28 Notable alumni of
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
The Massachusetts College of Art and Design is 1289th in the world, 470th in North America, and 443rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 28 notable alumni from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Katya Zamolodchikova
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- drag queenactorcomedianinternet celebrity
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Brian Joseph McCook, known by his drag persona Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova, or mononymously as Katya (Russian: Катя), is an American drag queen, actor, author, recording artist, and comedian. Katya is best known for placing fifth on the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race and placing as runner-up on the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, as well as for appearing in the World of Wonder web series UNHhhh and the Viceland series The Trixie & Katya Show with co-host and fellow season 7 alum Trixie Mattel. In June 2019, a panel of judges from New York magazine placed Katya 13th on their list of "the most powerful drag queens in America", a ranking of 100 former Drag Race contestants.
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Hal Hartley
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- film directorscreenwritertheatrical directormusicianauthor
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Hal Hartley is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and composer who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and '90s. He is best known for his films The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, Simple Men, Amateur and Henry Fool, which are notable for deadpan humour and offbeat characters quoting philosophical dialogue.
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Charlie Hides
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- drag queenactorcomedianYouTubercostume designer
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Charlie Hides is an American-born drag queen, impersonator, actor, and comedian. Hides is known for his YouTube channel, and his participation in the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. Following live performances in London clubs, Hides started a YouTube channel in March 2011. He has produced hundreds of videos satirizing popular culture, and impersonating celebrities such as Cher, Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Lana Del Rey.
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Ben Edlund
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- writerscreenwriterexecutive producer
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Ben Edlund is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, television producer, and television director. Prior to his involvement in TV, he was best known as the creator of the satirical superhero character The Tick.
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William Wegman
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- photographerartistpainter
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William Wegman is an American artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.
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Christian Marclay
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- composervisual artistphotographer
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Christian Marclay is a visual artist and composer. He holds both American and Swiss nationality.
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Sean Murphy
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- screenwritercomics artist
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Sean Gordon Murphy is an American comic book creator known for work on books such as Joe the Barbarian with Grant Morrison, Chrononauts with Mark Millar, American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest and The Wake with Scott Snyder, and Tokyo Ghost with Rick Remender. He has also written and drawn the miniseries Punk Rock Jesus, as well as Batman: White Knight and its sequel Curse of the White Knight.
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Albert Henry Munsell
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- painterinventorteacher
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Albert Henry Munsell was an American painter, teacher of art, and the inventor of the Munsell color system.
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Tony Millionaire
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- 1956-.. (age 66)
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- cartoonistillustratornovelistcomics artist
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Tony Millionaire is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author known for his syndicated comic strip Maakies and the Sock Monkey series of comics and picture books.
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Muriel Cooper
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- graphic designer
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Muriel Cooper was a pioneering book designer, digital designer, researcher, and educator. She was the first design director of the MIT Press, instilling a Bauhaus-influenced design style into its many publications. She moved on to become founder of MIT's Visible Language Workshop, and later became a co-founder of the MIT Media Lab. In 2007, a New York Times article called her "the design heroine you've probably never heard of".
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Sam Durant
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- photographerinstallation artistsculptordrawer
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Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores culture and politics, engaging subjects such as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism.
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Boardman Robinson
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- painter
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Boardman Michael Robinson was a Canadian-American painter, illustrator and cartoonist.
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Hermon Atkins MacNeil
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- sculptor
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Hermon Atkins MacNeil was an American sculptor born in Everett, Massachusetts. He is known for designing the Standing Liberty quarter, struck by the Mint from 1916-1930; and for sculpting Justice, the Guardian of Liberty on the east pediment of the United States Supreme Court building.
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Jacqueline Casey
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- graphic designerdesigner
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Jacqueline S. Casey was a graphic designer best known for the posters she created for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). While practicing a functional Modernism, Jacqueline S. Casey was a graphic designer in the Office of Publications (later retitled the Office of Design Services) from 1955 to 1989 and assigned the position as director in 1972. In discussing her design, Casey stated, "My work combines two cultures: The American interest in visual metaphor on the one hand, and the Swiss fascination with planning, fastidiousness, and control over technical execution on the other."
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Christopher Forgues
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- novelist
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Christopher "Chris" Forgues,, is an artist and musician, best known for his graphic novel serial Powr Mastrs. He is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
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William Woodward
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- painterartist
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William Woodward was a U.S. artist and educator, best known for his impressionist paintings of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of the United States.
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Leela Corman
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- 1972-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- cartoonistcomics artistcomics writer
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Leela Corman is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and Middle Eastern dancer. Corman created the 2012 graphic novel Unterzakhn, which follows the lives of Jewish twin sisters growing up in the tenements of New York City's Lower East Side at the turn of the last century. Unterzakhn was published by Schocken Books and nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Eisner Award, and Le Prix Artemisia. Portions of Unterzakhn were serialized in HEEB magazine and Lilith magazine.
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Lou Rogers
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- children's writerwritereditorial cartoonist
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Lou Rogers was a cartoonist, illustrator, writer, storyteller, public speaker, radio host, and political activist.
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Erin M. Riley
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- artist
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Erin M. Riley is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work focuses on women and women's issues primarily in hand-woven hand dyed wool tapestries.
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Andrew Stevovich
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- painterartist
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Andrew Stevovich is an American painter. He is best known for oil paintings and pastels that combine abstract formalities with a figurative narrative. He has also produced lithographs, etchings, and wood-block prints.
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Ron Regé, Jr
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- pencillermusician
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Ronald J. Regé Jr. is a cartoonist and musician from Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Harris Barron
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- 1926-2017 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- painter
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Harris Barron was an artist, educator, writer, pilot, and adventurer who founded both the ZONE visual theatre group and the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1970.
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Gale Fulton Ross
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- 1947-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- painter
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Gale Fulton Ross is an African-American visual artist who lives in Sarasota, Florida. Primarily a painter, she also practices portraiture, printmaking, and sculpture.
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Royal B. Farnum
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- art educator
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Royal Bailey Farnum was an American art educator who served in administrative roles in various public and private educational institutions in Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island during the first half of the 20th century.
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Blane De St. Croix
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United States - Occupations
- sculptor
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Blane De St. Croix is an artist best known for his monumental landscape sculptures and installations.
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TJ Norris
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- artistphotographerinstallation artist
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TJ Norris is an American interdisciplinary artist known for his urban, conceptual photography and installation projects. Hailing from New England, Norris is also a celebrated curator and freelance writer based in Texas.
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Vincent Schofield Wickham
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- sculptor
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Vincent Schofield Wickham was a New York graphic illustrator, painter, sculptor, teacher, and inventor, whose career coincided with the Golden Age of American Illustration. Wickham worked as an editorial artist for the New York Times from 1924-1956. His work included sports illustrations, window displays in Times Square, and promotional posters that were displayed on newspaper trucks. In addition to his job at NYT, he also taught advertising art and layout at Textile Evening High School (now the Bayard Rustin Educational Complex), on 351 West 18th Street.
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Margaret Foster Richardson
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- 1881-1945 (aged 64)
- Occupations
- painter
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Margaret Foster Richardson was an American painter known for her self-portraiture. Richardson is best known for her 1912 painting, Self-Portrait, A Motion Picture.
