29 Notable alumni of
Kansas City Art Institute
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Kansas City Art Institute is 1248th in the world, 452nd in North America, and 424th 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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- caricaturistactordirectormanufacturerinventor
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Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, 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 earned and nominations 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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- artistactordirectorpainterscreenwriter
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Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor and film director. He is known for his roles as mentally disturbed outsiders and rebels. 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. Hopper studied acting at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and the Actors Studio in New York. Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s.
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Robert Rauschenberg
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- graphic artistcollagistprintmakerperformance artistarchitectural draftsperson
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Milton Ernest "Robert" 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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- printmakerarchitectural draftspersoncartoonistdesignermuralist
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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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- teacheruniversity teacherart theoristanthropologistdesigner
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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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- composerguitaristkeyboardist
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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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William F. Nolan
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- writernovelistscreenwriterbiographerscience fiction writer
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William Francis Nolan was an American author who wrote hundreds of stories in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and crime fiction genres.
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John Steuart Curry
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- painterprintmaker
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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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Hugh Harman
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- film directorscreenwriteractorfilm produceranimator
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Hugh Harman was an American animator. He was known for creating the Warner Bros. Cartoons and MGM Cartoons studios and his collaboration with Rudolf Ising during the Golden Age of American animation.
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April Greiman
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- designergraphic designer
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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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- sculptordesigner
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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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Nick Cave
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- costume designerwriterfashion designerartistsound artist
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Nick Cave is an American sculptor, 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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Sam Prekop
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- 1962-.. (age 62)
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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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Ronnie Landfield
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- painterprintmaker
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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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Jim Suptic
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- 1977-.. (age 47)
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- guitaristmusician
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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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Archer Prewitt
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- guitaristcomics artist
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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 48)
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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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- writercomics writercomics artistvisual artistillustrator
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Jim Mahfood, a.k.a. Food One, is an American comic book creator.
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Robert Templeton
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- painterillustrator
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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 46)
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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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Martin Arnold
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- film producerfilm directortelevision producer
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Martin Arnold is an experimental filmmaker known for his obsessive deconstruction of found footage.
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Fatimah Tuggar
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- video artistvisual artistvideographerphotographer
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Fatimah Tuggar is a interdisciplinary artist born in Nigeria and based in the United States. Tuggar uses collage and digital technology to create works that investigates 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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- painterteacher
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Guy Maccoy was an American artist known for his serigraphs.
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Shawn Brixey
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- university teachervisual artist
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Shawn Brixey is an artist, educator, researcher, and inventor.
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Barry Kooser
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- background artistpainter
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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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- paintersculptormuralist
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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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- sculptorpainter
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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.
