Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC) is a private for-profit art school in New York City. It was founded in 1947 and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
== History ==
This school was started by Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth in 1947 as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School; it had three teachers and 35 students, most of whom were World War II veterans who had a large part of their tuition underwritten by the United States government's G.I. Bill. It was renamed the School of Visual Arts in 1956 and offered its first degrees in 1972. In 1983, it introduced a Master of Fine Arts in painting, drawing and sculpture.
In 2024, the school received an honorary "SVA Way" co-naming at the intersection of 23rd Street and 3rd Avenue for the institutional presence in the neighborhood since 1960.
On September 1, 2025, ownership of the school transitioned from the Rhodes family to the SVA Alumni Society. This was part of a plan which began in 2019 as the school began the process of …
