List of School of the Art Institute of Chicago people
This is a list of notable people affiliated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Notable alumni[]
- Eileen Abdul-Rashid, artist
- Gertrude Abercrombie, surrealist painter[1]
- Gene Ahern, cartoonist
- Harry Aleman, Chicago mobster[2]
- Enrique Alferez, sculptor
- Carleton W. Angell, sculptor
- Jennifer Angus, artist
- BenDeLaCreme, drag queen
- Elizabeth Axtman, video artist and photographer[3]
- Pat Badani, new media artist
- Frances Badger, muralist[4]
- Don Balke, (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts), painter
- Annette Barbier, new media artist
- Robin Barcus Slonina (B.F.A. 1993), multidisciplinary artist
- Richmond Barthé, sculptor
- Jack Beal, painter[5]
- Gina Beavers, artist
- Katherine Behar, artist
- Enella Benedict, realism and landscape painter[6][7]
- Jane Benson, conceptual artist
- Thomas Hart Benton, painter
- Jeremy Blake, digital artist
- Willard Bond, painter[8]
- Natalie Bookchin, photographer
- Jessie Arms Botke, painter[9]
- Wilfrid Swancourt Bronson, illustrator
- Jeffrey Brown, cartoonist
- Roger Brown (B.F.A. 1968, M.F.A. 1970), painter[10][11]
- Margaret Brundage, illustrator (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts)
- Edward William Carlson, painter
- John Chamberlain, sculptor
- Paul Chan, multimedia[12]
- John Churchill Chase, (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts) cartoonist
- Caitlin Cherry, artist
- Sonya Clark, artist
- Eleanor Coen, artist
- George Cohen, artist
- Patty Yumi Cottrell, writer
- William Cordova, (B.F.A. 1996 - M.F.A. Yale University 2004), cultural practitioner
- Bradshaw Crandell, illustrator and artist (attended classes)[13]
- Amanda Crowe, (MFA 1952), sculptor, wood-carver, and educator.[14]
- Charles C. Dawson, artist
- Kent Devereaux, (M.F.A. 1985), President, New Hampshire Institute of Art
- Walt Disney, animator, (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts)[15]
- Mat Devine, musician[16]
- Katharine Sturges Dodge, writer, illustrator, jewelry designer
- Nora Dunn, actress[17]
- Ulric Ellerhusen, sculptor[18]
- Fred Ellis, (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts), political cartoonist (did not graduate)[19]
- Emil Ferris, (B.F.A, M.F.A) Author of bestseller "My Favorite Thing is Monsters", Artist
- Suzanne Fiol, avant-garde music producer and founder of ISSUE Project Room[20]
- Hal Foster, creator of the comic strip Prince Valiant.
- Frederick Carl Frieseke, painter[21]
- Eve Garrison, painter
- Eckhard Gerdes, novelist
- Sonja Weber Gilkey, multimedia and environmental artist
- Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos), marine artist[22]
- Leon Golub, painter
- Edward Gorey, illustrator
- Barbara Grad, painter, co-founder of Artemisia Gallery
- Art Green, painter, original member of The Hairy Who
- Jennifer Guidi, artist
- Halston, fashion designer
- Ed Harris, actor (Received an honorary diploma in 2003.)
- Stieg Hedlund (attended 1984-1985) video game designer
- Hugh Hefner (took anatomy classes), founder of Playboy
- Herblock, political cartoonist (Herb Block)
- Don Herold, humorist (did not graduate)
- Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt, portrait miniaturist[23]
- Ed Holland, cartoonist
- Richard Hunt, sculptor
- Robert Indiana, designer, "Love (sculpture)"
- Rudolph F. Ingerle, landscape painter
- Amelia Ishmael, artist, curator, art critic
- Grace Spaulding John, painter
- Jennie C. Jones, sound and visual artist
- Lawrence Arthur Jones, muralist, printmaker
- Max Kahn, painter
- Herb Kawainui Kane, painter, designer, Living Treasure of Hawaii[24]
- Alice De Wolf Kellogg, artist
- Jin Soo Kim, artist
- Tim Kinsella, (MFA in Writing) Founding member of both influential underground punk band Cap'n Jazz and experimental rock band Joan of Arc (band)
- David Klamen, painter
- Jeff Koons, sculptor
- Irving Kriesberg, painter, sculptor, animator
- Dan Kwong, performance artist, writer, teacher, playwright (Be Like Water)
- Paul Lamantia, painter
- Matteo Lane, Comedian, oil painter, opera singer
- Judy Ledgerwood, painter
- J. C. Leyendecker, illustrator for over 300 Saturday Evening Post covers.
