Polly Apfelbaum, (BFA '78)

Printmaking

Polly Apfelbaum (BFA '78) is a multimedia artist whose bold, colorful work blends and hybridizes traditions of painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, craft and installation to engage in a dialogue with architecture and site.    …

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Moe Brooker, (BFA '70, MFA '72)

Moe Brooker (BFA '70, MFA '72) was an internationally celebrated abstract painter with strong Philadelphia roots, best known for his joyous interpretation of African American life on canvas. His style evolved over time into abstract line…

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Antawan Byrd, (BA '09)

Art History

Antawan I. Byrd (BA '09) was named associate curator of photography and media at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 and earned his PhD in modern and contemporary art history at Northwestern University in 2022,…

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Barbara Chase-Riboud, (BFA '56)

Sculpture

Barbara Chase-Riboud (BFA '56) is an internationally-acclaimed visual artist and author, known for integrating mediums and materials in uniquely expressive ways. Her abstract bronze, knotted and braided silk and wool fiber sculptures dedicated to…

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Bill Covaleski, (BFA '85)

Design and Illustration

Bill Covaleski (BFA '85) is the co-founder of Victory Brewing Company—an award-winning and critically-acclaimed brewery that distributes across the United States and internationally. Victory beers have won medals at both The Great American Beer…

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Allan Edmunds, (BFA '71, MFA '75)

Printmaking

Allan Edmunds (BFA '71, MFA '75) is an award-winning visual artist, art educator and founder of Brandywine Workshop and Archives—a non-profit visual arts organization that serves as a center for the advancement of fine art printmaking and…

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Anoka Faruqee, (MFA '97)

Painting

Anoka Faruqee (MFA '97) is a painter, curator and Associate Dean at Yale University. Known for colorful moiré paintings inspired by Persian and Indian miniatures, 1960's psychedelia and modernist abstraction, her work features overlapping…

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Doreen Garner, (BFA '10)

Glass

Doreen Garner (BFA '10) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose sculptural and installation work focus on the frequently-suppressed history of the exploitation of black bodies—who were used as trial-and-error subjects in operations and tests by…

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Trenton Hancock, (MFA '00)

Painting

Trenton Doyle Hancock (MFA '00) creates prints, videos, drawings, sculptures, individual performances and collaged felt paintings. His use of color, language and pattern meld into energetic and subversive narratives that employ a personal…

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John Hatfield, (MFA '89)

Painting

John Hatfield (MFA '89) serves on the Tyler School of Art and Architecture's faculty as Professor of Practice and Director of the Arts Management track in the Art History program. He has over 30 years’ experience with art organizations…

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Edgar Heap of Birds, (MFA '79)

Painting

Edgar Heap of Birds (MFA '79) is a visionary multimedia artist, educator, activist and member of the Cheyenne tribe whose works range from drawings and paintings to monumental outdoor sculpture. He is best known for his signature bold, …

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Jessica Hische, (BFA '06)

Design and Illustration

Jessica Hische (BFA '06) is an award-winning illustrator, lettering artist and graphic designer who has created custom work for established brands, classic books, postage stamps and more. She’s been listed as a Forbes 30 Under 30 twice, which…

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Elsa Honig Fine, (MEd '67)

Art Education

Elsa Honig Fine (MEd '67) was an artist, art historian and founder and publisher of Woman’s Art Journal (1980–2016)—a publication that documents women artists who were celebrated during their lifetimes but are now lost to art history;…

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Martha Jackson Jarvis, (BFA '75)

Sculpture and Ceramics

Martha Jackson Jarvis (BFA '75) creates sculptures, public art and installations that engage issues of identity and symbols of belief that confront contemporary life yet are firmly rooted in historical traditions and culture.   “Each…

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Melissa Kim, (MS '10)

City & Regional Planning

Melissa Kim (MS '10) is Director of Community Impact at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation's (LISC)—a community development financial institution and community development intermediary. In this position, Melissa advances racial justice…

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Simmie Knox, (BFA ‘70, MFA ‘72)

Painting

Simmie Knox’s (BFA ‘70, MFA ‘72) prolific career as a portrait artist includes becoming the first African American artist to receive a presidential portrait commission for the official White House portraits of President Bill Clinton and First Lady…

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Joan Marter, (BA '68)

