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The school was established and run by the Grand Central Art Galleries, an artists' cooperative founded by Sargent, Greacen, Clark, and others in 1922. [2] The school was directed by Greacen, Sargent and Daniel Chester French and occupied 7,000 square feet (650 m 2) on the seventh floor [3] of the east wing of the Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
The school was one of a number of Art Institutes, a franchise of for-profit art colleges with many branches in North America, owned and operated by Education Management Corporation. Founded in 1980 as The New York Restaurant School, and renamed in 2001, it was accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools. The Art ...
The current school logo was created in 1997 by George Tscherny for its 50th anniversary, [16] and redesigned in 2013. [6] In 2019 the school began the process of converting to nonprofit, with the SVA alumni organization (which is already an IRS tax-exempt entity) planning to purchase the school from its owners, who are retiring. [17]
From 1906 until 1922, and again after the end of World War II from 1947 until 1979, the League operated a summer school of painting at Woodstock, New York. In 1995, the League's facilities expanded to include the Vytlacil campus in Sparkill, New York, named after and based upon a gift of the property and studio of former instructor Vaclav Vytlacil.
Pivar acknowledges that in 1983 Hodes and Cunningham were brought in as senior faculty, and that several trustees of the New Brooklyn School were added to the academy's board, but that the union was acrimonious and that Hodes, Cunningham, and former New Brooklyn School board members Barbara Stanton and James Cox had left the school by 1985. [9 ...
The School's exhibition program, in its committed gallery space, was described by critic Mario Naves in the New York Observer as "one of the city's most significant venues for contemporary art." [4] The school has greatly expanded its program since 1988, which now includes "painting excursions to Governors Island, museum and artist studio trips."
1966: Arthur Mitchell, the leading dancer with New York City Ballet, joins faculty. School is at full capacity with 300 students enrolled. May 17 – New York State Award presented to the school by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller for "outstanding dedication and accomplishment in developing the artistic talents of the children of Harlem.”