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition presented by David Zwirner Gallery, Art Basel 2022, Basel, Switzerland, 6/14-6/19/22.

Jean Schapowal (BFA Media Arts) was featured in “Five Tips, Five Experts,” Pastry Arts Magazine, 6/21/22, and was a finalist for Best Magazine Cover, Cake Masters Awards 2022, 10/11/22.

1988

Len DeLessio (BFA Photography) had a solo exhibition, “World Famous Photographer for Kiss,” New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival, Atlantic City, NJ, 9/16-9/18/22.

Paul Delsignore (BFA Media Arts) wrote “The Following Visual Art Jobs Will Be Replaced By AI,” Medium, 9/30/22.

Eva Mantell (MFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Inside/Outdoors,” Hutchins Galleries, The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ, 9/1-10/7/22.

Marina Marchese (BFA Media Arts) was featured in “A Master Honey Sommelier Changed My Mind About Honey: I Am Now A BeeLiever,” Stacyknows, 11/13/22.

Kathy Shorr (BFA Photography) photographed “Photo Project of 51 Mothers Who Have Lost Children to Gun Violence Will Debut in Saunders Park,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/15/22. Gary Simmons (BFA Fine Arts) was the recipient of the Aspen Award for Art, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, 8/5/22.

1989

Margaret Lanzetta (MFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Carnival,” Planthouse, NYC, 7/12-8/19/22.

Al Nickerson (BFA Cartooning) was featured in “Meet the Author: Al Nickerson,” Well Worn Books, 11/4/22.

Penelope Umbrico (MFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibitions “Corpes Celestes,” Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France, 6/10-7/17/22, and “Thirty-Four Setting Suns,” Gallery Vriend Van Bavink, Amsterdam, 10/28-12/3/22, and had a solo exhibition, “Learning from eBay,” The

Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, 10/14/22-2/5/23.

1990

Josephine Barreiro (BFA Media Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Neo Latino Collective,” Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, 6/25-8/5/22.

Jimmy DiResta (BFA Media Arts) was featured in “In East Durham, Creating for Kids a FullTime Job for Jimmy DiResta,” Times Union, 6/17/22.

Michael Giacchino (BFA Film and Video) was featured in “How Michael Giacchino Found His Rhythm Composing and Directing Marvel Studios’ Werewolf by Night,” The Walt Disney Company, 10/7/22; “10 Best Composer-Director Collaborations, from Zimmer & Nolan to Williams & Spielberg,” Collider, 11/14/22; “Passing the Baton: A History of Soundtrack Composers,” Discover Music, 11/19/22.

Sono Kuwayama (MFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Buena Suerte,” Loisaida Inc. Center, NYC, 10/1-10/29/22.

Robert Lazzarini (BFA Fine Arts) was featured in “6 Questions for Robert Lazzarini, Whose Latest Sculpture Series Tackles America’s Distorted View of Violence,” Artnet News, 10/11/22.

Gina Minichino (BFA Media Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Sequential Synergy: The Art of Comics,” 440 Gallery, NYC, 7/7-7/29/22.

Julia Roth-Oberlander (BFA Fine Arts) was featured in “Best Interior Designers in New York | Julia Roth,” Best Interior Designers, 9/16/22.

1991

Phil Jimenez (Cartooning) was the recipient of Best Single Issue/One-Shot and Best Penciller/ Inker for Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, San Diego, 7/22/22.

1992

Kirsten Aune (BFA Fine Arts) was featured in “Women-Owned Businesses Make Up Lincoln Park ‘Garment District,’” Duluth News Tribune, 8/16/22.

Angela Cappetta (BFA Photography) was featured in “This Family That Is Not Mine,” Blind Magazine 10/19/22.

Renée Cox (MFA Photography and Related Media) had work in the group exhibition “Shrine,” Mattress Factory, Monterey Annex, Pittsburgh, 6/17-12/30/22.

Lynn Pauley (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) had work in the group exhibition “More Art of Coney Island,” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, NYC, 7/30-8/21/22.

Christine Romanell (BFA Graphic Design) had a solo exhibition, “Ratio of Forever,” Art & Home Gallery, Morristown, NJ, 7/15-10/8/22, and had work in the group exhibition “Matrixes Small Works,” Kate Oh Gallery, NYC, 8/9-8/27/22.

Ray Villafane (BFA Illustration) was featured in “Ray Villanfane From Outrageous Pumpkins Knows His Way Around a Pumpkin,” Distractify 10/23/22.

1993

Miles Ladin (MFA Photography and Related Media) had work in the group exhibition “Fourth Annual Art Walk,” Stonington Borough Merchants Association, Stonington, CT, 9/17/22, and had an open studio, Kunstmatrix, NYC, 11/13/22.

Shawn Martinbrough (BFA Illustration) was featured in “Horne and Martinbrough on curating ‘The Artist’s Experience: From Brotherman to Batman,’” The Beat, 6/10/22, and was named an honoree in the Legend category, The 16th Annual AdColor Awards, 11/21/22.

Vanessa Pineda Fox (BFA Graphic Design) was featured in “Meet Vanessa Pineda Fox | Abstract Artist And Graphic Designer,” Shoutout SoCal, 9/27/22.

1994

Steve Ellis (BFA Illustration) had work in the group exhibition “Food in New York: Bigger Than the Plate,” Museum of the City of New York, NYC, 9/16/22-9/30/23.

Inka Essenhigh (MFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Psychedelic Landscape,” Eric Firestone Gallery, NYC, 7/14-8/26/22.

Nona Faustine (BFA Photography) was featured in “Four Fall Art Fairs Worth the Trip,” Elle, 9/7/22, and “The Artist Confronting the History of New York’s Slave Trade,” The Art Newspaper 9/7/22, and had a solo exhibition presented by Higher Pictures Generation, The Armory Show, NYC, 9/9-9/11/22, and “Nona Faustine: White Shoes,” Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 10/13-5/21/22.

Steve Herold (BFA Film and Video) screened Waimea, Smodcastle Film Festival, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 11/30-12/4/22.

1995

Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.) (Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.): Elegy for the Venezuelan Exile,” Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, 11/23-12/12/22.

Michael De Feo (BFA Graphic Design) published Out of Fashion (2022), Poster House New York, 9/9/22, and gave a talk, “Live Talk From Michael’s Studio,” Hexton Gallery, NYC, 11/2/22.

Lynn Shelton (MFA Photography and Related Media; deceased) was featured in was featured in “Unsung Auteurs: Lynn Shelton,” Film Ink, 10/20/22, and “Northwest Film Forum Awards $20,000 Lynn Shelton Grant to Izabel Acevedo in Honor of Late Director,” CT Insider, 11/1/22.

FROM LEFT: RYAN PFLUGER (MFA 2007 Photography, Video and Related Media), Martin (He/Him) & Zack (He/Him) and Alyss (He/They) & Angelica (She/Her), from Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens (Princeton Architectural Press, 2022).

Kevin Sudeith (MFA Fine Arts) was featured in “The Forest of Phippsburg Is the Canvas for These Carvings,” centralmaine.com, 8/14/22.

Clara Varas (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Between Memory and Desire,” Dimensions Variable, Miami, 10/22/22-1/10/23.

1996

Brian Belott (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Reassembler 3,” Canada, NYC, 9/8-10/22/22.

Simen Johan (BFA Photography) had a solo exhibition, “Re-Invented Realism,” Space Z, Beijing, 11/3/22-1/15/23.

