100 Notable alumni of
Pratt Institute - Main
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Pratt Institute - Main is 368th in the world, 150th in North America, and 141st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Pratt Institute - Main sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Robert Redford
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- stage actorfilm directoractorexecutive producervoice actor
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Charles Robert Redford Jr. was an American actor, director and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave. Across a career spanning more than six decades, Redford earned widespread recognition and numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and five Golden Globe Awards, (including a Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994). He has also received various honors including the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 and the Honorary César in 2019.
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Terrence Howard
- Enrolled in Pratt Institute - Main
- Studied chemical engineering
- Occupations
- actortelevision actorfilm actortelevision producervoice actor
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Terrence Dashon Howard is an American actor performing on film and television. He has received a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards.
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Rob Zombie
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- directorfilm screenwriterfilm actorsongwritervoice actor
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Robert Bartleh Cummings, known professionally as Rob Zombie, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and actor. His music and lyrics are notable for their horror and sci-fi themes, and his live shows have been praised for their elaborate shock rock theatricality. He has sold an estimated 15 million albums worldwide. He rose to fame as a founding member and the frontman of heavy metal band White Zombie, with whom he released five studio albums and one techno remix album.
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Martin Landau
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- television actorvoice actorstage actorfilm actor
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Martin James Landau was an American actor. His career began in the late 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). His career breakthrough came with leading roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (1966–1969) and Space: 1999 (1975–1977).
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Harvey Fierstein
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- theatrical directorwriterplaywrightactorfilm actor
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Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter, known for his distinctive gravelly voice. He gained notice for his theater work in Torch Song Trilogy, winning both the Tony Award for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play. He went on to win the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for La Cage aux Folles, then Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, a role he reprised for the Hairspray Live! television special.
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Joseph Barbera
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- film directorcomics artistanimatortelevision producerexecutive producer
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Joseph Roland Barbera was an American animator and cartoonist. He co-founded the animation studio Hanna-Barbera alongside William Hanna.
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Oneohtrix Point Never
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- singerrecord producercomposer
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Daniel Lopatin, best known as Oneohtrix Point Never or OPN, is an American electronic music producer, composer, singer, and songwriter. He began his career the early 2000s as part of Brooklyn's noise music scene and later received early acclaim for the synthesizer-based compilation Rifts (2009) as well as the influential vaporwave side-project Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 (2010). His work since has experimented with tropes from an eclectic range of musical genres and eras, and has featured sample-based composition and complex MIDI production.
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Deborah Van Valkenburgh
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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Deborah Van Valkenburgh is an American actress best known for her screen debut as Mercy in the 1979 cult film The Warriors, and her role as Jackie Rush for five seasons (1980–1985) on the television situation comedy Too Close for Comfort. In 2012, she won the Best Supporting Actress in a Fantasy Film award at the PollyGrind Underground Film Festival for the film Road to Hell.
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Paul Rand
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- designergraphic designerteacher
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Paul Rand was an American art director and graphic designer. He is known for his corporate logo designs, including logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT. He developed an American Modernist style from European influences and was one of the first American commercial artists to embrace and practice the Swiss Style of graphic design. Rand was a professor emeritus of graphic design at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he taught from 1956 to 1969, and from 1974 to 1985. He was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1972.
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Peter Zumthor
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- designerrestoreruniversity teacherarchitect
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Peter Zumthor is a Swiss architect whose work is frequently described as uncompromising and minimalist. Though managing a relatively small firm and not being a prolific architect, he is the winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize and 2013 RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
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Robert Wilson
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- artistfilm actorplaywrighttheatre makertheatre designer
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Robert Wilson was an American director and playwright of experimental theater. He also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer. He is best known for his collaboration with Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs on Einstein on the Beach, and his frequent collaborations with Tom Waits. In 1991, Wilson established The Watermill Center, "a laboratory for performance" on the East End of Long Island, New York, regularly working with opera and theater companies, as well as cultural festivals.
