85 Notable alumni of
University of the Arts in Pennsylvania
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The University of the Arts in Pennsylvania is 604th in the world, 223rd in North America, and 206th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 85 notable alumni from the University of the Arts in Pennsylvania 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
- actorfilm producerkeyboardistmodeltelevision actor
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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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Elle King
- Occupations
- actorsingersongwriter
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Tanner Elle Schneider, known professionally as Elle King, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her musical style is influenced by country, rock, and blues. She signed with RCA Records to release her debut extended play, The Elle King EP (2012); one if its tracks, "Playing for Keeps", became the theme song for VH1's Mob Wives Chicago series.
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Rick Yune
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- film produceractortelevision actorscreenwritermodel
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Rick Yune is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and martial artist of Korean descent. His most notable roles have been in the movies Snow Falling on Cedars, the first Fast & Furious film The Fast and the Furious, the James Bond movie Die Another Day, and Olympus Has Fallen. He was part of the main cast of the Netflix original series Marco Polo.
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KaDee Strickland
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- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Katherine Dee Strickland is an American actress. From 2007 to 2013, she played Dr. Charlotte King on the ABC drama Private Practice.
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Kate Flannery
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- actorfilm actor
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Kate Flannery is an American actress. Following her early theatre work, Flannery had her screen breakthrough playing Meredith Palmer on the NBC series The Office, which won her two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She went on to guest star on CBS shows Magnum P.I. and Young Sheldon. She competed on the 28th season of Dancing with the Stars and voiced Barb on the animated series Steven Universe.
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Rod J. Rosenstein
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- lawyerofficial
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Rod Jay Rosenstein is an American attorney who served as the 37th United States deputy attorney general from 2017 to 2019. Prior to his appointment, he served as a United States attorney for the District of Maryland. At the time of his confirmation as deputy attorney general in April 2017, he was the longest-serving U.S. attorney. Rosenstein had also been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2007, but his nomination was never considered by the U.S. Senate.
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Ana Ortiz
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- actorfilm actorsingerstage actortelevision actor
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Ana Ortiz is an American actress and singer. Having pursued a career in ballet and singing from a young age, she eventually attended University of the Arts. Ortiz began her acting career in theatre, in early 2000s starred in the short-lived NBC sitcoms Kristin (2001) and A.U.S.A. (2003), and had recurring roles on Over There and Boston Legal.
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Paul Felder
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- karatekamixed martial arts fightertaekwondo athletesports analyst
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Paul Felder is an American retired professional mixed martial artist and color commentator currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As a fighter, Felder competed in the UFC's Lightweight division after making his name in Cage Fury Fighting Championships (CFFC).
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Joe Dante
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm editoractordirector
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Joseph James Dante Jr. is an American film director. His films—notably Gremlins (1984) alongside its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)—often mix the 1950s-style B movie genre with 1960s radicalism and cartoon comedy.
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Justin Guarini
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- stage actoractorsingerjazz musicianfilm actor
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Justin Guarini is an American singer, songwriter and actor who in 2002 was the runner-up on the first season of American Idol.
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Alaska Thunderfuck 5000
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- Internet celebrityactorsingerdrag queencomedian
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Justin Andrew Honard, best known by the stage name Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 or mononymously as Alaska, is an American drag queen and singer from Erie, Pennsylvania. She is best known as the runner-up on the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and the winner of the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.
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Rei Hance
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- stage actorfilm actoractor
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Rei Hance is an American retired actress, credited under her birth name during her acting career. She is known for starring in the horror film The Blair Witch Project (1999) and the miniseries Taken (2002). After retiring from acting, she became a medical marijuana grower. She legally changed her name to Rei Hance in 2020.
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Irene Bedard
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- film actorvoice actortelevision actoractor
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Irene Bedard is an Alaska Native actress, who has played mostly Native American lead roles in a variety of films. She is perhaps best known for the role of Suzy Song in the 1998 film Smoke Signals, an adaptation of a Sherman Alexie collection of short stories, as well as for providing the speaking voice for the titular character in the 1995 animated film Pocahontas. Bedard reprised her role as Pocahontas in the film's direct-to-video follow-up, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998) and for a cameo in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).
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Rob Kapito
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- financier
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Robert Steven Kapito is an American businessman and investor. He is a co-founder (with Larry Fink and Susan Wagner) and president of the New York City-based investment management firm BlackRock.
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Stanley Clarke
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- composerbassistjazz musicianguitaristfilm score composer
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Stanley Clarke is an American bassist, composer and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands. Clarke gave the bass guitar a prominence it lacked in jazz-related music. He is the first jazz-fusion bassist to headline tours, sell out shows worldwide and have recordings reach gold status.
