29 Notable alumni of
Kansas City Art Institute
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Kansas City Art Institute is 1306th in the world, 459th in North America, and 431st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from Kansas City Art Institute sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Walt Disney
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- designerinventorfilm producerproducermanufacturer
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Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, he holds the record for most Academy Awards won (22) and nominations (59) by an individual. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress and have also been named as some of the greatest films ever by the American Film Institute.
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Dennis Hopper
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- film actorvisual artistpaintertelevision actordirector
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Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. He was considered one of the key figures of New Hollywood. He earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Robert Rauschenberg
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- assemblage artistperformance artistjewelry designervisual artistpainter
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Milton Ernest "Robert" or "Bob" Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture. Rauschenberg was primarily a painter and a sculptor, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking and performance.
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Thomas Hart Benton
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- illustratormuralistdesignercartoonistarchitectural draftsperson
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Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States.
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Victor Papanek
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- university teacherteacherdesigneranthropologistart theorist
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Victor Josef Papanek was an Austrian-born American designer and educator, who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures. His book Design for the Real World, originally published in 1971 and translated into more than 24 languages, had lasting international impact.
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Chris Pitman
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- keyboardistguitaristcomposer
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Chris Pitman is an American musician best known for his involvement with the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. A multi-instrumentalist, Pitman is known to play keyboards, guitar and drums, in addition to his role as a lead or backing vocalist. Pitman currently fronts alternative rock band SexTapes and previously worked with such bands as Guns N' Roses, Lusk, Replicants and Tool.
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Nick Cave
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- artistfashion designerwritercostume designersculptor
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Nick Cave is an American sculptor, painter, dancer, performance artist, and professor. He is best known for his Soundsuit series: wearable assemblage fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical, and other-worldly, often made with found objects. He also trained as a dancer with Alvin Ailey and often incorporates dance and performance into his works. His later sculptures have focused on color theory and included mixed media and large-scale installations. He lives in Chicago, Illinois, and directs the graduate fashion program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He continues to work on Soundsuits as well as works completed as a sculptor, dancer, and performance artist.
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Hugh Harman
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- screenwriterfilm directoranimatorfilm produceractor
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Hugh Harman was an American animator, film producer, and film director. A veteran of the early Walt Disney studio and a key figure in the Golden Age of American animation, Harman and his longtime collaborator Rudolf Ising founded Harman-Ising Pictures in 1929, through which they created the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon series and set the foundation for what would later become the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio.
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William F. Nolan
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- biographerscreenwriternovelistwriterscience fiction writer
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William Francis Nolan was an American author who was active in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and crime fiction genres.
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John Steuart Curry
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- painterlithographer
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John Steuart Curry was an American painter whose career spanned the years from 1924 until his death. He was noted for his paintings depicting rural life in his home state, Kansas. Along with Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, he was hailed as one of the three great painters of American Regionalism of the first half of the twentieth century. Curry's artistic production was varied, including paintings, book illustrations, prints, and posters.
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April Greiman
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- graphic designerdesigner
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April Greiman is an American designer widely recognized as one of the first designers to embrace computer technology as a design tool. Greiman is also credited, along with early collaborator Jayme Odgers, with helping to import the European New Wave design style to the US during the late 70s and early 80s." According to design historian Steven Heller, "April Greiman was a bridge between the modern and postmodern, the analog and the digital." "She is a pivotal proponent of the 'new typography' and new wave that defined late twentieth-century graphic design." Her art combines her Swiss design training with West Coast postmodernism.
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Theo Parrish
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- disc jockey
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Theo Parrish is an American DJ and record producer based in Detroit, Michigan, and known for his genre-spanning DJ sets and unconventional house productions. He is an owner of the Sound Signature record label, and a member of the group 3 Chairs.
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Stefan Lindfors
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- installation artistdesignersculptor
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Erik Stefan Lindfors, known as Stefan Lindfors is a Finnish industrial designer, interior designer, film-maker and sculptor. He attended high school at the Åbo Cathedral School in Turku in 1982, and then went on to study design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, completing his studies in 1988.
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Sam Prekop
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- 1962-.. (age 64)
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- musician
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Sam Prekop is an American musician in the band the Sea and Cake. He also has released five solo albums.
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Jim Suptic
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- 1977-.. (age 49)
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- musicianguitarist
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Jim Suptic is an American musician and entrepreneur, best known for being the guitarist for the rock band The Get Up Kids.
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Ronnie Landfield
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- printmakerpainter
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Ronnie Landfield is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction (related to Postminimalism, Color Field painting, and Abstract expressionism), and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery.
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Archer Prewitt
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- comics artistguitarist
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Archer Prewitt is an American musician and cartoonist associated with the independent music scene in Chicago, Illinois.
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Peregrine Honig
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- 1976-.. (age 50)
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- painter
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Peregrine Honig is an American artist. Honig's work is concerned with the relationship between pop culture, sexual vulnerability, social anxieties, the ethics of luxury, and trends in consumerism.
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Jim Mahfood
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- comics artistcomics writerwriterillustratorvisual artist
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Jim Mahfood, a.k.a. Food One, is an American comic book creator.
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Martin Arnold
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- film producertelevision producerfilm director
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Martin Arnold is an experimental filmmaker known for his obsessive deconstruction of found footage.
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Robert Templeton
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- illustratorpainter
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Robert Templeton was an American artist. His work includes the civil rights collection "Lest we forget...Images of the Black Civil Rights Movement", highlighting seminal figures from the movement. Templeton painted the portrait of former President Jimmy Carter that is displayed in the Hall of presidents of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery.
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Christopher Willits
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- 1978-.. (age 48)
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- musician
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Christopher Willits is a San Francisco-based guitarist, electronic music composer and producer, visual artist and scholar. His music is electroacoustic in nature, in that both analogue and digital sounds are meshed into one singular sound.
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Fatimah Tuggar
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- visual artistvideo artistphotographervideographer
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Fatimah Tuggar is an interdisciplinary artist born in Nigeria and based in the United States. Tuggar uses collage and digital technology to create works that investigate dominant and linear narratives of gender, race, and technology. She is currently an associate professor of AI in the Arts: Art & Global Equity at the University of Florida in the United States.
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Guy Maccoy
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- teacherpainter
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Guy Maccoy was an American artist known for his serigraphs.
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Shawn Brixey
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- visual artistuniversity teacher
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Shawn Brixey is an artist, educator, researcher, and inventor.
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Barry Kooser
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- painterbackground artist
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Barry R. Kooser is an American artist, painter, and educator who worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation Studios between 1992 and 2003 as a background artist on films such as The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, and as background supervisor on Brother Bear. After leaving Disney, he worked independently as a painter exhibiting and selling fine art in galleries around the US. While teaching animation and story-boarding at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, he met Worker Studio founder Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot, and became a partner at the Colorado animation studio. Barry has since left Worker Studio. He is the Founder, Executive Producer and Director at Many Hoops Productions.
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Arthur Kraft
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- sculptorpaintermuralist
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Arthur M. Kraft was an American painter, sculptor and muralist. A native of Kansas City, Kraft was a member of the expressionist movement.
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Edward Buk Ulreich
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- paintersculptor
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Edward Buk Ulreich was an American artist. Born in Hungary, his work includes murals at the United States Courthouse (Tallahassee, Florida, 1936) completed in 1939. His work is also at the National Museum of American Illustration.
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Ryan MacDonald
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- writer
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Ryan Alexander MacDonald is an American writer, sound and visual artist. He won the American Short(er) Fiction Award for his title story in 2012.
