EVENTS

Tuesday, April 1, 3:00 – 5:00pm | Beatrice Glow | 133/141 West 21st Street, room 101C

Beatrice Glow is a multidisciplinary American artist of Taiwanese heritage. Her practice spans sculpture, installations, textiles, olfactory experiences, virtual reality sculpting, and participatory performances. Bridging public history with just futures, she questions historical forms of visual and material culture, often in collaboration with culture bearers, researchers and museums to reinterpret collections through contemporary and community-based lenses.

Friday, April 4, 6:00 – 7:00pm | Community Lecture Series: Leveraging Polyvagal Theory to Guide Art Therapy Interventions | Online

MPS Art Therapy presents a talk with faculty member Joshua B. Brancheau, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, on leveraging Polyvagal Theory to guide art therapy interventions. This lecture will introduce participants to Dr. Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory (PVT), and its application in art therapy. The autonomic nervous system will be established as the foundation of our adaptive responses to trauma and be expanded upon as a key component of PVT. Existing PVT models will be explored for their value as tools for psychoeducation with clients. The lecture will conclude with case materials that further illustrate how PVT can be utilized to guide interventions.

Tuesday, April 8, 7:00 – 8:30pm | i3 Photo Lecture: Jai Lennard | 136 West 21st Street, Room 418F

MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with New York-based portrait photographer Jai Lennard (BFA 2008 Photography). Through his photography, Lennard tells stories about perseverance, triumph, legacy, love, and strength is the common thread throughout his diverse body of work. With a background as a performing artist, Lennard’s deep respect for all art forms offers him a way to connect with his subjects and work seamlessly with them from behind the camera.

Wednesday, April 9, 9:00 – 10:00am | The Curatorial Roundtable: Astrid Peterle (Vienna) | Online

MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Astrid Peterle.

Thursday, April 10, 5:30 – 7:30pm | Speaker Series: Let Passion be Your Guide | SVA Chelsea Gallery

MFA Products of Design presents a talk with Chelsea Andersson, a maker, miniaturist, and prop designer based in Connecticut. Andersson spent nearly a decade as a licensed landscape architect until her passion for creating models and miniatures led to a career in building scale replicas. Through her studio ChelseaMakes, she offers custom-made miniature replicas, stop motion and video content creation, and a line of DIY modern dollhouse kits. She has created custom content and miniatures for dozens of brands, including Warby Parker, Redfin, L'Oréal, and Barbie.

Thursday, April 17, 5:30 – 8:30pm | VENTURE 2025 | SVA Theatre

MFA Design presents a showcase of entrepreneurial venture projects by 19 graduating students at the annual Venture Forum.

Tuesday, April 22, 6:30 – 8:30pm | Anne Anlin Cheng, Women on Walls: Architecture, Projection, and Envy | 133/141 West 21st Street, room 101C

This talk by cultural theorist, Princeton Professor of English, and historian Anne Anlin Cheng takes a collage made by the early 20th-century architect Eileen Gray as a springboard from which to examine the submerged history of racialized gender in the making of modern architectural theory. Gray’s enigmatic, previously never-before-shown collage triggers a series of revelations that in turn shed light on the birth of modern architectural history, theory, and the roles that racial-gendered projections and envy played in their making.

Tuesday, April 22, 7:00 – 8:30pm | i3 Photo Lecture: Ashok Sinha | 136 West 21st Street, Room 418F

MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with Ashok Sinha, an architectural and fine art photographer based in New York City who fell in love with architecture while photographing Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer’s masterpiece Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Rio de Janeiro on a travel assignment. His photographs have been published by editorial outlets such as The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Wallpaper, and Interior Design, and exhibited at The Museum of the City of New York, the International Center of Photography, and The Royal Photographic Society.

Features

This month brings a dynamic lineup with thesis shows, interactive installations, and inspiring conversations with leading creatives.