MFA Visual Narrative Program

Over the course of the summer, students from the Class of ’27 developed one common narrative as a class. With a focus on how language and sound can be used as imagery to achieve narrative goals, the students worked in pairs to tell the entire story through multiple podcast segments. Each segment tells one part of the story—taking it through beginning, middle, and end. While these segments must link into one cohesive narrative, the groups could design their podcast segments in whatever style they chose.

Follow along at: https://mfavisualnarrative.sva.edu/blog/scouts-honor-a-narrative-writing-podcast-27-with-anna-eveslage-instructor/

Art by Drew Bullock '27 ( .hats )

We're excited to welcome .b to MFAVN faculty! Srobana will be teaching Power of Story.

Srobana Bhattacharya is an educator, oral historian and visual storyteller with a passion for graphic novels. She works on themes of memory, connection and belonging. Her stories and images explore relationships moving through time and space and finding and rediscovering the self in everchanging landscapes.��

We're excited to welcome to MFAVN faculty! Shelby will be teaching Storyteller as Brand.

Shelby Hipol is a VP, Graphic Designer at Lazard Asset Management, where she helps develop and implement the firm's branding across key product launches, events and campaigns. She started her career in advertising, designing activations and campaigns for consumer brands like General Mills and New Balance but has since evolved her practice to focus on co-creating impactful design solutions alongside other designers and stakeholders.� �Outside of Lazard Asset Management, Shelby also collaborates with various teams from the Research Foundation of CUNY with whom she works with teams of academic researchers, using design thinking to create public health interventions alongside care providers, local organizations and community members. She has a Master's in Food Studies from New York University, through which her focus is on food as a medium for telling stories and expressing one's history and identity.��