Interested in Learning About MFAVN? Attend Our Virtual Info Session!
November 3, 2025
7:30-9:30 PM
Want to learn more about MFA Visual Narrative?
Join us for our Info Session to find out more about the MFA Visual Narrative program at the School of Visual Arts. We are the only MFA program for visual storytelling that puts story first. Our curriculum is focused on honing in visual and creative writing story skills that will empower you to craft visual narrative stories that will keep people reading, watching, playing, and wanting more, no matter your medium. Learn about our classes, our resources, and our unique low-residency program structure, from Chair Nathan Fox, faculty, alumni, and students.
Attendees will receive an $80 application fee waiver if they apply for Summer 2026 admission.
Meet Our Speakers
Nathan Fox, Chair
Nathan Fox is the artist and co-creator of the IMAGE COMICS series THE WEATHERMAN, the artist of Dark Reign: Zodiac for Marvel, Eisner nominated Dogs of War for Scholastic Graphix, Pigeons From Hell for Dark Horse, Cover artist on the FBP series for Vertigo Comics and a contributing artist on DMZ from DC/Vertigo and HAUNT, also from IMAGE. Nathan is the chair and founder of the MFA Visual Narrative program (@MFAVN) and the RisoLAB (@RisoLAB) at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Nathan is also a prolific, award-winning commercial illustrator with clients including Nickelodeon, Rockstar Games, The New York Times, Esquire, GQ, Sony, Nike, Wired and Rolling Stone Magazine to mention a few. He lives and works in Wisconsin and commutes to teach in NYC respectively.
Zoya To ’27
Zoya is a multidisciplinary creative who exists at an intersection of identities. A Chinese-American, designer-illustrator, New York-Jerseyan, she seeks to create work that blurs boundaries between creative mediums and cultural history. She graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a concentration in Visual Art and Anthropology, completing a colloquium on the Anthropology of Color. Curiosity and whimsy play a big role in Zoya’s work, as well as her passion for history, stories, and vibrant color palettes. Her creative philosophy can best be described as empathy with a side of playfulness :^) She’s worn many hats as a “jack of all visual trades,” and creates work as an art director, brand designer, illustrator, photographer, and animator. On her down time, she can be found stressing over houseplants or eating her weight in hot pot.
Nikariy Dominguez ’26
Nikari Dominguez it’s a Dominican American filmmaker and Creative Producer based in the Dominican Republic and New York.
Graduated in Cinematography and Audiovisuals, major in Cinema from the Universidad Autónoma of Santo Domingo (UASD), She has worked in commercials, music videos and films in the production area. Passionate about books, cinema, music, photography, anime and paintings, without limiting herself, she wants to tell stories with different media.
Alex M. Lee ’25
Alex M. Lee crafts narrative games and illustrations for sad romantics with a penchant for whimsy. Through a queer East Asian lens, she explores themes of girlhood, grief, positive nihilism, and inter-dimensional romance. Her recent visual novel work challenges existing preconceptions within nerd subcultures as well as the dating simulator canon, pushing the definitions of attraction and desirability in both. Whether they are a centuries-old skeleton lord in the case of BARD HARDER! or genderqueer aliens in need of therapy in the case of Kiss/OFF, she thrives when creating unconventional characters that players will still want to kiss – painted in a vibrant, stylish anime-influenced look. Her favorite emotion is halfway between anger and awe.
Sarah Schmidt, Faculty Advisor
Sarah Schmidt was raised in an Ohio small town by marching band and the family gas station. After earning a BFA at Columbus College of Art & Design in 2014, she began working in-house at a boutique motion design studio while making independent films, music videos, and gig posters. In 2018, she started teaching as an adjunct animation professor before earning her MFA at DePaul University from 2022-2024. She has been curating independent animation shows and self-publishing fanzines under the name “Malt Adult” since 2016. In 2019, she co-founded Sunshine Mall LLC with partner and creative collaborator Ian Ballantyne. They work out of their studio in Chicago, Illinois.
See You There!