- Ella Fillmore Lillie (1884–1972), artist
- Jon Lindsay (M.F.A. in Writing, 2005) solo recording artist, producer, political activist
- Erica Lord, artist
- Robert Lostutter, painter, original member of the Chicago Imagists
- Lubov, painter
- Carole Frances Lung, performance artist, professor.[25]
- Charles A. MacLellan, painter and illustrator
- Joe Mangrum, sand painter, painter, sculptor, installation artist
- Shaw McCutcheon, editorial cartoonist
- Gene Markey, Hollywood producer and screenwriter
- Raúl Martínez, Cuban painter and Pop artist
- Santiago Martinez Delgado, (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts) muralist, illustrator, and sculptor
- Bill Mauldin, (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts) political cartoonist
- Eugenie McEvoy, painter
- Joan Mitchell, painter
- Archibald J. Motley, painter
- Elizabeth Murray, painter
- LeRoy Neiman, painter
- Joyce Neimanas, photographer
- Angela von Neumann, artist
- Mark Nelson, artist
- Audrey Niffenegger, author (The Time Traveler's Wife)
- Margaret Noble, conceptual artist and sound artist
- Kim Novak, actress
- Jim Nutt, painter
- Georgia O'Keeffe (did not graduate, attended 1905–1906), painter[26]
- Claes Oldenburg (attended from 1950–1954), sculptor
- Adrienne Outlaw, sculptor[27]
- Trevor Paglen, photographer
- Eunice Parsons, modernist collage artist
- Ed Paschke, painter
- Art Paul, graphic designer[28]
- Cheryl Pope, artist
- Frank Piatek, artist
- Sabrina Raaf, contemporary artist
- J. K. Ralston, painter of the Old West
- Lester Raymer, multidisciplinary artist
- Yasmil Raymond, visual art curator
- Miguel A Reina, filmmaker
- Virginia Richmond Reynolds, portrait miniaturist[29]
- Rebecca Ringquist (M.F.A 2003), fiber artist, author
- Anne Rosellini (B.F.A.), film producer
- Amanda Ross-Ho, (B.F.A. 1998), multimedia artist
- Cynthia Rowley, fashion designer
- Sterling Ruby, multimedia artist
- Hong Sang-soo, (M.F.A) film director
- Matt Saracen, (B.F.A.) (fictional) illustrator and quarterback
- David Sedaris (B.F.A. 1987), author, humorist
- David Sharpe (B.F.A., 1966; M.F.A., 1968), painter
- Victor Skrebneski, fashion photographer
- Kay Smith (artist), artist and educator
- John Stephan, Abstract expressionist painter
- Kunié Sugiura (B.F.A. 1967), artist and photographer
- Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (B.F.A. 1946, M.A.E. 1948), museum founder, artist, educator
- Minerva Teichert, muralist
- Rirkrit Tiravanija
- Barbara Tetenbaum, artist books
- Mark Tobey, painter
- Madeline Tourtelot, filmmaker, painter, art school founder
- William Vandivert, photographer
- Sarah Vowell (M.A. 1996), author, humourist
- Ginger Wallace, artist
- Casper D. Waller, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
- Chris Ward IV, better known as MC Chris, a hip-hop rapper
- Chris Ware, alternative cartoonist
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul, filmmaker
- Roger Welch, multi media artist
- Orson Welles, filmmaker
- Kanye West, musician and fashion designer(Received an honorary diploma in 2015.)