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Betsey Johnson
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- fashion designercostume designervisual artist
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Betsey Johnson is an American fashion designer best known for her colorful, cute, and whimsical designs. Many of her designs are considered "over the top" and embellished. She is also known for doing a cartwheel ending in a split at the end of her fashion shows. She is a recipient of the 2015 CFDA Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Djuna Barnes
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- painterpoetwriternovelistjournalist
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Djuna Barnes was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.
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Jeremy Scott
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- shoe designerfashion designer
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Jeremy Scott is an American fashion designer. He is the sole owner of his namesake label, and from October 2013 to March 2023 was the creative director of the fashion house Moschino. Since launching his brand in Paris in 1997, Scott has built a reputation as "pop culture's most irreverent designer", and "fashion's last rebel".
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Owen Kline
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- film screenwriterfilm producerfilm actorfilm directorfilm editor
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Owen Joseph Kline is an American filmmaker, actor, and cartoonist. He is best known for his directorial debut Funny Pages (2022) and his performance as Frank Berkman in The Squid and the Whale (2005).
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Phoebe Robinson
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- comedianpodcaster
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Phoebe Robinson is an American comedian, writer, and actress based in New York City.
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Peter Max
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- paintergraphic designerdesigner
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Peter Max is a German-American artist known for using bright colors in his work. Works by Max are associated with the visual arts and culture of the 1960s, particularly psychedelic art and pop art.
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Adelaide Hall
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- singerstage actorjazz musician
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Adelaide Louise Hall was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death. Early in her career, she was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance; she became based in the UK after 1938. Hall entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 2003 as the world's most enduring recording artist, having released material over eight consecutive decades. She performed with major artists such as Art Tatum, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Cab Calloway, Fela Sowande, Rudy Vallee, and Jools Holland, and recorded as a jazz singer with Duke Ellington (with whom she made her most famous recording, "Creole Love Call" in 1927) and with Fats Waller.
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Brad Lander
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- politician
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Bradford Scott Lander is an American politician and urban planner who served as the 45th New York City comptroller from 2022 until 2025. A progressive Democrat, Lander was elected to the New York City Council in 2009, serving for twelve years, later serving as Deputy Leader for Policy. His district was partly based in Brooklyn. Lander was elected city comptroller in 2021 and assumed office on January 1, 2022.
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Jacob Lawrence
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- painterprintmakerillustratordraftsperson
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Jacob Armstead Lawrence was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", an art form popularized in Europe which drew great inspiration from West African and Meso-American art. For his compositions, Lawrence found inspiration in everyday life in Harlem. He brought the African-American experience to life using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. He also taught and spent 16 years as a professor at the University of Washington.
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Ellsworth Kelly
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- draftspersonprintmakergraphic artistsculptorpainter
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Ellsworth Kelly was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York.
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Stefan Sagmeister
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- graphic designerdesignerinstallation artisttypographerillustrator
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Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer, storyteller, and typographer based in New York City. In 1993, Sagmeister founded his company, Sagmeister Inc., to create designs for the music industry. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Jay Z, Aerosmith, Talking Heads, Brian Eno and Pat Metheny. From 2011 until 2019 he partnered with Jessica Walsh under the name Sagmeister & Walsh Inc.
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Pamela Colman Smith
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- publishereditorpainterillustratorgraphic designer
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Pamela Colman Smith, nicknamed "Pixie", was a British artist, illustrator, writer, publisher, and occultist. She is best-known for illustrating the Rider–Waite Tarot (also known as the Rider–Waite–Smith or Waite–Smith Tarot) for Arthur Edward Waite. This tarot deck became the standard among tarot card readers, and remains the most widely used today. Smith also illustrated over 20 books, wrote two collections of Jamaican folklore, edited two magazines, and ran the Green Sheaf Press, a small press focused on women writers.
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Daniel Clowes
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- cartoonistnovelistcomics artistwriterscreenwriter
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Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an American cartoonist, graphic novelist, illustrator, and screenwriter. Most of Clowes's work first appeared in Eightball, a solo anthology comic book series. An Eightball issue typically contained several short pieces and a chapter of a longer narrative that was later collected and published as a graphic novel, such as Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (1993), Ghost World (1997), David Boring (2000) and Patience (2016). Clowes's illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vogue, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. With filmmaker Terry Zwigoff, Clowes adapted Ghost World into a 2001 film and another Eightball story into the 2006 film, Art School Confidential. Clowes's comics, graphic novels, and films have received numerous awards, including a Pen Award for Outstanding Work in Graphic Literature, over a dozen Harvey and Eisner Awards, and an Academy Award nomination.
