100 Notable alumni of
School of Visual Arts
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The School of Visual Arts is 441st in the world, 173rd in North America, and 160th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the School of Visual Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jared Leto
- Occupations
- manufacturerbusinesspersonrecord producercomposersinger
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Jared Joseph Leto is an American actor and musician. Known for his method acting in a variety of roles, he has received numerous accolades over a career spanning three decades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Additionally, he is recognized for his musicianship and eccentric stage persona as frontman of the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars.
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Fred Armisen
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- actortelevision actorscreenwriterfilm actorvoice actor
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Fereydun Robert Armisen is an American comedian, actor, musician, and television writer. With his comedy partner Carrie Brownstein, he co-created and co-starred in the IFC sketch comedy series Portlandia. He also co-created and starred in the mockumentary IFC series Documentary Now! and the Showtime comedy series Moonbase 8.
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Gerard Way
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1999
- Occupations
- comics artistwritercomposersinger-songwritersinger
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Gerard Arthur Way is an American singer, songwriter, and comic book writer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band My Chemical Romance. He released his debut solo album, Hesitant Alien, in 2014.
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Keith Haring
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- muralistphotographersocial activistvisual artistcartoonist
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Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows such as documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997.
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Bryan Singer
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- film directordirectoractortelevision producerexecutive producer
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Bryan Jay Singer is an American filmmaker. He is the founder of Bad Hat Harry Productions and has produced almost all of the films he has directed, as well as multiple television series.
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Trevor Moore
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- film directorcomics artistdirectormanufacturertelevision actor
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Trevor Paul Moore was an American comedian, actor, filmmaker, and musician. He was a founding member of the comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know (WKUK), alongside Sam Brown, Zach Cregger, Timmy Williams and Darren Trumeter. The troupe had a sketch comedy series which aired for five seasons on IFC from March 2007 until June 2011.
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Steve Ditko
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- screenwritercomics artistillustratordraftsperson
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Stephen John Ditko was an American comic book artist best known for being the co-creator of Marvel superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. He also made notable contributions to the character of Iron Man, introducing the character's signature red and yellow design.
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Michael Giacchino
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- composertelevision directortelevision actormusic executivefilm producer
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Michael Giacchino is an American film, television, and video game score composer. He has received many accolades for his work, including an Academy Award for Up (2009), an Emmy for Lost (2004), and three Grammy Awards.
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Rama Duwaji
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- ceramicistillustratoranimator
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Rama Sawaf Duwaji is an American animator, illustrator, and ceramist. Throughout her career, her illustrations have been featured in The New Yorker and The Washington Post, as well as at Vice, the BBC, Apple, and Tate Modern.
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Rebecca Sugar
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- voice actorcomposersongwritertelevision producerscreenwriter
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Rebecca Sugar is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, producer, director, and musician. A pioneer of LGBTQ representation in children's television, she is best known for being the creator of the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, making her the first non-binary person to independently create a series for the network; prior to coming out as non-binary, Sugar was described as the first woman to do so.
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Ti West
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm editorfilm produceractor
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Timon C. West is an American actor and filmmaker, best known for his work in horror films. He directed the horror films The Roost (2005), Trigger Man (2007), The House of the Devil (2009), The Innkeepers (2011), the Western In a Valley of Violence (2016) as well as the X trilogy. He has also acted in a number of films, mostly in those directed by either himself or Joe Swanberg.
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Rahul Khanna
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- actortelevision presenter
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Rahul Khanna is an Indian actor, VJ, model and writer who works in Bollywood. He is the eldest son of actor Vinod Khanna and the elder brother of Akshaye Khanna.
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Randall Emmett
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- film producerfilm directorpoker player
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Randall Ives Emmett is an American film producer and television personality. He is the chairman and co-founder of production company Emmett/Furla Oasis Films.
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Jane Wagner
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- screenwriterstage actorfilm directoractorrecord producer
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Jane Wagner is an American writer, director and producer. She is Lily Tomlin's comedy writer, collaborator, and wife.
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Federico Castelluccio
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- screenwriterfilm directorpainterfilm produceractor
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Federico Castelluccio is an Italian-born American actor. He is best known for his role as Furio Giunta on the HBO series The Sopranos.
