Each year, SVA Student Health and Counseling Services and Student Affairs host their HOPE Art Competition, a call for posters that encourage everyone at SVA to take advantage of mental-health services and other life-saving tools. The competition is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at the College. Previous years’ themes include “Better Together. Resilient Together” (2024), “Together, We Can Find HOPE” (2023), “Healing as a Community” (2021), Mr. Rogers quotes (2020) and a celebration of the Samaritans organization (2018), a counseling and suicide-prevention nonprofit.

This year’s theme, “Doing and Making Are Acts of Hope,” was about channeling the power of self-expression to cultivate and foster hope. Out of the 53 students who submitted entries this year, 13 were selected as finalists, with the Grand Prize and Fan Favorite winners announced at last week’s reception for the exhibition, with prizes sponsored by the SVA Campus Store. Congratulations to the Fan Favorite winner, third-year BFA Illustration student Fangzi Luo, and Grand Prize winner, first-year BFA Illustration student Mia Moore!

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The annual poster campaign presented by SVA Student Health and Counseling Services returned this year with the theme of “Doing and Making Are Acts of Hope.”