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Arthur Kane
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- writerautobiographerguitaristmusician
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Arthur Harold Kane Jr. was an American musician best known as the bass guitarist for the pioneering glam rock band the New York Dolls. Kane was a founding member of the Dolls in 1971 and remained an integral part of the band until he was forced out in 1975, shortly after the departure of Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan. In 2004, after decades of estrangement from Dolls singer David Johansen, Kane rejoined the surviving Dolls (Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain) to rehearse and play a reunion concert in London, which was the subject of the 2005 documentary New York Doll. In addition to his bass playing, Kane was known for his subculture fashion sense and for uttering original aphorisms in his uniquely toned voice.
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Glenn Ficarra
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Glenn Ficarra is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He has frequently collaborated with John Requa.
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Roger Sanchez
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- record producerdisc jockeycomposer
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Roger Sanchez is an American house DJ, remixer and producer. He won a Grammy Award for his remix of "Hella Good" by No Doubt in 2003, and is best known for his song "Another Chance", which was an international hit in 2001. He is a four time DJ Awards winner for "Best House DJ" in 1999, 2002, 2004 and 2007 and has received twelve nominations in total. He won the first International Dance Music Award for Best Podcast in 2007 and has received 8 IDMA nominations for Best American DJ (2003–2010).
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Emiliano Zurita
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- writermanufactureractortelevision producer
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Emiliano Zurita is a Mexican actor, writer and producer, best known for his role as Felipe Quintanilla in the Telemundo' series Señora Acero. He is the son of actors Christian Bach and Humberto Zurita and younger brother of Sebastián Zurita. Zurita is a graduate of the Pratt Institute in New York as an architect. At the same time, he studied acting at Susan Batson Studios with James E. Lee and Susan Batson. He recently served as producer and writer of the Amazon Prime Video comedy series How to Survive Being Single with his brother, with whom he has a production company called Addiction House.
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John Flansburgh
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- singerguitaristsongwriterfilm directormusician
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John Conant Flansburgh is an American musician and a co-founder of the alternative rock band They Might Be Giants with John Linnell, which was formed in 1982. He is the lead writer and singer, playing rhythm guitar for the band.
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Jules Feiffer
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- comics artistwriterplaywrightactorscreenwriter
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Jules Ralph Feiffer was an American cartoonist and author, who at one time was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for editorial cartooning and, in 2004, Feiffer was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short Munro, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Library of Congress has recognized Feiffer's "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to the present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor.
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Eric Goldberg
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- film directorcharacter designerdirectoractoranimator
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Eric Allen Goldberg is an American animator, voice actor, film director, and producer. He is known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Warner Bros. Animation.
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Jeff Morrow
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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Leslie Irving Morrow, known as Jeff Morrow, was an American actor.
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John Requa
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- screenwriterdirectorfilm director
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John Requa is an American screenwriter of Cats & Dogs, Bad Santa and the 2005 remake Bad News Bears.
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Swoon
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- paintergraffiti artistprintmaker
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Caledonia Dance Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is an American contemporary artist who works with printmaking, sculpture, and stop-motion animation to create immersive installations, community-based projects and public artworks. She is best known as one of the first women street artists to gain international recognition. Her work centers the transformative capacity of art as a catalyst for healing within communities experiencing crisis.
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Ryszard Horowitz
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- singerphotographergraphic artist
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Ryszard Horowitz is a Polish-born American photographer recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography that predates digital imaging.
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Gautam Thapar
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- 1960-.. (age 66)
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- entrepreneur
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Gautam Thapar is an Indian businessman who is the chairman of Avantha Group and a member of the Thapar family. Thapar was noted as an industrialist; however, in 2019, he faced allegations of financial fraud which negatively impacted his businesses and included Thapar losing control of his largest company.