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Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 38)
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriter
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Brennan Lee Mulligan is an American comedian, actor, writer, and gamemaster. He often works with Dropout (formerly CollegeHumor) as a writer, performer, and producer. He is the creator and regular gamemaster for Dropout's actual play series Dimension 20 as well as the dungeon master for the first four seasons of the creator-owned actual play podcast Worlds Beyond Number and the fourth campaign of the actual play web series Critical Role. He also wrote the superhero webcomic Strong Female Protagonist alongside artist Lee Knox Ostertag.
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Vivienne Medrano
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- filmmakervoice actorfilm directoranimator
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Vivienne Medrano, also known by her pseudonym VivziePop, is an American YouTuber, animator, writer, director, and producer. She is best known as the creator of the musical television series Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss. She also created the webcomic ZooPhobia.
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Craig Gillespie
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- film directordirectorcommercial director
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Craig Gillespie is an Australian-American film, television, music video, and commercial director. He is best known for directing the films Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Fright Night (2011), I, Tonya (2017), and Cruella (2021).
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Morten Tyldum
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- executive producerfilm director
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Morten Tyldum is a Norwegian film director. He is best known in his native Norway for directing the thriller film Headhunters (2011), based on the novel by Jo Nesbø, and internationally for directing the historical drama The Imitation Game (2014), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and the science fiction drama Passengers (2016).
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Joe Quesada
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- television producertelevision directorvisual artistcartoonistvoice actor
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Joseph Quesada is an American comic book artist, writer, editor, and television producer. He became known in the 1990s for his work on various Valiant Comics books, such as Ninjak and Solar, Man of the Atom. He also worked on numerous books for DC Comics and Marvel Comics, such as Batman: Sword of Azrael and X-Factor, before forming his own company, Event Comics, where he published his creator-owned character, Ash.
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Carlos Saldanha
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Graduated with master's degree in art
- Occupations
- painterscreenwritervoice actoranimatorfilm director
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Carlos Saldanha is a Brazilian animator, director, producer, and voice actor of animated films who collaborated with Blue Sky Studios until its closure in 2021. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Rio (2011), Rio 2 (2014), Ferdinand (2017), and Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). Saldanha was nominated in 2003 for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Gone Nutty and in 2018 for Best Animated Feature for Ferdinand.
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John R. Dilworth
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- screenwritertelevision directoranimatorvoice actorbusinessperson
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John Russell Dilworth is an American animator, actor, writer, director, storyboard artist, producer and the creator of the animated television series Courage the Cowardly Dog. Dilworth's works have appeared on PBS, CBS, Showtime, HBO, Fox, ABC, NBC, Arte, CBC Television, YTV, Teletoon, BBC Two, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and MTV, among others.
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Raina Telgemeier
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- cartoonistnovelistcomics artistwriterillustrator
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Raina Telgemeier is an American cartoonist. Her works include the autobiographical webcomic Smile, which was published as a full-color middle grade graphic novel in February 2010, and the follow-up Sisters and the fiction graphic novel Drama, all of which have been on The New York Times Best Seller lists. She has also written and illustrated the graphic novels Ghosts and Guts as well as four graphic novels adapted from The Baby-Sitters Club stories by Ann M. Martin.
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Genevieve Gorder
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- interior designer
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Genevieve Gorder is an American television host and interior designer. She was one of the Designers on Trading Spaces, She hosted Bravo's Best Room Wins. Previously, she hosted Stay Here on Netflix, Genevieve's Renovation, "White House Christmas," and Dear Genevieve on HGTV and judged HGTV's Design Star.
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Enrico Casarosa
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- screenwriterstoryboard artistfilm directordirector
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Enrico Casarosa is an Italian director, screenwriter, and storyboard artist. Best known for his work at Pixar, he has directed the short film La Luna (2011) and the feature film Luca (2021), both of which were nominated for Academy Awards.
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David Caspe
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- screenwritertelevision directorshowrunnertelevision producertelevision writer
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David Herbert Caspe is an American film and television writer. As a writer-producer, he is best known for his work in television as creator of sitcoms such as ABC's Happy Endings, the Showtime comedy Black Monday, and the NBC sitcoms Kenan and Marry Me. Other work includes writing the 2012 film That's My Boy and co-creating the YouTube Premium series Champaign ILL.
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Mariam Ghani
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- filmmakervideo artistartistuniversity teacher
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Mariam Ghani is an American visual artist, photographer, filmmaker and social activist. A member of the Visual Arts faculty at Bennington College, Ghani is the collaborator and partner of Chitra Ganesh and is represented by Ryan Lee Gallery. Her work has been featured in venues like the Tate Modern and the National Gallery of Art, and she has produced several projects including Index of the Disappeared as well as films like Like Water From a Stone and What We Left Unfinished.