Justine Kurland (BFA Photography) was featured in “Photobooks by White Male Photographers Provide the Material for Justine Kurland’s New, Radical Publication,” British Journal of Photography, 6/9/22; “Justine Kurland Cuts the Male Canon to Pieces,” Hyperallergic, 7/14/22; and “Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Acquires Justine Kurland’s Monumental Series Girl Pictures,” Art Daily, 10/21/22; was nominated for PhotoBook of the Year, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, 10/3/22, and gave a talk, “The Emily Hall Tremaine Lecture in Contemporary Art With Justine Kurland,” The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, 10/26/22.

Stephen Savage (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) was featured in “Q&A with Stephen Savage,” Publishers Weekly, 8/2/22, and wrote Moonlight (2022), Neal Porter Books.

Jeremy Slater (MFA Computer Art) had sound work in “Correspondences,” Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, NYC, 6/4-6/5/22.

Marianne Vitale (BFA Film and Video) had a solo exhibition, “Tennis Elbow 104,” The Journal Gallery, NYC, 9/13-9/24/22.

KAWS a.k.a. Brian Donnelly (BFA Illustration) illustrated the cover story for “Canceled at 17,” New York, 6/20/22.

1997

Johanna Fateman (BFA Fine Arts) participated in a talk, “The Task of the Critic | New York: Between Art and Life Series,” The Jewish Museum, NYC, 11/3/22.

Nanci France-Vaz (BFA Computer Art) won second place in the Artistic Excellence Competition 2022, Southwest Art, 11/15/22.

John Patrick Green (BFA Graphic Design) was featured in “Your Favorite Gator Aide: An Interview With John Patrick Green About Investigators,” School Library Journal, 8/16/22.

Sean Hemmerle (MFA Photography and Related Media) had a solo exhibition, “Sean Hemmerle: Mid-Career Retrospective,” Galerie Julian Sander, Cologne, Germany, 9/2-11/14/22.

Murray Hill (MFA Photography and Related Media) was featured in “From Cabaret Shows to Premium Cable, Performer and MC Murray Hill Is Everywhere—and That’s Just The Way He Likes It,” Bust, 6/21/22.

Raul Manzano (BFA Illustration) was featured in “SUNY Empire Faculty Member Reimagines

Famous Thanksgiving Painting,” SUNY Empire State College, 11/21/22.

Katie Murray (BFA Photography) had a solo exhibition, “S.O.S.,” Fish Island Gallery, Darien, CT, 10/1-10/31/22.

Syndi Pilar (MFA Photography and Related Media) was a finalist in the “Single Photos: Spaces” category, Urban Photo Awards 2022, 9/13/22.

Cordy Ryman (BFA Fine Arts) conducted an interview, “Finding Your Own Path: Erika Ranee Interviewed by Cordy Ryman,” Bomb, 7/18/22.

Sarah Sze (MFA Fine Arts) participated in “Inside ‘The Red Studio’: Ann Temkin with 6 Artists on Matisse,” Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast, 10/25/22, and was featured in “Sarah Sze on Art, Life & Everything in Between,” Artspace, 8/31/22; “Sarah Sze: Is Love All There Is?,” Art Review, 10/17/22; “A Star Is Born? See the Artworks Sarah Sze, Kehinde Wiley, Dana Schutz, and Other Top Artists Made Before They Were Famous,” Artnet News, 10/25/22.

1998

Daniel Cooney (BFA Cartooning) was featured in “A New Adaptation,” MV Times, 9/7/22.

Brian Finke (BFA Photography) was featured in “Brian Finke,” The Eye of Photography, 8/20/22, and “Fighting Gun Violence, With Fists Bared,” The New Yorker, 9/29/22, and gave a talk, “Brian

featured in “An Interview With the Creators of Oni,” Animated Views, 10/17/22.

1999

Kevin Box (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Origami in the Garden,” Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta, 5/7-10/16/22, and was featured in “Monumental Metal Origami Adorns Atlanta Botanical Garden,” The Atlanta JournalConstitution, 6/13/22.

Jude Broughan (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Soap and Stones,” Benrubi Gallery, NYC, 8/24-9/30/22.

Shane Nearman (BFA Advertising) had work in the group exhibition “Annual Juried Art Competition Exhibit,” South Arkansas Arts Center, El Dorado, AR, 7/9-7/29/22.

6/8-7/30/22, had work in the group exhibition presented by David Zwirner Gallery, Frieze, Seoul, 9/2-9/5/22, and was featured in the book Great Women Painters (2022), Phaidon, 10/6/22.

Todd Kelly (MFA Fine Arts) had work in the online group exhibition “Wildflowers in the Concrete Jungle, The Pace Staff Show,” Pace Gallery Online Viewing Room, NYC, 8/17-9/17/22.

2001

Yevgenia Davidoff (BFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “After Some Reflection,” ICOSA Collective, Austin, TX, 11/11-11/20/22.

Chie Hayakawa (BFA Photography) was featured in “‘Plan 75’ Director, Filipino Cast, Producers Reflect on Their Cannes Win,” GMA News Online, 6/9/22, and “A Filmmaker

Installation view, “Printing the Future: The Riso Revolution,” curated by PANIYIOTIS TERZIS (MFA 2015 Fine Arts; BFA 2006 Illustration) and featuring work by SVA alumni, dieFirma, NYC, 11/17-12/22/22. © dieFirma.

Finke and Documentary Portraiture,” Fotografiska, NYC, 11/6/22 and 11/20/22.

Nanette Fluhr (BFA Illustration) was featured in “Nanette Fluhr: Art as a Medium for Connection,” Smile Train, 6/30/22.

Genevieve Gorder (BFA Graphic Design) was featured in “Why Design Star Host Genevieve Gorder Is a Fan of the She Shed,” House Digest, 11/30/22.

Juliet Martin (MFA Computer Art) had work in the group exhibition “Layers,” 440 Gallery, NYC, 9/8-10/9/22.

Chris Schanck (BFA Fine Arts) was featured in “A Revealing Look Into the Crazy Beautiful World of Chris Schanck,” Paper City, 6/20/22.

Dice Tsutsumi (BFA Illustration) screened Oni: Thunder God’s Tale (2022-), VIEWFEST Film Festival, Torino, Italy, 10/16-10/21/22, and was

Tara Punzone (BFA Photography) was featured in “How Tara Punzone Created a Vegan Italian Empire With Pura Vita,” Alternative Press 7/13/22.

Gideon Rubin (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Gideon Rubin: Looking Away,” Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany, 9/2-11/12/22, and had a solo exhibition, “A Summer’s Tale,” K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, 11/12-12/10/22.

Kate Quinn Sibole (MFA Photography and Related Media) had the solo exhibitions “Mandala” and “Push Pull Place,” University of Maine Farmington Art Gallery, Farmington, ME, 9/1-10/8/22.

2000

Katherine Bernhardt (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Why Is a Mushroom Growing in My Shower?,” David Zwirner Gallery, London,

Imagines a Japan Where the Elderly Volunteer to Die,” The New York Times, 6/18/22.

James Jean (BFA Illustration) had a solo exhibition, “Eternal Spiral,” The Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, 11/12/22-2/12/23.

Carlos Motta (BFA Photography) gave a talk, “Critical Dialogues: Carlos Motta,” Temple University, Philadelphia, 11/2/22.

Ryan Sarah Murphy (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Structural Integrity,” C24 Gallery, NYC, 7/21-9/23/22.

