44 Notable alumni of
Maryland Institute College of Art
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The Maryland Institute College of Art is 1341st in the world, 468th in North America, and 438th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 44 notable alumni from the Maryland Institute College 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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Abbi Jacobson
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- film actorpodcasterfilm directortelevision actoractor
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Abbi Jacobson is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and illustrator. She co-created and co-starred in the Comedy Central series Broad City (2014–2019) with Ilana Glazer, based on the web series of the same name. She is a writer and co-creator of the Amazon Prime series A League of Their Own (2022), in which she also stars as Carson Shaw, a baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Her other roles include voicing Katie Mitchell in The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), Nya in The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), and Princess Bean in the series Disenchantment (2018–2023), in addition to appearing in the live-action films Person to Person (2017) and 6 Balloons (2018).
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Jeff Koons
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- businesspersonsculptorjewelry designerpaintercollagist
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Jeffrey Lynn Koons is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania. His works have sold for substantial sums, including at least two record auction prices for a work by a living artist: US$58.4 million for Balloon Dog (Orange) in 2013 and US$91.1 million for Rabbit in 2019.
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N.D. Stevenson
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- comics writertelevision producerscreenwriterillustratorvoice actor
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Nate Diana "Indy" Stevenson, known professionally as ND Stevenson, is an American cartoonist and animation producer. He is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the animated television series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which ran from 2018 to 2020. He is also known for the science fantasy graphic novel Nimona, as co-writer of the comic series Lumberjanes, and The Fire Never Goes Out, his autobiographical collection.
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Yumi Hogan
- Enrolled in the Maryland Institute College of Art
- In 2008 graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts in art of painting
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianartist
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Yumi Hogan is a Korean–American artist. She served as the first lady of Maryland as wife of Governor Larry Hogan from 2015 to 2023, and is the first Korean American first lady of a U.S. state and the first Asian American first lady in the history of Maryland.
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Frank Cho
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- screenwritercomics artistwriter
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Frank Cho is a Korean-American comic strip and comic book writer and illustrator, known for his series Liberty Meadows, as well as for books such as Shanna the She-Devil, Mighty Avengers and Hulk for Marvel Comics, and Jungle Girl for Dynamite Entertainment. Cho is noted for his figure drawing, precise lines, and depictions of curvaceous women.
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Sarah Andersen
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 34)
- Enrolled in the Maryland Institute College of Art
- Studied in 2014
- Occupations
- visual artistillustratorcartoonist
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Sarah C. Andersen is an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for the webcomics Sarah's Scribbles and Fangs. Currently based in Portland, Oregon, she has collaborated with artists and writers like Andy Weir over the course of her career, and has been recently noted for her public opposition to the rise of text-to-image models and generative AI illustrations.
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Frances Quinlan
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 40)
- Occupations
- singer
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Christine Frances Quinlan is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and visual artist best known for fronting Philadelphia indie rock band Hop Along.
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Susan Lowe
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- actorfilm actor
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Susan Lowe is an American actress, educator and painter. She has appeared almost exclusively in the works of John Waters for most of her career, starring in ten of his films.
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Ellen Lupton
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- writergraphic designercuratormuseum professional
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Ellen Lupton is a graphic designer, curator, writer, critic, and educator. Known for her love of typography, Lupton is the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair at Maryland Institute College of Art. Previously she was the Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City and was named Curator Emerita after 30 years of service. She is the founding director of the Graphic Design M.F.A. degree program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. She has written numerous books on graphic design for a variety of audiences. She has contributed to several publications, including Print, Eye, I.D., Metropolis, and The New York Times.
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Jen Stark
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- artistsculptor
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Jen Stark is a multi-media American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Stark is best known for creating optical art using psychedelic colors in patterns and drips that mimic intricate motifs found in nature. On March 26, 2021, Stark became a notable NFT maker when Farzin Fardin Fard (3fmusic) won a bid to buy her piece Multiverse for 150 Ethereum.
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James Kochalka
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- comics creatorcomics artistpenciller
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James Kochalka is an American comic book artist, writer, animator, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal. Largely autobiographical, Kochalka's cartoon expression of the world around him includes such real-life characters as his wife, children, cat, friends and colleagues, but always filtered through his own observations and flights of whimsy. In March 2011 he was declared the cartoonist laureate of Vermont, serving a term of three years.
