School of Visual Arts

The School of Visual Arts (SVA), is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States.[1] It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and was renamed in 1956.[2] It offered its first degrees in 1972.[3] SVA is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD), a consortium of 36 leading art schools in the United States. See Wikipedia, School of Visual Arts, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Visual_Arts