Andrew Nemr (BFA Computer Art) was featured in “Andrew Nemr Taps Into Story,” Aramco World, 11/16/22.

Mika Rottenberg (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Mika Rottenberg,” Hauser & Wirth,

Los Angeles, 6/23-10/2/22, was featured in “With New Hauser & Wirth Show, Artist Mika Rottenberg Points to the Absurdity of Consumer Culture,” Whitewall, 7/5/22, and “How Artist Mika Rottenberg’s Weird Videos Use ASMR to Deconstruct Global Capitalism,” Los Angeles Times, 9/23/22, and screened Remote (2022) and participated in a Q&A, New York Film Festival, NYC, 9/30-10/16/22.

Danielle Scott (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Ancestral Call,” Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, 10/7/22-1/21/23.

2002

TM Davy (BFA Illustration) was featured in “8 Queer Artists Capturing Love and Intimacy, and Challenging Oppression,” ARTnews, 8/18/22.

2003 Kevin Amato (BFA Photography) photographed “The Coolest Fashion Consultant on Motherhood, Ssense Kids, and More,” Vogue 9/6/22, and “How Atlanta History Shaped Lil Baby and Generations of Rap,” The New York Times, 10/17/22.

Fernanda Cohen (BFA Illustration) had a solo exhibition, “Aves Argentinas: Flying Back Home,” Consulate General of Argentina, NYC, 6/1-6/29/22.

Olympia Gayot (BFA Fine Arts) was featured in “How J.Crew’s Olympia Gayot Nails Nonchalant Dressing,” Vogue, 8/30/22; “J.Crew’s Olympia Gayot on the Items That Have Achieved Cult Status,” Who What Wear, 10/26/22; and

Unfold in Whimsical and Ironic Illustrations by Yuko Shimizu,” Colossal, 11/16/22.

AnnCharlotte Tavolacci (BFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “You Are My Mirror and I Am Yours,” The Common Gallery, Louisville, KY, 6/23-7/31/22.

Ti West (BFA Film and Video) was featured in “The Multiplying Horror of Ti West,” The New York Times, 9/20/22; “X, Pearl, The House of the Devil ... Ti West, the King of Horrific Nostalgia,” Ècranlarge, 11/4/22; and “Every Ti West Film, Ranked,” Paste, 11/8/22.

Timur York (BFA Advertising) initiated Courageous Heart, a fundraising art project to provide humanitarian relief in Ukraine that benefits UNICEF, Razom for Ukraine and World Central Kitchen.

2004

Ei Arakawa (BFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9,” David Zwirner Gallery and Performance Space New York, NYC, 9/9-10/15/22.

WonJung Choi (MFA Fine Arts) was the recipient of the Trawick Prize, Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District, Bethesda, MD, 9/8/22.

Zach Cregger (BFA Computer Art) wrote and directed Barbarian (2022).

Nora Krug (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) gave a talk, “Illustrator as Witness: Nora Krug and Steven Heller in Conversation,” Society of Illustrators, NYC, 6/23/22.

Reuben Negron (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) had work in the group exhibition “How the Light Gets In,” Galeria Contrast, Barcelona, Spain, 6/2-7/30/22.

Lindsey Rome (BFA Photography) had a solo exhibition, “Lindsey Rome,” ZieherSmith Gallery, Nashville, TN, 9/24/22.

Randy Salo (BFA Film and Video) directed Howl of the Underdogs, Passion River Films, 8/16/22.

2005

Jenny Brown (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Universal Garden,” 9/10-10/8/22, and gave a talk, 9/14/22, Monument Square Art Gallery, Woonsocket, RI.

Domingo Milella (BFA Photography) had work in the group exhibition “The Forms of Time,” Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy, 6/22-7/31/22.

Mary O’Malley (MFA Fine Arts) had work in the online group exhibition “Enormous Tiny Art #32,” Nahcotta, Portsmouth, NH, 9/15-9/30/22, and released a collaborative sleepwear collection, Anthropologie, 9/15/22.

Rachel Papo (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) was featured in “In Sharing Her Experience of Postpartum Depression Rachel Papo Allows Others to Do the Same,” British Journal of Photography, 7/26/22; “Photographs Capturing the Darker Side of Motherhood,” Vice, 8/9/22; and “Book Review: It’s Been Pouring by Rachel Papo,” Musée, 9/28/22.

Dash Shaw (BFA Illustration) wrote “Review: Funny Pages,” Film Comment, 9/12/22.

Anuj Shrestha (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) illustrated “The New World: Envisioning Life After Climate Change,” The New York Times 10/26/22.

Shadra Strickland (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) had work in the group exhibition “Imprinted: Illustrating Race,” Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, 6/11-10/30/22, and was featured in “‘Imprinted: Illustrating Race’ at the Norman Rockwell Museum,” The Roundtable podcast, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, 9/13/22.

2006

Tim Clifford (MFA Fine Arts) participated in the performance “Adding Fuel To The Fire; My Diary: Secret Journey to Tipping Utopia,” Dixon Place, NYC, 11/16-11/19/22.

John Dessereau (BFA Illustration) illustrated “The N.Y.C. Marathon’s River of Runners,” The New Yorker, 10/31/22.

Christine Sun Kim (MFA Fine Arts) was featured in “With Sign Language and Sound, an Artist Upends Audience Perceptions,” The New York Times, 7/9/22.

DANIELLE SCOTT (BFA 2001 Fine Arts), Athena, 2022, mixed medium assemblage and resin, on view at the solo exhibition “Ancestral Call,” Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, 10/7/22-1/21/23. Courtesy of Gallery Aferro/Manny Fernandes.

Joe Fig (MFA Fine Arts; BFA 1991 Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Joe Fig: Other Artists,” Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, 10/15/221/15/23, and had work in the booth presented by Cristian Tierney Gallery, ADAA’s The Art Show, NYC, 11/2-11/6/22.

Mariam Ghani (MFA Photography and Related Media) was featured in “Ready When You Are, Terminal C Is Now an Art Destination,” The New York Times, 6/1/22, and screened The Fire This Time (2022), BAMcinemaFest 2022, NYC, 6/236/30/22, and BlackStar Film Festival 2022, Philadelphia, 8/3-8/7/22.

Aya Kakeda (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) was interviewed in “Meet Aya Kakeda: Artist/ Illustrator,” Shoutout LA , 7/8/22.

Reka Nyari (BFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “A Woman’s Right to Pleasure,” Sotheby’s and BlackBook Presents, Beverly Hills, CA, 7/8-8/12/22.

Christine Park (BFA Film and Video) edited Susie Searches (2020), which screened at the Toronto Film Festival, 9/8-9/18/22.

“Olympia Gayot’s Vision for J.Crew Is Inspired by Getting-Ready Rituals,” Vanity Fair, 11/23/22.

Suzy Hotrod (BFA Photography) was featured in “Roller Derby Means Playing for the Love of the Game,” The Village Voice, 9/17/22.

Guadalupe Maravilla (BFA Photography) was named part of the Artsy Vanguard 2022, Artsy, 11/15/22.

Peter Phok (BFA Film and Video) was featured in “Producer Peter Phok Talks X, Pearl and His Many Ti West Collaborations,” Comic Book, 10/17/22, and “Horror Producer Peter Phok Talks Terror, Collaboration and the Best Horror Movies,” The Press Free, 10/31/22.

Annie Poon (BFA Fine Arts) was featured in “An NYC Fashion Photographer’s Path to True Love and the Church,” LDSLiving, 7/26/22.