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James Rolfe
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- screenwritertelevision actorfilm directortelevision directoractor
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James D. Rolfe is an American YouTuber, filmmaker, and actor. He is best known for creating and starring in the comedic retrogaming web series Angry Video Game Nerd (2004–present). His spin-off projects include reviews of retro films, television series, and board games. He is considered a pioneer of internet gaming videos and is noted for his widespread influence on YouTube content after the series premiered on the platform in 2006.
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Leslie Parrish
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- film actormodeltelevision actoractor
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Leslie Parrish is an American actress, activist, environmentalist, writer, and producer. She worked under her birth name for six years before changing it in 1959.
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Irving Penn
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts in Pennsylvania
- Studied in 1934-1938
- Occupations
- photographerartistfashion photographer
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Irving Penn was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography.
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Terri Kwan
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Terri Kwan is a Taiwanese actress, model, singer and author.
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Keith Andes
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- voice actoropera singermusicianfilm actorstage actor
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Keith Andes was an American actor. He is known for films such as Blackbeard the Pirate (1952) and Clash by Night (1952).
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LaChanze
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- stage actoractorsingertelevision actorfilm actor
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LaChanze Sapp-Gooding, known professionally as LaChanze, is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2006 for her role as Celie Harris Johnson in The Color Purple. LaChanze has subsequently received 3 more Tony Awards for co-producing Kimberly Akimbo, Topdog/Underdog, and The Outsiders.
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Boediono
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Boediono is an Indonesian politician and economist who served as the 11th vice president of Indonesia from 2009 to 2014. He became vice president after winning the 2009 presidential election together with the then-incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Before this, he had been the Governor of the Indonesian Central Bank and a professor of economics at Gadjah Mada University.
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Maxwell Atoms
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- television producerscreenwriterstoryboard artisttelevision directorfilm producer
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Adam Maxwell Burton, known professionally as Maxwell Atoms, is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and voice actor. He is the creator of the Cartoon Network series Grim & Evil and its subsequent spin-offs, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne.
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Vikram Chatwal
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Vikram Chatwal is an American hotelier and actor.
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Jon Hurwitz
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- screenwriterwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Jonathan Benjamin Hurwitz is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on Cobra Kai (with Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald), the Harold & Kumar films, and American Reunion (with Schlossberg).
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Ignazio Visco
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- politicianbankereconomist
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Ignazio Visco OMRI is an Italian economist and central banker and Governor of the Bank of Italy from 2011 to 2023.
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William P. Lauder
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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William Philip Lauder is an American billionaire businessman, and executive chairman of The Estée Lauder Companies, one of the world's leading manufacturers of skin care, make-up, fragrance and hair care products.
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Revanta Sarabhai
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- dancerfilmmaker
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Revanta Sarabhai is an Indian film and theatre actor, dancer, and choreographer from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He is known for being one of the few male Bharatanatyam soloists of his generation.
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Howard Benson
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- composermusic executiverecord producer
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Howard Michael Benson is an American record producer from Havertown, Pennsylvania. He has been nominated for two Grammy Awards for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical in 2007 and 2008, among two wins and 16 total nominations for his productions.
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André Watts
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- academic musicianclassical pianist
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André Watts was an American classical pianist. Over the six decades of his career, Watts performed as soloist with every major American orchestra and most of the world's finest orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, and London Symphony Orchestra. Watts recorded a variety of repertoire, concentrating on Romantic era composers such as Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt, but also including George Gershwin. In 2020, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. He won a Grammy Award for Best New Classical Artist in 1964. Watts was also on the faculty at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University.
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Ernesto Pérez Balladares
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- politician
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Ernesto Pérez Balladares González-Revilla, nicknamed El Toro ("The Bull"), is a Panamanian politician who was the President of Panama between 1994 and 1999.
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Judith Jamison
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- dancerartistic directorchoreographer
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Judith Ann Jamison was an American dancer and choreographer. She danced with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 1965 to 1980 and was Ailey's muse. She later returned to be the company's artistic director from 1989 until 2011, and then its artistic director emerita. She received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1999, the National Medal of Arts in 2001, and the Handel Medallion, New York City's highest cultural honor, in 2010.
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Charles Sheeler
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- photographerfilm directorpainterdraftspersonarchitectural draftsperson
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Charles Sheeler was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the 1921 avant-garde film, Manhatta, which he made in collaboration with Paul Strand. Sheeler is recognized as one of the early adopters of modernism in American art.
