• Source: List of Cranbrook Academy of Art alumni and faculty

This is a list of notable people from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.




Notable alumni






= Artists

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Ceramics

Richard DeVore – ceramicist
Leza McVey – studio potter
Annabeth Rosen - ceramic sculptor
Monica Rudquist – ceramic artist
Stacy Jo Scott – ceramic artist, digital fabricator arts educator, writer
Toshiko Takaezu – ceramic artist



Mixed media

Olga de Amaral – (B.F.A. textiles)
Nick Cave – fabric sculptor, performance artist
Diana Guerrero-Maciá – visual artist
Anne Wilson – visual artist, mixed media



Painters

Marc Awodey – contemporary artist, painting and poetry
Shiva Ahmadi – painter
Frederic James – painter
Judith Lodge – painter
Fred Mitchell – painter



Printmakers and book artists

Walter Hamady – artist, book designer, papermaker
Stephanie Pogue - artist and art educator
Roland Poska – papermaker, printmaker
Ron Kowalke - artist and art educator



Sculptors

Susan Aaron-Taylor – sculptor
Barbara Cooper – artist, sculptor
Paul Granlund – sculptor
Waylande Gregory – art-deco ceramics sculptors
Duane Hanson – artist, sculptor
Beth Katleman – sculptor
Tony Rosenthal – sculptor
Sherri Smith – (M.F.A. 1967) fiber artist, sculptor, and professor
Susan York – artist, sculptor




= Designers

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Architecture

Ed Bacon – urban planner, architect
Peter Bohlin – architect
Theodore Galante – architect
James Hubbell – artist, architect, sculptor, founder of the Ilan-Lael Foundation
Fumihiko Maki – architect
Gyo Obata - architect
Ralph Rapson – architect
Eero Saarinen – architect, industrial designer, and furniture designer. Designs include the Tulip group, Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri and the main terminal of Dulles International Airport
Joseph Allen Stein – architect
Harry Weese – (Fellowship Urban Planning 1938–1939) architect
Hani Rashid – (M.A. architecture, 1985) architect



Furniture design

Harry Bertoia – artist, sound art sculptor, modern furniture designer
Charles Eames – architect, furniture designer; designer of the Eames Chair (see Ray Kaiser, below)
Ray Kaiser Eames - abstract artist and furniture designer who married Charles Eames in 1941 and collaborated on most of the Eames designs
Florence Knoll – architect, furniture designer
Jay Sae Jung Oh – artist and furniture designer



Graphic design

Ed Fella – graphic designer, artist, educator
Jeffery Keedy – graphic designer, type designer
P. Scott Makela – graphic designer, type designer
Nancy Skolos – (B.F.A. design, 1977) graphic designer
Lorraine Wild – (B.F.A. 1975) graphic designer



Industrial design

Niels Diffrient – ergonomics designer, industrial designer



Textile design

Ruth Adler-Schnee – (M.F.A. 1946) textile designer and first female architecture graduate student from Cranbrook
Mary Balzer Buskirk – (M.F.A.) mid-century modern fiber artist
Carolyn Crump – 3D quilt maker
Jack Lenor Larsen – (M.F.A. 1951) textile designer.
Mary Walker Phillips – (M.F.A. 1963) popularized contemporary hand knitting
Bhakti Ziek – (M.F.A. fiber, 1989) contemporary textile artist



Other design

Chunghi Choo – jewelry designer and metalsmith
Wu Liangyong – urban planner




Notable faculty


This is a list of both current and past notable faculty and visiting artist-in-residence, listed in alphabetical order by last name.

Marshall Fredericks – sculptor
Maija Grotell – ceramics
Keith Haring – artist-in-residence and mural installation in 1987.
Ken Isaacs – head of the design department from 1956–1958, known for matrix-based modular system to build living structures.
Jane Lackey – textile and fiber artist
Daniel Libeskind – architect
Carl Milles – sculptor-in-residence
Eliel Saarinen – Finnish architect known for his work with art nouveau buildings.




= Presidents and directors

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Eliel Saarinen, President, 1932–1946
Zoltan Sepeshy, President, 1946–1966
Glen Paulsen, President, 1966–1970
Wallace Mitchell, 1970–1977
Roy Slade, 1977–1994
Susana Torre, Director, 1994–1996
Gerhardt Knodel, Director, 1997–2007
Reed Kroloff, Director, 2007–2014
Christopher Scoates, Director, 2014–2018
Susan Ewing, Director, 2019–present




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• List of Cranbrook Academy of Art alumni and faculty
• Cranbrook Schools
• Bhakti Ziek
• Philip Grausman
• Jeanine Centuori
• Eero Saarinen
• List of Oberlin College and Conservatory people
• Carl Milles
• Katherine McCoy
• Jane Lackey