Sara Salem (BFA Fine Arts) was featured in “Northampton Resident Settling in as New Buckland Public Library Director,” Greenfield Recorder, 6/29/22.

Yuko Shimizu (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) was featured in “Uncanny Scenarios

Andrea Burgay (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Everything Coming Together and Falling Apart,” Roxbury Arts Center, Roxbury, NY, 7/9-8/20/22.

Lauren Castillo (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) illustrated It Is Not Time for Sleeping (Harper Collins Publishers, 2022), wrote and illustrated Our Friend Hedgehog: A Place to Call Home (Penguin Random House, 2022), and gave a talk, “Live Illustration and Storytime With Lauren Castillo,” Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, 10/22/22.

Zackary Drucker (BFA Photography) had work in the group exhibition “Photo Realness,” Schlomer Haus Gallery, San Francisco, 9/912/29/22.

Karen Gibbons (MPS Art Therapy) had a solo exhibition, “Nature/Nurture,” 440 Gallery, NYC, 9/8-10/9/22.

Thomas Holton (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) had work in the group exhibition “Kinship,” National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 10/28/22-1/7/24, and was featured in “Photographers on Photographers: Sara Bennett in Conversation with Thomas Holton,” Lenscratch, 8/25/22, and “The Lams of Ludlow Street by Thomas Holton: ‘A Photography Project That Has Turned into My Life,’” British Journal of Photography, 11/10/22.

Paul Hoppe (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) was featured in The Stranger’s Artist of the Week,” The Stranger, 7/11/22.

Dylan Mortimer (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Dying to Live,” Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, OK, 6/3-7/15/22, and had work in the group exhibition “Body Politic,” 440 Gallery, NYC, 8/4-8/27/22.

Josephine Noh (BFA Computer Art) was interviewed in “Creating the Battles and Destruction of Amazon’s The Terminal List,” ProductionHUB, 8/15/22, and “The Terminal List: Josephine Noh–VFX Supervisor–FuseFX,” Art of VFX, 9/1/22.

Sarah Schorr (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) was featured in “Close Up: Sarah Schorr,” The Eye of Photography, 7/11/22.

Shen Wei (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) had solo exhibitions at “Unseen Amsterdam,” Westergas, Amsterdam, 9/159/18/22, and “Les Saisons Particulières,” Zeto Art, Paris, 11/11-12/17/22.

2007

Andrew D’Angelo (BFA Fine Arts) participated in the two-person show, “Spirit Bodies and Microcosms,” Here Arts Center, NYC, 11/312/17/22.

Amy Elkins (BFA Photography) presented her book Anxious Pleasures (2022), New York Art Book Fair, NYC, 10/13-10/16/22, was featured in “Amy Elkins: Anxious Pleasures,” Lenscratch, 10/14/22, and had a solo exhibition, “Parting Ways,” South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, 10/16/21-1/2/22.

Lisa Elmaleh (BFA Photography) had work in the group exhibition “Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture,” The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 10/4-10/30/22, and was the

recipient of the 2022 Arnold Newman Prize, The Griffin Museum of Photography, 10/6/22.

Timothy Goodman (BFA Graphic Design) was featured in “NYC Department of Sanitation Unveils Newest Trucks of Art Series,” ABC-7 New York, 10/30/22.

Laura June Kirsch (BFA Photography) gave a talk about her book Romantic Lowlife Fantasies, Launch Photo Books, NYC, 8/17/22.

Ann Oren (MFA Fine Arts; BFA 2004 Film and Video) was featured in “Locarno 2022: Interview With Piaffe Director Ann Oren,” Close-Up Culture, 7/28/22.

Mu Pan (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay; BFA 2001 Illustration) had a solo exhibition, “To Have a Mother Means Milk,” Hashimoto Contemporary, NYC, 10/15-11/5/22.

Ryan Pfluger (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) was featured in “Queer Americana Photographer Ryan Pfluger Captures

LGBTQ Intimacy in the United States,” New York, 11/8/22, and “Ryan Pfluger Captures Intimate Portraits of Queer Love,” Paper, 11/10/22.

2008

Spencer Chalk-Levy (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Spencey Palais Kaiserstrasse,” Vienna Collectors Club, Vienna, 11/18-11/19/22.

Cat Del Buono (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) participated in “Intimate Partner Violence: Education, Art and Advocacy,” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 10/27/22, and was featured in “Donne Giornata Anti-Violenza Non Basta (Women, the Anti-Violence Day Is Not Enough),” Corriere Del Mezzogiorno, 11/25/22.

Jade Doskow (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) had a solo exhibition,

“Freshkills,” John Hartell Gallery, Cornell Architecture Art Planning, Ithaca, NY, 10/4-11/4/22, participated in Episode 573, The Modern Art Notes podcast, 10/27/22, and photographed

“Five Ways To Prevent the Next Sandy,” The New York Times, 10/28/22.

Ashley Garrett (BFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibitions “Sacred Pause, Sacred Fertilizer,” Work in Progress, NYC Culture Club, St. Peter’s Church, NYC, 9/28/22-1/4/23, and “Knowing When,” Turley Gallery, Hudson, NY, 11/5-11/27/22.

Jenny Morgan (MFA Fine Arts) was featured in “Heaven on Earth: Jenny Morgan’s Diaphanous Paintings Exploring the Feminine In Nature,” ArtMaze, 9/20/22.

David Mramor (MFA Fine Arts) performed in the two-person act known as Enid Ellen, Joe’s Pub, NYC, 7/12/22.

Rachel Pesso (BFA Graphic Design) was featured in “Marketing Re-Imagined: Rachel Pesso on How We Can Re-Imagine the Marketing Industry to Make It More Authentic, Sustainable and Promote More Satisfaction,” Authority Magazine, 9/30/22.

Jess Ruliffson (BFA Illustration) participated in “Invisible Wounds: A Conversation with Jess Ruliffson, Bryan Doerries and Peter Catapano,” Society of Illustrators, NYC, 11/30/22.

2009

Jacqueline Bates (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media; BFA 2004 Photography) was appointed director of photography of Times Opinion, The New York Times, 10/14/22.

Gregg Louis (MFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “40th Anniversary Exhibition

of the Nohra Haime Gallery,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NYC, 11/11/22-1/1/23.

Alonso Nunez (BFA Cartooning) was featured in “Reader Writer Studies Drawing at Little Fish,” San Diego Reader, 11/9/22.

Habby Osk (MFA Fine Arts) was featured in “Habby Osk: No Tricks Involved,” Art Spiel 9/19/22.

Rebecca Sugar (BFA Animation) was featured in “Gender Equality in Animation,” Stage 32, 11/7/22.

Trish Tillman (MFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Very Disco,” Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, 7/23-9/3/22.

Rich Tu (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) was interviewed in “The Intersection of Art, Education and Cultural Awareness,” Forbes, 6/23/22.

Corinne van der Borch (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) gave a talk, “Sisters on Track Film Screening and Panel Discussion,” Denver Public Art, Denver, 9/17/22.

Paul Vogeler (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “For the Love of Existence,” La Pera Projects, NYC, 6/1-6/30/22.

Jesse Wright (BFA Fine Arts) was interviewed “Family, Faith and Cultural History: Exploring the Art of Jesse Wright,” Stir World, 9/20/22.

2010

Chris Choi a.k.a. Chris Danger (BFA Illustration) was featured in “Chris Choi Has Auctioned How to Be American to Scholastic Graphix,” Bleeding Cool, 10/5/22.

