walking as reading..., writing as dancing...,
prompts that converge..., an intersection of
improvisational interludes.
March 24
in conversation with Slavko Djuric, Asuka Ohsawa & possibly Heidi Neilson
6:30–9:30
March 25
Installation & prompt-based interactions . dancers & musicians from 2–3pm
12:30–4:00pm
FIT
The John E. Reeves Great Hall
218 West 28th Street
(entrance on 28th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues)
There is a hunger for the human – an escape but not a denial of our world within small screens.
How can we return to the grounding of the primal through walking, observing, mark making, moving, and conversing?
This event is a montage of excursions with the tactile and with the tangible. Interdisciplinary structures will facilitate a melding of approaches that support our related processes… We share a collective focus, bringing the physical and improvisational through interludes of collective play.
DANCERS, MUSICIANS, HUMANS, & PEDESTRIANS NEEDED.…
IF THIS COMPELS YOU, PLEASE JOIN US FROM 2–3PM ON
THE 25TH
Come join us at @vcfaedu in the MFA in Graphic Design program! If you're feeling a need to change up your creative practice a low-residency MFA program might be the time to do it.
TONIGHT @ 7pm ET (link in bio)
The MFA in Graphic Design Program at VCFA is excited to host a special virtual book talk with designer, educator, and advocate Omari Souza as he shares insights from his forthcoming book, Design Against Racism. Drawing from his extensive work in design and social justice, Souza explores how creative practices can both perpetuate and dismantle systemic inequities. This conversation will highlight the role of designers in addressing bias, amplifying marginalized voices, and envisioning more inclusive futures.
Souza, known for his founding of the State of Black Design (SOBD) and impactful teaching, brings a powerful perspective on how design intersects with race, culture, and community. Look forward to an evening that takes a first look at the themes shaping Design Against Racism. A Q&A with Souza and VCFA Alumnx Shannon Doronio Chavez will expand the dialogue about equity-driven approaches to design practice.
Join us for this timely and inspiring event that challenges us to rethink the responsibility—and possibility—of design in creating a more just world.
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
7:00 - 8:00 PM EST
Zoom Registration (suggested)
Open to all VCFA students, alumnx and public
VCFA MFA in GD ALUMNX Announcement! 📣 📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣
We, the AAC, (Alumnx Advisory Council), are developing a directory as part of a continued exchange/interaction and support system. Personal contacts are preferred, as there are glitches with the updating of our VCFA emails.
Please add your contact information if you are compelled:
🔗 See link in bio to update your info. ⬅️
If you have any trouble getting into the doc, just send a request for permissions. Other thoughts and desires are also very much appreciated. Thank you in advance!
— Sondra Graff GD ‘15 🙏🏻
Thinking about getting your MFA in Graphic Design? The MFA in Graphic Design at VCFA is an innovative low-residency program built around students’ interests, values, and creative goals. Join our faculty and students in continuously rethinking the field of graphic design.
Join us for an upcoming admissions info session. Deadline to apply for Winter 2026 semester on the campus of CalArts is October 1st.
🔗 Admissions sign-up 👉🏼 linktree in bio!
#vcfaedu #vcfagraphicdesign #vcfalove #rethinkgraphicdesign #mfaingraphicdesign #designyourlife #vcfa #vcfadesign #designcrtique #studentcenteredlearning #studentcenterededucation
In photo (center) recent Summer 2025 MFA grad, Rian Kasner. 👏
Design as a Passion Project: Meet GDUSA “Student to Watch” Jewell Melisa Morton.
Jewell Melisa Morton (GD ’25) may have just graduated from VCFA’s MFA in Graphic Design program in January 2025, but she’s already established in the field of Esports design.
In the spring of 2025, Morton was named a GDUSA “Student to Watch” along with two other VCFA Graphic Design community members. “I’ve got impostor syndrome right now,” Morton admitted. “I don’t know what it means for me. I just want to work with people that are really cool and make cool work.”
Read the full story with the link in our bio!
Representing @vcfadesign Fernando, brought the 🔥 at Hunger Mountain Live with a powerful piece on ancestral inheritance, generational doubt, and reclamation. We’re honored to have voices like his on our stage, speaking truth, history, and healing into the room.
🎥 Hit play and witness what happens when art, design, and spoken word collide.
#vcfa #livepoetry #spokenword #spokenwords #spokenwordartist #mfa #losangeles #calarts #literature
VCFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition 2025
Other People’s Prisms invites us to witness the refractions of perspective through three creators standing in the same space, each casting light in a different direction. Though the projects diverge in form and focus, they share a common question: How does a personal lens shape what we see, and how do we, in turn, shape the world? This exhibition is an act of empathy, a call to notice the multiplicity within others and the shifting nature of our own lens. In looking through other people’s prisms, we come to see ourselves more clearly.
Shannon Doronio Chavez (GD ’25), Rian Kasner (GD ’25), and Lana Lambert (GD ’25).
Link in bio to see the website and dig deeper into their projects. 🔗
🦩🦩🦩VCFA’s MFA in Graphic Design: congrats to grad, Lana Lambert for her thesis and exhibition “Hatching Flamingo Eggs.” #vcfaedu #vcfa #vcfadesign #vcfalove💚 #flamingo #illustration #graphicnovel #comiclovers #hatchingeggs #vcfafam
VCFA’s MFA in Graphic Design: congrats to grad, Shannon Doronio Chavez for her thesis and exhibition “Una Ofrenda: Design as a relational practice.” #vcfaedu #vcfa #vcfadesign #vcfalove💚 #offering #relationaldesign #designpractice