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serpentwithfeet
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- experimental musician
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Jonathan Josiah Wise, known professionally as serpentwithfeet, is an R&B singer based in Brooklyn, New York City. Wise signed with the English record label Tri Angle to release his debut extended play (EP), Blisters (2016). He entered a joint venture with Secretly Canadian to release his debut studio album, soil (2018), which was met with critical acclaim. His second EP, Apparition (2020), and his second and third albums, Deacon (2021) and Grip (2024), were each met with continued critical praise.
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Marc Blitzstein
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- composerlyricistpianistlibrettist
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Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration. He is known for The Cradle Will Rock and for his off-Broadway translation/adaptation of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. His works also include the opera Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes; the Broadway musical Juno, based on Seán O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock; and No for an Answer. He completed translation/adaptations of Brecht's and Weill's musical play Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and of Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children with music by Paul Dessau. Blitzstein also composed music for films, such as Surf and Seaweed (1931) and The Spanish Earth (1937), and he contributed two songs to the original 1960 production of Hellman's play Toys in the Attic.
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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
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- artistsculptorpoet
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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was an African-American artist who celebrated Afrocentric themes. At the fore of the Harlem Renaissance, Warrick was known for being a poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor of the black American experience. At the turn of the 20th century, she achieved a reputation as the first black woman sculptor and was a well-known sculptor in Paris before returning to the United States.
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Noreena Hertz
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- financial analystwriterforeign correspondentradio personalityeconomist
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Noreena Hertz is an English academic, economist and bestselling author, who sits on the boards of Mattel, Warner Music Group and Workhuman. She has been Honorary Professor at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London since 2014.
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Adam Blackstone
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- record producermusiciancomposersongwriter
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Adam Blackstone is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, and bassist. He is the musical director for Nicki Minaj and Justin Timberlake. Blackstone has also directed and played in performances with Jay-Z, Kanye West, Eminem, Janet Jackson, Dr. Dre, The Jonas Brothers, The Roots, Ms.Marilyn Marshall, Al Green, The Isley Brothers, Angie Stone, Mike Posner, Steve Tirpak, Al Jarreau, Maroon 5, Demi Lovato, and Jill Scott.
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Mike Berenstain
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- writerchildren's writerillustrator
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Michael Berenstain is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. The son of the late Stan and Jan Berenstain, he is the current author of the Berenstain Bears series of picture books following the deaths of his parents.
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James DePreist
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- music directorpoetconductormusic educator
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James Anderson DePreist was an American conductor. DePreist was one of the first African-American conductors on the world stage. He was the director emeritus of conducting and orchestral studies at The Juilliard School and laureate music director of the Oregon Symphony at the time of his death.
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Jerry Pinkney
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- postage stamp designerwatercoloristwriterartistchildren's writer
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Jerry Pinkney was an American illustrator and writer of children's literature. Pinkney illustrated over 100 books since 1964, including picture books, nonfiction titles and novels. Pinkney's works addressed diverse themes and were usually done in watercolors.
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Barbara Chase-Riboud
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- art historiandraftspersonartistsculptorwriter
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Barbara Chase-Riboud is an American and French visual artist, sculptor, novelist, and poet.
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Julian Abele
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- architect
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Julian Francis Abele was a prominent black American architect, and chief designer in the offices of Horace Trumbauer. He contributed to the design of more than 400 buildings, including the Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University (1912–15), Philadelphia's Central Library (1917–27), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1914–28). He was the primary designer of the west campus of Duke University (1924–54).
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Cecelia Condit
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- video artistfilmmaker
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Cecelia Ann Condit is an American video artist. Condit's films are noted for their attempts to subvert traditional mythologies of female representation and psychologies of sexuality and violence.
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Arlen Roth
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- jazz guitaristjazz musician
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Arlen Roth is an American guitarist, teacher, and author. From 1982 to 1992, he was a columnist for Guitar Player magazine. Those ten years of columns became a book, Hot Guitar.
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Lew Tabackin
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- bandleaderconductorsaxophonistjazz musician
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Lewis Barry Tabackin is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist. He is married to pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi with whom he has co-led large ensembles since the 1970s.
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Robert McCord
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- politician
- Biography
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Robert Maxwell McCord is an American former politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2015. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania in the 2014 election.
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Robin Eubanks
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- jazz musicianuniversity teachermusic educator
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Robin Eubanks is an American jazz and jazz fusion slide trombonist, the brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks and trumpeter Duane Eubanks. Younger brother Shane Eubanks, twin to Duane Eubanks, is a DJ. His uncles are jazz pianist Ray Bryant and bassist Tommy Bryant. His mother, Vera Eubanks, was famed pianist Kenny Barron's first piano teacher.
