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| | Potential Energy: 19 Designers Set Their Ideas in Motion
THESIS EXHIBITION
May 1 - 16, 2009
Reception: Tuesday, May 5, 6 - 8pm
THESIS FORUM
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
9:30am - 8pm, reception to follow
SVA Theater
333 West 23 Street
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School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Potential Energy: 19 Designers Set Their Ideas in Motion,” an exhibition of products, campaigns and services developed by students graduating from the MFA Design Department at SVA. Both commercially viable and culturally significant, these products have been realized through graphic, web, industrial and motion design. The exhibition is curated by Dorothy Twining Globus, a faculty member at SVA and curator of exhibitions at the Museum of Arts & Design.
For the first time in the program’s 10-year history, the graduating class will also present their work at a daylong thesis forum held at the SVA Theater, 333 West 23rd Street, on April 22 from 9:30am to 8pm. A keynote lecture by iconic designer Milton Glaser will start the morning session. Other participants include MFA Design co-chairs Steven Heller and Lita Talarico, and design leaders Scott Stowell, Brian Collins and Allan Chochinov. The thesis forum is open to the public and provides an opportunity to learn more about each project directly from its creator. To encourage further dialogue, a closing reception will follow the event.
EMPOWERING THE CREATIVE COMMUNITY
Stephen Haslip’s Dirty Weekend encourages designers to ‘unplug’ through a series of hands-on workshops. Kristina Critchlow’s website, Swap Hive, invites creative professionals to barter their skills. Steven Smith strives for a more inclusive creative community through Tiny Hands, an online, open-source art collective.
DESIGNING SOCIAL CHANGE
Scott Suiter’s Bluespot is a custom surf apparel line that promotes the preservation of beaches and oceans. Yellow to Green is Yaijung Chang’s campaign to combat yellow dust storms in Korea. Areej Khan developed We the Women to ignite dialogue regarding a woman’s right to drive in Saudi Arabia.
TOOLS FOR HEALTHY LIVING
Devon Kinch introduces Pretty Penny, a financial role model for young girls. Jane Song’s Web site Owl’s Prowl, exposes animal-based ingredients in the food industry. Nicole Marinake’s Stacks, a series of portable reference cards, helps stagehands negotiate the complicated and sometimes dangerous world of technical theater. Jia Chen’s Out Wee Go is a Web site that emphasizes the importance of a connection between children and nature.
BOOKS THAT TEACH
The Claw by Jason Bishop is a visual and oral history of the American Death Metal Underground from 1983 to 1993. Theresa Rollison’s Live Don’t Learn is an activity book for young women themed around the transition into adulthood. Lesley Weiner’s Curiosity Index is a series of books that traces the visual history of objects.
OBJECTS THAT REINVENT ROUTINE
Hyun-jung Hwang’s Voya is a line of dressing aids for people with reduced mobility that empowers the user through function and aesthetic. Nigel Sielegar’s Mova is a series of customizable bags with modular parts that addresses the increasing need for mobile work spaces. Kimiyo Nakatsui takes on clutter in Brink, a packaging system for personal care products that introduces a visual and physical structure to a small but integral part of our personal environments.
INNOVATIONS WITH EMOTIONAL IMPACT
David Ricart’s Tolo intensifies long-distance communication by providing a system for exchanging personal body scent. Gustavo Garcia’s Web site, Susu, allows users to create custom art prints based on patterns generated from their personal photos. Nick Acemoglu’s Web site, E-ternal, allows users to store thoughts, memories and life lessons for future generations.
The MFA Design Department prepares students to excel as both form givers and “authors” of original concepts across a broad range of media. Building on fluency with the languages of graphic design and typography, the department focuses on the independent creation of ideas. With the aim of transforming designers into entrepreneurs, the program encourages students to think for themselves in creating objects of value to others, drawing inspiration from visual communication in the fine as well as applied arts.
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| | Visual Arts Gallery
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
New York,
NY 10001
212.592.2145
The Visual Arts Gallery is SVA's premier exhibition facility. Located in Chelsea on the 15th floor of the landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building, it comprises four state of the art galleries and a large terrace with a commanding view of Lower Manhattan and the Hudson River. Staffed by six full-time professionals, Visual Arts Gallery offers select students the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work in the same environment as some of the country's leading artists--a number of whom have exhibited there as well.
Since the Visual Arts Gallery moved from 137 Wooster Street in Soho to its present location in 2004, it has exhibited works by renowned SVA alumni such as Renee Cox, Inka Essenhigh, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Lazzarini, Sol Lewitt, Vera Lutter, Elizabeth Peyton, Alexis Rockman, Collier Schorr, Lorna Simpson and Sara Sze, Works by Richard Avedon, Milton Glaser, Anish Kapoor, Stefan Sagmeister, Sebastiao Salgado have also been exhibited at the Visual Arts Gallery.
SVA students of every discipline derive great educational benefit from being able to study the work of celebrated artists, hear them speak at lectures, or even get the chance to meet them in person -- all right here at the College.
The Visual Arts Gallery is open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and is closed Sunday and federal holidays*. The gallery is accessible by wheelchair. For more information, or to purchase student's work (the gallery takes no commission), please call 212.592.2145.
*Summer Hours: The gallery will be closed for the
Independence Day holiday weekend from Friday, July 2, 1pm through
Monday, July 5. June 4th
through August 20th, 2010, the gallery will be closing one hour earlier
on Fridays (5pm instead of 6pm).
For press inquiries, please call the Office of Communication at 212.592.2010 or email proffice@sva.edu
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