ACADEMICS ADMISSIONS STUDENTS FACULTY ALUMNI ABOUT COVID-19 EXPLORE APPLY Features November 2021 Exhibitions and Virtual Events at the School of Visual Arts November 2, 2021 by Maeri Ferguson Bryan Fernandez, ¿Quiere Brugal?, 2021, from the BFA Fine Art students exhibition “In and Out of Time.” CREDIT: BRYAN FERNANDEZ SHARE A film festival, a stroll through a public art installation in a New York City park, a sunset photography adventure: These are just a few of the offerings this month at SVA. Half a dozen exhibitions, both virtual and in-person, plus lectures, workshops and community discussions will take place throughout November, all free and open to the public. Whether tuning in for a lunchtime Zoom discussion on cultural heritage or perusing student and alumni artwork in the galleries, there is much to enjoy in this month’s diverse slate of events. Taarika Ravi John, Self-Portrait, 2020. On view at the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay thesis exhibition. CREDIT: TAARIKA RAVI JOHN EXHIBITIONS Through Friday, November 5 | “In and Out of Time” | SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th floor This exhibition of work by BFA Fine Art students brings together works in a variety of mediums: painting, drawing, sculpture and video installation. Ranging in ideas drawn from popular culture, formalism, identity politics and even death, these works address the spirit of our time. Through Friday, November 12 | “Adoration” | SVA Flatiron Project Space, 133/141 West 21st Street A two-person exhibition featuring paintings and drawings by John-Michael Byrd and Wayde McIntosh curated by the artists, safely viewable in the windows of the space from the sidewalk. In their respective art practices, Byrd and McIntosh, while seemingly different in approach, lay bare and uplift those people, spaces, objects and concepts that might be overlooked or avoided in canonical glorification. Presented by BFA Visual & Critical Studies. Through Friday, November 19 | “Becoming” (Online) An annual exhibition of BFA Photography and Video students’ work in direct conversation with work by celebrated alumni of the program. For the 2021 iteration, 10 third-year BFA Photography and Video students were invited to select a work by a department alumnus and create a work in response. Through Friday, November 19 | “Do the Liminal Space!” (Online) An exhibition of animations, prints, videos and interactive installations by 14 MFA Computer Arts students and alumni, “Do the Liminal Space!” demonstrates those unknown moments when undergoing periods of transition. The artists in this exhibition courageously explore themes of movements within landscape, the body, words and the uncharted. We invite viewers to take a deep breath, be still with the ambiguity of the obscure and do the liminal space! Through Wednesday, December 1 | SVA at Photoville | Brooklyn Bridge Park SVA Continuing Education and MPS Digital Photography each present exhibitions of work at the 2021 Photoville, New York City’s free premier photo destination now in its 10th year. Thursday, November 18 – Friday, December 10 | Thesis Selections: MFA Illustration as Visual Essay | SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th floor In a time of unprecedented challenges, the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay class of 2021 has achieved amazing things. The members of this unique cohort have responded to social and academic isolation and personal hardships with a brilliant burst of ambition and originality, creating spectacular paintings, drawings, prints, graphic novels, children’s books and illustrated memoirs. Amy Zhou, Suffocation, 2021. On view at “Becoming,” an exhibition of BFA Photography and Video student work. CREDIT: AMY ZHOU EVENTS Tuesday, November 2, 7:00 – 8:00pm | Visiting Artist Lecture: Zhang Ga (Online) Join BFA Fine Arts for a lecture from distinguished professor and vice dean of the Institute of Sci-Tech Arts, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Zhang Ga. Ga has lectured on media art and culture around the world and published essays and edited books with the MIT Press, October, Flash Art International, Liverpool University Press, among others. Since 2015, he has directed Chronus Art Center in Shanghai and currently is also co-curator of ZKM | Hong Media Art Collection. Wednesday, November 3, 6:00 – 8:30pm | Art & Activism—Our House: Claiming “Home” Through Art and Design (Online) As we celebrate the fifth annual Art & Activism event, presented by SVA Continuing Education, the concept of home and all its definitions are explored. What does it mean to be at home in our bodies, our communities and our world as we navigate through these perilous times? Spend the evening hearing from artists who addressed how fallow buildings