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Inside CUP, the Award-Winning Nonprofit Led by SVA Grad and Faculty Member Pilar Finuccio
The Brooklyn-based organization produces publications, interactive kits, and other media to cultivate civic education and engagement.

Meet 2025 SVA Alumni Scholarship Winner Héctor Ruiz
The MFA Design for Social Innovation graduate discusses his award-winning thesis project, We Are Speaking/Estamos Hablando, and the power of collective visual storytelling.

Introducing the Fall/Winter 2025–26 ‘Visual Arts Journal’
The latest issue of SVA’s magazine spotlights noteworthy recent work by students, alumni, and faculty of the College.

Loving the Bronx, Montefiore, and MFA Design for Social Innovation #CapTheCrossBronx at the Center for Architecture

MFA Design for Social Innovation Alumnus Susanti Vijaykumar Receives Don Norman Design Award in Excellence

MFA Design for Social Innovation + Afterthought: Design, Memory, Myth: Creating, Keeping, and Transforming Collective Memory
Join a thought-provoking conversation with speakers Daniela Spector, Tamika Abaka-Wood, and Andrew Diemer

MFA DSI + AfterThought present ‘Unlawful, Unauthorized, Unsanctioned, Unlicensed: Exploring the Myriad Possibilities of Zine Making and the Outer Reaches of the Artform’ with Andrew Diemer (Droga 5)
Zine making workshop.

A Call to Change: Three 2024 SVA Thesis Projects Focused on Making a Difference

May 2023 Events and Exhibitions at SVA
End-of-year and thesis events continue at the School of Visual Arts