Academics > Graduate Studies > MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

Department Facilities

A large room with high ceilings and windows that go from floor to ceiling on the right side of the space. The photo is taken from a mezzanine looking down on the large room. Photographic prints hang on the central wall, with several people gathered around them in the distance. In the foreground, 2 people stand on the mezzanine looking at the same prints. The room has white walls with a dark ceiling and track lighting illuininating the wall of prints. A black podium with a computer atop it sits to the right of th e prints with the SVA NYC logo in blue on the front of it. A large room with high ceilings and windows that go from floor to ceiling on the right side of the space. The photo is taken from a mezzanine looking down on the large room. Photographic prints hang on the central wall, with several people gathered around them in the distance. In the foreground, 2 people stand on the mezzanine looking at the same prints. The room has white walls with a dark ceiling and track lighting illuininating the wall of prints. A black podium with a computer atop it sits to the right of th e prints with the SVA NYC logo in blue on the front of it.
A large room with high ceilings and windows that go from floor to ceiling on the right side of the space. The photo is taken from a mezzanine looking down on the large room. Photographic prints hang on the central wall, with several people gathered around them in the distance. In the foreground, 2 people stand on the mezzanine looking at the same prints. The room has white walls with a dark ceiling and track lighting illuininating the wall of prints. A black podium with a computer atop it sits to the right of th e prints with the SVA NYC logo in blue on the front of it. A large room with high ceilings and windows that go from floor to ceiling on the right side of the space. The photo is taken from a mezzanine looking down on the large room. Photographic prints hang on the central wall, with several people gathered around them in the distance. In the foreground, 2 people stand on the mezzanine looking at the same prints. The room has white walls with a dark ceiling and track lighting illuininating the wall of prints. A black podium with a computer atop it sits to the right of th e prints with the SVA NYC logo in blue on the front of it.
Facilities & Equipment

Labs

Our state-of-the-art labs contain:

  • Apple Silicon Mac Studio desktop workstations with Eizo ColorEdge monitors, equipped with access to the Adobe Creative Suite and additional editing and programming applications.
  • 2 Private video editing and post-production suites
  • 3 Hasselblad X1 Scanners
  • 2 Epson 10000XL Flatbed Scanners
  • 1 Epson SureColor P9570 44” wide printer
  • 1 Epson SureColor P20000 64" printer
  • 1 Epson SureColor 9000 44" printer
  • 2 Epson SureColor 7000 24" printers
  • 2 Epson SureColor P900 19" printers
  • 2 GTI Vertical Print Inspectors

Classrooms and Lecture Spaces

All classrooms are equipped with a dedicated teaching/display station to project large video and dynamic sound for classes and visiting guests. Classrooms have pushpin walls for artwork presentation and critique.


Our multi-functional Lecture Space/Screening Room comfortably accommodates 120 individuals and is outfitted with a Christie D13HD laser projector and Danley speakers.

  • Students have free access to the Adobe Creative Cloud software suite as a current student with an active SVA MyID account.


    In addition, with your SVA MyID and sva.edu email account, you will have access to all the features of G Suite Education, which includes unlimited Drive storage, Google Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Forms, etc. For a list of the apps available with your SVA MyID, and a guide to school-wide supported technologies, please see Student Guides.

  • We have several available private studio spaces for select students, and one additional studio space available for student checkout on a weekly basis for short term projects and installations. Private Studio spaces are awarded to qualified students through a yearly application process.

  • The Visible Futures Lab (VFL), located on the 7th floor of 132 W. 21st Street, is a creative lab and workshop open to all graduate students by request. VFL facilities include 3D printers, digital embroidery machines, laser cutters, workshop tools, and more.


    For more details and to locate the request form, see About the Visible Futures Lab.

  • All students are required to enter the department with an Apple laptop with the latest Adobe software and a portable hard drive.

    Laptops must have the following minimum specifications:


    • Apple Silicon M1 or newer
    • macOS v12.0 (Monterey) or later
    • at least 16 GB of unified memory (32 GB recommended)
    • at least 512 GB SSD (1 TB recommended)
    • must be able to connect to the Internet


    The department follows the system requirements for Adobe Premiere Pro which can be found at Adobe Help Center.


    Students are also required to purchase the following:


    • Portable external hard drive with storage of at least 1 TB - (A second external HD for back-ups is strongly recommended)
    • At least 1 v90 grade SD card


    The MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department is a Macintosh-based studio program and cannot support PC platforms.