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Julie Klausner
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- comediantelevision actorscreenwriterwriterpodcaster
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Julie Klausner is an American writer, comedian, actress, and podcaster. She is best known for creating, writing, and starring in the Hulu sitcom Difficult People (2015–2017), which also starred comedian Billy Eichner.
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Bill Plympton
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1968
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- screenwriteranimatorfilm director
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Bill Plympton is an American animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker best known for his 1987 Academy Award–nominated animated short Your Face and his series of shorts featuring a dog character starting with 2004's Guard Dog.
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Tim Sale
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- comics artist
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Timothy Roger Sale was an American comics artist, "best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Batman and Superman and for influencing depictions of Batman in numerous films." He is primarily known for his collaborations with writer Jeph Loeb, which included both comics work and artwork for the TV series Heroes. Sale's renditions of Batman particularly in his works, Batman: The Long Halloween and Batman: Dark Victory, influenced modern cinematic depictions of the character, with film directors and actors directly citing Sale's work.
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Samuel Bayer
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- photographercamera operatorfilm directorfilm editorcinematographer
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Samuel David Bayer is an American visual artist, cinematographer, photographer, and commercial, music video and film director. Bayer was born in Syracuse, New York. He graduated from New York City's School of Visual Arts in 1987 with a degree in Fine Arts. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1991.
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Jimmy Diresta
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James "Jimmy" DiResta is a New York-based maker, artist, and video producer. He enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in 1986 and graduated in 1990 with a BFA degree. In 1993, he formed a now-defunct toy design company/store called "DiResta" in the East Village which created Gurglin’ Gutz, a rubber toy replicating a miniature human organ. He went on to teach at the School of Visual Arts.
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Michael Cuesta
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- screenwriterdirectorfilm directorfilm producertelevision producer
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Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director, best known for his independent films, specially for having co-written and directed the 2001 film L.I.E. He has directed and produced television series including Six Feet Under, Dexter, Blue Bloods and Homeland.
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Rus Yusupov
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- businessperson
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Rus Yusupov is a designer and tech entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder of Vine and the co-founder and CEO of HQ Trivia.
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Archie Goodwin
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- comics editorcomics writerwriterillustratorpublisher
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Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work. For Warren he was chief writer and editor of landmark horror anthology titles Creepy and Eerie between 1964 and 1967. At Marvel, he served as the company's editor-in-chief from 1976 to the end of 1977. In the 1980s, he edited the publisher's anthology magazine Epic Illustrated and its Epic Comics imprint. He is also known for his work on Star Wars in both comic books and newspaper strips. He is regularly cited as the "best-loved comic book editor, ever."
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Kazuhiro Soda
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- cinematographerscreenwriterfilm director
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Kazuhiro Soda is a Japanese documentary filmmaker and author based in New York City. He is known for his observational method of documentary filmmaking.
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Elizabeth Peyton
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- painterartistdraftspersongraphic artistphotographer
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Elizabeth Joy Peyton is an American contemporary artist working primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Best known for figures from her own life and those beyond it, including close friends, historical personae, and icons of contemporary culture, Peyton's portraits have regularly featured artists, writers, musicians, and actors.
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Chris Prynoski
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- executive produceranimatorfilm director
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Chris Prynoski is an American film and television producer, animator, and director, known for his work on TV programs such as Downtown, Metalocalypse, Freaknik: The Musical, Motorcity and Megas XLR and films such as Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.
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Manuel DeLanda
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- programmeruniversity teacherfilm directorcomputer scientistphilosopher
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Manuel DeLanda is a Mexican-American writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is a lecturer in architecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture and the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where he teaches courses on the philosophy of urban history and the dynamics of cities as historical actors with an emphasis on the importance of self-organization and material culture in the understanding of a city. DeLanda also teaches architectural theory as an adjunct professor of architecture and urban design at the Pratt Institute and serves as the Gilles Deleuze Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School. He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (1979) and a PhD in media and communication from the European Graduate School (2010).
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Lorna Simpson
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- filmmakerdraftspersoninstallation artistvideo artistphotographer
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Lorna Simpson is an American photographer and multimedia artist whose works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 1990, she became one of the first African-American women to exhibit at the Venice Biennale. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with photo-text installations such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal that questioned the nature of identity, gender, race, history and representation. Simpson continues to explore these themes in relation to memory and history using photography, film, video, painting, drawing, audio, and sculpture.
