# 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
* 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 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 – 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