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Illustration and Visual Storytelling: Art and Industry

May 28 - Jun 28 2024
$3200
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If you would like more information about this or any other program offerings, please contact the Artist Residency Programs Coordinator at:
residency@sva.edu
Location
Location to be announced
Faculty
Viktor Koen,

Chair, BFA Illustration and BFA Comics departments, School of Visual Arts; illustrator; designer

Aaron Meshon,

Illustrator, children’s book writer and illustrator

Miss Lasko-Gross,

Visual artist, writer

This studio residency offers the opportunity to develop professional portfolio pieces that express personal vision while exploring the wealth of resources available to illustrators in New York City.
With guidance from award-winning illustrators, participants will complete a body of work created from assigned and self-directed projects, aiming to showcase style, strong ideas and aesthetic direction. The goal is to advance your artistic practice to the next level and strengthen your position in the illustration marketplace.
A rigorous schedule, including sessions in portfolio development, sequential illustration, reviews and curated tours will complement independent work. Combined, these initiatives form an intense program that fosters personal voice and professional growth. Special lectures by guest artists, publishers, art directors and agents are designed to provide additional insight regarding the realities of a career in illustration.
Participants have access to a digital facility, as well as the opportunity to work in a variety of mediums. The program culminates in an open studio exhibition.
Faculty and lecturers have included Maëlle Doliveux, Tim Hamilton, Paul Hoppe, Aaron Meshon, Anna Raff, Miss Lasko-Gross and Andrea Tsurumi. Lecturers and portfolio reviewers have included Marshall Arisman, Paul Buckley, Martin Gee, Karl Heine, Charles Hively, Kat Irannejad, Francesca Messina, Yuko Shimizu, Sara Varon and Alexandra Zsigmond. Program coordinator: Viktor Koen, chair of the BFA Comics and BFA Illustration departments at SVA.
This course is graded on a pass/fail system. A portfolio is required for review and acceptance to this program.

Faculty

Miss Lasko-Gross
Faculty member Miss Lasko-Gross
Miss Lasko-Gross

Miss is the author and illustrator of Henni (honored by ALA’s Amelia Bloomer list and YALSA 2016: Great Graphic Novels for Teens), Fantagraphics Books: A Mess Of Everything (named one of Booklist’s top 10 graphic novels of the year) and the YALSA nominated Escape From “Special.” She is the creator/ writer of Z2 comics’ sci-fi series The Sweetness. Her work has also been featured in the New Yorker’s Daily Shouts.

Faculty member Miss Lasko-Gross
Viktor Koen
Faculty member Viktor Koen wearing a black shirt against a dark background and bookshelf.
Viktor Koen

Viktor is an award-winning illustrator regularly commissioned by national and international publications. He holds a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design in Jerusalem and an MFA in Illustration with honors from the School of Visual Arts. Frequently featured in books and publications, his prints and posters are exhibited in galleries and museums around the world and constitute part of private and institutional collections. He is Chair of the BFA Illustration and BFA Cartooning at SVA while serving as core faculty at SVA’s MFA Illustration program, and is founder and Chair Coordinator of the SVA Illustration Residency. A TED speaker who regularly lectures for academic and professional institutions and conferences he also serves on several institutional boards of directors.

Faculty member Viktor Koen wearing a black shirt against a dark background and bookshelf.
Aaron Meshon
A white man with blonde hair and blue eyes holding a dark brown french bulldog smiling in his studio.
Aaron Meshon

Aaron Meshon – Independent Project Aaron illustrates and designs for magazines, advertisements, children’s products, murals, food trucks and books that can be found all over the world. Aaron’s first children’s book: TAKE ME OUT TO THE YAKYU was on the New York Times top 100 of 2013 and received 4 starred reviews. Aaron has also written and illustrated TOOLS RULE! , THE BEST DAYS ARE DOG DAYS, DELIVERY and NOW THAT I’M HERE. Aaron recently illustrated TOMORROW IS WATING written by Kiley Frank. Aaron teaches illustration at The School of Visual Arts and has also been a guest illustration lecturer at RISD, MICA, UArts, SVA, FIT and NHIA.

A white man with blonde hair and blue eyes holding a dark brown french bulldog smiling in his studio.