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    Jobs You Can Really Do From Home  Jun 15, 2007
    Jill Sabato, a recent graduate of the School of Visual Arts, tried freelance design projects when she was in between jobs. "I liked working at home, but when you've got bills to pay, it's not a good idea to count on the money you'll make from a project," she explains. (WNBC.com, NY)

    Teens display their talents  Jun 8, 2007
    Robert Keeney, 17, a member of the Advanced Placement Studio Art class, said he appreciated Voychick's help in putting together works that was sent to the School of Visual Arts. Though Robert plans to first pursue a two-year degree at Housatonic Community College before transferring to the competitive art school, he received "a lot of creative ideas" in art class. (Monroe Courier, CT)

    Spider-Man artist lives out childhood dream  May 31, 2007
    He enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in New York City and by 1977 was working on advertising storyboards. Then came his first freelance position with DC Comics, working on Superman. (Daytona Beach News Journal)

    Pamela Maffei Toolan to Continue as VP of Design for Waverly  May 22, 2007
    She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York. About Waverly ) Waverly is a premier lifestyle brand and one of the most recognized names in home furnishings. (PR Newswire)

    Post a comment  May 18, 2007
    As a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, in Mahattan. who was a commercial art major there had a teacher who said to us on our first day of college, Advertising is a blank s business He was the teacher of my quarter of the incoming class. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)

    Road to financial success begins before college  May 12, 2007
    I plan to attend the School of Visual Arts and, like many art conservatories, it is very expensive. I have no job experience or a savings or checking account, and I know nothing about credit. (Orlando Sentinel -- Business)

    Salon des Acceptances  May 11, 2007
    "Then I noticed the beautiful stain it left. Before I take the perlite out, I adhere tea bags for the beautiful rusty design it makes. It's serendipitous." Another artist who has had happy accidents with rooibos tea is Amber Palecek, a former Ellarslie intern now studying for a master's degree in art education at the School of Visual Arts in New York. "When studying sumi painting, I read that to create a mood, Japanese artists would stain the paper with green tea for a misty effect," says Ms.... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)

    Four women, four breakthroughs  May 11, 2007
    Background: The native New Yorker won a scholarship to Manhattan's School of Visual Arts on the strength of her childhood Super-8 films and developed "Stephanie Daley," her second film, at the 2001 Sundance Institute. On being a woman director: The 38-year-old Brougher considers the "problem" of gender "as part of the larger issue of independent film" and hopes the recent growth of female producers will pave the way for greater numbers of female directors. (Boston Globe -- Living)

    County in film business again  May 9, 2007
    A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, her credits include an associate producer s role on Elaine Stritch at Liberty, a feature-length documentary that won two prime-time Emmy awards and has been broadcast on HBO.. Stephen Scalese no stranger to the local arts scene through his work with Scranton Tomorrow and others will serve as producer and co-writer. (Scranton Times, PA)

    Bica: Euphemism for Murder  Apr 16, 2007
    Camillo Mac Bica is a professor of philosophy at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. As a veteran recovering from his experiences as a United States Marine Corps Officer during the Vietnam War, he founded, and coordinated for five years, the Veterans Self-Help Initiative, a therapeutic community of veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. (Zmag.org)

    Sol LeWitt, 78; expanded perception of art through concepts, geometry  Apr 10, 2007
    After moving to New York in 1953, Mr. LeWitt studied at the School of Visual Arts, worked in the production department of Seventeen magazine, and did graphic design in the architectural office of I.M. Pei. In the early 60s, he took a job as a night receptionist at the Museum of Modern Art, where his fellow employees included Robert Ryman, Dan Flavin, and Robert Mangold, artists who would also become renowned for their Minimalist styles. (Boston Globe)

    Jump in trespassing arrests draws anger  Apr 10, 2007
    Today, Wells, 19, is a freshman at the School of Visual Arts, where he studies animation. His family says he's all about his studies, yet they now find themselves in a most unusual position -- fighting his Nov. 29 arrest for criminal trespassing. (Newsday -- New York City)

    'Force' in drama wins state honors  Apr 8, 2007
    Girsanti taught for 15 years at the School of Visual Arts in New York and now teaches English at the University of Connecticut in Stamford. Gershberg met her through the Urban Artists Initiative, which paired local artists with professionals. (Stamford Advocate)