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Steve Powers
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- painter
- Biography
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Stephen J. Powers is an American contemporary artist and muralist. He is also known by the name ESPO ("Exterior Surface Painting Outreach"), and Steve Powers. He lives in New York City.
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John R. Sinnock
- Occupations
- engraver
- Biography
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John Ray Sinnock was the eighth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1925 to 1947.
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Deborah Willis
- Occupations
- photographerart historianhistorian
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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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Linh Dinh
- Occupations
- translatorpoetphotographerwritervisual artist
- Biography
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Linh Dinh is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer. He posts travel essays and social commentary regularly on his Substack page entitled Postcards from the End.
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Harry Bliss
- Occupations
- cartoonist
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Harry Bliss is an American cartoonist and illustrator. He has illustrated many books and produced thousands of cartoons including 25 covers for The New Yorker. He has a syndicated single-panel comic titled Bliss. Bliss is syndicated through Tribune Content Agency and appears in over 80 newspapers in the United States, Canada, and Japan.
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Jayson Musson
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts in Pennsylvania
- In 2002 graduated with bachelor's degree in photography
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Jayson Scott Musson is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in Bronx, NY.
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Arnold Roth
- Occupations
- cartoonistpaintercomics artist
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Arnold Roth is an American cartoonist and illustrator for advertisements, album covers, books, magazines, and newspapers. Novelist John Updike wrote, "All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so."
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Todd Schorr
- Occupations
- painter
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Todd Schorr is an American artist and member of the "Lowbrow", or pop surrealism, art movement. Combining a cartoon influenced visual vocabulary with a highly polished technical ability, based on the exacting painting methods of the Old Masters, Schorr weaves intricate narratives that are often biting yet humorous in their commentary on the human condition.
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John Mercanti
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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John M. Mercanti is an American sculptor and engraver. He was the twelfth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint until his retirement in late 2010.
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Bob Stewart
- Occupations
- performing artistjazz musician
- Biography
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Bob Stewart is an American jazz tuba player and music teacher.
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Eugene List
- Occupations
- music educatorpianist
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Eugene List was an American concert pianist and teacher.
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Philip Jamison
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Philip Jamison was an American artist working primarily with watercolor as a medium. Typical scenes are landscapes, seascapes, interiors and flower arrangements.
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LaDeva Davis
- Occupations
- cookdance teachertelevision presenterteacher
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LaDeva M. Davis was an American television presenter and food educator who starred in the American public television series What's Cooking? She was the first African-American woman to have her own nationally syndicated public TV cooking show in the United States on the Public Broadcasting Service. She was awarded the Mary McLeod Bethune Award in 2015.
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William S. Rice
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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William Seltzer Rice was an American woodblock print artist, art educator and author, associated with the Arts and Crafts movement in Northern California.
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Joseph Hirsch
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- printmakerpainter
- Biography
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Joseph Hirsch was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher. Social commentary was the backbone of Hirsch's art, especially works depicting civic corruption and racial injustice.
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Edward Piszek
- Occupations
- businesspersonwriter
- Biography
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Edward John Piszek co-founded the Mrs. Paul's frozen foods brand with John Paul, a bread salesman. Piszek bought out his partner in the 1950s.
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Vincent S. Perez
- Occupations
- banker
- Biography
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Vicente "Vincent" Sanchez Pérez Jr. is a Filipino banker, environment advocate, and renewable energy investor who has served as the Philippines' secretary of energy from 2001 to 2005 under the Arroyo administration.
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Preston Ware Orem
- Years
- 1865-1938 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- composerjournalistmusic critic
- Biography
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Preston Ware Orem was an American composer, pianist, and writer on music. He is frequently grouped with other composers as part of the Indianist movement in American music.
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Claude Clark
- Occupations
- draftspersonvisual artistprintmakerpainterart educator
- Biography
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Claude Clark was an American painter, printmaker and art educator. Clark's subject matter was the diaspora of African American culture, including dance scenes, street urchins, marine life, landscapes, and religious and political satire images executed primarily with a palette knife.
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Irv Docktor
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Irving Seidmon Docktor was an American artist and educator best known for his work as a book and magazine illustrator in the 1950s and 1960s. An early work on the history of paperbacks identified Docktor and Edward Gorey as executing some of the most interesting and appealing cover designs in the field.
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Hilyard Robert Robinson
- Years
- 1899-1986 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Hilyard Robert Robinson, was a prominent African-American architect and engineer.