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Juan Muñoz
- Enrolled in Pratt Institute - Main
- Studied in 1981-1981
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- sculptorpainterinstallation artistarchitectural draftspersonperformance artist
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Juan Muñoz was a Spanish sculptor, working primarily in paper maché, resin and bronze. He was also interested in the auditory arts and created compositions for the radio. He was a self-described "storyteller". In 2000, Muñoz was awarded Spain's major Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes in recognition of his work; he died shortly after, in 2001.
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Mickalene Thomas
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- paintercollagistphotographertelevision producer
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Mickalene Thomas is an African-American contemporary visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Thomas's collage work is inspired from popular art histories and movements, including Impressionism, Cubism, Dada, the Harlem Renaissance, and selected works by the Afro-British painter Chris Ofili. Her work draws from Western art history, pop art, and visual culture to examine ideas around femininity, beauty, race, sexuality, and gender.
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Elliot Tiber
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- writerpainterlibrettistscreenwriter
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Elliot Michael Tiber was an artist, professor, and screenwriter who wrote a memoir about the Woodstock Festival held in Bethel, New York in 1969. He claimed responsibility for the relocation of the festival after a permit for it was withdrawn by the zoning board of a nearby town.
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George Lois
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- graphic designerdesigneradvertising personphotographer
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George Harry Lois was an American art director, designer, and author. Lois was perhaps best known for over 92 covers he designed for Esquire magazine from 1962 to 1973.
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Max Weber
- Enrolled in Pratt Institute - Main
- Studied art of painting
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- writerpaintersculptordraftsperson
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Max Weber was a Jewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters who, in later life, turned to more figurative Jewish themes in his art. He is best known today for Chinese Restaurant (1915), in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, "the finest canvas of his Cubist phase," in the words of art historian Avis Berman.
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Shawn Christensen
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm editorfilm produceractor
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Shawn Christensen is an American musician, filmmaker, podcaster and artist. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration and graphic design. Christensen was the frontman of the indie rock band Stellastarr. In 2013, he won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his short film Curfew.
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Kim Deitch
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- comics artistanimatorcartoonist
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Kim Deitch is an American cartoonist who was an important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, remaining active in the decades that followed with a variety of books and comics, sometimes using the pseudonym Fowlton Means.
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Michael Dweck
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- film screenwriterphotographerfilm director
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Michael Dweck is an American visual artist and filmmaker. Best known for his narrative photography, Dweck's work "explores ongoing struggles between identity and adaptation in endangered societal enclaves." In 2003, he became the first living photographer to have a solo exhibition at Sotheby's, and in 2012, he was the first American photographer to exhibit his work in Cuba since the beginning of the United States embargo in 1960. He lives and works in New York City and in Montauk, New York.
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Kadir Nelson
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- postage stamp designerpainterchildren's writerillustrator
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Kadir Nelson is a Los Angeles-based painter, illustrator, and author who is best known for his paintings often featured on the covers of The New Yorker magazine, and album covers for Michael Jackson and Drake. His work is focused on African-American culture and history. The New York Times described his work as "sumptuous, deeply affecting work. Nelson’s paintings are drenched in ambience, and often overt symbolism. He has twice been a Caldecott honor recipient and won the 2020 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in The Undefeated.
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Greer Lankton
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- installation artistartistpuppet designerphotographer
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Greer Lankton, was an American transgender artist known for creating lifelike sewn dolls that were often modeled on friends or celebrities and posed in elaborate theatrical settings. She was a key figure in the East Village art scene of the 1980s in New York.
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Cristina Iglesias
- Enrolled in Pratt Institute - Main
- Studied in 1988
- Occupations
- installation artistsculptorteacherartist
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Cristina Iglesias is a Spanish installation artist and sculptor living and working in Torrelodones, Madrid. She works with many materials, including steel, water, glass, bronze, bamboo, straw. On January 20, 2016, she was awarded the Tambor del Oro in San Sebastian. Iglesias was the first Spanish woman invited to exhibit her work at the Folkestone Triennial in 2011. She is the sister of Academy Award-nominated film composer Alberto Iglesias.
