Lectures/Events

The History of the Leipzig School of Painting
Anna-Louise Kratzsch, founder and curator of the Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA), will present a history of Leipzig's schools of art, their protagonists and the historical and current reception of figurative art in Germany, particularly during Communist rule and continuing into the present. Presented by the BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department.
Monday, March 1, 6:30pm
133/144 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public

Zoe Ryan: Contemporary Constructions: Design at The Art Institute of Chicago
Zoe Ryan, the Neville Bryan curator of design at The Art Institute of Chicago, will discuss her role at the Institute as the first curator of design and the Institute's recent exhibition "Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design," as well as upcoming exhibitions and programs. Ryan is the author of numerous publications including the forthcoming Building with Water: Concepts, Typology, Design (Birkhäuser Verlag, 2010). Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
Tuesday, March 2, 6 - 8pm
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. RSVP to dcrit@sva.edu

Between Paradigms: Invention, Interface and Intuition
A panel discussion exploring experimental systems and their application in art and design. Moderated by artist and BFA Fine Arts Department Chair Suzanne Anker, the panel includes: artists Frank Gillette and Michael Joaquin Grey, artist and interspecies communication researcher Aimee Morgana, and architect and urban designer Mitchell Joachim, PhD. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Tuesday, March 2, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free and open to the public

Working with Inhibitions to Creativity
Marilyn LaMonica, MPS, NCPsych, will discuss how psychoanalytic theory provides a unique explanation of impediments to creative work. Clinical cases of a filmmaker, a painter and a writer will be used to demonstrate how explorations of fantasized object relations lead to freer access to creative potential. Presented by the MPS Art Therapy Department.
Friday, March 5, 6:30 - 8pm
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public. RSVP to 212.592.2610 or arttherapy@sva.edu. Seating is limited; no late entry.

The Tablet
Khoi Vinh, design director of The New York Times Web site, and Matt Jacobs, designer for Six Apart, will discuss new modes of media presentation. They will address how the size of an object frames the user experience and how designers need to consider grid, typography and behavior differently. Presented by the MFA Interaction Design Department.
Wednesday, March 10, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn
Admission is $6. RSVP opens two weeks before the event at http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/events

Deborah Marton
Deborah Marton is executive director of Design Trust for Public Spaces, an organization that brings together neighborhoods, public agencies and design professionals to find innovative opportunities for change and make New York City more beautiful, sustainable, functional and accessible to all. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
Tuesday, March 16, 6 - 8pm
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. RSVP to dcrit@sva.edu

The Camera Club of New York Presents: Abby Robinson
Photographer and SVA faculty member Abby Robinson's recent projects have been done in conjunction with grants from the Asian Cultural Council, the Fulbright Program and the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies. Her photographs have appeared in Shots, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Photographers International and The New York Times, and she is a contributor to Trans-Asia Photography Review.
Thursday, March 18, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty and staff; General admission is $5; $3 for other students with ID.

Robert Lazzarini
With emphatically lowercased titles like guns, knives and brass knuckles, the wall-mounted sculptures by artist and SVA alumnus Robert Lazzarini (BFA 1990 Fine Arts) describe violence and anxiety. Currently a fellow at the Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, Lazzarini is represented by Deitch Projects, New York. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Departments.
Tuesday, March 23, 6:30pm
133/144 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public

Illustration Next
Steve Brodner, faculty member in the BFA Illustration and Cartooning Department, will moderate a discussion about style and emerging illustration markets. Brodner will speak with: painter and filmmaker James Blagen, whose short film Doc Ellis and the LSD No No just won an honorable mention in short filmmaking at 2010 Sundance Film Festival; comic artist and designer Mickey Duzyj; and illustrator Alex Juhasz, who illustrated the opening sequence for the TV show The United States of Tara, which won a 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design. All three panelists are alumni of the BFA Illustration and Cartooning Department.
Tuesday, March 23, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free and open to the public

