The latest issue of SVA’s magazine spotlights noteworthy recent work by students, alumni, and faculty of the College.
The fall/winter 2025–26 issue of the Visual Arts Journal, the magazine of the School of Visual Arts, has arrived on campus—where it is available for free in building lobbies and other locations—and is on its way to alumni and friends of the College throughout the U.S. The Journal is also available online, offered through the Issuu platform of the Visual Arts Press, SVA’s in-house design studio.
María Berrío, Soliloquy of the Wounded Earth, 2025, collage with Japanese papers and watercolor paint on canvas. Photo: Bruce White. Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Victoria Miro.
Each issue of the Visual Arts Journal features campus news, alumni notes, and in-depth features on noteworthy professional and educational endeavors by School of Visual Arts graduates, faculty, and students.
Highlights from the fall/winter 2025–26 issue include:
- new work by artist María Berrío (MFA 2009 Illustration as Visual Essay), which was recently on view in her first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York City;
- a selection of posters from the recent collaboration between SVA’s BFA Design and BFA Illustration departments and NASA;
- a tour of CUP, a nonprofit dedicated to boosting civic education and engagement and directed by MFA Products of Design faculty member Pilar Finuccio (MFA 2018 Design for Social Innovation);
- photographs by Steve Birnbaum (BFA 2004 Film and Video) from his @thebandwashere project, which documents music history and the passage of time;
- an interview with Ralph Appelbaum (BFA 1978 Film and Video) about his SVA Filmmakers Dialogue program, now in its 45th year;
- an original wraparound cover illustration by Karlotta Freier (MFA 2021 Illustration as Visual Essay).
From left: Ralph Applebaum with director David Lynch, producer Jonathan Sanger, and actor John Hurt at the first SVA Filmmakers Dialogue event, for The Elephant Man (1980).
From left: Ralph Applebaum with director David Lynch, producer Jonathan Sanger, and actor John Hurt at the first SVA Filmmakers Dialogue event, for The Elephant Man (1980).
The Visual Arts Journal is produced in the fall and spring by SVA External Relations and the Visual Arts Press. For more information on the magazine and to read past issues, click the button below.