<Tr> <Th> Affiliations </Th> <Td> AICAD </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> sva.edu </Td> </Tr> <P> The School of Visual Arts (SVA) is a for - profit art and design college located in Manhattan, New York, founded in 1947 . The college is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, a consortium of 36 leading art schools in the United States . </P> <P> SVA was established by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth in 1947, as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School . The school began with three teachers and 35 students, most of whom were World War II veterans who had a large part of their tuition underwritten by U.S. government's G.I. Bill . The college was renamed the School of Visual Arts in 1956 . It offered its first degrees in 1972 . In 1983, the college introduced its first graduate offering, a Master of Fine Arts in painting, drawing and sculpture . </P>

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