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Poster design by Zina Saunders; from "Where Is My Vote? Posters for the Green Movement in Iran"
All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
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SVA GALLERY
209 East 23 Street
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 7pm; Saturday, 10am - 6pm
The gallery will be closed from Friday, September 3 at 1pm through Monday, September 6 for the Labor Day weekend.
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New New York Art
September 1 - 18
Reception: Tuesday, September 14, 6 - 8 pm
The artists in this multimedia exhibition use formal and conceptual approaches to address diversity, pluralism and multiculturalism in New York. The artists are current students and recent graduates of the BFA Fine Arts Department. Curated by Department Chair Emeritus Jeanne Siegel.
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Infinite Possibilities
September 1 - 18
Reception: Tuesday, September 14, 6 - 8pm
An exhibition of work by alumnus Tarah Rhoda (BFA 2010 Fine Arts) focusing on finding the macrocosm of the universe within the microcosm of the human body. Curated by Gary Sherman.
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The Book Show
September 23 - October 13
Reception: Tuesday, September 28, 6 - 8pm
An annual exhibition of book projects by second-year students in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department. Curated by Department Chair Marshall Arisman and faculty member Carl Nicholas Titolo.
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VISUAL ARTS GALLERY
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
The gallery will be closed from Friday, September 3 at 1pm through Monday, September 6 for the Labor Day weekend.
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Where Is My Vote? Posters for the Green Movement in Iran
August 30 - September 25
Reception: Thursday, September 16, 6 - 8pm
An exhibition of over 125 political posters by graphic artists world wide created in support of the protests in Iran that followed the 2009 presidential election. The exhibition is the first public viewing of these posters in printed form and was organized by designers Anita Kunz and Woody Pirtle, along with Francis Di Tommaso, director of the Visual Arts Gallery, and Steven Heller, author, design historian and co-chair of the MFA Design Department at SVA.
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WESTSIDE GALLERY
133/141 West 21 Street
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 7pm; Saturday, 10am - 6pm
The gallery will be closed from Friday, September 3 at 1pm through Monday, September 6 for the Labor Day weekend.
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Valetudo: Art and Healing in Provence
August 31 - September 18
Reception: Monday, September 13, 6 - 8pm
This exhibition features works made by psychiatric patients at the Maison de Sante Saint-Paul in the French town of Saint-Remy-de-Provence. Saint-Paul is known by art historians the world over as the hospital where Vincent Van Gogh committed himself in the late 19th century, and the place where he made some of his most recognized works. With a selection of recent paintings and testimonials from present-day Saint-Paul patients, the exhibition documents the enduring role that creative expression plays in the healing process of artists and non-artists alike. Presented by the MPS Art Therapy Department, in partnership with the Valetudo Association.
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SCREENINGS
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Celebrate Mexico Now: Winners of the 2009 Morelia International Film Festival
Friday, September 17, 7pm
A screening of award-winning short films from the 2009 Morelia International Film Festival, followed by a Q&A with the directors from Mexico moderated by Lucila Moctezuma. The films include Senora Pajaro (directed by Veronique Decroux); Y el agua? (directed by Dominique Jonard); Felipe (directed by Lenz Claure); Nebraska (directed by Adrian Ortiz); and El suicidio del tiempo (Pavel Gonzalez) (directed by Daniel Gonzalez Olvera). All films are in Spanish with English subtitles. Presented by the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at SVA as part of Celebrate Mexico Now, a citywide festival of contemporary Mexican art and culture.
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free and open to the public. For information about the festival’s other offerings, visit www.mexiconowfestival.org or call 212.592.2180.
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MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department Thesis Video Screening
Sunday, September 26, 6 - 10pm
A screening of thesis videos from 2010 graduates of the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department.
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public
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CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION SESSIONS
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Information Sessions
Courses Conducted in Spanish
Wednesday, September 1, 6:30 - 8:30pm
209 East 23 Street, room 311
Moderator: Paloma Crousillat, course advisor, Division of Continuing Education
Film, Video and Animation
Wednesday, September 1, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
209 East 23 Street, room 502
Moderator: Salvatore Petrosino, director of operations, BFA Film, Video and Animation Department
Fine Arts: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking and Jewelry
Thursday, September 2, 6:30 - 8:30pm
133/141 West 21 Street, room 602C
Moderator: Steve DeFrank, sculptor
Illustration and Cartooning
Thursday, September 2, 6:30 - 8:30pm
209 East 23 Street, room 311
Moderator: Keith Mayerson, cartoonist, illustrator, fine artist
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LECTURES
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Rick Poynor: Curating 'Uncanny: Surrealism and Graphic Design'
Tuesday, September 14, 6 - 7:30pm
Focusing on the exhibition “Uncanny: Surrealism and Graphic Design” that he devised for the Moravian Gallery in Brno, British design critic and curator Rick Poynor will examine curating as an extension of writing and editing practices. Poynor was the founding editor of Eye and a co-founder of Design Observer. He is the author of several cultural studies and has written about design and visual culture for Blueprint, Icon, Creative Review, Frieze, Financial Times, The Guardian, Adbusters, Harvard Design Magazine, Metropolis and Print. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. RSVP to dcrit@sva.edu
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Alexi Worth
Tuesday, September 14, 6:30pm
Alexi Worth is a painter whose work combines formal simplicity and humor, often relying on interrupted, cropped or overshadowed views. Writing in The New York Times, critic Roberta Smith described Worth’s paintings as marked by “quirky realism and deliberate surfaces.” A senior critic at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate Program in Fine Art, Worth has curated exhibitions in Boston and New York; and has written about art for Art in America, Artforum, The New Yorker and other publications. Presented by the BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department.