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Joyce J. Scott
- Enrolled in the Maryland Institute College of Art
- In 1970 graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- teacherbeadworkerjewelry designerdecorative artistartist
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Joyce J. Scott is an African-American artist, sculptor, quilter, performance artist, installation artist, print-maker, lecturer and educator. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016, and a Smithsonian Visionary Artist in 2019, Scott is best known for her figurative sculptures and jewelry using free form, off-loom beadweaving techniques, similar to a peyote stitch. Each piece is often constructed using thousands of glass seed beads or pony beads, and sometimes other found objects or materials such as glass, quilting and leather. In 2018, she was hailed for working in new medium — a mixture of soil, clay, straw, and cement — for a sculpture meant to disintegrate and return to the earth. Scott is influenced by a variety of diverse cultures, including Native American and African traditions, Mexican, Czech, and Russian beadwork, illustration and comic books, and pop culture.
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Wucius Wong
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- painterpoetdraftsperson
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Wucius Wong is a Hong Kong Chinese ink painter and lead figure of the Hong Kong New Ink Movement. He has worked to bring attention to Hong Kong's efforts in Chinese contemporary art, and was one of the first artists to bring modernism to the region.
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William Henry Rinehart
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- artistsculptor
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William Henry Rinehart was a noted American sculptor. He is considered "the last important American sculptor to work in the classical style."
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Takeshi Yamada
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- artist
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Takeshi Yamada is a Japanese-American artist and rogue taxidermist.
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Cheryl D. Miller
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- writerdesigner
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Cheryl D. Holmes Miller is an American graphic designer, Christian minister, writer, artist, theologian, and decolonizing historian. She is known for her contributions to racial and gender equality in the graphic design field, and establishing one of the first black-women-owned design firms in New York City in 1984.
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Heather Day
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- painter
- Biography
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Heather Day is an American artist based in California.
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Juan Fernando Bastos
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- painter
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Juan Bastos is an Venezuela-American portrait artist of Bolivian descent who also creates other representational art, including pieces that utilize mythology and symbolism. He works primarily in painting and drawing and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
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Betty Cooke
- Enrolled in the Maryland Institute College of Art
- Studied in 1942-1946
- Occupations
- jewelry designerinterior designer
- Biography
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Catherine Elizabeth Cooke was an American designer principally known for her jewelry. She has been called "an icon within the tradition of modernist jewelry" and "a seminal figure in American Modernist studio jewelry". Her pieces have been shown nationally and internationally and are included in a number of museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York. She is regarded as an important role model for other artists and craftspeople.
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Shinique Smith
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- painterartistinstallation artistsculptortextile artist
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Shinique Smith is an American visual artist, known for her colorful installation art and paintings that incorporate found textiles and collage materials. She is based in Los Angeles, California.
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Carter
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- visual artistpainterfilm directorscreenwriter
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John Carter is an American multidisciplinary, conceptual artist and film director, using the professional name Carter for his artworks. He is based in New York City.
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Henry Arthur McArdle
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- paintercartographer
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Henry Arthur McArdle was an American painter of French and Irish descent. He was born in Belfast, Ireland on June 9, 1836, and immigrated as a teenager to the U.S. state of Maryland, where he studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art. During the American Civil War he was a cartographer in the service of Robert E. Lee. After the war he took a job at Baylor University and Baylor Female College and moved to Independence, Texas, where he was also known as Harry McArdle, with his new wife Jennie Smith.
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Deana Haggag
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- curator
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Deana Haggag is an American arts organization leader. She is the Program Director for Arts and Culture at Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Formerly, Haggag was the President and CEO of United States Artists, and was Executive Director of The Contemporary (2013–2017) in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Hugh Bolton Jones
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- painter
- Biography
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Hugh Bolton Jones was an American landscape painter. He grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where he received his early training as an artist. While studying in New York he was strongly influenced by Frederic Edwin Church of the Hudson River School. After spending four years in Europe he settled in New York in 1881, where he shared a studio with his brother Francis Coates Jones for the rest of his long life. He was celebrated for his realistic depictions of calm rural scenes of the eastern United States at different times of the year, usually empty of people. He won prizes in several major exhibitions in the US and France. His paintings are held in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution.
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Andrea Chung
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- artist
- Biography
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Andrea Chung is an American artist born in Newark, NJ and currently works in San Diego, CA. Her work focuses primarily on island nations in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; specifically on how outsiders perceive a fantastic reality in spaces deemed as “paradise”. In conjunction, she explores relationships between these cultures, migration, and labor - all within the context of colonial and postcolonial regimes. Her projects bring in conscientious elements of her own labor and incorporate materials significant to the cultures she studies. This can be seen in works such as, “Bato Disik”, displayed in 2013 at the Helmuth Projects, where the medium of sugar represents the legacy of sugar plantations and colonial regime.
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Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
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- animator
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Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum is a visual artist. Her practice includes drawing, painting, installation, and animation. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including The Curve Space at The Barbican, The Hague, and the Centre for Fine Arts Bozar.
