The school has several buildings in the
Gramercy Park neighborhood, on
Manhattan's east side, and in the
Chelsea neighborhood, on the west side. There is a residence hall on Ludlow Street, on the Lower East Side. From 1994 to 1997, it had a branch campus in
Savannah, Georgia which was closed following a lawsuit from the
Savannah College of Art and Design.
Library The library holds books, periodicals, audio recordings, films and other media; the
Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives, which comprises the collections of
Chermayeff & Geismar,
Seymour Chwast,
Heinz Edelmann,
Milton Glaser,
Steven Heller,
Ed McCabe,
James McMullan,
Tony Palladino,
George Tscherny and
Henry Wolf; and the SVA Archives, a repository for materials pertaining to the college's history.
West 21st Street buildings The building at 133 to 141 West 21st Street, between
Sixth Avenue and
Seventh Avenue in
Chelsea, has studios for drawing and painting classes, and a small library called Library West which houses books specifically on animation, comics, illustration and art therapy. The buildings at 132 and 136 West 21st Street have offices, classrooms and studios for
art criticism,
art education,
art therapy,
cartooning,
computer art, design, illustration and writing. The building at 132 West 21st Street houses the Visible Futures Lab, a workshop featuring traditional and emerging fabrication technology, which regularly hosts artists in residence.
Residence halls There are several residence halls available for students at SVA, including: • 23rd Street Residence (formerly New Residence), at 215 East
23rd Street, is an apartment-style dormitory reserved for new students. •
24th Street Residence, is a , 14-story residence hall that opened in August 2016. The site was purchased by Magnum Real Estate Group and 40 North in April 2015 for $32.25 million from the nonprofit International Center for the Disabled. It houses 505 residents in 242 suites, including office space, and serves as the flagship residence hall for the school.
Theatre The Theatre, also known as the SVA Theatre, is at 333 West 23rd Street, between Eighth Avenue and Ninth Avenue, in Chelsea. The site was formerly called the 23rd Street Theatre, and served as the home of the
Roundabout Theatre Company, from 1972 until 1984; when their lease expired, the venue was converted into a movie theatre, the Clearview Chelsea West Cinema. It was purchased in 2008, renovated, and reopened in January 2009.
Milton Glaser designed the theatre's renovated interior and exterior, including the sculpture situated atop its marquee. The facility houses two separate auditoriums, one with 265 seats and one with 480, and hosts class meetings, lectures, screenings and other public events. It has also hosted the red-carpet New York première of Ethan Hawke's
The Daybreakers and a diverse list of world premières, ranging from
Lucy Liu's 2010 feature documentary
Redlight, to the 2011
Fox animated comedy
Allen Gregory; and the 2012 film
The Hunger Games. In 2013,
Beyoncé held a release party and screening for her record-setting,
self-titled visual album at the theatre. Community partners that have used the theatre include the
Tribeca and
GenArt film festivals, Mayor
Michael Bloomberg's
PlaNYC environmental initiative, and the
Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting. The theater is also home to the Dusty Film & Animation Festival, held annually since 1990, which showcases the work of emerging filmmakers and animators from the college's BFA Film and Video and BFA Animation programs.
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