<p>any info about the school of visual arts in new york city?</p>
<p>It is very good for cartooning. Annimation type of stuff is good too. Overall, it's probably a good school for many things and is reasonably priced. However, it is a "for profit" school. I am always nervous about any school that is for profit because someone wants to make as much money from it as possible. However, in all fairness, it is probably the best "for profit" art school in the US.</p>
<p>Be advised, last time I checked them out,dorms were several blocks away from the main buildings. Thus, your child would have to walk in Manhattan to and from studios several blocks. By day, this isn't a problem. At night, I would be worried.</p>
<p>D went there for a pre college program. She was housed in the Washington Dorm. There was major renovation going on with the Dorm at the time so facilities were very , very dirty. Even though D loved the NYC experience the lack of campus was not for her. That is one of the reasons she ended up at Pratt. Campus and in NYC. The same housing situation is an issue at Parsons as well, but if it doesn't bother you.... Also heard SVA is decent for photography as welll.</p>
<p>..but the quality of her experience there was good? and the other students?</p>
<p>Again it was a pre college experience, with that in mind the experience was good. She thought her drawing teacher was better then her painting teacher, she reallly learned how to navigate the city, and she met some great kids, in fact she will be rooming with one from that program at Pratt next year.Perhaps if you have more specfic questions I can ask her but again it wll be from a pre college summer experience perspective.</p>
<p>My daughter visited SVA's fine arts open house in November and knew immediately that it was for her. Her portfolio was accepted and since her grades were excellent and she had strong SAT scores there was no doubt about her being accepted. At that point she basically applied to only one other school, MassArt, primarily as a financial back-up. While Taxguy is correct in writing that SVA is a for-profit school, if your compare the tuition with non-profits like RISD and Parson's you will see that it is thousands of dollars less. Also, I have followed the recent increases and they same to be fairly small by comparison. I have done alot have research on SVA and it appears that the great majority who attend love the school, especially, being smack-dab in the middle of NYC. The GW dorm is mostly an upper class dorm and most of the students who are there appear to love it as well despite it "quirkiness". The freshman dorm is called NewRes and is on East 23rd St. right next to the main SVA building. My daughter saw NewRes and was quite impressed. She said they were apartments and that they were quite nice.</p>
<p>unsoccer-mom,
Is your D there now or will she be going there in the Fall? Does she know what she wants to major in? I absolutely agree with you that the NYC experience is so much of the art experience. D loves that aspect of her choice (Pratt) as well.</p>
<p>Cama</p>
<p>My daughter will be a freshman come September. She currently attends an arts high school and many of her friends are going to other schools in NYC; Cooper-Union, NYU, Parsons, Pratt,etc. I believe she may be the only one going to SVA. She plans to major in Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture, but liked SVA's inter-disciplinary approach. In the back of her mind, is the option of graphic design which has the same foundation year as fine arts.</p>
<p>is her arts high school in nyc? it does seem like a good school - and friendly, working artist teachers, good location........ It's a good option.</p>
<p>No, she currently attends Walnut Hill School in Natick, MA</p>
<p>Scocer Mom, I want on SVAs web site again to double check something. I didn't see any major or minor in sculpture,which I thought was the case. You may want to check into this situation if your daughter is into sculpture. They are very well known for annimation, cartooning and have a strong computer art program. I would think that their graphic design program would be good too from the listing of their courses. However, I am not sure that they have any significant painting or sculpture.</p>
<p>What about their Film production program? I'm considering applying for Spring '06 as a transfer.</p>
<p>unsoccer-mom......I was wondering what kind of research you did to find that the kids were generally happy at/ pleased with sva. </p>
<p>and how it compares to parsons.</p>
<p>taxguy, I have done quite a bit of research on SVA. My daughter does not want to major in sculpture, but is interested in it as a concentration. The following is a quote from Peterson's on SVA's fine arts program. "Fine Arts majors can choose to concentrate in traditional mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture, or printmaking; in recent trends in installation, computer art, or time-based media in computer, video, or performance art; in alternative media; or any combination of the above." According to the course registration book, their sculpture courses are workshop style classes lasting 6-8 hours where students explore a variety of mediums including wood, metal, stone, and ceramics. They have facilities for welding and woodworking, wheels, kilns, an extruder and a roller for ceramics, and stone facilities including air hammers and stone chisels. You may have heard of Sarah Sze. She attended SVA's graduate program and currently teaches there as well and was awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Fellow in 2003 for her work in sculpture. True the course options may not be as comprehensive as SAIC or RISD, but one can only take so many courses. The SVA program appears to offer my daughter the two things she wants most; a Manhattan location and flexibility. </p>
<p>modiam, There is an active and interesting live journal community for SVA that I have been lurking on. Just go to livejournal.com and do a keyword search for SVA under "interests". You do not have to be a member. I have been able to gather some information from there. If you go to the SVA website and search around a bit, you can find a lot of good information. Check under SVA publishing for the weekly newsletter. Also by searching under the different departments, you will find a couple of links to department websites including film and animation and computer art. There is some extraordinary work being produced by SVA student's in those departments.</p>
<p>Hmm, interesting Unsoccer-mom. I saw the SVA catalogue, and I was impressed with the offerings. However, I knew little about the school. I would be very interested in seeing how your daughter likes SVA.</p>
<p>Unsoccer-mom, I looked into SVA and into sculpure. Overall, SVA is well rated in general being overall number 10 on MFA programs; however,their main strength as I suspected is cartooning, animation and multimedia. The following are the top sculpture schools at least from a MFA perspective:</p>
<ol>
<li>Virginia Commonwealth University</li>
<li>Yale (graduate only)</li>
<li>School of Art Institute in Chicago</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Cranbrook Academy (graduate only)</li>
<li>RISD
7 MICA and Ohio State, and Temple (Tyler School of Art)</li>
<li>California Institute of The Arts and Syracuse University</li>
</ol>
<p>This is based on the 2005 US News and World Report Rankings of Sculpture programs.</p>
<p>while that may be true, it is somewhat irrelevant at the undergraduate level.</p>
<p>As for the city location and lack of dorms, that seems to be a personal preference. My d took BU and Northeastern off her list because she didn't like the ciy and lack of campus at BU. She feels the same way about the NYC schools. BUT we know of a kid who is not thrilled with his acceptance to Brown (which is next to RISD) because he doesn't consider it much of a city. He's anxiously hoping to get off the waiting list at Georgetown. He was rejected from NYU (his dream school). One of the top art students at our HS is going to SVA next year.</p>
<p>Well, yes Taxguy, We are absolutely aware of the rankings. My daughter was completely not interested in VCU. Accepted to SAIC, but did not want to be so far away from home. Did not complete the RISD app, I think she was afraid I would make her go if she got in to RISD. Yale is somewhat irrevelant at the undergrad level. She decided NYC was really the only place she wanted to be. She would have settled for Boston and MASSART if the Silas Rhodes Scholarship had not come through for her. Luckily, that was not necessary. Since she goes to a small high school (about 90 seniors) and such a large number of the grads go to school in NYC, it was really the only choice for her. Cooper-Union never appealed to her and Parsons has less than 50 fine arts undergrads compared to 300+ at SVA. Pratt is in Brooklyn and not Manhattan. So that left SVA!!! LOL, she also liked the close to 50/50 gender split at SVA.</p>
<p>I certainly understand her choice. I just posted the top 10 graduate schools for sculpture should she wish to pursue graduate level in that area. By the way, we looked at VCU for graphics and didn't like the school or the area that the school was in.</p>