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Kazimieras G. Prapuolenis
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- comics artistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Kazimieras Gediminas Prapuolenis, known professionally as Kaz, is an American cartoonist, animator, writer, storyboard artist, and illustrator. In the 1980s, after attending New York City's School of the Visual Arts, he was a frequent contributor to the comic anthologies RAW and Weirdo. Since 1992, he has drawn Underworld, an adult-themed syndicated comic strip that appears in many alternative weeklies. He is also known for his long tenure as a storyboard director and writer for SpongeBob SquarePants and work on shows such as Camp Lazlo and Phineas & Ferb.
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Andrea Fraser
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1984
- Occupations
- university teacherperformance artistvideo artistartistvisual artist
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Andrea Rose Fraser is a performance artist, mainly known for her work in the area of institutional critique. Fraser is based in New York and Los Angeles and is a professor and area head of the Interdisciplinary Studio of the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Lorne Lanning
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- writervoice actorfilm directorvideo game developer
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Lorne Lanning is an American game designer, director, writer and voice actor. He is also co-founder and president of the video game developer Oddworld Inhabitants. He is best known for creating the Oddworld series including the games Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! and Oddworld: Soulstorm.
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Kembra Pfahler
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- actorperformance artistsingerdraftsperson
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Kembra Pfahler is an American interdisciplinary artist and rock musician. She has been called the "godmother of modern day shock art".
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Herb Trimpe
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- visual artistcomics artistwriter
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Herbert William Trimpe was an American comics artist and occasional writer, best known as the seminal 1970s artist on The Incredible Hulk and as the first artist to draw for publication the character Wolverine, who later became a breakout star of the X-Men.
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Gillian Robespierre
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- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Gillian Robespierre is an American director and writer, known for writing and directing the films Obvious Child and Landline.
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ZHC
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- painterYouTuber
- Biography
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Zachary Hsieh, known online as ZHC, is an American YouTuber. He is known for his drawing and custom art challenge videos.
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Jerry Beck
- Occupations
- historianbloggerwriter
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Jerry Beck is an American animation historian, author, blogger, and video producer.
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Phil Jimenez
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- pencillercomics artistwritercomics writernovelist
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Phil Jimenez is an American comics artist and writer known for his work as writer/artist on Wonder Woman from 2000 to 2003, as one of the five pencilers of the 2005–2006 miniseries Infinite Crisis, his collaborations with writer Grant Morrison on New X-Men and The Invisibles, and his artistry for his 2021 critically acclaimed partnership with writer Kelly Sue DeConnick on Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons.
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Joe Sinnott
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- draftspersoncomics artistillustrator
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Joseph Leonard Sinnott was an American comic book artist. Working primarily as an inker, Sinnott is best known for his long stint on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, from 1965 to 1981 (and briefly in the late 1980s), initially over the pencils of Jack Kirby. During his 60 years as a Marvel freelance artist and then remote worker salaried artist, Sinnott inked virtually every major title, with notable runs on The Avengers, The Defenders, and Thor.
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Peter Bagge
- Occupations
- comics artistwriter
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Peter Bagge is an American cartoonist whose best-known work includes the comics Neat Stuff and Hate. His stories often use black humor and exaggerated cartooning to dramatize the reduced expectations of middle-class American youth. He won two Harvey Awards in 1991, one for best cartoonist and one for his work on Hate. In recent decades Bagge has done more fact-based comics, everything from biographies to history to comics journalism. Publishers of Bagge's articles, illustrations, and comics include suck.com, MAD Magazine, toonlet, Discover, and the Weekly World News, with the comic strip Adventures of Batboy. He has expressed his libertarian views in features for Reason.
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Charles Fazzino
- Occupations
- painterillustratorartist
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Charles Fazzino is an American pop artist, known for his silkscreen serigraphs in a 3D pop art style. His artwork is influenced from urban landscapes, sporting events, and celebrities.
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Jonathan Rado
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- musicianDJ producer
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Jonathan Rado is an American musician, record producer and engineer, best known as a multi-instrumentalist in the indie rock duo Foxygen. Rado is a native of Westlake Village, California, where he formed Foxygen with his classmate Sam France in 2005.
