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 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 Sonya Clark – visual artist, mixed media Diana Guerrero-Maciá – visual artist Lyric Shen – mixed media, sculptor, tattoo 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

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 Dulles International Airport Main Terminal Joseph Allen Stein – architect Harry Weese – (Fellowship Urban Planning 1938–1939) architect Hani Rashid – (M.A. architecture, 1985) architect Jesse Rieser – (M.A. architecture) Karl Chu – (M.A. architecture) Donald Bates – (M.A. architecture) Benjamin Erskine Nicholson – (M.A. architecture) Raoul Bunschoten – (M.A. architecture)

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 – Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics Department Keith Haring – Artist-in-Residence and mural installation in 1987. David Hilliard – Artist-in-Residence, Photography Department, 2007–2008. 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 Michael McCoy – Co-Chair, Design, 1971–1995 Katherine McCoy – Co-Chair, Design, 1971–1995 Carl Milles – Artist-in-Residence, Sculpture Department Eliel Saarinen – Finnish architect known for his work with art nouveau buildings.

Presidents and directors 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, 2019–2021 Paul Sacaridiz, Director, 2022–Present

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