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Warren Lehrer
Warren Lehrer is a writer/designer known as a ‘pioneer of visual literature and design authorship’. Known most for his unique marriage of writing and typography, his books and multimedia projects capture the shape of thought and reunite oral and pictorial traditions of storytelling in books, animations and performance. Honours include: 2019 Ladislav Sutnar Lifetime Achievement Prize, 2016 Center for Book Arts Honoree, The Brendan Gill Prize, IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year Award, Innovative Use of Archives Award, International Book Award for Best New Fiction, three AIGA Book Awards, grants and fellowships from the NEA, NYFA and Rockefeller, Ford and Greenwall Foundations. Lehrer’s work is in many collections including MoMA, Getty Museum, Georges Pompidou Centre and the Tate Gallery. A frequent lecturer and performer, Lehrer is a founding faculty member of SVA’s Designer As Author MFA programme, professor emeritus at SUNY Purchase and co-founder of EarSay, a non-profit arts organization in Queens, New York. See
Contact: SVA Designer As Author/Entrepreneur MFA program, 310 East 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY, 10010, USA.