    Arts span campus and downtown  Apr 5, 2007
    HUB-Robeson Galleries: When: Noon to 9 p.m. In the HUB Gallery, the School of Visual Arts will present Research Exhibition. Also in the lower level of the HUB in the Robeson Gallery, an exhibit titled Vocal Discord by Dori Lemeh will feature self-images and the idea of women as socially constructed. (Daily Collegian, PA)

    Just Kidding  Mar 25, 2007
    "It started as a class project," says Moore, who gelled with his fellow Kids - Sam Brown, Zach Cregger, Timmy Williams and Darren Trumeter - at the Brooklyn dorms of the School of Visual Arts. "We were always showing these videos for class, anyway," he says. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Arts crawl to replace pub crawl for SOMA  Mar 23, 2007
    The Arts Crawl, meant to showcase the School of Visual Arts, will feature student artwork, art demonstrations and workshops, concerts from several local bands, refreshments and a raffle ... "It's a tour that goes from place to place, and the goal is to highlight student artwork and all of the different areas that make up the School of Visual Arts: ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, new media, painting, metals, photography and art education.". (Daily Collegian, PA)

    Bica: Mythologizing War  Mar 22, 2007
    D., is a professor of philosophy at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. As a veteran recovering from his experiences as a United States Marine Corps Officer during the Vietnam War, he founded, and coordinated for five years, the Veterans Self-Help Initiative, AKA the HOOTCH Program, a therapeutic community of veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Brooklyn. (Zmag.org)

    Children's illustrator to reveal the tricks of the trade  Mar 21, 2007
    Christie, who has a degree in media arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, got his start drawing illustrations for the Newark Star Ledger newspaper in 1990. Pretty soon he was creating album covers for numerous jazz recordings, including Joe Sample's ld Places Old Faces, George Benson's Song for My Brother and oltrane The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings. (Wood River Journal, ID)

    Art: The Internet elevates amateur self-portraits into art  Mar 20, 2007
    One afternoon in late August, prompted by a similar film of time- lapse portraiture made that month by a California graphic designer, Ahree Lee, Kalina collected the digital self-portraits he had taken since he was a 19- year-old student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He downloaded them into the Windows Movie Maker software program on his desktop computer, spaced the portraits at an interval of six images per second, set the film to a shadowy and insistent piano soundtrack (composed... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)

    Empty photographs, yet filled with life  Mar 15, 2007
    where he teaches at the School of Visual Arts at the University of Windsor. Speaking to me on the phone last week, he said: "I remember showing my slides to my students over the years, experiencing them as large and illuminated on the wall, and always wanting to be able to show them that way." Now, with photography having undergone its metamorphosis from modest prints to gargantuan visual sensations, he finds the time is ripe for reconsidering scale and the mode of display. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    Sitting pretty  Mar 2, 2007
    " Often her seemingly strange choices, such as an oddly shaped lamp or a quirky, "uncowboy" piece of decor, seem to mesh seamlessly with the store's Western-themed merchandise. But, she admits, at times they don't. "If we all made the right choices, there would be no markdowns," she says. Snedeker's boldness and creativity, however, has paid off. The Arrangement was featured on an episode of the television show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" in 2005. Since she purchased the Dallas and Houston... (Houston Business Journal, TX)

    Designer/art prof will speak at OSU  Mar 1, 2007
    Lehrer is a professor of art at SUNY-Purchase and a founding member of the graduate faculty at the School of Visual Arts Designer as Author program. At the free public lecture, Lehrer will present excerpts of his new book in progress, 101 Bestsellers, the Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley, an illuminated novel containing 101 books within it. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)

    Program guides students to design success  Feb 25, 2007
    One famous example: Deborah Adler's thesis project at the School of Visual Arts in New York, a reworking of prescription bottles, was picked up by Target. And it is not unusual for design schools to have stores that stock items created by students and alumni. (Boston Globe)

    Former state rep donates $150K for UMD Portuguese-American archives  Feb 16, 2007
    Speaking to a packed audience in a School of Visual Arts lecture hall, Ms. MacCormack reflected on UMass Dartmouth's growing enrollment, currently at 8,800, and urged the campus to rethink the university's role in the modern globalized world. She also called on faculty, students and staff to act with urgency and collaboration on issues facing SouthCoast, the rest of Massachusetts and the world. (The Standard-Times, MA)

