11 Notable alumni of
Moore College of Art and Design
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The Moore College of Art and Design is 2989th in the world, 1024th in North America, and 970th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from the Moore 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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Pink
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- film actorsinger-songwriteractordancermodel
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Alecia Beth Moore-Hart, known professionally as Pink (stylized as P!nk), is an American singer and songwriter. She is known for her rock-influenced pop songs, powerful contralto voice, and activism.
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Alice Neel
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- photographerpainterlithographer
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Alice Neel was an American visual artist. Recognized for her paintings of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers, Neel is considered one of the greatest American portraitists of the 20th century. Her career spanned from the 1920s to 1980s.
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Jessie Willcox Smith
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- artistpainterillustrator
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Jessie Willcox Smith was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Smith illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal. She had an ongoing relationship with Good Housekeeping, which included a long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and also the creation of all the Good Housekeeping covers from December 1917 to 1933. Smith illustrated over sixty books, including notable works like Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.
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Anne Parrish
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- writerart collectorchildren's writernovelist
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Anne Parrish was an American novelist and writer of children's books. She was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal three times from 1925 to 1951.
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Judith Joy Ross
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- photographer
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Judith Joy Ross is an American portrait photographer. Her books include Contemporaries (1995), Portraits (1996), Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools (2006) and Protest the War (2007), "exploring such themes as the innocence of youth, the faces of political power, and the emotional toll of war".
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Alice Barber Stephens
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- printmakerpainterillustrator
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Alice Barber Stephens was an American painter and engraver, best remembered for her illustrations. Her work regularly appeared in magazines such as Scribner's Monthly, Harper's Weekly, and The Ladies Home Journal.
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Janet Biggs
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- 1959-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- photographervideo artisttelevision producer
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Janet Biggs is an American visual artist, known for her work in video, photography and interdisciplinary performance art. Biggs lives and works in New York City.
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Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer
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- painterartist
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Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer was an American illustrator, painter, and printmaker who painted and illustrated Tennessee society and other objects and people, including the state's women and children. As a printmaker, she pioneered the white-line woodcut.
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Pat Ward Williams
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- photographeruniversity teacherinstallation artist
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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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Pema Browne
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- literary agent
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Pema Browne was an American abstract artist known for Ambush In November, part of the permanent collection of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; and Roads, exhibited at the 1964 New York World's Fair at the Greyhound Pavilion. She was a modern artist based in New York City. She worked with oils and watercolor in her early career and mixed media, fabric, and metal on canvas in her later years.
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Sylvia Wald
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- printmakerartist
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Sylvia Wald was an American visual artist. Born in Philadelphia and educated at Moore Institute of Art, she began as a painter in the style of the American social realist school, before turning to Abstract Expressionism through her pioneering work in silk screening and sculptural collage. She has been noted for her "wide range of expression, diversity of media and technical excellence."