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Christine Sun Kim
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- sound artist
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Christine Sun Kim is an American sound artist, performer and activist based in Berlin. Working predominantly in drawing, performance, and video, Kim's art practice considers how sound operates in society. Musical notation, written language, American Sign Language (ASL), and the use of the body are all recurring elements in her work. Her work has been exhibited in major cultural institutions internationally, including in the Museum of Modern Art's first exhibition about sound in 2013 and the Whitney Biennial in 2019. She was named a TED Fellow in both 2013 and 2015, a Director's Fellow at MIT Media Lab in 2015, and a Ford Foundation Disability Futures Fellow in 2020. In July 2025, Kim won the inaugural Radical Transformation Award from the Henkaku Center at Chiba Institute of Technology (Chibatech) in Japan.
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Alexa Karolinski
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Alexa Karolinski is a German writer, director and producer whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. She is the creator of the television drama Unorthodox (2020).
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Mark Texeira
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- visual artistpainterillustratorinker
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Mark Texeira is an American comic book artist. Classically trained as a painter, he broke into the comics field in the early 1980s.
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John Paul Leon
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- comics artistpenciller
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John Paul Leon was an American comic book artist, known for his work on the Milestone Comics series Static, and the Marvel Comics limited series Earth X.
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Joshua Citarella
- Occupations
- visual artistartist
- Biography
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Joshua Citarella is an artist and writer from New York City whose work is primarily focused on online communities and internet culture. He is host of the Doomscroll podcast and creator of the online platform Do Not Research.
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Michael Avedon
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Michael Patrick Avedon is an American photographer living in New York City. Avedon works commercially as a fashion photographer and makes portraits for his personal work – including an ongoing series of artists in their studios.
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A.J. LoCascio
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- film actoractorvoice actor
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A. J. LoCascio is an American actor and director. He is known for his roles as Prince Lotor in Voltron: Legendary Defender, Marty McFly in Back to the Future: The Game and Gambit in X-Men '97.
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Kara Vallow
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- film actorfilm producertelevision producer
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Kara Vallow is an American television producer and computer animator. She has worked on four television series by Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door Productions: Family Guy, American Dad!, The Cleveland Show, and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Furthermore, she served as a producer on the first season of Cartoon Network's Johnny Bravo. She is the producer of all of Fox's primetime Sunday night lineup with the exception of The Simpsons.
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Tom Sito
- Occupations
- screenwritercharacter animatortelevision directoranimator
- Biography
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Tom Sito is an American animator, animation historian and teacher. He is currently a professor at USC's School of Cinematic Arts in the Animation Division. In 1998, Sito was included by Animation Magazine in their list of the One Hundred Most Important People in Animation.
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Patrick McDonnell
- Occupations
- comics artistillustratorwriter
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Patrick McDonnell is a cartoonist, author, and playwright. He is the creator of the daily comic strip Mutts, which follows the adventures of a dog and a cat, that has been syndicated since 1994. Prior to creating Mutts, he was a prolific magazine illustrator, and would frequently include a dog in the backgrounds of his drawings.
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Drew Friedman
- Occupations
- comics artistcartoonist
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Drew Friedman is an American cartoonist and illustrator who first gained renown for his humorous artwork and "stippling"-like style of caricature, employing thousands of pen-marks to simulate the look of a photograph. In the mid-1990s, he switched to painting.
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John Holmstrom
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- comics artistwritercartoonist
- Biography
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John Holmstrom is an American underground cartoonist and writer. He is best known for illustrating the covers of the Ramones albums Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin, as well as his characters Bosko and Joe (published in Scholastic's Bananas magazine from 1975 to 1984).
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Stanley Greene
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- photographerwar photographerpainterfashion photographerphotojournalist
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Stanley Greene Jr. was an American photojournalist.
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Miguel Chevalier
- Occupations
- 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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Hanoch Piven
- Occupations
- illustratorartist
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Hanoch Piven is an Israeli mixed media artist best known for his celebrity caricatures.
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Louise Fili
- Occupations
- typographergraphic designerdesigner
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Louise Fili is an American graphic designer and artist known for her use of typography. Her work incorporates elements of modernism and European Art Deco, combining historical typography with contemporary design approaches. Fili designed nearly 2,000 book jackets while working at Random House. Since establishing her design studio, she has shifted her focus towards restaurant identity, food-related logos, and packaging. Fili currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has previously taught at The New School, New York University, and Cooper Union.
