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Introducing the Spring/Summer 2025 ‘Visual Arts Journal’

The latest issue of SVA’s magazine includes portfolios of work by artists Jade Doskow and Kenny Rivero, interviews with designer Peter Buchanan-Smith and artist Kembra Pfahler, and more.

May 6, 2025
A magazine cover featuring a colorful, semi-abstract painting of a building exterior.
Credit: Kenny Rivero, courtesy of Charles Moffett

The spring/summer 2025 issue of the Visual Arts Journal, the biannual magazine of the School of Visual Arts, has arrived on campus—where it is available for free at various locations—and is en route to the mailboxes of SVA graduates, faculty, and friends of the College all over the U.S. The Journal is also offered to all in digital format on Issuu, the online publishing platform that hosts back issues of the magazine dating to 2012.

A photograph of a flat landscape, two-thirds of which is covered with brown grass and one-third of which is covered by a green fabric.

Jade Doskow (MFA 2008 Photography, Video, and Related Media), Newly Formed Landscapes with Geotextile, West Mound, 2022.

Credit: Jade Doskow

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 alumni, faculty, and students. Highlights in the spring/summer 2025 edition include:


  • a portfolio of recent work by artist Kenny Rivero (BFA 2010 Fine Arts);
  • a look at some of the many SVA alumni who have contributed behind—and, in one case, in front of—the camera at Saturday Night Live;
  • photographs of the uncanny landscapes of Freshkills Park by SVA faculty member Jade Doskow (MFA 2008 Photography, Video, and Related Media);
  • designer and entrepreneur Peter Buchanan-Smith (MFA 2000 Design) on rebuilding his beloved Best Made brand; 
  • a Q+A with artist and musician Kembra Pfahler (1982 Fine Arts).
A photograph of a metal latchbox centered on a well-organized architectural drafting table and surrounded by other objects.

The Type 6 strongbox from Best Made, the goods and apparel company founded by Peter Buchanan-Smith (MFA 2000 Design).

Credit: Best Made

The Visual Arts Journal is produced in the fall and spring by SVA External Relations and the Visual Arts Press, SVA’s in-house design studio. For more information on the magazine and to read past issues, click the button below.