Matthew Craven (MFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibitions “Friends & Family,” Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, 6/46/25/22; “Vessel,” Hashimoto Contemporary,

Los Angeles, 6/11-7/2/22; and “Island Time,” Volery Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 9/21-10/3/22.

Natan Dvir (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) moderated a talk, “The World’s Best Photographers—In Collaboration with SONY and the World Photography Organisation,” PHOTO IS:RAEL, Tel Aviv, Israel, 11/26/22. Elizabeth Libert (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) had work in the group exhibition “Tender Age,” Panopticon Gallery, Boston, 7/27-8/30/22.

Eve Lyons (BFA Photography) conceptualized the photo essay “Heirlooms, Redefined,” The New York Times, 6/17/22, and was featured in “Discovering Black Family Heirlooms and the Stories Behind Them,” The New York Times 6/19/22.

C. Bay Milin (MPS Digital Photography) had work in the group exhibition “Thresholds,” Golden Belt Main Gallery, Durham, NC, 9/2-9/22/22. Allegra Pacheco (BFA Photography) was featured in “Interview With Allegra Pacheco: The Image of the Salaryman Is an Image of Japan’s Corporate Culture,” asianmoviepulse. com, 6/9/22.

Kenny Rivero (BFA Fine Arts) was interviewed in “Kenny Rivero’s Tricks of the Eye,” T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 9/7/22.

Wade Schaming (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Keys to the Kingdom,” The Empty Circle, NYC, 10/19-11/12/22.

Steven Smith (BFA Illustration) was featured in “Like a Gray Ghost in the Cemetery of My Memory,” Kelsey Review, 11/22/22.

2011

Timothy Eastman (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) was featured in “Kehrer Verlag: Timothy Eastman: All the Past We Leave Behind,” The Eye of Photography, 9/14/22.

Amanda Kopp (BFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Wildflowers in the Concrete Jungle,” Pace Gallery, NYC, 8/17-9/17/22.

Aileen Kwun (MFA Design Criticism) wrote “See, Touch … Smell: The Next Generation of Design Gallerists Invites You Inside,” The New York Times, 11/12/22.

Carly Mark (BFA Fine Arts) was featured in “How Carly Mark Turned Puppets and Puppets into Downtown NY Gold,” High Snobiety, 11/7/22.

David Osit (MFA Social Documentary Film) won a Peabody Award for his documentary Mayor (2021), 82nd Annual Peabody Awards, 6/6-6/9/22, and won Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary, 43rd News and Documentary Emmys, 9/28/22.

Signe Pierce (BFA Photography) performed “Signe Pierce: Neon Renaissance,” Fotografiska, NYC, 11/10/22.

Sophocles Plokamakis (BFA Cartooning) was featured in “Local-Express: Sophocles Plokamakis,” Queens Gazette, 9/7/22.

Fitgi Saint-Louis (BFA Graphic Design) was featured in “Episode 2: Delivery Meal Kit,” Pack It!, The Paper and Packaging Board, 7/12/22, and had a solo exhibition, “To All the Women Who Made Me,” Underground Gallery, NYC, 10/8-10/24/22.

Julie Schenkelberg (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Julie Schenkelberg: Currant,” The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH, 10/21/22.

Rebecca Snow (BFA Interior Design) was appointed Director of Interior Design, Valerio Dewalt Train, Chicago, 7/1/22.

2012

Nir Arieli (BFA Photography) had work in the group exhibition “Forms of Intimacy: A Celebration of Pride,” Sotheby’s presented by Equinox, NYC, 6/30/22.

Joana Avillez (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) illustrated “There Are So Many Good New Stores in New York,” Curbed, 10/12/22.

Kate Beacom (BFA Film and Video) was featured in “Two Fans Abduct Their Favorite Actor in the Portland-Made Rehab Cabin,” Willamette Week, 7/26/22.

Dario Calmese (MPS Fashion Photography) was selected for the 2023 Loeb Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 6/2/22, and was interviewed in “Dario Calmese Misses His Jean Paul Gaultier Corset,” New York, 6/20/22.

Ina Jang (MPS Fashion Photography; BFA 2010 Photography) photographed “Ju Qi Captures the Culture of Beijing,” The New Yorker, 11/14/22. Peter Ash Lee (MPS Fashion Photography; BFA 2009 Photography) photographed the cover story, “Ciara’s Lasting Career Is a Testament to Her Community,” Allure, 10/11/22, and Anja Rubik for the cover of Vogue Korea, 11/15/22.

Nasrah Omar (BFA Photography) was the recipient of the 2022 Image Equity Fellowship, Google, 9/15/22.

Pacifico Silano (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) curated “Marley Trigg Stewart: The Hills Keep Burning in California,” Tiger Strikes Asteroid, NYC, 7/8-7/31/22, had a solo exhibition, “Men Play Games,” Luis De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, 7/23-9/3/22, and was featured in “Pacifico Silano,” Buds Digest, 9/29/22.

Keioui Keijaun Thomas (BFA Fine Arts) gave a talk “How to Make an Object Speak in Tongues: An Artist Talk With Keioui Keijaun Thomas,” Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, NYC, 11/10/22.

Rebecca Ward (MFA Fine Arts) had solo exhibitions, “Distance to Venus,” SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 9/1-11/7/22, and “Rebecca Ward: Unfolding,” Ronchini Gallery, London, 10/10-11/18/22.

An Rong Xu (BFA Photography) photographed “He Had a Dark Secret. It Changed His Best Friend’s Life,” The New York Times, 7/8/22.

Camilo Galofre (BFA Advertising) was interviewed in “2 Minutes With … Camilo de Galofre, Director of Art and Design at Mojo Supermarket,” Muse by Clio, 6/27/22.

Sam Grinberg (BFA Cartooning) screened Hang Out 2day, BeyondFest, Los Angeles, 9/2710/11/22, and Silver Lake Shorts, Los Angeles, 9/16/22.

Chemin Hsiao (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay; BFA 2011 Animation) hosted workshops, “Socrates x Noguchi Field Guide: Exploring a ‘New Nature,’” Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC, 10/15/22, and “Botanical Holiday Cards,” New York Botanical Garden, NYC, 11/12/22, and had work in the group exhibition “Walking in

the Cosmos,” Voelker Orth Museum, NYC, 10/30-12/18/22.

Austin Kearns (BFA Film and Video) was featured in “Creative Duo The Vortex Signs with Chromista,” Little Black Book, 6/29/22.

Justin Melillo (BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects) was featured in “Mona Raises $14.6M for Metaverse Platform for Creators,” VentureBeat, 6/30/22.

Angela Miskis (BFA Visual & Critical Studies) had a solo exhibition, “It’s a Luxury to Look Back,” Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, NYC, 7/2-7/23/22.

Star Montana (BFA Photography) wrote and photographed “A Final Farewell to the End of a Hot and Lonely Summer in L.A.,” Los Angeles Times, 9/2/22.

Lily Padula (BFA Illustration) illustrated “So You Wanted to Get Work Done at the Office?,” The New York Times, 9/11/22.

Eric Pennycoff (MPS Live Action Short Film) screened The Leech (2022), Chattanooga Film Festival 2022, Chattanooga, TN, 6/23-6/28/22.

Jennifer Rozbruch (MFA Design) designed Rosh Hashanah cards, Jewish Museum Shop, NYC, 9/25/22.