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Lisa Brown
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- illustrator
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Lisa Michelle Brown is an American illustrator and writer whose books include Picture the Dead, How To Be, The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, and Baby, Mix Me A Drink. She draws the Three Panel Book Review cartoon for the book section of the San Francisco Chronicle. She graduated with a BA from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1993, and an MS in Communications Design from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1998. She lives in San Francisco with her child and her husband, Daniel Handler.
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Elizabeth Crowley
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- politician
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Elizabeth S. Crowley is an American politician. She was previously the New York City Council member for the 30th district from 2009 to 2017, representing the neighborhoods of Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Ridgewood, and parts of Woodside and Woodhaven, in the borough of Queens. Crowley is both the first woman and first Democrat to hold the seat. Crowley was a 2021 candidate for Queens Borough President. She is a cousin of former U.S. Congressman Joseph Crowley.
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Yehuda Bacon
- Enrolled in Pratt Institute - Main
- Studied in 1971-1973
- Occupations
- painterprintmakerillustratoruniversity teacher
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Yehuda Bacon is an Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor.
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Robert Sabuda
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- paintervisual artistillustrator
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Robert Sabuda is a children's pop-up book artist and paper engineer. His innovative designs have made him well known in the book arts, with The New York Times referring to Sabuda as "indisputably the king of pop-ups" in a 2003 article.
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Rob Sheridan
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- graphic designercinematographerfilm editorbloggerphotographer
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Robert Sheridan is an American artist, creative director, stage visual designer, photographer, and comic book author known for his extensive work in the music and entertainment industries and with the bands Nine Inch Nails and Pearl Jam. He is widely known as a designer of stage visuals. He is also an apparel designer, and founder of Glitch Goods.
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Anne Carroll Moore
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- literary criticwriterjournalistlibrarianchildren's writer
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Anne Carroll Moore was an American educator, writer and advocate for children's libraries.
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Joe Caroff
- Occupations
- graphic designer
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Joseph Caroff was an American graphic designer known for film posters and corporate logos. He created the 007 pistol logo for the James Bond movie franchise and the poster design for the movie West Side Story. Caroff and the design agency he ran under his name were involved with over 300 other films, as well as product branding and company logos.
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Pen-ek Ratanaruang
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Pen-ek Ratanaruang is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He goes by the nickname Tom and is sometimes credited as Tom Pannet.
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William Pope.L
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- visual artistpainterperformance artistphotographer
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William Pope.L, also known as Pope.L, was an accomplished American visual artist recognized for his contributions to performance art and interventionist public art. He also created pieces in painting, photography, and theater. He was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and was the recipient of the Creative Capital Visual Arts Award, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. Notably, Pope.L was also highlighted in the 2017 Whitney Biennial for his work.
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Bill Griffith
- Occupations
- comics artistcaricaturistillustrator
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William Henry Jackson Griffith is an American cartoonist who signs his work Bill Griffith and Griffy. He is best known for his surreal daily comic strip Zippy. The catchphrase "Are we having fun yet?" is credited to Griffith.
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Brandy Zadrozny
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- journalistinvestigative journalist
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Brandy Zadrozny is an American investigative journalist and reporter with NBC News and MSNBC who specializes in radicalization, extremism and disinformation on the Internet.
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Beverly Pepper
- Occupations
- paintersculptorartistland artist
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Beverly Pepper was an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art. She remained independent from any particular art movement. She lived in Italy, primarily in Todi, since the 1950s.
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Isaiah Zagar
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- visual artist
- Biography
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Isaiah Zagar was an American mosaic artist based in Philadelphia. He completed more than 200 murals, mainly of mixed media and primarily in or around Philadelphia's South Street.
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Rotimi Fani-Kayode
- Enrolled in Pratt Institute - Main
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- photographer
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Rotimi Fani-Kayode listen, born Oluwarotimi Adebiyi Wahab Fani-Kayode, was a Nigerian photographer who at the age of 11 moved with his family to England, fleeing from the Biafran War. A seminal figure in British contemporary art, Fani-Kayode explored the tensions created by sexuality, race and culture through stylised portraits and compositions. He created the bulk of his work between 1982 and 1989, the year he died from AIDS-related complications.
