Teaching is, if nothing else, a form of mentorship—guiding students with the experience one has accrued and passing it on as clearly as possible. For BFA Design faculty member Eric Baker, that idea ...

A nearly two-hour-long event at the School of Visual Arts last spring delved into topics like the nature of machine versus learning, creativity in a tech-dominated era, and the very purpose of ...

Amid the frenzied back-to-school hubbub, SVA’s galleries and gathering spaces offer a respite and reminder of the creative community blossoming all around. September is always a full month, and this ...

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

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

Molly Knox Ostertag (BFA 2014 Cartooning) has gone on to great things since graduating from the School of Visual Arts. Now a Los Angeles-based, Ignatz- and Prism Award-winning cartoonist and animation ...

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

Ed Benguiat, a longtime SVA faculty member and creator of more than 600 typefaces, including the eponymous ITC Benguiat, which gives the Netflix series Stranger Things logo its early ’80s swagger, ...

Zach Cregger (BFA 2004 Computer Art) has built a career on versatility and reinvention, moving fluidly from sketch comedy to horror filmmaking without ever losing the experimental spirit that first ...

Calvin Seibert (BFA 1983 Fine Arts) has been building sandcastles for as long as he can remember, but it was only about three years ago that he started building them on Rockaway Beach, in Queens.

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

In 2013, comics publisher Top Shelf Productions released March: Book One, the first installment of a three-volume graphic-novel memoir by civil rights hero and U.S. Congressman John Lewis. Co-written ...