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John Rocco
- Occupations
- illustratorwriter
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Christopher John Rocco, simply known as John Rocco is an American illustrator of book covers and children's books. He is best known for illustrating the covers of books in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He is the sole creator of some children's picture books.
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Angelina Nikonova
- Occupations
- film producerscreenwriterfilm director
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Angelina Yurevna Nikonova is a Russian filmmaker, script writer and film producer.
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Kate Shepherd
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Kate Shepherd is an American artist based in New York City. She is represented by Galerie Lelong in the United States and France.
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Dash Shaw
- Occupations
- visual artistcartoonistanimatordraftsperson
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Dash Shaw is an American comic book writer/artist and animator. He is the author of the graphic novels Cosplayers, Doctors, New School, and Bottomless Belly Button, published by Fantagraphics. Additionally, Shaw has written Love Eats Brains published by Odd God Press, GardenHead published by Meathaus, The Mother's Mouth published by Alternative Comics, and BodyWorld published by Pantheon Books.
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Alexis Rockman
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Alexis Rockman is an American contemporary artist known for his paintings that provide depictions of future landscapes as they might exist with impacts of climate change and evolution influenced by genetic engineering. He has exhibited his work in the United States since 1985, including a 2004 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, and internationally since 1989. He lives with his wife, Dorothy Spears in Warren, CT and NYC.
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Alan Robert
- Occupations
- bass guitaristcomics artist
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Alan Robert is an American musician and comic book creator. He is the bassist and main songwriter for the alternative metal band Life of Agony, whom he has played for since 1989. Robert is also known for his work on the graphic novels Wire Hangers, Crawl to Me, and Killogy, as well as the horror-themed adult coloring book series The Beauty of Horror.
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Felicia Bond
- Occupations
- children's writerchildren's book illustratorwriter
- Biography
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Felicia Bond is an American writer and illustrator of numerous books for children. She is the illustrator of all the If You Give... series written by Laura Numeroff and published by HarperCollins Children's Books.
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Dave Roman
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- editorcomics artistwriterillustratorpenciller
- Biography
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Dave Roman is an American writer and artist of webcomics and comics.
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Mark Bodé
- Occupations
- tattoo artistcomics artistcartoonist
- Biography
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Mark Bodē is an American cartoonist. The son of underground comics legend Vaughn Bodē, Mark shares the Bodē family style and perpetuates many of his late father's creations as well as his own works. He is best known for his work on Cobalt-60, Miami Mice, and The Lizard of Oz. Bodē has also worked for Heavy Metal magazine and on The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Noah Kalina
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- In 2006 graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography
- Occupations
- photographerartist
- Biography
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Noah Kalina is an American art photographer. Much of Kalina's work focuses on the passage of time including his well-known project Everyday which shows the aging of a human. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Monocle, Businessweek, Nylon, Esquire, Le Monde, and Interview, among others.
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Gail Anderson
- Occupations
- graphic designerwriterpostage stamp designer
- Biography
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Gail Anderson is an American graphic designer, writer, and educator known for her typographic skill, hand-lettering and poster design.
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Tomer Hanuka
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- art directorillustratorcartoonist
- Biography
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Tomer Hanuka is an Israeli illustrator and cartoonist.
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Alex Saviuk
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- draftspersoncomics artistillustrator
- Biography
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Alex Saviuk is an American comics artist primarily known for his work on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.
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Aaron Augenblick
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- cartoonistfilm directorcomics artistanimatortelevision producer
- Biography
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Aaron Augenblick is an American animator, director, writer, and producer. He is the founder of Augenblick Studios, creator of City Island, and known for his work on Ugly Americans, Superjail!, Wonder Showzen, and Golden Age.
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Willie Cole
- Occupations
- installation artistvisual artistprintmaker
- Biography
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Willie Cole is a contemporary American sculptor, printer, and conceptual and visual artist. His work uses contexts of postmodern eclecticism, and combines references and appropriation from African and African-American imagery. He also has used Dada’s readymades and Surrealism’s transformed objects, as well as icons of American pop culture or African and Asian masks.
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Ben Katchor
- Occupations
- librettistcomics artistcomics writerwritercartoonist
- Biography
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Ben Katchor is an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for the comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. He has contributed comics and drawings to The Forward, The New Yorker, Metropolis, and weekly newspapers in the United States. A Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, Katchor was described by author Michael Chabon as "the creator of the last great American comic strip."