    Zoller to display undergraduates' art  Feb 7, 2007
    The School of Visual Arts Undergraduate Juried Exhibition begins today and lasts through Feb. 12 at the Zoller Gallery ... Gallery director Kevin Hsieh said there are roughly 67 works of art submitted by 48 School of Visual Arts students because some submitted multiple works. (Daily Collegian, PA)

    What Makes Sammy Run?  Feb 7, 2007
    "He's 70 years old, teaches at the School of Visual Arts, wears zebra stripe pants, eats the same two meals all the time. He lives in a loft in Midtown Manhattan. His rent is, like, $200 a month. That's how long he's been there. He says that as you get older, your dick means less and less to you. He wanted to explore his feminine side, to relive his past with a different gender.". Last year, Harkham lured the reclusive artist to Los Angeles for a weeklong Kramers celebration at the UCLA Hammer... (City Pages)

    Off the Shelves: A Place For The Old, Used, and Out-of-Print  Feb 7, 2007
    After attending the School of Visual Arts in New York City to study fine art, Issac eventually decided not to continue painting professionally. "I bought this store in 1994," he said. (The Daily Targum, NJ)

    Call for Artists: Restoration Residencies  Feb 6, 2007
    - Casa Frela Gallery - Xlibris - School of Visual Arts Museum - Tacoma Art Museum - Studio in the Woods (ASITW) - Saint-Gervais - Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine - Gloria Kennedy Gallery - City Without Walls - cWOW - Priska C. Juschka Fine Art - Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum - Agora Gallery - Oakville Galleries - ARKEN Museum of Modern Art - University of Illinois Press. indepth arts search: lect. (AbsoluteArts.com)

    Read Indepth Article  Feb 5, 2007
    The American Dream: Migrant Workers in America Today - School of Visual Arts Museum - absolutearts ... School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "The American Dream: Migrant Workers in America Today," an exhibition of black-and-white photographs made by Mark Paris and selected by celebrated photographer Mary Ellen Mark ... School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. (AbsoluteArts.com)

    The American Dream: Migrant Workers in America Today  Feb 5, 2007
    School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. (AbsoluteArts.com)

    Life in Our Town -- Museum features emerging artists  Feb 1, 2007
    Guest juror Polly Apfelbaum, who teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York, chose the works featured in the show. Along with the Juried Exhibition, Woodmere unveiled the ninth installment of its Emerging Artist Series, which showcases the work of printmaker Christopher Hartshorne and painter/draughtsman Hiro Sakaguchi. (Roxborough Review, PA)

    New York, New York  Feb 1, 2007
    The trip combined tours of the hands-on Museum of Moving Images, New York's top film schools - New York University, School of Visual Arts and the New York Film Academy - and cultural trips to sites like Times Square, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty and the Broadway show "Hairspray." "We wanted it to be an experience," Dockery said. During the trip, students get exposed to film schools and learn what is required should they want to continue in the field, but they also get to... (King County Journal Newspapers, WA)

    Digital Arts grad program to feature Whitney Museum curator  Jan 29, 2007
    Paul teaches as an adjunct in the M.F.A. programs of the computer art department at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Digital Media Department of the Rhode Island School of Design, and has lectured internationally on art and technology. At the Whitney Museum she curated the show Data Dynamics (2001); the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial; the online exhibition "CODeDOC" (2002) for artport, the Whitney Museum s online portal to Internet art, for which she is responsible;... (US Santa Cruz Currents, CA)

    Mars attacks!  Jan 27, 2007
    Aged 16, Jared studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC, an institution founded in the 19th century "for the purpose of encouraging American genius." Later he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he majored in film-making. Then Jared undertook what he describes - with only a hint of irony - as a "Homeric journey" across America, from the east coast to California. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Artist's floor installation is made of pencils -- lots and lots of pencils -- but that's not the point  Jan 14, 2007
    She attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan in the late '80s, completed a bachelor of fine arts degree at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, and earned a master's degree in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. Like several other American artists close to her in age, such as Tony Feher and Tom Friedman, Donovan revisits the strategies of minimalism and process art with an attitude toward materials more broad-minded than the earlier generation's. (San Francisco Chronicle)


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