The School of Visual Arts' Main Building, circa 1992. Photo by Nightscream.

SVA's Main Building. Photo by Nightscream.

The School of Visual Arts, or SVA, is an art school in New York City, and is the largest independent undergraduate art college in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and was renamed in 1956. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1589x1202, 249 KB)The School of Visual Arts Main Building at 209 East 23rd Street, in New York City, circa 1992. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1589x1202, 249 KB)The School of Visual Arts Main Building at 209 East 23rd Street, in New York City, circa 1992. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1194x1791, 286 KB)The School of Visual Arts Main Building at 209 East 23rd Street, in New York City, circa 1992. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1194x1791, 286 KB)The School of Visual Arts Main Building at 209 East 23rd Street, in New York City, circa 1992. ... Art school is a colloquial term for any educational institution (whether secondary, post-secondary/undergraduate, or graduate/postgraduate) with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially graphic design, illustration, painting, photography, and sculpture. ... The construction of the Empire State Building, 1930. ... In some educational systems, an undergraduate is a post-secondary student pursuing a Bachelors degree. ... Art school is a colloquial term for any educational institution (whether secondary, post-secondary/undergraduate, or graduate/postgraduate) with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially graphic design, illustration, painting, photography, and sculpture. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Burne Hogarth (December 25, 1911 - January 28, 1996) was an American cartoonist, illustrator, educator, and author. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Curriculum

SVA is a fully accredited college that requires the completion of a four-year, 128 credit course for a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. This includes 70 accumulated credits' worth of studio classes (where the curriculum requires the creation of some type of art), 32 accumulated credits of Humanities and Sciences courses, 12 accumulated credits of art history courses, and 14 discretionary credits. A credit is a unit that gives weighting to the value, level or time requirements of an academic course. ... The Bachelor of Fine Arts, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. ... In education, a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses and their contents offered by an institution such as a school or university. ... The humanities are a group of academic subjects united by a commitment to studying aspects of the human condition and a qualitative approach that generally prevents a single paradigm from coming to define any discipline. ... Art history usually refers to the history of the visual arts. ...

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In 1983, the school introduced its first graduate offering, a Master of Fine Arts program in painting, drawing and sculpture. Since then, SVA has added six more graduate programs: Art Education; Art Therapy; Computer art; Design; Illustration as Visual Essay; and Photography, Video and Related Media. In the fall of 2005, the college opened its eighth graduate program, an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing. Graduate courses in Illustration as Visual Essay and Video & Related Media are also available. [1] 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up Graduate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The word graduate can mean any of several things. ... Master is a term that indicates a person from stanton). ... Fine art is a term used to refer to fields traditionally considered to be artistic. ... The Mona Lisa is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the Western world. ... Drawing is a means of making an image, using any of a wide variety of tools and techniques. ... A sculpture is a three-dimensional, man-made object selected for special recognition as art. ... Art education is the area of learning that covers art. ... This computer generated image was created using the program Sterling Fractal, which uses a fractal to seed the colouring algorithms and filters. ... Lens and mounting of a large format camera Wikibooks has more about this subject: Photography Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of light. ... Look up Video in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Video is the technology of capturing, recording, processing, transmitting, and reconstructing moving pictures, typically using celluloid film, electronic signals, or digital media. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Location and Campus

The school has two Manhattan locations: in the Gramercy neighborhood, on the East Side; and in the Chelsea neighborhood, on the West Side, with a number of buildings catering to classes in different departments. Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... The word gramercy is an interjection that can be used to express gratitude or surprise. ... Chelsea is located on the West Side of Manhattan, New York City. ...

Main Building

The Main Building is located at 209 East 23rd Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, and features, in addition to classrooms, administrative offices. The upper floors are mostly designated for film courses, and the building features an amphitheater. The building’s lobby and two adjoining rooms also serve as a museum space for exhibits and public events.

Humanities Building

The school does not own this entire building, which is located at 380 Second Avenue, but only three of its floors, including the second, where the school’s library and some classrooms are located, the fifth floor, where animation studios are located, and the eighth floor, where offices and classrooms designated for Humanities and Sciences classes are located.

Photography Building

Located at 214 East 21st Street, this building is where classrooms and studios used for Photography classes are located, as well as the school’s radio station, WSVA, and some administrative offices. A radio station is a sound broadcasting service. ...

Fine Arts Building

This building, located from 133-141 West 21st Street, between 7th and 6th Avenues, contains most of the studios serving drawing and painting classes, particularly for freshmen. It also features classrooms for courses in interior design, computer art, and art history.

Sculpture Building

Located at 30 West 17th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, this building is used for sculpture classes on the ground floor and lower level. [2]

Instructors

The school’s teaching staff is composed of professionals within the various fields to which the students’ aspire. For example:

• Instructors in the cartooning department have included professional illustrators such as Klaus Janson, a veteran of several Batman comics, Walter Simonson, who worked on Thor and X-Men-related comics, and Sam Viviano, a contributor and now current Art Director at MAD magazine. Other cartooning instructors have included Carmine Infantino and Joe Orlando.

• Calligrapher and typographer Edward Benguiat, who created over 600 typeface fonts, such as the Barcelona, and Bookman fonts, and who has designed the logos for many periodicals, such as The New York Times, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, teaches a typography course at the school.

• Illustrator Marshall Arisman, who has contributed illustrations for Time and the Village Voice, teaches an illustration class at the school, and conducts an annual contest for his students to produce a piece to accompany the winner of Playboy magazine’s annual College Fiction writing contest, which Playboy publishes with that article, along with several runners-up.

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References

• Official website

Gerard Way who is a wonderful artist and also in a band "My Chemical Romance" also went to this school with his unqine art style and ideas!