14 Notable alumni of
Cleveland Institute of Art
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Cleveland Institute of Art is 3085th in the world, 1067th in North America, and 1013th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from Cleveland Institute of Art sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Brian Michael Bendis
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- comics writerscreenwritercomics artist
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Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and artist.
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Brian Azzarello
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- comics writerwriterscreenwriter
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Brian Azzarello is an American comic book writer and screenwriter who first came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. Azzarello is best known for his numerous collaborations with artists Eduardo Risso (100 Bullets, Batman: Broken City, Spaceman, Moonshine) and Lee Bermejo (Batman/Deathblow, Luthor, Joker, Batman: Damned), his contributions to the Watchmen prequel project Before Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns sequel series DK III: The Master Race, as well as for his stints on the long-running Vertigo series Hellblazer and The New 52 relaunch of the Wonder Woman title.
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Marsden Hartley
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- writerarchitectural draftspersonpoetpainterdrawer
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Marsden Hartley was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley developed his painting abilities by observing Cubist artists in Paris and Berlin.
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Viktor Schreckengost
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- painterceramicistartist
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Viktor Schreckengost was an American industrial designer as well as a teacher, sculptor, and artist. His wide-ranging work included noted pottery designs, industrial design, bicycle design and seminal research on radar feedback. Schreckengost's peers included designers Raymond Loewy, Norman Bel Geddes, Eva Zeisel, and Russel Wright.
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Manuel Bromberg
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- painter
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Manuel Abraham Bromberg was an American artist and Professor Emeritus of Art, at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He was a 1946 Guggenheim Fellow.
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Martha Elizabeth Burchfield Richter
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- watercolorist
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Martha Elizabeth Burchfield Richter was an American watercolorist, the daughter of artist Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893–1967). Similarly to her father, Burchfield had an affinity for flowering plants, trees, and landscapes. She painted almost exclusively with watercolors and is known for her depictions of nature throughout the seasons, and landscapes of rural America. She is known by the customary signature "M. Burchfield" on all her paintings. Including those painted after the change of her surname following her marriage in 1946 to Henry Richter.
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Ray Burggraf
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- painter
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Ray L. Burggraf is an artist, color theorist, and Emeritus Professor of Fine Arts at Florida State University. According to Roald Nasgaard, Burggraf's paintings exhibit "visual excitation...pulsating patterns, vibrating after-images, weird illusionistic spaces, multifocal opticality, executed with knife-edge precision...crisp and elegant and radiant with light." From a historical perspective, Burggraf's work is "nature evocative...reach back to the modernist landscape tradition of the Impressionists and of Neo-impressionists like Seurat, who, in the late-nineteenth century immersed themselves in the color theories of Chevreul and Rood" (Roald Nasgaard; former Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2006).
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Judy Takács
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- painter
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Judy Takács is a contemporary figurative painter, known for her realistic paintings from her ongoing, traveling portrait series, Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes. “Takács is a figurative artist who tells stories about people who have something uplifting to share.” She is an elected member of, and past Social Media Chair for Allied Artists of America. She is past Social Media Chair and Literature Committee writer for the Cecilia Beaux Forum of the Portrait Society of America. In 2018, Takács was elected to membership in the Salmagundi Art Club and the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club in New York City. She holds Signature Status with Portrait Society of America, American Women Artists and Akron Society of Artists. She lives and works in Solon, Ohio.
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Vic Donahey
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- politician
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Alvin Victor "Honest Vic" Donahey was an American Democratic Party politician from Ohio. Donahey was the 50th governor of Ohio and a United States Senator from Ohio.
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Bob Kane
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- 1937-2013 (aged 76)
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- painter
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Bob Paul Kane was an American painter known for his gestural style, vibrant colors, and festive subject matter.
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Victor Kord
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- painter
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Victor George Kord is an American painter and educator. He currently maintains a studio and exhibits in New York City. He previously served as art department chair for several major universities, and remains professor emeritus of painting at Cornell University Department of Art.
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Mary Ann Scherr
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- head of departmentjewelry designeruniversity teacherfashion designergame designer
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Mary Ann Scherr was an American designer, metalsmith and educator. She was known for her jewellery design and industrial design, but she also worked as a graphic designer, illustrator, game designer, fashion and costume designer and silversmith.
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Gertrude L. Pew
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- 1876-1949 (aged 73)
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- painter
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Gertrude L. Pew Robinson was an American artist who specialized in painting miniatures.
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Leigh Bongiorno
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- artist
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Leigh Brooklyn is an American figurative artist.
