List of School of the Art Institute of Chicago people explained

This is a list of notable people affiliated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago or the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.

Notable alumni

Animation

• Alex Lee, 3D animator
• Walt Disney, animator, (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts)^[1]

Designers

• Charles C. Dawson, illustrator, book designer
• Robert E. Paige, designer
• Art Paul, graphic designer^[2]
• Norman Teague, designer
• Herbert Temple Jr., art director

Jewelers and light metal artists

• Eileen Abdulrashid, artist, enameler^[3]

Photographers

• Natalie Bookchin, photographer
• Joyce Neimanas, photographer
• Darryl DeAngelo Terrell (M.F.A. 2017), photographer, curator^[4]
• William Vandivert, photographer
• Victor Skrebneski, photographer

Other

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^[5]
• 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 Kamau Amu Patton, multidisciplinary artist
• Claire Pentecost
• Tony Phillips
• 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
• Mika Tosca
• Ruth VanSickle Ford (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts)
• James F. Walker
• Mechtild Widrich
• Anne Wilson
• Karl Wirsum
• Ray Yoshida

References

Matthew Angelo Harrison

Notes and References

1. Book: Louise Krasniewicz, Michael Blitz. Walt Disney: A Biography. Greenwood. 2010. 978-0-313-35830-2. xxvi.
2. http://www.iit.edu/magazine/spring_2009/article_2.shtml Faye, Marcia, "Art Paul: The art of designing Playboy", iitmagazine (Spring 2009)
3. Book: Cederholm, Theresa Dickason. Afro-American Artists; a Bio-bibliographical Directory. 1973. Trustees of the Boston Public Library. 978-0-89073-007-2. 1. en.
4. Web site: Darryl Deangelo Terrell. 2021-09-27. Chicago Artists Coalition. en-US.
5. Web site: Norton Museum of Art, Members magazine March/April 2009 . Norton Museum of Art . 29 April 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090705124322/http://www.norton.org/Portals/1/downloads/members-mags/members-mag-0409.pdf . 5 July 2009 .