Alfredo Jaar: The Ashes of Pasolini
Alfredo Jaar is an architect, artist and filmmaker who lives and works in New York City. He has created more than 50 "public interventions" around the world, and more than 40 monographs have been published about his work. Following a screening of Jaar's new short film The Ashes of Pasolini, he will discuss the film--and Pier Paolo Pasolini's importance as poet and critic--with MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department Chair David Levi Strauss. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department in partnership with Aperture.
Thursday, March 25, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

Casey Jones: E Pluribus Unum: Creating Design Policy in the U.S.A
Casey Jones, director of design excellence and the arts for the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), will discuss his role in overseeing the design and development of new and renovated federal buildings as well as the artwork commissioned for them. Previously, Jones led jones|kroloff with Reed Kroloff, an architect selection advisory firm whose clients included the Whitney Museum of American Art, Yale University, Friends of the High Line and Global Green USA. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
Tuesday, March 30, 6 - 8pm
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. RSVP to 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu.

Apertures of Awe: Windows to the World Made Strange by Images
Art historian Shira Brisman, photographer Jason Eskenazi and art scholar Joel Upton will discuss the relationship between image and imagination, sight and insight, surprise and recognition; moderated by poet Ashley Makar. Presented by the Honors Program at SVA.
Thursday, April 1, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free and open to the public

Brian Collins and John Fulbrook: Defining the Story
Brian Collins, chairman and chief creative officer at the branding agency COLLINS, and John Fulbrook, creative director at COLLINS, will talk about the creative processes at the core of two unique design projects: an interactive Microsoft store model and the strategy behind Al Gore's Nobel Prize-winning The Alliance for Climate Protection. COLLINS creates communications programs, experiences and environments using storytelling as a key research and design tool. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
Tuesday, April 6, 6 - 8pm
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. RSVP to 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu.

Barbara London: Cutting Edge: Still Sharp
SVA faculty member Barbara London is a curator of media at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she founded the video exhibition program and collection. She has organized more than 120 exhibitions, including one-person shows by Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik and Bill Viola, and was the first curator in the United States to show the work of Asian artists Song Dong, Yang Fudong, Teiji Furuhashi and Feng Mengbo. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Tuesday, April 6, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free and open to the public

Gary Hustwit: On the Design of Certain Films about Design
Independent filmmaker Gary Hustwit will discuss the creative process behind his films, and the power and shortcomings of documentary filmmaking as a critical tool. Hustwit has produced six feature documentaries, including Helvetica, a documentary about graphic design and typography, which has screened in over 200 cities worldwide, and Objectified, which examines the complex relationship between people and manufactured objects. Hustwit is currently working on his third feature-length documentary about design. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
Tuesday, April 13, 6 - 8pm
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. RSVP to 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu.

Rochelle Feinstein
Rochelle Feinstein is a painter whose work makes frequent use of photography, video, light and sound. Her exhibitions have increasingly taken the form of thematic and atmospheric installations, most recently I Made a Terrible Mistake at the Art Production Fund Lab Space. Feinstein's work is included in numerous public and private collections, and she has exhibited in galleries across the United States and Europe. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Departments.
Tuesday, April 13, 6:30pm
133/144 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public

Jazz and Poetry: In Celebration of Bob Kaufman
An evening of lines and notes celebrating the jazz-inspired Beat poet Bob Kaufman (1925 -1986), with poetry readings by SVA faculty member Ray DiPalma and Lucky Checkley, accompanied by saxophonist Carol Sudhalter, and a performance by the Mike Hashim Quartet. Presented by the Humanities and Sciences Department and the Visual Arts Library.
Tuesday, April 13, 6:30 - 8:30pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free and open to the public

The Entrepreneurs
A series of four short talks by four entrepreneurs giving their perspectives on topics at the intersection of interaction design, business and aesthetic inspiration. They will discuss persistence, community engagement and the rate of change and growth in a business. The speakers are Laureen Barber, co-owner of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns; Robert Fabricant, vice-president of creative at frog design; Jay Parkinson, MD, co-founder of hello health; and Yancey Strickler, co-founder, Kickstarter. Presented by the MFA Interaction Design Department.
Wednesday, April 14, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn
Admission is $6. RSVP opens two weeks before the event at http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/events

Vicarious Trauma
Through the lens of trauma theory, Christina A. Grosso, LCAT, ATR-BC, BCETS, will explore how trauma affects not only clients, but also their therapists. She will highlight the therapeutic relationship, along with preventative measures and self-care methods to help the therapist maintain the personal balance that is crucial to providing effective treatment. Grosso has extensive experience in the practice, implementation and training of trauma-based assessment and evidence-based practices. Presented by the MPS Art Therapy Department.
Friday, April 16, 6:30 - 8pm
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public. RSVP to 212.592.2610 or arttherapy@sva.edu.  Seating is limited; no late entry.

