Skip to main content

Story First.

The SVA MFA Visual Narrative Program empowers writers and artists to be the next generation of bold and innovative content creators.

Featured Thesis

Sashimi

An illustration of a blue ocean with a person and a bloodied hand, partially submerged. Their face is turned away from the viewer. Text reads: Sashimi, Feifei Ruan.
Featured Thesis

One Eight Hundred Ghosts

A comics panel depicting a woman in a red dress with a sword fighting blue masked men across two floors.
Featured Thesis

Mira

A female doll in a yellow dress playing the accordion against a brown background.
Featured Thesis

What We Discover Along The Way

A forager in the grass with a basket on their back. Behind a traffic sign that reads: Bronx.
01 05

We are the only MFA program that puts the art and language of storytelling first, through the combination of creative writing and development of visual narrative techniques.

Learn About the Program

Featured Projects

Hearsay Podcast title art from Narrative Writing

Hearsay, A Narrative Writing Podcast ’23 with Anna Eveslage, Instructor

Over the course of the summer, students from the Class of '25 developed one common narrative as a class.

Anna Eveslage
Photographer & Visual Storyteller

News & Events

2024 Spring and Summer Calendar
We'd like to announce some important dates and exciting programming coming to MFAVN for our summer intensive semester.…
Panayiotis Terzis’s collaboration with Hermès
Panayiotis Terzis, the director and co-founder of the SVA RisoLAB, recently collaborated with Heavy Eyes Studio to create window displays for Hermès s…
‘We Made This’: The Class of 2023 MFAVN Thesis Exhibit
‘We Made This!’—the graduating class of 2023’s thesis exhibit at Gramercy Gallery in NYC was a big success.…

Our educational mission is to inspire all students to harness their collective creative writing and visual development talents to amplify their visual narrative skills, and master their personal command of story.

Nathan Fox
Chair, MFA Visual Narrative

Our Community

0 / 0

If it’s all about story for you, you are in the right place. You have to be willing to explore and explode your world to be a better storyteller.

Anelisa Garfunkel
Writer, Producer & Director
Learn More About Applying
Back to Top Back to Top