Quinn Dukes (SVA Art Practice 2015), “Organizing Penance: Purified,” 2015.
The art world is not a market, it’s a conversation. MFA Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts is a low-residency, interdisciplinary graduate program that aims to create a global community and conversation within the arts. To that end, SVA students have participated from locations all over the world, including China, South Korea, Iceland, the UK, and Saudi Arabia, as well as across the United States.
Students spend three summers at SVA’s Chelsea campus in New York City, where they have the opportunity to work closely with acclaimed artists, designers, writers, critics, and curators, including David Ross, Dara Birnbaum, Lia Gangitano, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Ernesto Pujol, Tim Rollins, Stefan Saffer, Carrie Mae Weems, and Robin Winters. In the intervening semesters, participants engage in rigorous, interactive online coursework, which they can access from anywhere in the world.
Successful applicants will join a multidisciplinary group of artists, curators, writers and thinkers. Participants and alumni from the program have shown at prestigious institutions and events, including MoMA PS1; Queens Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art, D.C.; Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Tate Modern, London; the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Gl Hotegaard Museum, Denmark; the Living Art Museum, Reykjavik; the Moscow Museum of Modern Art; the Venice Biennale; and the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas.
SVA Art Practice is currently accepting applications for Summer 2016. Applicants should apply online though the SVA website. For more information, contact artpractice@sva.edu.