David Barringer: Design As Literature: The Changing Shape of the Novel
David Barringer will discuss new methods of storytelling in his current work-in-progress, a novel that incorporates imaginary magazine covers, interiors, photographs, illustrated stories, a photo comic and more. Barringer is the author of the novels American Home Life (So New Press, 2007) and Johnny Red (Word Riot Press, 2005). He was the recipient of the 2008 Winterhouse Award for Design Writing & Criticism and recently published the essay collection There's Nothing Funny About Design (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009). Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
Tuesday, April 20, 6 - 8pm
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. RSVP to 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu.

Elio Caccavale: Design in the Age of Biotechnologies
Elio Caccavale will discuss the potential of speculative social narrative and design proposals to generate public debate about the issues surrounding life sciences. Caccavale's research focuses on collaborations in design, life sciences and bioethics. His projects include Utility Pets, a series of speculative products investigating the ethical consequences transplanting animal organs into humans, which was featured in the exhibition "Design and Elastic Mind" at The Museum of Modern Art. He teaches in the MA Design Interactions Department at the Royal College of Art. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
Wednesday, April 21, 6 - 8pm
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. RSVP to 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu.

Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker. She will discuss the transition of her work from still photography to video installation, and most recently to feature-length film. Her directorial debut, Women Without Men, based on a novella by Shahrnush Parsipur that had been banned in Iran, received the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the 2009 Venice Film
Festival. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
Thursday, April 22, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

Joanne Dolan Ingersoll: Mannequins in the Museum: Perspectives on Curating Fashion
Joanne Dolan Ingersoll, curator of costume and textiles at the Museum of Art at Rhode Island School of Design, will discuss the interpretation of fashion in a museum setting. In exhibitions such as "Evolution/Revolution: The Arts and Crafts in Contemporary Fashion and Textiles," Ingersoll has explored craft and fashion, historical costume and contemporary couture in the context of such issues as social responsibility and sustainability. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
Tuesday, April 27, 6 - 8pm
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. RSVP to 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu.

SCREENING

BFA Computer Art Department Senior Thesis Presentations
A screening of thesis projects in computer animation, visual effects and broadcast design by students in the BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects Department.
Friday, April 16, 10am - 3pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

OPEN STUDIOS

Open studios are an opportunity to see new works by current students in the studio setting and are free and open to the public.

BFA Fine Arts Department Open Studios: Painting
Monday, April 26, 5 - 9pm
133/141 West 21 Street, 4th floor

BFA Fine Arts Department Open Studios: Sculpture
Monday, April 26, 5 - 9pm
335 West 16 Street

BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department Open Studios
Monday, April 26, 5 - 9pm
133/141 West 21 Street, 6th floor

MFA Fine Arts Department Open Studios
Friday, April 30, 12 - 8pm
Saturday, May 1, 12 - 6pm
Reception: Thursday, April 29, 5 - 9pm
133/141 West 21 Street, 8th and 9th floors

MFA Computer Art Department Open Studios
Saturday, May 1, 12 - 5pm
Reception: Friday, April 30, 6 - 8pm
132 West 21 Street, 7th floor

CONFERENCE

MFA Design Criticism Department Conference
Graduating students will present papers based on their theses, alongside professional design critics and thinkers who help to frame and contextualize their work. For more information, contact dcrit@sva.edu.
Friday, April 30
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

THESIS PRESENTATIONS

Unleashed: MFA Design Entrepreneur Thesis Forum
Students in the MFA Design Department will present and defend their thesis projects and unique products in a public forum.
Tuesday, April 20, 9am - 9pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public