- Richard Wetzel, artist
- Charles White artist
- Anita Willets-Burnham, artist and author
- Charles Banks Wilson, painter
- Ellis Wilson, artist
- Gahan Wilson, cartoonist (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts)
- Karl Wirsum, painter, original member of The Hairy Who
- Grant Wood, painter, "American Gothic" (1930)
- Florence Wyle (1881 – 1968) American-Canadian sculptor and designer
- Choi Yan-chi, artist
- Mary Agnes Yerkes, painter
- Wen Yiduo, Chinese poet, scholar
- Barbara Blondeau, experimental photographer
- Marisa González, multimedia artist, years 1971-73
- John Dunn (software developer)
Notable faculty[]
- Franco (Frank) Barsotti, Department of Photography
- Benjamin Bellas
- George Bellows (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts)
- Wafaa Bilal
- Rika Burnham, Teaching Institute in Museum Education
- Amanda_Williams_(artist)
- James Blomfield (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts)
- Stan Brakhage
- Christopher Bratton
- Nick Cave
- Francis Chapin
- Louis Grell
- Susanna Coffey
- John Rogers Cox[30]
- Barbara Degenevieve
- James Elkins
- LaToya Ruby Frazier
- Michelle Grabner
- Diana Guerrero-Maciá
- Claudia Hart
- Tiffany Holmes
- Eduardo Kac
- Max Kahn
- Adelheid Mers
- Ayanah Moor
- Phil Morton
- Joyce Neimanas
- Claire Pentecost
- Frank Piatek
- Jefferson Pinder
- Jaume Plensa
- Albin Polasek, sculptor
- Barbara Rossi, painter, original member of the Chicago Imagists
- Jerry Saltz
- David Sedaris
- Sonia Sheridan, artist, founder of Generative Systems: Art Science and Technology Department
- Lorado Taft, sculptor
- Ruth VanSickle Ford (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts)
- James F. Walker
- Anne Wilson
- Karl Wirsum
- Ray Yoshida
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- ^ "The Organization Man - Page 3 - Chicago Tribune". articles.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 1998. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
- ^ Elizabeth Axtman Web site Archived 2009-01-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Schulman, Daniel. "Frances Badger". chicagomodern.org. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- ^ Paul Vitello (September 7, 2013). "Jack Beal, Optimistic New Realist Painter, Dies at 82". The New York Times.
- ^ Ganz, Cheryl R. (2001). Women Building Chicago 1790-1990. Indiana University Press. p. 75.
- ^ "Enella Benedict". Illinois Women Artists. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
- ^ (June 10, 2012). "Willard Bond, Vivid Artist of Yachting, Dies at 85". The New York Times.
- ^ Trenton, Patricia; Solon, Deborah Epstein (1995). Birds, boughs & blossoms: Jessie Arms Botke (1883-1971). William A. Karges Fine Art. ISBN 9781886394001.
- ^ Lawrence, Sidney (1987). Roger Brown. New York: George Braziller, Inc. ISBN 0-8076-1178-6.
- ^ Stone, Lisa (2013). Roger Brown: Biography. Chicago: School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- ^ "Paul Chan (BFA 1996) contributes to Spike Art Quarterly". mySAIC. December 20, 2010. Archived from the original on March 18, 2014.
- ^ Psi Upsilon Fraternity (1917). The twelfth general catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. The fraternity. p. 484.
- ^ "Cherokee Traditions - People - Amanda Crowe (1928-2004)". Western Carolina University Library. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ Louise Krasniewicz, Michael Blitz (2010). Walt Disney: A Biography. Greenwood. p. xxvi. ISBN 978-0-313-35830-2.
- ^ "School of the Art Institute of Rankings, Class Sizes, Trivia, and Images –". Juggle.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-10. Retrieved 2010-11-04.
- ^ Nora Dunn Biography, Yahoo! Movies
- ^ Exhibition of American Sculpture Catalogue, 156th Street of Broadway New York, The National Sculpture Society 1923 p.55
- ^ Magil, A.B. (12 January 1930). "Ellis, Artist of the Proletariat". The Daily Worker, vol. 5, no. 321. p. 2.
- ^ Sisario, Ben (October 8, 2009). "Suzanne Fiol, Avant-Garde Impresario, Dies at 49". New York Times. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ "Frederick Carl Frieseke". Shiawassee District Library. Owosso, Michigan. 2007. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
- ^ "How the life and death of the Chicago painter known as Hilgos helped bring art — and a better quality of life — to Alzheimer's patients". Miller-Mccune magazine. December 21, 2010. Archived from the original on January 22, 2011.
- ^ Aronson, Julie and Wieseman, Marjorie (2006). "Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt", Perfect Likeness: European And American Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Art Museum, p. 207. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300115806
- ^ von Buol, Peter (May 20, 2008). "Chicago Honors Hawaii Artist Herb Kane". Hawaii Magazine. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ Cheh, Carol (March 27, 2014). "The Quiet Revolution of the Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms". KCET. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ "Obituary". New York Times March 7, 1986. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
- ^ "Artists bio - Adrienne Outlaw". whitespace gallery. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
- ^ Faye, Marcia, "Art Paul: The art of designing Playboy", iitmagazine (Spring 2009)
- ^ Barratt, Carrie Rebora and Zabar, Lori (2010). "Virginia Richmond Reynolds", American Portrait Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 476. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 1588393577
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