Honors Program Events | School of Visual Arts | SVA NYC

Past Events

Mary Frank on Art and Our Earth

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Apr 6, 2026; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Mary Frank drawing of deer on a black background

M. E. O’Brien, Trans Childhoods and the Family Romance

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Mar 16, 2026; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Event Poster, Madonna and Child with Pink and Blue on either end, and Yellow Triangle at Center

Jamaal Bowman: Anti-Establishment Politics, Hip Hop, and Fighting Fascism

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors ProgramDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Feb 18, 2026; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Event poster, Jamaal Bowman with microphone

CANCELLED

Frances Fox Piven, One Year On

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Jan 20, 2026; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Online

Photo of Frances Fox Piven, contemplative

Resistance and Art: The “Red Orchestra” Anti-Nazi Group in Berlin

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Dec 1, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Poster for event, red paint crossing off a Nazi eagle symbol

Luigi Ballerini, Leonardo’s Eels

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Nov 17, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Poster featuring image of Jesus from The Last Supper, surrounded by eels

Natasha Chuk, ‘Photo Obscura’

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Oct 20, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Poster for event, with abstracted roll of camera film

Ellen Schrecker, Political Repression and the Universities from McCarthyism to Trump

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Sep 29, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Statue of Minerva (symbol of Columbia University) being crushed

Anne Anlin Cheng, Women on Walls

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Apr 22, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Eileen Gray collage, images of women, skein, and Bauhaus

David France—Surviving A Plague: Art and Activism in the Time of AIDS

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Mar 31, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Poster with megaphone, pink triangle, two events listed