This is a list of notable people affiliated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago or the SAIC predecessor Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (1879-1882)https://www.illinoisart.org/history/chicago-academy-of-design-and-art-institute-of-chicago The later Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, founded October 6, 1902 by the artist Carl Werntz, is unrelated to the Art Institute of ChicagoArt Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives, Subject Files (Container 2023.1042).

Notable alumni

Animation Alex Lee, 3D animator

Comics, cartoons

Designers Charles C. Dawson, illustrator, book designer Robert E. Paige, designer Art Paul, graphic designerFaye, Marcia, "Art Paul: The art of designing Playboy", iitmagazine (Spring 2009) Norman Teague, designer Herbert Temple Jr., art director

Fashion

Filmmakers

Jewelers and light metal artists Eileen Abdulrashid, artist, enameler

Illustrators

Painters

Photographers Natalie Bookchin, photographer Joyce Neimanas, photographer Darryl DeAngelo Terrell (M.F.A. 2017), photographer, curator William Vandivert, photographer Victor Skrebneski, photographer

Mixed media artists, multidisciplinary artists

New media artists, digital artists

Sculptors

Other

Notable faculty

Franco (Frank) Barsotti, Department of Photography Benjamin Bellas George Bellows (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts) Wafaa Bilal Rika Burnham, Teaching Institute in Museum Education Amanda Williams (artist) James Blomfield (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts) Stan Brakhage Christopher Bratton Nick Cave Francis Chapin Louis Grell Susanna Coffey John Rogers Cox Barbara Degenevieve James Elkins LaToya Ruby Frazier Michelle Grabner Diana Guerrero-Maciá Claudia Hart Tiffany Holmes Eduardo Kac Max Kahn Adam Levin Adelheid Mers Ayanah Moor Phil Morton Joyce Neimanas Kamau Amu Patton, multidisciplinary artist Claire Pentecost Tony Phillips Frank Piatek Jefferson Pinder Jaume Plensa Albin Polasek, sculptor Barbara Rossi, painter, original member of the Chicago Imagists Jerry Saltz David Sedaris Sonia Sheridan, artist, founder of Generative Systems: Art Science and Technology Department Lorado Taft, sculptor Mika Tosca Ruth VanSickle Ford (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts) James F. Walker Mechtild Widrich Anne Wilson Karl Wirsum Ray Yoshida

References Matthew Angelo Harrison