Prestigous 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 Art

Shelby Lee Adams '74 Richard Anuszkiewicz '53 Charles Burchfield '16 Clarence Carter '27 David E. Davis '48 Marshall Fredericks '30 April Gornik '76 Winifred Lutz '64 Robert Mangold '60

Photographer Painter Painter Painter Sculptor Sculptor Painter Installation Painter

Bruce McCombs '66 William McVey '31 John Opper '31 Joseph O'Sickey '40 Dana Schutz '00 Hughie Lee Smith '38 Julian Stanczak '54 Paul Travis '17 Frank N. Wilcox '10

Printmaker Sculptor Painter Painter Painter Painter Painter Painter Painter/Illustrator

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Design

Marc Brown '69 Stevan Dohanos '33 Kevin Geiger '89 Gerald Hirshberg '63/'71 Dennis Moore '66 John Nottingham '72

Illustrator Illustrator Animator Product/Automobile Design Filmmaker Toy/Product Design

Ted Ornas '39 Joe Oros '39 Viktor Schreckengost '29 Wen Hwa Seun '89 Karen Skunta '74 John Spirk '72

Automobile Design Automobile Design Product Design Animator Art Education Toy/Product Design

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Crafts

Linda Arbuckle '81 William Carlson '73 Deirdre Daw '80 Eddie Dominguez '81 Edris Eckhardt '31 William Harper '67

Ceramics Glass Ceramics Ceramics Glass/Ceramics Metals/Enameling

Lisa Norton '85 John Paul Miller '40 Frederick Miller '40 Greg Pitts '83 Horace Potter '98 Wenda Von Weise '75

Metals Metals Metals Ceramics Metals Fiber

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CIA graduates can be found working in a variety of prominent corporations, universities, and other art related areas. They are also represented in many major museums across the country. The following are examples that demonstrate the breadth of representation by Institute Alumni.

Design and Advertising

American Greetings, Cleveland, OH DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Detroit, MI Fisher-Price Toys, East Aurora, NY Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI Hasbro Toys, Cincinnati, OH IBM Corporation, Dayton, OH Kaleidoscope Animations, Inc., Cleveland, OH Mattel Toys, El Segundo, CA

Metaphase Design Group, St. Louis, MO Motorola Corporation, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Nesnadny + Schwartz, Cleveland, OH Nissan Design International, San Deigo, CA Rubbermaid, Wooster, OH Walt Disney Corporation, Orlando, FL Wyse Advertising, Cleveland, OH Young and Rubicam, Chicago, IL ZIBA Design, Portland, OR

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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

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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

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Museums

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 Butler Museum, Youngstown, OH Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

National Collection of American Art Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT

Comments? Questions? News to Share? Contact the Alumni Office at alumni@cia.edu.

For Alumni Gallery submissions email alumnigallery@cia.edu.

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