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Joel Haver
- Enrolled in Pratt Institute - Main
- Studied in 2014-2018
- Occupations
- filmmaker
- Biography
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Joel Haver is a Canadian YouTuber and filmmaker, best known for his rotoscoped skits and low-budget feature-length films.
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Richard Bernstein
- Occupations
- painterdesigner
- Biography
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Richard Frederick Bernstein was an American artist associated with pop art and the circle of Andy Warhol. From 1972 to 1989, he was the cover artist for Interview magazine.
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Miru Kim
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Miru Kim is an artist, photographer, illustrator, and arts events coordinator, who has explored, documented, and photographed various urban settings such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, the Croton aqueduct, Paris catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards.
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Lance Wyman
- Occupations
- graphic designerdesigner
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Lance Wyman is an American graphic designer. He is known for his work under Mexican architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, doing design concept and direction in developing applications of the logo for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
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Martin Nodell
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- cartoonistscreenwritercomics artistdraftspersonvisual artist
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Martin Nodell was an American cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. Some of his work appeared under the pen name Mart Dellon.
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Bob Giraldi
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- film producerscreenwriterfilm director
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Robert Nicholas Giraldi is an American filmmaker, music video and commercial director, educator, and restaurateur. He is known for directing the film Dinner Rush (2000) and the music video for Michael Jackson's "Beat It" (1983). Giraldi has been inducted into the Art Director's Hall of Fame, one of the few film directors to be honored; and, in 2014, was the first director ever to be inducted to the Advertising Hall of Fame. His work has garnered several London International Awards, Cannes Advertising Awards, NY International Awards, Addy Awards, Chicago Film Festival Awards, and dozens of Clio Awards. He has been named one of the 101 Stars Behind 100 Years of Advertising.
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Alison Knowles
- Enrolled in Pratt Institute - Main
- In 1956 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- draftspersoninstallation artistperformance artistvisual artistpainter
- Biography
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Alison Knowles was an American visual artist known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications. Knowles was a founding member of the Fluxus movement, an international network of artists who aspired to merge different artistic media and disciplines. Criteria that have come to distinguish her work as an artist are the arena of performance, the indeterminacy of her event scores and the element of tactile participation. She graduated from Pratt Institute in New York with an honors degree in fine art. In May 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Pratt.
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Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- Occupations
- short story writerwriterjournalistartistpoet
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Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an American artist, writer, and journalist who contributed to Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, which chronicled cultural advancements during the Harlem Renaissance. Though often overlooked, she herself made considerable accomplishments in art, poetry, and prose. She is perhaps best known for her short story "Wedding Day", which was published in the magazine Fire!! and explores how gender, race, and class dynamics shape an interracial relationship. Bennett was a dedicated and self-preserving woman, known for being a strong influencer of African-American women rights during the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout her dedication and perseverance, Bennett raised the bar when it came to women's literature and education. One of her contributions to the Harlem Renaissance was her short novel Poets Evening; it helped the understanding within the African-American communities, resulting in many African Americans coming to terms with identifying and accepting themselves.
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Audrey Kawasaki
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Audrey Kawasaki is a Los Angeles-based painter, known for her distinctive portrayals of young, adolescent women. Her works are oil paintings painted directly onto wood panels, and her style has been described as a fusion of Art Nouveau and Japanese manga, with primary influences like Gustav Klimt and Alphonse Mucha, saying “The merging of realistically molded faces and bodies against the contrast of flat lines and patterns is so stimulating to me.”
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Agnes Lawrence Pelton
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- paintervisual artistartist
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Agnes Lawrence Pelton was a modernist painter who was born in Germany and moved to the United States as a child. She studied art in the United States and Europe. She made portraits of Pueblo Native Americans, desert landscapes and still lifes. Pelton's work evolved through at least three distinct themes: her early "Imaginative Paintings," art of the American Southwest people and landscape, and abstract art that reflected her spiritual beliefs. She was a first cousin of American sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser.