Art History

Joan Marter (BA '68) is an academic, art critic, author and distinguished professor emerita of contemporary painting and sculpture in the department of art history at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Marter has written and…

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Kim Mitchell, (BFA '79)

Photography

Kim Mitchell (BFA '79) is a decorated leader in the art world and partner at Brunswick Arts—a firm that promotes and manages the reputation and interests of arts, cultural and charitable organizations—where she helps lead strategic advisory work for…

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Ree Morton, (MFA '70)

Ree Morton (MFA '70) exhibited during her lifetime at Artists Space, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; as well as Bykert and Droll/Kolbert Galleries. Morton died in a car…

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Adrienne Neszmelyi-Romano, (MEd '06)

Art Education

Adrienne Neszmelyi-Romano (MEd '06) is both a practicing and exhibiting jewelry and metal artist, as well as the director of interpretation and innovation at the James A. Michener Art Museum—known for its collection of Pennsylvania Impressionism…

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Jennifer Packer, (BFA '07)

Ceramics Glass and Painting

Jennifer Packer (BFA '07) creates portraits, interior scenes and still lifes that are, as art historian Jessica Bell Brown describes, “emphatically mundane and radically tender.” Through a limited palette and simple brushstrokes, Packer’s paintings…

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Albert Paley, (MFA '69)

Albert Paley (MFA '69) is considered one of the most masterful and influential metal artists in the world. He is known for his massive public sculptures that have been commissioned around the United States and shown across the world. Early…

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David Rupp, (BArch '82)

Architecture

David Rupp (BArch '82) is an accomplished architect who has developed a distinguished career in project management and construction management of complex high-design buildings over the course of his more than 35-year career.   One of his…

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Paula Scher, (BFA '70)

Design and Illustration

Paula Scher (BFA '70) is commonly referred to as a “titan of postmodern design,” as well as a “hall of famer” and “rock star” of the graphic design industry. Described as a “master conjurer of the instantly familiar,” by TED, Scher’s influential and…

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Holly Shimizu, (AS '74)

Horticulture

Holly Shimizu (AS '74) is a nationally-recognized horticulturist, consultant and educator focused on plant conservation and sustainability, with a robust background in public gardens.  Among her diverse and respected 40-year career, she was…

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Lisa Sigal, (BFA '85)

Painting

Lisa Sigal (BFA '85) is a practicing artist in painting and sculpture, whose work utilizes and expands upon notions of space and the built environment, investigating how art can challenge set ideas about property, containment and freedom. …

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Laurie Simmons, (BFA '71)

Laurie Simmons (BFA '71) is a renowned photographer and filmmaker. Her staged domestic scenes, featuring dolls, miniature objects and costumed people, permeate a dreamlike quality while interrogating, among many subjects, stereotypes of…

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William Smith, AIA (BArch '79)

Architecture

William R. Smith, AIA (BArch '79) is Senior Vice President of Shopoff Realty Investments. With over 30 years of experience, Smith has led the design and construction of high profile, luxury projects throughout the world.  Prior to his work…

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William Villalongo, (MFA '01)

Painting

William Villalongo (MFA '01) is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, installation artist and curator, as well as an associate professor at The Cooper Union School of Art. Working out of the notion of Blackness as a verb, he reframes familiar images,…

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Angela Washko, (BFA '09)

Painting, Drawing, Sculpture

As a politically-engaged feminist media artist working in a variety of forms, Angela Washko is committed to telling complex and unconventional stories about the media we consume from unusual perspectives. Washko's practice spans interventions in…

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Hannah Wilke, (BFA and BSEd '62)

Hannah Wilke (BFA and BSEd '62) was a legendary artist and feminist icon who worked in sculpture, drawing, assemblage, photography, performance and installation. She is considered the first feminist artist to use vaginal imagery in her art—a…

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Lisa Yuskavage, (BFA '84)

Painting

Lisa Yuskavage (BFA '84) is a painter known for her highly original approach to figurative painting that has challenged the genre through its use of bold, eccentric, exhibitionist and introspective characters who are both subject and object…

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Mario Zacharjasz, AIA (BArch '85)

Architecture

Mario Zacharjasz, AIA, (BArch '85) is co-founder and principal of PZS Architects, LLC, located in Philadelphia. Throughout his career, Zacharjasz has been a champion of causes that reflect both his passion for architecture and his drive to make an…

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