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Katherine Milhous
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writer
- Biography
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Katherine Milhous was an American artist, illustrator, and writer. She is known best as the author and illustrator of The Egg Tree, which won the 1951 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration. Born into a Quaker family active in the printing industry in Philadelphia, Milhous is also known for her graphic designs for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Her work has been exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Effie Kapsalis
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts in Pennsylvania
- 2001-2003 graduated with master's degree in industrial design
- Occupations
- museum professionalresearchermanagerarchivist
- Biography
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Effie Kapsalis was an American open access advocate known for work related to digital programs and initiatives, including those advanced at the Smithsonian Institution.
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Frances Tipton Hunter
- Occupations
- illustrator
- Biography
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Frances Tipton Hunter was an illustrator who created covers for The Saturday Evening Post and many other magazines between the 1920s and 1950s. Her work is very similar in style to that of Norman Rockwell.
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Daniel Delaney
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- presentertelevision producerrestaurateur
- Biography
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Daniel Delaney is a James Beard Award nominated American restaurateur and former host of VendrTV a video podcast about street food.
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Anthony Watson
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 36)
- Occupations
- skeleton racer
- Biography
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Anthony Watson is an American-born skeleton racer who competed on behalf of Jamaica in the 2018 Winter Olympics, becoming the first athlete to represent the Caribbean nation in the winter sport.
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Stijn Claessens
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Stijn Claessens is a Dutch economist who currently serves as the Head of Financial Stability Policy department of the Bank for International Settlements. He worked for fourteen years at World Bank beginning in 1987 until 2001 where he assumed various positions including that of Lead Economist. Following his tenure at the World Bank he became Professor of International Finance Policy at the University of Amsterdam where he remained for three years and still is on the faculty. Stijn has many distinguished academic publications and his work has been cited in many outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Economist, The Washington Post and various other publications and he has appeared in several television programs.
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Bilal Salaam
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- singer-songwritersingerrecord producer
- Biography
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Bilal Salaam is an American professor, art historiographer, composer and academic. He is currently a lecturer at Istanbul Ticaret University.
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Joy Clements
- Years
- 1932-2005 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Joy Clements was an American lyric coloratura soprano who had a substantial opera and concert career from 1956 through the late 1970s. She notably sang regularly with both the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera during the 1960s through the early 1970s. She also traveled regularly for performances with opera companies and orchestras throughout the United States but only appeared in a relatively few number of performances internationally.
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Gil Cohen
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Gil Cohen is an American artist, noted for his illustrations of aircraft and people in military service, who also illustrated men's magazines, books and movie posters.
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Andrea Clearfield
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Andrea Clearfield is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Regularly commissioned and performed by ensembles in the United States and abroad, her works include music for orchestra, chorus, soloists, chamber ensembles, dance, opera, film, and multimedia collaborations.
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David Lebe
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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David Lebe is an American photographer. He is best known for his experimental images using techniques such as pinhole cameras, hand-painted photographs, photograms, and light drawings. Many of his photographs explore issues of gay identity, homoeroticism, and living with AIDS, linking his work to that of contemporaries such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, and David Wojnarowicz. Though his style and approach set him apart from these contemporaries, "Lebe is now incontrovertibly part of the history of twentieth-century queer artists."
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Linda Lee Alter
- Occupations
- art collectorpainter
- Biography
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Linda Lee Alter is an American visual artist who is primarily known as an art collector and philanthropist. In 2010 Alter donated five hundred artworks by American female artists to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Lee Bracegirdle
- Occupations
- composerjazz musicianhorn player
- Biography
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Lee Joseph Bracegirdle is an Australian-American composer, horn player and conductor.
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Irene Zundel
- Occupations
- photographersculptorpainter
- Biography
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Irene Zundel, is a Mexican sculptor, painter and photographer. Her sculpture is made of different materials and has been shown around the world. Zundel lives and works in Mexico City.
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Ron Tarver
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts in Pennsylvania
- In 2017 graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- visual artistphotographerphotojournalistuniversity teacherjournalist
- Biography
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Ronald Tarver (born 1957) is an American artist and educator. He was the first Black photographer at the Muskogee Phoenix and also worked at the Springfield News-Leader in Missouri (1980-1983), before joining The Philadelphia Inquirer. His career at the Inquirer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, spans more than three decades (1983–2014). Tarver currently serves as Associate Professor of Art specializing in photography at Swarthmore College.
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Helmut Christoferus Calabrese
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Helmut Christoferus Calabrese is a German-born composer and poet who immigrated to the U.S. in 1962. He trained at the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts and at New York University and is one of the founders of the music publishers Calabrese Brothers Music, LLC. His song, "The Most Beautiful Lady in the World: Statue of Liberty Anthem", was the subject of two bills in the New Jersey Legislature and the United States House of Representatives calling on the United States Congress to designate it as the official anthem of the Statue of Liberty.