Kelly Shami (BFA Design) had work in the group exhibition “Fem,” Alchemy Gallery, NYC, 6/18-7/30/22.

Dana Terrace (BFA Animation) was featured in “7 Feel-Good Queer Shows to Watch During Pride Month and Beyond,” Paste, 6/1/22, “The Owl House NYCC Panel Eulogized a Brilliant Show Cut Short: ‘We Did Our Best,’” Polygon 10/6/22, “Disney’s The Owl House Creator, a CT Native, Talks Final Season, Local Ties,” CT Insider, 10/20/22.

Denise Treizman (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “In Between Living,” University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 6/3-7/30/22, and had work in the group exhibition “Artists-In-Residence Exhibition,” Laundromat Art Space, Miami, 11/27/22.

Minseop Yoon (MFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “apmap Review,” Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, 9/29-12/18/22.

Zipeng Zhu (BFA Design) was featured in “Fashion Brands Giving Back to the LGBTQ+ Community During Pride Month,” Grazia 6/1/22.

2014

Justin Aversano (BFA Photography) had a solo exhibition, “Twin Flames,” Venus Over Manhattan, NYC, 9/6/22, and was featured in “Owners of Justin Aversano’s Cognition NFTs Can Claim the Physical Paintings Their Works Are Based on at a One-Night Pop-Up Show,” Artnet News 9/6/22, and “The A-Z of NFT: Artists and Terminology to Know,” Christie’s, 9/27/22.

Graciela Cassel (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Graciela Cassel: River Dreams,” Lilac Preservation Project, NYC, 6/18-10/23/22.

Leah Dixon (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Animales de Carga,” Guadalajara90210, Jalisco, Mexico, 6/25-6/28/22.

Briana Franceschini (BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects) was interviewed about the short film Bottle Cap (2022), on which she was lead technical director, Psyop’s Instagram, 8/12/22.

Ja’Tovia Gary (MFA Social Documentary Film) was featured in “WME Signs Filmmaker & Multidisciplinary Artist Ja’Tovia Gary,” Deadline, 8/31/22.

Jameson Green (BFA Illustration) was featured in “Almine Rech Announces Representation of American Artist Jameson Green,” Art Daily 11/13/22.

SAO TANAKA (MPS 2021 Digital Photography), Entrance , 2019, gold paint acrylic sumi ink on mulberry paper. On view at the solo exhibition “Meld Gold,” Mizuma & Kips, NYC, 11/5-11/23/22. Photo by Yu-Yu Demi Chen.

Molly Matalon (BFA Photography) photographed “Waxahatchee and Jess Williamson Announce New Album With ‘Problem With It,’” Far Out, 7/28/22.

Anne Quito (MFA Design Criticism) was appointed managing editor of a new design magazine at Amazon, 8/11/22.

Caroline Tompkins (BFA Photography) photographed “3 Days. 68 Kids. Snapshots of Summer on Coney Island,” The New York Times Magazine, 8/5/22.

Barbara Vasconez (BFA Film and Video) was the feature documentary programmer, Brooklyn Film Festival, NYC, 6/3-6/12/22.

2015

Yasi Alipour (BFA Photography) had work in the group exhibition “to bleach, to fold,” Transmitter, NYC, 8/6-9/11/22.

Khalifa Al-Thani (BFA Film and Video) was featured in “Qatari Filmmaker Sheikh Khalifa Bin Abdulla Al-Thani’s Guide to Visiting Doha,” Vogue Man Arabia, 10/6/22.

Michael Bailey-Gates (BFA Photography) was featured in “In A Glint in the Kindling, Michael Bailey-Gates Merges Minimalism with Excess,” Document Journal, 7/1/22.

Tyler Comrie (BFA Design) illustrated “We’re Giving Up on the (Frog) Pandemic,” The Atlantic, 11/1/22.

Dana Davenport (BFA Photography) was featured in “How Artist Dana Davenport’s Braided Hair Sculptures Look to Reframe Narratives Around Black-Asian Relationships,” ARTnews 8/29/22.

Nicasio Fernandez (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “At Some Point,” Ross + Kramer Gallery, NYC, 11/17/22-1/5/23.

Logan Jackson (BFA Photography) photographed “Joel Kim Booster Is Making Comedy for the Outsiders,” them, 6/13/22.

Carlos Jaramillo (BFA Photography) was featured in “5 Artists on Our Radar in June 2022,” Artsy, 6/6/22, and “A New Series, Tokala, Spotlights BIPOC Youth Climate Activists,” Vogue, 7/5/22.

Tali Margolin (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Tali Margolin Solo Exhibition,” Cohen Gallery West, NYC, 10/29-11/28/22.

Katy Stubbs (BFA Illustration) was featured in “The Ceramists Ushering in a New Era of Surrealism,” T: The New York Times Style Magazine: Australia, 6/17/22.

Panayiotis Terzis (MFA Fine Arts; BFA 2006 Illustration) curated “Printing the Future: The Riso Revolution,” which featured work by SVA alumni, dieFirma, NYC, 11/17-12/22/22.

Kimberly Weiner (MPS Branding) was featured in “30 Covers, 30 Days 2022: Day 14,” The National Novel Writing Month’s Blog, 11/14/22.

2016

Trey Abdella (BFA Illustration) had work in the group exhibition “A Mimetic Theory of Desire,” David Lewis Gallery, NYC, 6/10-7/29/22.

Dozie Kanu (BFA Film) had work in the group exhibition “Black Atlantic,” Brooklyn Bridge Park, NYC, 5/17-11/27/22, and was featured in “What a Wood Boat and Concrete Chaise Reveal About the African Diaspora,” New York, 6/14/22.

Yeonjee “Momo” Kim (BFA Illustration) had a solo exhibition, “Take Me to Your Garden,” Mizuma & Kips, NYC, 11/26-12/9/22.

Katelyn Kopenhaver (BFA Photography and Video) had work in the booth presented by Exile Books, NY Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, NYC, 10/14/22, and had work in the group exhibition “Deconstructing the Sameness,” Laundromat Art Space, Miami, 11/27/22.

Netta Laufer (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) was the recipient of the 2022 Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Award for a Young Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 6/27/22, and had a solo exhibition, “Crossline,” Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv, 9/8-10/22/22.

Lyn Liu (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Dogville,” Kasmin Gallery, NYC, 6/10-8/12/22, and was featured in “Lyn Liu at Kasmin Gallery,” Whitehot Magazine, 8/1/22.

Mischelle Moy (BFA Photography and Video) was featured in “Mischelle Moy Uses Rich Visuals and Bright Colors to Honor Her Culture,” Print, 11/14/22.

Jessica Pettway (BFA Photography and Video) photographed Please Wait to Be Tasted: The Lil’ Deb’s Oasis Cookbook (2022), Princeton Architectural Press, 6/21/22, and was interviewed in “Fantastic Feasts,” Gigantic, 7/1/22.

2017

Kesewa Aboah (BFA Fine Arts) was featured in “An Insider Guide to New York’s Art Fair—The Standouts, Discoveries, and Texas’ Best,” Paper City, 9/8/22.

Chingtien Chu (MFA Computer Art) had work in “10 Best of the Best from One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest (Virtual),” One Earth Film Festival, 9/18/22.

Beau Allen Collins (BFA Photography and Video) was featured in “Portraits of Nashville,” Nashville Voyager, 7/1/22.

Adebunmi Gbadebo (BFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Salt to Catch Ghosts,” Slash, San Francisco, 9/9-12/17/22, and was featured in “The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met,” The New York Times, 9/22/22.

