School of Visual Arts Summer Residency Programs

Applications are now available for SVA’s Summer Residencies in New York City, offering emerging and mid-career artists and designers time, space and a supportive community in which to develop ideas and focus on their artistic direction. In addition to our time-honored studio residencies, a variety of innovative professional immersion programs provide opportunities for artists to explore new areas of social and technological practice. A unique combination of creative and professional resources provides a rich environment for growth and opportunity in the current, vibrant art scene. Affordable housing is available, as are opportunities to exhibit and present work to the public.

Visiting artists, curators, administrators and critics have included Vince Aletti, Suzanne Anker, Marshall Arisman, Jan Avgikos, Heather Darcy-Bhandari, Jennifer Blessing, Meir Gal, Milton Glaser, Steven Heller, Sheri Pasquarella, Anne Pasternak, David Ross, Jerry Saltz, Kay Takeda and Simon Watson.

Residencies offered during the summer of 2013:

• Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive 
• From the Laboratory to the Studio: Interdisciplinary Practices in Bio Art
• Illustration and Visual Storytelling: Art and Industry
• IMPACT! Design for Social Change
• Lens and Screen Arts – The Still and Moving Image
• Painting and Mixed Media
• Photography
• Reconfiguring Site: New Approaches to Public Art and Architecture
• Sculpture, Installation and New Media Art

"The SVA Summer Residency Program's mix of aesthetic and practical concerns attracts a cross-section of artists, from emerging talents to those in mid-career looking to rejuvenate and redirect their practice amid the creative chaos of New York City."—Angela Riechers, Visual Arts Journal

For an application or further information regarding SVA’s Summer Residency Program contact:
Keren Moscovitch
Division of Continuing Education
School of Visual Arts
T 212 592 2188
kmoscovitch@sva.edu