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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.

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And Then: 2025 Thesis Exhibition

And Then 2025 logo with repeating background pattern – white bg
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A Field Guide To Paradise

An illustration of a corpse in a space suit, overgrown with alien plants.
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One Eight Hundred Ghosts

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

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

2025 Summer Calendar
We are thrilled to welcome our MFAVN Community back in-person for our 2025 summer semester!…
Join Us For Our Prospective Students Day on July 16!
Curious to learn more about MFA Visual Narrative at the School of Visual Arts? Become one of our students for a day! Immerse yourself in story–tour ou…
You’re Invited! Celebrate MFAVN’s Class of 2025
We are thrilled to be celebrating the achievements of our graduating Class of 2025! Join us for one or more of these final events showcasing their aca…

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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