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Joshua Davis
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- designer
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Joshua Davis is an American designer, technologist, author, and visual artist in new media.
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Miguel Chevalier
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- visual artistmultimedia artistartist
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Miguel Chevalier is a French digital and virtual artist. Since 1978, Miguel Chevalier has used computers as a means of expression in the field of the visual arts. He has established himself internationally as one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art.
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Chance M. Vought
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- aircraft designermilitary flight engineeraircraft pilotengineerinventor
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Chauncey Milton "Chance" Vought was an American aviation pioneer and engineer, who was the co-founder of the Lewis and Vought Corporation with Birdseye Lewis.
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Norman Norell
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- costume designerfashion designer
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Norman David Levinson known professionally as Norman Norell, was an American fashion designer famed for his elegant gowns, suits, and tailored silhouettes. His designs for the Traina-Norell and Norell fashion houses became famous for their detailing, simple, timeless designs, and tailored construction. By the mid-twentieth century Norell dominated the American fashion industry and in 1968 he launched a perfume in collaboration with Revlon.
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Pat Steir
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- painterartistuniversity teacherinstallation artistillustrator
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Pat Steir is an American painter and printmaker. Her early work was loosely associated with conceptual art and minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract dripped, splashed and poured "Waterfall" paintings, which she started in the 1980s, and for her later site-specific wall drawings.
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Alice Boughton
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- photographerartist
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Alice Boughton was an early 20th-century American photographer known for her photographs of many literary and theatrical figures of her time. She was a Fellow of Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession, a circle of photographers whose artistic efforts succeeded in raising photography to a fine art form.
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Sergio Rossetti Morosini
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Sergio Rossetti Morosini is a Contemporary Brazilian-American scholar, artist and author of Venetian extraction who served as Brazil's Cultural attaché in New Orleans and is also dedicated to preserving the Atlantic Forest and restoring the art in stone of New York City Landmarks.
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Katherine Sophie Dreier
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- art collectorpaintersuffragistartist
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Katherine Sophie Dreier was an American artist, lecturer, patron of the arts, and social reformer. Dreier developed an interest in art at a young age and was afforded the opportunity of studying art in the United States and in Europe due to her parents' wealth and progressive attitudes. Her sister Dorothea, a Post-Impressionist painter traveled and studied with her in Europe. She was most influenced by modern art, particularly by her friend Marcel Duchamp, and due to her frustration with the poor reception that the works received, she became a supporter of other artists. She was co-founder of the Society of Independent Artists and the Société Anonyme, which had the first permanent collection of modern art, representing 175 artists and more than 800 works of art. The collection was donated to Yale University. Her works were exhibited in Europe and the United States, including the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art.
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Deborah Willis
- Enrolled in Pratt Institute - Main
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- historianphotographerart historian
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Deborah Willis is a contemporary African-American artist, photographer, curator of photography, photographic historian, author, and educator. Among her awards and honors, she is a 2000 MacArthur Fellow. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts of New York University. In 2024, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
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Doreen Cronin
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- writerchildren's writer
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Doreen Cronin is an American writer of children's books, including Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type, a picture book illustrated by Betsy Lewin.
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Terry Winters
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- photographerprintmakergraphic artistvisual artistpainter
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Terry Winters is an American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose nuanced approach to the process of painting has addressed evolving concepts of spatiality and expanded the concerns of abstract art. His attention to the process of painting and investigations into systems and spatial fields explores both non-narrative abstraction and the physicality of modernism. In Winters’ work, abstract processes give way to forms with real word agency that recall mathematical concepts and cybernetics, as well as natural and scientific worlds.
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Leonard Starr
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- comics artistscreenwritercartoonist
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Leonard Starr was an American cartoonist, comic book artist, and advertising artist, best known for creating the newspaper comic strip On Stage and reviving Little Orphan Annie.
