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Story First.

SVA’s MFA Visual Narrative program empowers writers and artists to be the next generation of bold and innovative storytellers.

Featured Thesis

A Field Guide To Paradise

An illustration of a corpse in a space suit, overgrown with alien plants.
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.
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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.

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Featured Projects

Fried Family, A Narrative Writing Podcast ’24 with Anna Eveslage, Instructor
Over the course of the summer, students developed one common narrative as a class. With a focus on how language and sound can be used as imagery to achieve narrative goals, the students worked in small groups to tell the entire story through four sep…
Anna Eveslage
Photographer & Visual Storyteller

News & Events

MFAVN is at SPX 2024!
We are back at Small Press Expo this weekend! Come stop by to say hi to MFAVN and our community members.…
2024-2025 Fall and Winter Events Calendar
Want to learn more about MFAVN? Come meet us at one of our online or in-person events this Fall and Winter.…
Congrats to the Class of 2024 scholarship recipients!
We would like to recognize Mariana Tapia, Srobana Bhattacharya, and Wendie Chen for the scholarship awards they have received for their thesis project…

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

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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
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