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SVA Subway Posters

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SVA has produced more than 200 posters for the New York City subway platforms, in the process creating one of the most enduring public art projects in the City. This is a complete overview of the subway poster campaign, from the earliest posters when SVA was known as Cartoonists and Illustrators School to the most current posters now displayed in subway stations.
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Posters depicts: drawing of George Orwell with a typewriter and snow globe showing burning books
Art Illuminates Dark Times
Posters depicts: Cat looking out window at city skyline and moon with cat face.
There's a Whole World Out There That Now, More Than Ever, Needs Art
Posters depicts: simple drawing of an egg shaped chick
Prompt-Brush 1.0
Posters depicts: watercolor of a pencil shaving arrayed in a circle
Stay Sharp
Posters depicts: Cartoon city scape with different characters on the street, sun in the center with speech bubble saying "Art Is!"
Art Is! (Gary Panter) (2024 reissue)
Posters depicts: female profile peeking out of a fanciful spacesuit with buttons, paint tubes, pencil, lips, popsicles and other pipes.
The SVA Way
Posters depicts: monkey with golden halo
Becoming an Artist is a Way to Find Joy in Work
Posters depicts: sitting monkey with golden halo
Art is a Way to Find Meaning in Work
Posters depicts: monkey with golden halo
When You Love What You Do, It's Not Work
Posters depicts: Fire breathing girl standing on top of a sketchbook with plants growing out of it
Think About Art...
Posters depicts: 1986 image of Jalil Hutchins performing as a member of the hi-hop collective Whodini
Capturing a Pivotal Moment in Music History: SVA Celebrates 50 Years of Hip-Hop
Posters depicts: Black silhouetted male figure in blowing horn into flowers
Art Is! (Peter Hristoff)
Posters depicts: Black woman wearing large blue hat against a floral background
Art Is! (Marcos Chin)
Posters depicts: Blue number 75 painted on wood surface with yellow arrow
Year 75!
Posters depicts: SVA subway poster with action words including Unite, Merge, Grow and Join.
Art Takes Action Here
Posters depicts: Three dimensional cartoon city on blue background
Art Is! (Hyesu Lee)
Posters depicts: Psychedelic and futuristic New York City street scene
Art Is! (Gary Panter)
Posters depicts: Art Is spelled out in colorful block letters
Art Is! (Gail Anderson and Zipeng Zhu)
Posters depicts: Man operating giant Rube Goldberg Machine
Art Is! (Kevin O'Callaghan) - Art Takes Action Here
Posters depicts: Girl's face at the center of the poster with retro-scientific textbook styled thoughts represented inside circles.
Art Is! (Jonathon Rosen)
Posters depicts: Blue boy leaping into pool against pink city background.
Art Is! (Peter Ahlberg)
Posters depicts: Rocket toy with toy girl and dog as pilots. Rocket surrounded by text labels related to an artistic life and old school rockets.
Art Is! (Richard Borge)
Posters depicts: A giant orange tabby cat drinks water from a river/ocean, among a miniature colorful cityscape. Two small ships are visible.
Observe
Posters depicts: Color illustration of a grey pigeon holding a melting, red, white and blue popsicle in its beak. Background is white with yellow three-dimensional stars.
Imagine
Posters depicts: Color illustration of a giant squirrel, holding a hollow acorn filled with forest growth and spewing tiny acorns, standing atop a tiny forest. A bridge with a small person & a boat are visible.
Unearth
Posters depicts: Pencils on a blue background bent and twisted to spell "Art Is!"
Art Is! (Pablo Delcan) subway poster
Posters depicts: Colorful drawing of many people of different races holding blank signs or signs that encourage activism. The words "Art Is!" is situated in the center of the poster among the crowd.
Art Is! (Julia Rothman)
Posters depicts: Paper from a book is scattered on a black table; some are formed into an elaborate model ship. Background is a deep blue.
Art Defies Expectations
Posters depicts: Book pages are cut into an elaborate system of interconnecting pipes., some of which are painted green, against a red background.
Art Defies Logic
Posters depicts: A swarm of butterflies, shaped from book pages, flutter towards the moon against a deep blue background.
Art Defies Gravity
Posters depicts: A colorful menagerie of eyes looking at the viewer, against a yellow background. Text appears in blue.
Wake Up!
Posters depicts: Red, stylized heads with open mouths radiate diagonally upward, against a background of yellow, blue and green streaks. Text appears in red.
Speak Up!
Posters depicts: A stylized red hand reaches upward against a background of blue, red, yellow and green streaks. Text appears in yellow.
Rise Up!
Posters depicts: Text is formed out of small, colorful, rectangular boxes, inside a white box and against a background of black with white splatter.
It's Not About Me It's About We: Art Makes Us Better
Posters depicts: Boxes segmented inside each other form a black border and tight, overlapping dot patterns, centering around a yellow pyramid-like house.
Give Help: The Smallest Act of Kindness Is Worth More Than the Grandest Intention (Oscar Wilde)
Posters depicts: Geometric patterns (primarily pink and grey) surround a long, blue, gemstone-like shape.
To Dream Is Human
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