Prestigious Alumni
Cleveland Institute of Art Alumni have attained success in every area of the visual arts. Some of our more prominent graduates are listed below.
Fine Arts
Applied Art and Design
Crafts
Linda Arbuckle ‘81 Ceramics
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Lisa Norton ‘85 Metals
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William Carlson ‘73 Glass
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John Paul Miller ‘40 Metals
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Deirdre Daw ‘80 Ceramics
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Frederick Miller ‘40 Metals
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Eddie Dominguez ‘81 Ceramics
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Greg Pitts ‘83 Ceramics
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Edris Eckhardt ‘31 Glass/Ceramics
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Horace Potter ‘98 Metals
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William Harper ‘67 Metals/Enameling
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Wenda Von Weise ‘75 Fiber
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Alumni Careers
CIA graduates can be found working at a variety of prominent corporations, universities, and other art-related areas. The following are examples that demonstrate the breadth of corporate and educational representation by Institute Alumni.
Industrial Design, Graphic Design and Advertising
American Greetings, Cleveland, OH
Fisher-Price Toys, East Aurora, NY
Hasbro Toys, Cincinnati, OH
Mattel Toys, El Segundo, CA
Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, MI
Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI
Nissan Design International, San Deigo, CA
IBM Corporation, Dayton, OH
Motorola Corporation, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Kaleidoscope Animations, Inc., Cleveland, OH
Walt Disney Corporation, Orlando, FL
Nesnadny + Schwartz, Cleveland, OH
Wyse Advertising, Cleveland, OH
Young and Rubicam, Chicago, IL
Metaphase Design Group, St. Louis, MO
ZIBA Design, Portland, OR
Colleges and Universities
Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Kent State University, Kent, OH
Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Saga Junior College, Kyoto, Japan
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
University of Rochester, New York, NY
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Other Art-Related Areas
Bockrath Gallery, Gallery Owner
Cleveland Clinic, Medical Illustrator
Cleveland Museum of Art, Designer
Paramount and Universal Studios, Theme Park Ride Design
The Melchior Marionettes Theater, Creator/Owner
The United States Mint, Postage Stamp Design
Telarc Records, Art Director
Toronto Life Magazine, Illustrator
UNICEF, Book Illustrator
Alumni in Museums
CIA graduates are also represented in many major museums across the country. The following are a few of the Museums that have, as part of their permanent collections, Institute graduates' art work.
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Contact
Comments? Questions? News to Share? Contact the Alumni Office at alumni@cia.edu or ask us a question.
For Alumni Gallery Exhibition submissions please email alumnigallery@cia.edu.