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public
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Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss? Book Launch and Signing
Tuesday, September 14, 7pm
A conversation between designers James Victore, Paul Sahre and Michael Bierut in celebration of the release of James Victore's new book Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss? (Abrams, September 2010). Victore and Sahre are on the faculty of the BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department. A book-signing will follow the talk.
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public
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Laura Letinsky in Conversation with Lynne Tillman
Wednesday, September 15, 7pm
On the eve of her upcoming solo exhibition, photographer Laura Letinsky will discuss her work with fiction writer and art critic Lynne Tillman. Letinsky’s solo exhibition, "After All," will be on view at September 16 - October 30 at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York. Presented by the BFA Photography Department and Dear Dave, magazine.
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public
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Not Nature Poems: A Discussion of Current Trends in Ecopoetics
Thursday, September 16, 6:30pm
The first in the Quips and Cranks series of panel discussions on poetics in the arts, this event examines how artists are re-conceiving their work in respect to nature. Poets Brenda Ijima and Jonathan Skinner join painter Rackstraw Downes and author Joan Richardson to discuss recent developments in their work regarding how to make art in relation to devastating human-engendered changes in the natural environment. Moderated by poets Vincent Katz and Tim Peterson. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public
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The Clinical Use of Photoshop and Digital Photography in Art Therapy within the Scope of Psychiatry
Friday, September 24, 6:30 - 8pm
Sojung Park, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT and Kimberly Faulkner, ATR-BC, LCAT will address clinical uses of Adobe Photoshop and digital photography, focusing on clients with mental illness in different therapeutic settings. They will explain how to effectively tailor treatment objectives and bring digital techniques into a therapeutic encounter with limited resources and access to technology. Presented by the MPS Art Therapy Department.
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public. RSVP to 212.592.2610 or arttherapy@sva.edu. Seating is limited and late arrivals will not be admitted. All attendees must bring photo ID.
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Indecent Exposure: A Discussion and Screening of Films You are Unlikely to See Elsewhere
Monday, September 27, 6:30pm
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Congressional decision to require the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to consider “general standards of decency and respect” in awarding grants, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and the BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department at SVA present a double-feature screening of Destricted (2006)--a collection of short films by visual artists Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Cecily Brown, Larry Clark, Marilyn Minter and Richard Prince, among others, all exploring the boundaries between pornography and art--and Larry Clark’s Ken Park (2002), which has had limited distribution due to its controversial sexual content. The evening includes a discussion with some of the filmmakers.
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public
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Interboro: Visualizing Issues and Ideas in Urban Planning
Tuesday, September 28, 6 - 7:30pm
New York City-based research and design group Interboro will discuss its innovative, advocacy-based approach to architecture and urban planning. They will present projects including LentSpace, a 30,000 square foot sculpture space in lower Manhattan; Community: The American Way of Living, a submission to the American wing of the 2009 International Biennale Rotterdam (which Interboro co-curated); and NORCS in NYC a guidebook to New York City’s “Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities.” Interboro is formed by Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, and Georgeen Theodore. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. RSVP to dcrit@sva.edu
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Ammiel Alcalay: To Write a Republic: Experience, Heroism and Poetics in the National Security State
Wednesday, September 29, 7pm
Poet, novelist, critic, scholar and activist Ammiel Alcalay will discuss the role of poetry and poetics as active thought and resistance to the restructuring of North American society during the Cold War. Alcalay’s work has ranged from scholarship, translation and activist writings on the Middle East and the Balkans, to recontextualizing the "New American Poetry" in political terms. His books include: the cairo notebooks (Singing Horse Press, 1993); from the warring factions (Beyond Baroque, 2002); Scrapmetal (Factory School, 2007); After Jews & Arabs (University of Minnesota Press, 1993); Memories of Our Future (City Lights, 1999); and translations from Bosnian, Hebrew and Arabic, including Semezdin Mehmedinovic's Sarajevo Blues (City Lights, 1998). His latest book, Islanders, was recently published by City Lights and a new book of essays, A Little History, will be published later this year by Fred Dewey Books. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public
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