Subject: SVA Briefs: SVA Names Amit Pitaru Co-Chair of the MFA Interaction Design Department, More
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Date: 9/21/12, 11:23 AM
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Amit Pitaru Named Co-Chair of MFA Interaction Design Department
MFA Interaction Design

The MFA Interaction Design Department recently welcomed Amit Pitaru, who now serves as Co-chair with Liz Danzico. A renowned coder, artist, educator and designer (as well as...

 
Brendan Leach Wins 2012 Ignatz Award
MFA Illustration as Visual Essay

SVA alumnus Brendan Leach's (MFA 2010 Illustration as Visual Essay) Pterodactyl Hunters took home the Outstanding Comic prize at the recent 2012 Ignatz Awards. According to...

 
Alumni Finalists at YouTube Film Festival
BFA Film, Video and Animation

SVA alumni Kevin Slack and Nicole Scarano (both BFA 2008 Film, Video and Animation) were finalists in YouTube's inaugural Your Film Festival, which was open to narrative-driven...

 
What's In Store: Dead Film, West Coast Coffee and Lots of Love
What's In Store

The Definitive Document of the Dead (Synapse Films): BFA Film, Video and Animation Department faculty member Roy Frumkes' 1978 documentary is being released on Blu-ray with...

 
Events
 
A Weekend of Social Documentary Thesis Films at SVA
MFA Social Documentary Film

The MFA Social Documentary Film Department presents a weekend of thesis film screenings, September 21 – 23 at the SVA Theatre. Curated by Department Chair...

 
Exhibition: 'The Book Show' Projects
MFA Illustration as Visual Essay

"The Book Show," is an exhibition of book projects completed during Spring 2012 by students in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Class of 2013. Curated by Department Chair Marshall...

 
Zoe Coombes: 'Dirt from Glass Cages'
MFA Design Criticism

Zoe Coombes speaks about her experiences working in the world of contemporary furniture design. Reflecting on both the rate of change within digitized production, and the...

 
Art in the First Person: Photography, Narrative and the Book
BFA Photography

In 2011 artist Christian Patterson's monograph Redheaded Peckerwood was published by MACK to great critical acclaim, being named one of the best books of the year...

 
In The Press
   
The New York Times Features Photos by SVA Alumnus Mark McAndrews
BFA Photography

With sweaty palms, a heavy step and a stutter, Marc McAndrews entered a brothel in Elko, Nev., without much of a pitch or a plan. Facing the line of half-naked sex workers, he had to...

 
Q&A with SVA's James Victore on Imprint
BFA Advertising and Graphic Design

Navigating a career as a so-called creative professional can be a tricky and occasionally demoralizing project. Designers, writers, artists, and their ilk want to do original, meaningful...

 
Nathan Fox Interviewed by Comic Book Resources
MFA Visual Narrative

The MFA Visual Narrative program was created and designed to address the desire for an MFA in visual storytelling and to make it accessible to both practicing professionals...

 
Back to School Advice for MFAs from SVA's Michelle Leftheris
MFA Photography, Video and Related Media

Getting a graduate degree in art is hard. Students enter a new world of crits, teaching assistantships, and student loans, so need advice. As such, we...

 
 
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