Aura Lewis (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) was featured in “Spectacular Sisters: The Feminist-Inspired Illustrations by Aura Lewis,” Design You Trust, 6/1/22.

2018

Mengfan Bai (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Keep the Change,” Space 776, NYC, 6/3-6/22/22.

Kaitlyn Danielson (BFA Photography and Video) had work in the group exhibition “Pressed in Light: Flora of the Catskills,” Nonneta and Friends Creative, Barryville, NY, 9/10-10/2/22.

Rachel Lee (MA Critical Theory and the Arts) wrote “Reaction as a Material: Jeenho Seo Interviewed by Rachel Lee,” Arte Fuse, 6/24/22.

Alicia Smith (MFA Fine Arts) was featured in “Artist Alicia Smith Creating Indigenous Futurism Series,” The Norman Transcript, 10/14/22. Xinyue Song (MFA Computer Arts; BFA 2016 Design) was featured in “Xinyue Song Escapes the Patterns of Everyday Life With Her Happy and Ironic Illustrations,” Creative Boom, 8/12/22.

Wenjia Wang (BFA Illustration) was featured in “Wenjia Wang’s Unusual Illustrations Give Personality to Our Internal Organs,” Creative Boom, 9/6/22, and “Feeling Brave? Enter the

FROM LEFT: NICASIO FERNANDEZ (BFA 2015 Fine Arts), See the Light and Severed, 2022, oil on linen. On view at the solo exhibition “At Some Point,” Ross + Kramer Gallery, NYC, 11/17/22-1/5/23. Courtesy the artist and Ross + Kramer.

Uneasy World of Illustrator Wenjia Wang,” It’s Nice That, 10/19/22.

Jamele Wright (MFA Fine Arts) was a finalist in the 2023 Hudgens Prize Competition, The Hudgens Center for Art & Learning, Duluth, GA, 8/6/22.

2019

Rachel Balma (MFA Interaction Design) was featured in “What to Stream: 7 Shows That Take Us Back to (Art) School,” All Arts, 9/9/22.

Jordan Cruz (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media; BFA 2015 Photography) had work in the group exhibition “Giving Light: Arts for Social Justice Through the Lens of Human Rights,” Bronx Art Space, NYC, 6/30-7/23/22.

Nicole Finley (MFA Art Practice) was featured in “New Gallery Showcases Women’s Art in a ‘Positive Space,’” All Post Times, 10/8/22.

Jingyao Huang (BFA Photography and Video) had work in the group exhibition “Play to Escape,” Here Arts Center, NYC, 9/8-10/29/22.

Sakshi Jain (MFA Computer Arts) illustrated “The 10 Best Books of 2022,” The New York Times, 11/29/22.

Julia Marsh (MFA Design) was featured in “Seaweed Over Plastic? The Next Sustainable Innovation?,” The Good Men Project, 10/3/22.

Chad Murdock (BFA Film) was featured in “Director Chad Murdock on His First Feature and Indie Filmmaking,” Cinemacy, 11/16/22.

Yam Chew Oh (MFA Fine Arts) was interviewed “Art AND: Yam Chew Oh,” Bmore Art, 8/10/22.

Marianna Peragallo (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Home Grown,” Winstons, Los Angeles, 10/15-11/15/22.

Dana Robinson (MFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “i know you are, but what am i? (De) Framing Identity and the Body,” Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, 6/24/22-1/7/23, and had solo exhibitions, “Just Us Chickens,” [TXST] Galleries, San Marcos, TX, 8/22-11/11/22, and “Dial Tone,” A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, 9/10-10/9/22.

Bird Warde (BFA Cartooning) was featured in “Bird Warde Wants to Introduce You to Your Next Favorite Animal,” National Audubon Society, 9/2/22.

Hugo Yu (BFA Photography and Video) photographed “15 Books Coming in November,” The New York Times, 10/27/22.

2020 Apeksha Agarwal (MPS Digital Photography) photographed Most Stylish Awards 2022, Hindustan Times India, 7/15/22.

Gabriel Barreto Bentin (BFA Photography and Video) was featured in “An Intimate, Joyful Look at Daily Life in the Peruvian Andes,” Conde Nast Traveler, 7/13/22.

Carol Cao (BFA Fine Arts) had a pop-up shop for her brand Carol Cao New York, Columbus Circle Holiday Market, NYC, 11/29-12/24/22.

Amina Gingold (BFA Photography and Video) had work in the group exhibition “Palm* Photo Prize,” 1014 Gallery, London, 5/5-6/5/22.

Yuke Li (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) was featured in “In Flux to Return to Scottsdale with New Public Artworks by Yuke Li, Shirley Wagner and More,” Broadway World Arizona, 7/6/22.

Xinmei Liu (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) was featured in “Xinmei Liu,” Communication Arts, 7/25/22.

Taha Long (MPS Directing) screened Hey, Night (2021), Dumbo Film Festival, NYC, 10/1410/18/22.

Barbara Owen (MFA Art Practice) had work in the group exhibition “Fear to Tread,” Roger That Gallery, Bristol, RI, 10/27-12/5/22.

Chunbum “Chun” Park (BFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “The Expression of Onnagata: Fluidity and Timelessness,” One Art Space, NYC, 7/26-8/1/22.

Joebert Tupas (MPS Fashion Photography) was featured in “This Is What Contemporary Queer Photography Looks Like in 2022,” Digital Camera World, 6/19/22.

Heather Williams (MFA Art Practice) screened Safe Passage III (2022), ArtCrawl Harlem, Governors Island, NYC, 7/30/22, and had work in the group exhibitions “Multitudinous,” Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, 10/7-11/18/22, and “Abstract, Stitch & Dye,” The Trinity Art Exhibit, NYC, 11/18-12/18/22.

2021

Lisa Durden (MFA Social Documentary Film) was the recipient of the Community Service Award, 13th Annual Women’s International Film Festival, Women in Media-Newark, Newark, NJ, 8/4/22.

Chris Facey (BFA Photography and Video) had a solo exhibition, “Watch Them Jump,” Durham Art Guild Gallery & Studios at Golden Belt, Durham, NC, 6/2-7/24/22, had work in the group exhibition “Art Justice Cohort: Being Seen,” Culture Lab LIC, NYC, 6/2-6/26/22, and photographed “Denial in the Face of Climate Change,” Noēma, 10/25/22.

Xupeng Feng (MPS Directing) was featured in “Interview with Emerging Filmmaker Xupeng Feng,” Flanelle, 11/8/22.

Abbey Gilbert (BFA Photography and Video) was selected as a summer 2022 artist in residence, Carrie Able Gallery, NYC, 7/1-9/30/22.

Doi Kim (MFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Betwixt and Between,” Project Gallery V, NYC, 11/1-12/15/22.

Sofiya Kuzmina (BFA Illustration) had work in the group exhibition “Hexposition,” Royal Society of American Art, NYC, 10/14-11/13/22.

James Meyer (BFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Contaminated Landscape,” Marc Straus Gallery, NYC, 6/16-8/12/22.

Anthony Reamer (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Food for the Moon,” Deli Grocery, NYC, 10/14/22.

Alexander Si (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “Sweet Green,” Chinatown Soup, NYC, 7/12-7/24/22, and was featured in “A Fake

Sweetgreen Franchise Raises Questions About Chinatown Gentrification and Labor Disparity,” Gothamist, 7/22/22, and “A Faux Sweetgreen Storefront in Chinatown Probes the Racial Dynamics of Labor,” Hyperallergic, 7/27/22.

