34 Notable alumni of
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
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The Massachusetts College of Art and Design is 1414th in the world, 496th in North America, and 464th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 34 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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- Internet celebrityactordrag queenpodcastercomedian
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Brian Joseph McCook, known by his drag persona Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova (Russian: Екатери́на Петро́вна Замоло́дчикова), or mononymously as Katya (Russian: Ка́тя), is an American drag queen, actor, author, recording artist, podcaster, and comedian. Katya is best known for placing fifth on the seventh season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and placing as a 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. Trixie and Katya often appear together as a popular comedy duo.
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Hal Hartley
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- directorscreenwritertheatrical directorcomposerfilm producer
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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. His films include The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), Simple Men (1992), Amateur (1994) and Henry Fool (1997), which are notable for deadpan humour and offbeat characters quoting philosophical dialogue. Hartley frequently scores his own films, sometimes under the pseudonym Ned Rifle, and his soundtracks regularly feature music by Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and PJ Harvey.
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Kelly Wearstler
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- interior designermodelPlayboy Playmate
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Kelly Wearstler is an American designer. She founded her own design firm Kelly Wearstler Interior Design (or KWID) in the mid-1990s, serving mainly the hotel industry, and now designs across high-end residential, commercial, retail and hospitality spaces. Her designs for the Viceroy hotel chain in the early 2000s have been noted for their influence on the design industry. She has designed properties for clients such as Gwen Stefani, Cameron Diaz and Stacey Snider, and served as a judge on all episodes of Bravo's Top Design reality contest in 2007 and 2008.
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Ben Edlund
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- film directorscreenwriterwritertelevision directortelevision producer
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Ben Edlund is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, television producer, and television director. He is best known as the creator of the satirical superhero character the Tick.
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Charlie Hides
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- television producerdrag queencostume designerYouTubercomedian
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Charlie Hides is a British-American 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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William Wegman
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- photographerfilm directorpainterwritervideo artist
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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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- sound artistvisual artistfilm directorartistcomposer
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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 artistillustrator
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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, Tokyo Ghost with Rick Remender, and the miniseries Punk Rock Jesus.
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Albert Henry Munsell
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- inventorpainterteacher
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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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Arne Glimcher
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- art dealerfilm directorfilm producerproducerdirector
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Arnold "Arne" Glimcher is an American art dealer, gallerist, film producer, and film director. He is the founder of Pace Gallery, which by 2011 sold more than $400 million in art annually. He is the father of Marc Glimcher, who succeeded him as chairman of Pace, and American scientist Paul Glimcher. From 2013 to 2017, Arne and Marc Glimcher were included each year in the ArtReview annual list of the 100 most influential people in contemporary art.
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Tony Millionaire
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- cartoonistnovelistcomics artistillustrator
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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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Peter H. Reynolds
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- writerbusiness executiveillustrator
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Peter Hamilton Reynolds is a Canadian author and illustrator of children's books and is the founder of the educational media company FableVision.
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Muriel Cooper
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- graphic designer
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Muriel Cooper was an American 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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- multimedia artistartistphotographerdraftspersoninstallation artist
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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 "Mike" Michael Robinson was a Canadian-born American painter, illustrator and cartoonist.
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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 and other graphic art 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 was appointed 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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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 to 1930; and for sculpting Justice, the Guardian of Liberty on the east pediment of the United States Supreme Court building.
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Maya Hayuk
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- painter
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Maya Hayuk is an internationally exhibited American artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for the bold geometric patterns she employs in large-scale murals.
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Herbert Adams
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- sculptor
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Samuel Herbert Adams was an American sculptor.
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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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Leela Corman
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- 1972-.. (age 53)
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- paintercartoonistcomics artistwritercomics writer
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Leela Corman is an American cartoonist and illustrator. 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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William Woodward
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- painter
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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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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. Riley's work challenges society's comfort level by displaying shocking images including nudity, drugs, violence, self harm, sexuality, and menstruation.
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Lou Rogers
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- writerchildren's writereditorial cartoonist
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Lou Rogers was a cartoonist, illustrator, writer, storyteller, public speaker, radio host, and political activist.
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Janet Doub Erickson
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- printmakerartist
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Janet Ann Doub Erickson was an American graphic artist and writer who popularized linoleum-block and woodblock printing in the post-World War II period. She was a co-founder of the Blockhouse of Boston, an innovative art and design cooperative in Boston, Massachusetts. In the preface to her influential book, Block Printing on Textiles, the publisher of a leading arts education magazine noted that, "more than anyone else in America today, Janet Doub Erickson has lifted a craft that had become dull, dead, and dated to a position where we can see its challenging possibilities in the creative renaissance we are now experiencing.”
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Andrew Stevovich
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- painter
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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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John Raimondi
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- sculptor
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John Raimondi is an American sculptor best known as a creator of monumental public sculpture, with works throughout the United States and several European countries. He lives and works in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
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Harris Barron
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- 1926-2017 (aged 91)
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- 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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Blane De St. Croix
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- 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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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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Frances Euphemia Thompson
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- artistart educatoreducator
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Frances Euphemia Thompson was an African American artist and art educator dedicated to improving the lives of African Americans through art education. She was one of the first African American women to graduate from Massachusetts Normal Art School.
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TJ Norris
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- photographerartistinstallation 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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Margaret Foster Richardson
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- painterartist
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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.
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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.
