Application deadline: April 1, 2021
Residencies and intensives in studio art, technology, performance, social practice, design and more.
Applications are now available for SVA's Summer Residency Programs—on-campus in New York City and across online platforms, offering artists, designers and creative thinkers time, space and a supportive community in which to develop ideas and focus on their artistic direction.
Time
Daily critiques, workshops, studio visits, lectures, and social events augment participants' independent work.
Space
Participants in the Summer Residency Program have the benefit of working in SVA’s dynamic, culturally rich environment. Each program offers access to its own unique set of resources and spaces, whether on-campus or online, that have been designed with artists and creative thinkers in mind.
Community
With an emphasis on shared experience and community building, The Summer Residency Program provides a platform where participants can build and expand their networks and create lifelong connections with artists, critics, curators and other arts professionals.
Residency programs offered during summer 2021:
On-campus: Interdisciplinary Practices in Bio Art / Fine Arts: Contemporary Practices / Fine Arts: Painting and Mixed Media / Sculpture, Installation and New Media Art / Photography and Video / Colloquium for International Artists and Designers
Online: The Artist Residency Project / Illustration and Visual Storytelling: Art and Industry / Design Writing and Research / Photo/Video: The Lens and Screen Arts / Situation as Site: Social Performance and Interventions / O My Friends, There is No Friend: Politics, Affiliation and the Philosophy of Friendship / Documentary Filmmaking
Recent faculty and guest lecturers have included: Suzanne Anker, Dara Birnbaum, Andriana Campbell, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Ofri Cnaani, Jarrett Earnest, Ayana Evans, Stamatina Gregory, Alicia Grullon, Steve Heller, Tobias Frere-Jones, Sharon Louden, Miguel Luciano, Thyrza Nichols-Goodeve, Anna Ogier-Bloomer, Seph Rodney, David Ross, Jerry Saltz, Accra Shepp, Mark Tribe, Andrea Tsurumi, Todd Shalom, and Ed Woodham.
The priority application deadline is April 1, 2021. Early application is highly recommended.
To apply or for further information regarding SVA's Summer Residency Programs, please contact:
William Patterson, Coordinator, Summer Residency Programs, Division of Continuing Education, School of Visual Arts, residency@sva.edu