Sao Tanaka (MPS Digital Photography) had a solo exhibition, “Meld Gold,” Mizuma & Kips, NYC, 11/5-11/23/22.

Simiao Wang (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay) was featured in “’A Celebration of Audio’: Inside Spotify’s Colorful New Offices,” Time, 10/26/22.

Gonnie Zur (BFA Film) screened Lemons (2022), Palm Springs International ShortFest 2022, Palm Springs, CA, 6/21-6/27/22, HollyShorts 18th Film Festival, Los Angeles, 8/118/20/22, and “Shorts Block: Kindred Spirits,” Bushwick Film Festival, NYC, 11/1-11/7/22.

2022

Xi Chen (MPS Digital Photography) was selected as Student Winner of 2022 One Photo Challenge, 8/18/22, was interviewed in “New York Is a Haven for Architectural Photography,” 9/19/22, Architizer, and was selected for the Buildings in Use Shortlist, The Architectural Photography Awards 2022, 10/31/22.

Jaeyou Chung (BFA Design) was featured in “Jaeyou Chung’s Rebrand for Beijing’s X Museum Features a Type Inspired by Twisted Dimensions and Chair Legs,” It’s Nice That 6/13/22.

Yuan Fang (MFA Fine Arts; BFA 2019 Visual & Critical Studies) had a solo exhibition, “Expanse,” Bill Brad Gallery, Los Angeles, 7/23-8/27/22.

Bryan Fernandez (BFA Fine Arts) had work in the group exhibition “Outside,” Dinner Gallery, NYC, 7/1-8/1/22.

Xayvier Haughton (MFA Fine Arts) was featured in “CVA Prepares for ‘Stroll Through the Arts’ in Support of Student Artists,” The Chautauquan Daily, 7/29/22.

Maithili Joshi (BFA Illustration) was featured in “Illustrator Maithili Joshi on Making Picture Books, Compiling a Portfolio and How Lockdown Refined Her Art,” Creative Boom, 10/19/22. Mellow Meadow a.k.a. Yue Li (BFA Illustration) was featured in “Mellow Meadow’s Art Sends You on a Spiritual Journey Through Natural and Mystical Beings,” Creative Boom 8/15/22.

Ashley McLean (BFA Photography and Video) was the recipient of the Dior Prize for Photography and Visual Arts for Young Talents, Dior, Luma Arles and the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles, France, 7/4-9/25/22.

Paulina Mendoza Valdez (MFA Fine Arts) facilitated the community altar at Flatiron NoMad Partnership’s Día de Muertos celebration, Flatiron North Plaza, NYC, 11/2/22.

Dylan Rheingold (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “A Rose Is Still a Rose,” Jupiter Contemporary, Miami Beach, FL, 8/27-10/1/22.

Anna Sørrig (MPS Directing) was the recipient of the Grand Prize for Best Student Film for Dying to Survive (2022), Rhode Island International Film Festival, Providence, RI, 8/7-8/13/22.

Suyi Xu (MFA Fine Arts) had a solo exhibition, “All That Is Solid Turns Into Air,” Fou Gallery, NYC, 9/24-12/18/22.

Xuemeng Zhang (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) was featured in “Interview With Photographer Xuemeng Zhang,” F-Stop, 6/1/22.

TREY ABDELLA, September, 2022, acrylic, foam, lenticular print, oil stick, paper, ink, and crayon on canvas wrapped panel. On view in the group exhibition “A Mimetic Theory of Desire,” David Lewis Gallery, NYC, 6/10-7/29/22. Photo by Phoebe d’Heurle. Courtesy the artist and David Lewis.

George Booth

(1951 Cartooning), whose charmingly frenetic cartoons in The New Yorker featured a quirky cast of characters (including a surly bull terrier who became an unofficial publication mascot) that helped set the tone of the magazine’s comic offerings, died on November 1, 2022, in Brooklyn. Born and raised in rural Missouri, Booth was an avid artist since his early years. He was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps shortly after graduating from high school in 1944. After serving for two years, he re-enlisted to work as a cartoonist and illustrator at Leatherneck, the Marines’ magazine. Afterward, Booth used the G.I. Bill to study at various art schools, including SVA. He worked as an art director for a publisher of trade magazines before selling his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1969. He continued drawing for the magazine for 50 years, contributing his last cartoon in 2019 at the age of 92. Booth’s work was known for their busy details and cantankerous cats and dogs. Among Booth’s notable cartoons was one drawn for the week after the September 11, 2001, attacks, which contained no gag, only one of his recurring characters, Mrs. Ritterhouse, sitting with her eyes cast down. Booth illustrated The New Yorker ’s cover many times over his long career, and his cartoons were collected in eight books, including the most recent, 2009’s About Dogs. He was honored in 2010 with a lifetime achievement award from the National Cartoonists Society.

Félix Juan Alberto Beltrán Concepción

(1960 Advertising), considered one of the most important Latin American designers, died on December 28, 2022. Born in Cuba in 1938, Beltrán immersed himself in the world of design at a young age. Beltrán studied advertising and graphic design at SVA. His work as a graphic designer earned him three honorary doctorates and more than 140 awards; he was known as the “father of the Cuban poster.” A resident of Mexico City since the mid-1980s, he was the curator of the International Graphic Archive at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. He was also a professor of graphic design at the Instituto Superior de Deseño Industrial and Instituto Superior de Arte, in Havana, Cuba; and at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Tamaulipas and the Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico. His work is featured in the permanent collections of museums throughout the world, including at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de la Habana, in Havana; the Bibliothèque des Arts Decoratifs, in Paris; and Musée des Arts Décoratifs, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Lawrence J. “Larry” Milbauer

(1965) died on May 22, 2022. Born in New York City, Milbauer lived briefly in Baltimore as a young boy but spent most of his youth in Bayside, Queens, where he graduated from Bayside High School in 1943. Prior to attending SVA, he received a BA from Queens College in 1947. Although Milbauer started out as an advertising copywriter, he

spent most of his career as a buyer with Montgomery Ward & Co. His job enabled him to travel widely, but the main focus of his life was family and friends. Milbauer was a man of varied interests and activities ranging from painting and fine art to badminton and yoga—he was a member of the Art Workshop in Boonton, New Jersey, for 20 years, and was a regular participant in the badminton club in Mountain Lakes, serving as the club’s president for a time. His wife, Mary Sullivan, predeceased him in 2003. He is survived by sons Paul, John and James (Jean).

Linda Seifried

(1962) died on April 23, 2022, in Sidney Center, New York. Born in Long Island, New York, Seifried grew up in Saratoga, New York, and Dumont, New Jersey. After attending SVA, Seifried studied biology and education at Douglass College, New Jersey. There she met Stefan T. Seifried; the two were married shortly after graduation. They raised three daughters, and Seifried kept busy with substitute teaching, growing a large garden and enjoying photography and art. In retirement, Seifried kept busy serving in many leadership roles with the local chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club. She was an active member of the Oneonta congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. She was a talented poet who loved to illustrate her work with her photos and art. Seifried is survived by her husband of 55 years; daughters Christine Lackos, Bonnie Seifried-Myers and Rosemary Seifried; and grandson, Thomas Lackos.

Political posters by the late SVA alumnus Félix Beltrán. Courtesy of Teresa Camacho, Sonia Diaz and Gabriel Martinez.

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