could be re-purposed for creatives in desperate need of affordable living spaces; an accomplished nonprofit leader creating space through community design; an artist-activist working with indigenous communities to save the Amazon utilizing performance art; and high school students expressing themselves about the ever-present threat of climate change through the art of animation. Tuesday, November 9, 7:00 – 8:30pm | Wendel White (Online) Join photographer and Wendel White (BFA 1980 Photography) for a discussion of his work, which includes such projects as “Red Summer,” “Manifest,” “Schools for the Colored,” “Village of Peace: An African American Community in Israel” and “Small Towns, Black Lives.” Presented as part of MPS Digital Photography’s i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, now in its 10th year. A selection of images from the “Manifest” project are the subject of a Smithsonian Magazine article dedicated to the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Wednesday, November 10 – Thursday, November 18 | SocDoc Showcase at DOC NYC | Online and at Cinepolis Chelsea Theatre, 260 West 23rd Street MFA Social Documentary Film’s annual showcase of student work, “DOC NYC U: SVA,” includes six new films from current students and recent graduates. The screening is a part of DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival. The films screen online Wednesday, November 10, through Thursday, November 18 (available only in the U.S.), and in-person on Friday, November 12, 4:30pm, at the Cinepolis Chelsea theater. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with several members of the filmmaking teams. Tickets are required. Friday, November 12, 5:00 – 6:30pm | Sunset Photo Walk Discover the magic of the golden light and the blue hour with your camera and learn how to capture and mix them with the cityscape of Manhattan. During this New York City photo walk, travel photographer Esteban Toro will share his best composition tips, the process of planning a photograph and how to take advantage of the available light. Participants will be walking the Brooklyn Bridge and Dumbo in Brooklyn. Bring any camera you have available and discover the world through the lens of a traveler! Presented by SVA Continuing Education. Tuesday, November 16, 4:00 – 5:00pm | Will Hutnick (Online) Join artist and curator Will Hutnick for a lecture about his work, presented by MFA Art Practice. Hutnick is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting, as well as a 2017 grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation and a 2015 grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Art. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change. Tuesday, November 16, 6:30 – 8:00pm | Trauma, Home and DEI (Online) SVA’s inaugural director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Dr. Jarvis Watson, will host a virtual, interactive event discussing trauma, home and DEI work in the context of SVA community artwork from the Photoville exhibition “These Years.” This exhibition was created as a part of the fifth anniversary of SVA Continuing Education’s annual Art & Activism events series, in collaboration with Photoville and United Photo Industries. Wednesday, November 17, 12:00 – 1:00pm | Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Future, Not the Past (Online) Join members of Not An Alternative—a collective of artists, activists, cultural organizers and critical theorists that initiated traveling pop-up The Natural History Museum—to ask how new interpretations of cultural and environmental heritage can arise from connecting climate justice and land rights movements to the history of museums and the legacy of colonialism. Presented by MA Curatorial Practice. Friday, November 19, 6:00 – 7:30pm | Community Lecture Series: Death and Dying—Ethical Considerations and Art-Based Interventions (Online) In this virtual workshop, Lisa Furman, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, will provide an art-based psychotherapeutic model for palliative and terminal illness care within the context of ethical practice. Ethical challenges in end-of-life care will be discussed. Participants will receive an overview of palliative care assessment domains as well as evidence-based population and culturally-specific interventions grounded in the creative process. Case examples using art-based interventions will be provided. Presented by MPS Art Therapy. Emilio Ramos, Los Reyes Magos, 2021. On view at “Do the Liminal Space!” CREDIT: EMILIO RAMOS School of Visual Arts 209 East 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 212.592.2000 Jump In Apply Working @ SVA Hire SVA Talent Reach Out Contact & Map Request Info Visit Connect Events Subscribe Donate Accessibility Notice Policies & Guidelines Colophon