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Gwen Lux
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- teachersculptor
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Gwen Lux Creighton, professionally Gwen Lux, was an American sculptor known for her abstraction and frequently constructed from polyester resin concrete and metals. She was among America's pioneer women sculptors.
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Mina Cheon
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- artist
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Mina Cheon is a Korean American new media artist and scholar, producer and curator of cultural projects. Since 1997, she has lived between Baltimore, New York, and Seoul. MJ Standup Korean is the comedic stage name of Mina Cheon, a prominent Korean-American "Polipop" (Political Pop) artist, professor, and scholar based in New York.
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Dorothy Gillespie
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- artistsculptor
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Dorothy Gillespie was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. She was artist in residence at the Women's Interart Center in New York City. A pioneer for women in the arts, she had a career spanning over 70 years as an activist, lecturer and mentor to creative women throughout the world. Working in such diverse mediums as metal, canvas and paper she distinguished herself as one of the preeminent artists of our time. Her work has been exhibited in prestigious museums such as the Guggenheim, as well as innovative private galleries and is collected by art lovers throughout the world.
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Janet Werner
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- painterartist
- Biography
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Janet Werner is a Canadian artist based in Montreal. Her work is known for its incisive and playful depictions of female figures, raising questions about the nature of the subject in painting.
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Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
- Enrolled in the Maryland Institute College of Art
- Graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, also known as Olomidara Yaya, is an American artist and author. She was previously an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley Department of Art Practice. Her work focuses on questions of race, sexuality, and history through a variety of visual and textual mediums. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Notable works include the Kentifrica project, the Tituba series, The Evanesced, and the Uninvited series. She is a member of CTRL+SHFT Collective in Oakland, California.
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Charles Yardley Turner
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- painter
- Biography
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Charles Yardley "C. Y." Turner was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher. His genre scenes and American historical paintings were popularized through engravings and book illustrations.
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Larry Poncho Brown
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Larry "Poncho" Brown is an American artist, who began as a sign painter professionally, and has worked in both painting and sculpture. He has also worked as a curator. His work has been shown in exhibitions, television series, and multi-disciplinary art pieces.
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Pat Ward Williams
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- installation artistphotographeruniversity teacher
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Pat Ward Williams is an African-American photographer whose work often engages with the complexities of race, gender, and history. In addition to her smaller-scale photographs and installations, she has designed three public artworks in Los Angeles.
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Edward Berge
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- sculptor
- Biography
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Edward Henry Berge was an American sculptor. He is mainly known for his bronze monumental works and figures, created in the traditional manner in contrast with the avant-garde work of his contemporaries.
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Jeorge Bennett Watson
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- actor
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Jeorge Bennett Watson is an American actor. He has appeared in television shows including Blue Bloods, Law & Order: Organized Crime, FBI: Most Wanted, For Life, Luke Cage, Shameless, Justified, The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street. He has also appeared in several indie and short films. He currently resides in New York City.
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Juan Logan
- Enrolled in the Maryland Institute College of Art
- In 1998 graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- artistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Juan Logan is an American artist from Nashville, Tennessee. His paintings, sculptures, and installations are reflective of his experiences of racial and institutional power structures in the South and prompt viewers to consider social responsibility.
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John Ennis
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- painter
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John Ennis is an American painter. Ennis is a portrait painter and former book-cover illustrator; his paintings currently hang in over 100 fine art collections worldwide. He has over a thousand published book cover illustrations to his credit.
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Leslie Smith III
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- artist
- Biography
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Leslie Smith III is a contemporary African American visual artist. He currently lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Tom Smith
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- paintertelevision producer
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Thomas Joseph Smith is an artist who specializes in painting, sculpting, and video. His works have been shown in cities such as New York City, Taipei, Sydney and Rio de Janeiro. Early in his career he created illustrations for the New York Times Op Ed. page, How China Got Religion, under the alias Thomas Jay.
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Jim Condron
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
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Jim Condron is an American artist working in painting and sculpture. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Baltimore, MD.
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Jim Radakovich
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- paintersculptor
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Jim Radakovich is an American sculptor and painter living and working in New York City. He was a key figure in the East Village art scene in New York from 1982 to 1987 often showing together both Neo-Surrealist paintings and totem-like sculpture. He frequently exhibited with other artists who emerged at the time, including Kiki Smith, David Wojnarowicz, George Condo, Rick Prol, Peter Schuyff, Mark Kostabi and Marilyn Minter.
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Joseph Maxwell Miller
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Joseph Maxwell Miller was an American sculptor.
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Selma L. Oppenheimer
- Occupations
- painterartist
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Selma Levy Oppenheimer was an artist from Baltimore.
