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Graduate Center

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The Graduate Center is a dedicated facility for all master’s students, staff, and faculty, where they can meet, collaborate, and inspire one another’s respective practices.
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Terrence Masson
Director, Graduate Center & Chair, MFA Computer Arts

Facilities

The SVA Graduate Center offers top-of-the-line professional grade equipment, including the latest 4K video cameras, lighting, and sound recorders, to all master’s degree-seeking students at SVA. The Center houses state-of-the-art editing suites, a voiceover booth, a 48-seat screening theater, and two flexible use classrooms.

  • Classroom 1 (113) - Currently 08 Mac workstations with projector and screen.


    Classroom 2 (110) - Flexible open floor plan with cork board & large whiteboard walls, projector, and screen.

    Classroom1 - room 113 view A
    Credit: Classroom 1 (Room 113)
    Classroom1 - room 113 View B
    Credit: Classroom 1 (room 113)

  • Photos of film equipment

    Cameras

    • Sony FX6 Full Frame 4k Camera
    • Sony FS5 Camera
    • Sigma 24-70mm Zoom lenses
    • Sony PXW-Z280
    • Rokinon Xeen Prime lens kits


    Tripods

    • Sachtler FSB-6 & FSB-4 Fluid Head tripods
    • Miller DS-10 Solo tripod
    • Sachtler Ace tripod
    • Libec TH- 650HD & TH-950DV tripod


    Audio

    • Sound Devices MixPre II
    • Sound Devices 633 mixer/recorder
    • Zoom H4N Pro Handy recorder
    • Sony ECM shotgun microphones
    • Rode NTG-1, NTG-2 & NTG-3 shotgun microphones
    • Sennheiser MKH-416 & MKH-60 shotgun microphones
    • Sennheiser Evolution G3/G4 wireless packages
    • Audio Technica BP4025 stereo microphones
    • Neumann TLM 103 Large Diaphragm microphone (booth mic)


    Lighting

    • Kino Flo Interview kit
    • Kino Flo Diva 200 lights
    • Litepanels 1×1 LED lights
    • Litepanels on-camera lights
    • Astra 1x1 Bi-Color LED lights
    • Lowel Rifa Soft Box and Lowel 4-Point lighting kits
    • GVM RBG lighting kits
    • Assorted Fresnel lights
    • Assorted grip equipment

  • Student working in video production suite.
    Martin Mendiza
    • 5 Private Edit Suites (Mac Studio, M1 Max, 64GB RAM, dual LCD displays, color-calibrated grading monitors)
    • 10 Editing Lab Stations (21.5 iMac, i7, 16GB RAM)
    • Avid Media Composer, Adobe CC Suite, Final Cut Pro X, DaVinci Resolve
    • Black Magic Video I/O hardware
    • Voice-over booth (Neumann microphone)
    • ProTools, Izotope production audio plugins
    • Facilis Terrablock shared storage

  • Empty theater with red seats.

    The Graduate Center includes a jewel box screening room in the heart of Chelsea at the School of Visual Arts. The theater is a classroom and test screening space, and is available to graduate students year-round. 


    Theater Specs

    • 48 Seats
    • Stereo sound with 150-watt JBL speakers
    • Digital Projection E-Vision Laser 10K Projector
    • 10,500 ANSI Lumens
    • 16:9 DA-LITE Screen

    1. MFA Art Practice

      David Ross, Chair

    2. MFA Computer Arts

      Terrence Masson, Chair

    3. MFA Design

      Randy Hunt, Chair

    4. MFA Design for Social Innovation

      Miya Osaki, Chair

    5. MFA Fine Arts

      Mark Tribe, Chair

    1. MFA Illustration as Visual Essay

      Riccardo Vecchio, Chair

    2. MFA Interaction Design

      Adriana Young, Chair

    3. MFA Photography, Video and Related Media

      Charles Traub, Chair

    4. MFA Products of Design

      Allan Chochinov, Chair

    5. MFA Visual Narrative

      Nathan Fox, Chair

    1. MA & MAT Art Education

      Catherine Rosamond, Chair

    2. MPS Art Therapy

      Deborah Farber, Chair

    3. MPS Branding

      Deborah Millman, Chair

    1. MA Curatorial Practice

      Steven Madoff, Chair

    2. MA Design Research, Writing, and Critisigm

      Mary "Molly" Heinz, Chair

    3. MPS Digital Photography

      Tom Ashe, Chair

    1. MPS Film Directing

      Robert Giraldi, Chair

    2. MPS Fashion Photography

      Barry Sutton, Chair

Graduate Center
136 West 21st Street
New York, NY 10011
Tel: 212.592.2709
People congregating in an open plan, community oriented lounge.People congregating in an open plan, community oriented lounge.