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Alex Robinson
- Occupations
- draftspersoncomics artistwritercartoonistnovelist
- Biography
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Alex Robinson is an American comic book writer and artist.
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Michal Na'aman
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1978-1980
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Michal Na'aman, is an Israeli painter. From the point of view of values, her work is characterized as conceptual art and deals with such subjects as the limitations of language and sight, the possibilities for expression, and gender issues. Using the techniques of collage, Na'aman has created works that examine the visual way of thinking as opposed to the verbal way of thinking. In 2014, she was awarded the Israel Prize for Plastic Arts for her work.
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Bill Gallo
- Occupations
- cartoonist
- Biography
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Bill Gallo was an American cartoonist and newspaper columnist, known for his cartoons about sports, for the New York Daily News.
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Lee Knox Ostertag
- Years
- 1991-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- writercartoonistpencillerillustrator
- Biography
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Lee Knox Ostertag is an American cartoonist and writer. His work includes the animated series The Owl House, webcomic Strong Female Protagonist, the middle grade graphic novel series The Witch Boy, The Hidden Witch, and The Midwinter Witch, and on the series Tales of the Night Watchman. He was named one of Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 in 2021.
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Ran Morin
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Ran Morin is an Israeli artist, known for his statues involving full-sized living trees. Much of his work is found in Israel, notably the Olive Tree and surrounding park on the Ramat Rachel kibbutz. He currently lives in New York.
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James Sturm
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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James Sturm is an American cartoonist and co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Sturm is also the founder of the National Association of Comics Art Educators (NACAE), an organization committed to helping facilitate the teaching of comics in higher education.
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Penelope Umbrico
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Penelope Umbrico is an American artist best known for her work that appropriates images found using search engines and picture sharing websites.
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Baruch Nachshon
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Baruch Nachshon was an Israeli artist and mystic.
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Tom Feelings
- Occupations
- writerartistillustratorcaricaturist
- Biography
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Tom Feelings was an American artist, cartoonist, children's book illustrator, author, teacher, and activist. Many of his books focus on African-American and African culture, such as To Be a Slave (1968), Jambo Means Hello (1974), and The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo (1995).
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Steve Stiles
- Years
- 1943-2020 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- writercartoonist
- Biography
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Stephen Willis Stiles was an American cartoonist and writer, coming out of the science fiction fanzine tradition. He won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist.
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Josh Adams
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- comics artistartist
- Biography
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Josh Adams is an American comic book and commercial artist best known for his work on House of Mystery for DC Comics, as well as design work for on the Syfy Channel. Josh Adams is also the youngest of comic book veteran Neal Adams's three sons. Adams' two older brothers, Jason and Joel, are also artists who work in commercial sculpture and comic book illustration
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Emmanuel Iduma
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- academicuniversity teachernovelistwriterauthor
- Biography
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Emmanuel Iduma is a Nigerian writer and art critic. He is the author of A Stranger's Pose (2018) and Farad (2012). In 2016, Farad was republished in North America as The Sound of Things to Come. He was awarded the inaugural Irving Sandler Award for New Voices in Art Criticism by the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art, USA. He teaches in the MFA Art Writing Program at the School of Visual Arts, New York City.
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Geoffrey Notkin
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Geoffrey Notkin is an American actor, author, and entrepreneur. Notkin is known as one of the hosts of Meteorite Men, a documentary reality television series from Science Channel, which ran for three seasons. He is the president of the National Space Society, and holds a seat on the National Space Society Board of Governors. He is a long-time member of The Explorer's Club. In 2013, Notkin's Twitter account was nominated for a Shorty Award, honoring the best in social media. Notkin has also been interviewed on the Today show, Coast to Coast, and NASA Edge TV, and is a regular guest speaker at TusCon, an intimate science fiction, fantasy, and horror convention held annually in Tucson, Arizona.
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Chrissy Conant
- Born in
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United States - Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Chrissy Conant is an American artist who created works such as Chrissy Caviar and Chrissy Skin Rug. Her BioArt works have aroused strong responses and have been a basis for discussions of the body, art, and ethics.
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Marisa Acocella Marchetto
- Occupations
- novelistcartoonist
- Biography
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Marisa Acocella is an American cartoonist. She is the author of the New York Times best-selling graphic novel Ann Tenna, the graphic memoir Cancer Vixen, and Just Who the Hell is She, Anyway? She is also a cartoonist for The New Yorker and a columnist for W magazine's website. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, and O, The Oprah Magazine.