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Ghostshrimp
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- illustratoranimator
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Daniel James Bandit, better known as Ghostshrimp, is an American graphic artist, animator and illustrator. His illustration work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and on many album covers, including the MF DOOM and Bishop Nehru collaboration NehruvianDoom. He is the former lead background designer for the Cartoon Network series Adventure Time. He left midway through production of the fourth season to return to his freelance career, although he later temporarily returned to design backgrounds for the seventh season miniseries Stakes and several subsequent ninth and tenth-season episodes. Finally, for the same channel he created in 2013 the pilot Mars Safari!, which was released online as part of Cartoon Network Studios' shorts development program.
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Ed Koren
- Enrolled in Pratt Institute - Main
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts
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- cartoonistwriterillustratorartistdraftsperson
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Edward Benjamin Koren was an American writer, illustrator, and political cartoonist, most notably featured in The New Yorker.
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Diane Noomin
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- comics artistillustratorcartoonist
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Diane Robin Noomin was an American comics artist associated with the underground comics movement. She is best known for her character DiDi Glitz, who addresses transgressive social issues such as feminism, female masturbation, body image, and miscarriages.
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David Ascalon
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- paintersculptor
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David Ascalon is an Israeli contemporary sculptor and stained glass artist, and co-founder of Ascalon Studios.
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Ivy Bottini
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- LGBTQ rights activistHIV/AIDS activist
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Ivy Bottini was an American activist for women's and LGBTQ rights, and a visual artist.
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Paul Calle
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- painterpostage stamp designer
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Paul Calle was an American artist who was best known for the designs he created for postage stamps, including 40 that were released by the United States Postal Service, and others for stamps issued by the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Sweden and the United Nations. The sole artist hired by NASA to cover the Apollo 11 astronauts up close, Calle designed the 10-cent stamp that commemorated the first crewed Moon landing; it depicted an astronaut stepping onto the Moon from the lunar module, with the Earth visible over the Moon's horizon.
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William Hart McNichols
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- paintericonographerCatholic priest
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William Hart McNichols is an American Catholic priest and artist from the United States. He was formerly a member of the Society of Jesus.
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Matthew Reinhart
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- illustrator
- Biography
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Matthew Christian Reinhart is an American writer and illustrator of children's pop-up books and picture books. His most recent books include Frozen: a Pop-up Adventure and Lego Pop-up: A Journey through the Lego Universe.
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Bernard Chang
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- designerpenciller
- Biography
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Bernard Chang is a Canadian-American artist and designer known for his work in the comic book industry and entertainment design.
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Yara Tupinambá
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- painter
- Biography
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Yara Tupynambá Gordilho Santos is a Brazilian visual artist.
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Conor Mccreedy
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- businesspersonpainter
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Conor Matthew Mccreedy is a contemporary artist, conservationist and collector based in Switzerland. In his work, his depiction of abstraction is linked to chaos theory. The colour blue is prominent in his works.
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Herbert Abrams
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- painter
- Biography
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Herbert E. Abrams was an American artist. He was one of the leading portrait artists of his era known for his style of traditional realism. His works included the official White House portraits of former presidents Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush. During his prolific career, he painted more than 400 portraits, including those of General William Westmoreland, playwright Arthur Miller and astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr.
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George Pratt
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- photographercomics coloristuniversity teacherpainterillustrator
- Biography
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George Pratt is an American painter and illustrator known for his work in the comic book field.
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Derrick Adams
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- performance artistpainterexhibition curatorsculptorvisual artist
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Derrick Adams is an American visual and performance artist and curator. Much of Adams' work is centered around his Black identity, frequently referencing patterns, images, and themes of Black culture in America. Adams has additionally worked as a fine art professor, serving as a faculty member at Maryland Institute College of Art.
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Myrna Báez
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- educatorpainterlithographerartistprintmaker
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Myrna Báez was a Puerto Rican painter and printmaker, considered one of the most important visual artists in Puerto Rico. She has been instrumental in promoting art and art education in her country. Her work has been shown and collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her work has been characterized as confident and complex. She lived and worked in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Lou Fine
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- illustratorcomics artist
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Louis Kenneth Fine was an American comic book artist known for his work during the 1940s Golden Age of comic books, where his draftsmanship became an influential model to a generation of fellow comics artists.
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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.
