🎓 Congrats Class of 2026!! Our MFAVN third-years have one more summer intensive session ahead, but yesterday they walked the stage at Radio City Music Hall during SVA’s commencement ceremony. We’re so proud of you all! Hope everyone’s feeling pumped to be back on campus soon! 🎉
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Every year we invite guest artists, editors, directors, and the like (based on the form, industry, and media of each student), to be guest thesis reviewers for the student’s final thesis review and critique. We are so grateful to these creative professionals for sharing their knowledge, time, and expertise with our community!
A huge thank you to @jmarshallsmith !
“I am an artist, writer, and educator based out of Baltimore. I working primarily in alternative comics, and am the author of the graphic novel Testament, the collection series Solace County, and a lot of zines like Good Girl Laika. I like stormy weather but I don't like the leak in my roof.”
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Every year we invite guest artists, editors, directors, and the like (based on the form, industry, and media of each student), to be guest thesis reviewers for the student’s final thesis review and critique. We are so grateful to these creative professionals for sharing their knowledge, time, and expertise with our community!
A huge thank you to Clara Fernandez-Vara !
Clara Fernández-Vara is an Arts Professor at the NYU Game Center. She is a media scholar as well as a game designer and writer. She has worked on commercial projects at an international level for organizations such as Warner Bros., the Spanish National Ballet, Big Fish Games, and Die Gute Fabrik among others. As an academic, her main research interests are the narrative design of detective games as well as videogame history/ Her book, Introduction to Game Analysis, now in its third edition, is one of the key textbooks in the field of game studies.
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🎉 Last week we were proud to host our new students in an online orientation session where they got to meet each other for the first time, put faces to names of Staff, and learn about the semester ahead! We can’t wait to see you all this summer and officially get things rolling in June. 💻📚💫
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Every year we invite guest artists to be guest thesis reviewers for the student’s final thesis review and critique. Thank you to Kim Ima for sharing their time with our community!
Kim Ima is a performer, writer, and community events enthusiast. Member the New York Day Of Remembrance Committee. Longtime member of the Great Jones Rep at La MaMa; La MaMa credits include Cassandra in The Trojan Women directed by Andrei Serban and composed by Elizabeth Swados; many GJR shows directed by Ellen Stewart; Sur, a play adapted from Ursula K. Le Guin's short story; Food for Thought and Travels, Tours and One Night Stands, company-devised works co-directed with Onni Johnson: writing and directing The Interlude, a play about Kim's father's childhood in prison camp during WWII; and most recently performing her one woman show, Ready For Company and Other Family Tales. Kim is one of the founders of The Trojan Women Project, a community arts program at La MaMa that has worked with actors, musicians and community members in Kosovo, Cambodia, Guatemala, Italy, Ukraine and New York City. Other credits include Lunch Dances with Monica Bill Barnes & Company at the NYPL, MixTape Volume 1 at Keen Company; The Seven Deadly Sins, directed by Anne Bogart at The New York City Opera with the SITI Company; A Midsummer Night's Dream with the National Asian American Theatre Company; Disaster Theater at SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City; and an all female online The Cherry Orchard directed by Rachel Murdy. Kim co-produced films for the filmmaker and comic book writer, Greg Pak, both short films and the feature film, Robot Stories. Kim was the owner of a food truck called The Treats Truck, along with a bakery cafe, The Treats Truck Stop, and a cookbook, The Treats Truck Baking Book. Kim is a member of the New York Day Of Remembrance Committee, a group of Japanese American New Yorkers and allies dedicated to community programming, activism and partnerships, using the history of forced removal, family separation, and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, as well as the activism and organizing that grew from it to address the injustices and ongoing need to speak up on behalf of all people.
Every year we invite guest artists, editors, directors, and the like (based on the form, industry, and media of each student), to be guest thesis reviewers for the student’s final thesis review and critique. We are so grateful to these creative professionals for sharing their knowledge, time, and expertise with our community!
A huge thank you to trungles !
Trung Le Nguyen is an award-winning Vietnamese American cartoonist, artist, and writer from Minnesota.
Trung’s first original graphic novel, The Magic Fish, was published in 2020 through Random House Graphic.
He has also contributed work both as an author and as an artist for a variety of comics publishers, including DC Comics, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, Image Comics, and Marvel.
Trung has been nominated for an Eisner, a prize at Angoulême (France), a GLAAD award, and has won two Harvey Awards and a Romics (Italy).
He currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raises a small flock of very spoiled hens.
#SVA #MFA #VisualNarrative #MFAVN #StoryFirst #multidisciplinary #lowresidency #community #storytelling #storytellers #gradschool #artschool #networking #careerchange #illustration #publishing #risograph #riso #printmaking #film #animation #comics #gamedev #interactive #design #writing #creativewriting
Every year we invite guest artists, editors, directors, and the like (based on the form, industry, and media of each student), to be guest thesis reviewers for the student’s final thesis review and critique. We are so grateful to these creative professionals for sharing their knowledge, time, and expertise with our community!
A huge thank you to @rlopezortiz !
Ricardo López Ortiz is a Brooklyn, NY based comic book artist and illustrator hailing from Puerto Rico. He’s most known for his work on HARD STYLE JUICE, DC Comics’; The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #1 (2022), Ghost- Maker(2021) and American Vampire 1976(2021), TKO Presents’; THE PULL(2020), Marvel’s; War of the Realms: War Scrolls #1 (2019), Black Panther vs Deadpool(2018), Weapon X(2018), Totally Awesome Hulk Monsters Unleashed(2017) and Civil War 2: KIngpin(2016) as well as KILLBOY(2020), Hit- Girl: Colombia(2017), WOLF(2016) and ZERO(2014) for Image Comics.
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Every year we invite guest artists, editors, directors, and the like (based on the form, industry, and media of each student), to be guest thesis reviewers for the student’s final thesis review and critique. We are so grateful to these creative professionals for sharing their knowledge, time, and expertise with our community!
A huge thank you to Rose Pleuler!
Rose is a senior editor at HarperAlley, the graphic novel imprint of HarperCollins Publishing, where they have worked since 2016. They edit comics across ages and genres, and especially love championing fresh new voices, inventive world-building, and character-driven stories with a lot of heart. Before joining HarperCollins, Rose worked at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s Books. They are a graduate of Emerson College, where they earned a BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing. Rose lives in New York with their spouse and dog, Fusilli.
#SVA #MFA #VisualNarrative #MFAVN #StoryFirst #multidisciplinary #lowresidency #community #storytelling #storytellers #gradschool #artschool #networking #careerchange #illustration #publishing #risograph #riso #printmaking #film #animation #comics #gamedev #interactive #design #writing #creativewriting
A look into @rosaful_garden 's natural pigments course last semester + some large scale installations from Rosa herself 🩵🫐📘
This semester you can start fabric dyeing with indigo, exploring it's rich history and come out the workshop with two hand dyed cotton bandanas.
Link in bio to sign up!
#indigoworkshop #fabricdesign #artcourse
✨Every year we invite guest artists, editors, directors, and the like (based on the form, industry, and media of each student), to be guest thesis reviewers for the student’s final thesis review and critique. We are so grateful to these creative professionals for sharing their knowledge, time, and expertise with our community!
A huge thank you to @violainebriat ✨
Vee created and produced animated shorts for Cartoon Network, Dropout TV and Adult Swim. With 15 years+ in animation, doing storyboards and episode directing, they also moonlight as a webcomic creator. Most recently, they finished the webcomic Rodney R Rodney, which ended with a successful Kickstarter project to self publish more than a thousand copies. They currently run their new webcomic, AWOL666, while episode directing on Clash of Clans for Netflix.
#SVA #MFA #VisualNarrative #MFAVN #StoryFirst #multidisciplinary #lowresidency #community #storytelling #storytellers #gradschool #artschool #networking #careerchange #illustration #publishing #risograph #riso #printmaking #film #animation #comics #gamedev #interactive #design #writing #creativewriting
👀 🧠❓Interested in applying for our program but still have questions about what to include in your application?
We will be at National Graduate Portfolio Day's online event this Saturday, April 25th, from 12 PM to 4 PM EST
Applications are still open! Receive feedback about your portfolio and learn more about our program in time for a Summer 2026 start–see you there!
Register at the link in our bio to meet Chair, Nathan Fox via zoom.
☀️ Get this season started with @svacontinued Summer 2026 Continuing Education (CE) classes! Classes are now open for registration and include an incredible series of courses, both on campus and online! NEW this semester is Transforming Your Story into a Visual Novel Game taught by '25 alumni Alex Lee ( @alexinthecupboard )
🔗Click the link in our bio for more info, classes begin at the start of June —Register today!
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