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. Founded in 1936 as the School of Industrial Art, it moved to its present location in the center of the city's design district in September 1960, and offers a traditional academic education, augmented with advanced courses in the professional arts. Ninety percent of its graduates continue on in post-secondary education.
Students at Art and Design receive two periods of art instruction per day, choosing from among four art majors: cartooning and animation, architecture, illustration (which includes fashion illustration and medical illustration), and new media (which includes digital photography and filmmaking). Applicants must take an entrance exam and present a portfolio to be accepted.
Art and Design's Kenny Gallery, named for the school's founding principal John B. Kenny, hosts monthly art exhibits of student work, in addition to the annual display of Region 9's best student work and the annual faculty art show and sale. The ground floor art gallery faces Second Avenue and is open to the public. The school has a weight room, a library and a{ black box theater where the Roundabout Theater Company works with students on drama. The theater was donated by the Friends of Art and Design (FAD).
Notable alumni
This is a list selected by the school's Alumni Association.- 1937 Paul WinchellPaul WinchellPaul Winchell was an American ventriloquist, voice actor and comedian, whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s...
, ventriloquist, inventor, actor - 1940 Violet BarclayViolet BarclayViolet Barclay , who also worked under the name Valerie Barclay and the married name Valerie Smith, was an American illustrator best known as one of the pioneering female comic-book artists, having started in the field during the 1930s and '40s period historians and fans call the Golden Age of...
, one of the pioneering female comic-book artists - 1940 Chic StoneChic StoneCharles Eber "Chic" Stone was an American comic book artist best known as one of Jack Kirby's Silver Age inkers, including on a landmark run of Fantastic Four.-Biography:...
, comic book illustrator - 1943 Norman Blumenthal, TV game show producer
- 1943 Carmine InfantinoCarmine InfantinoCarmine Infantino Carmine Infantino Carmine Infantino (born May 24, 1925, in Brooklyn, New York is an American comic book artist and editor who was a major force in the Silver Age of Comic Books...
, comic book artist and editor, member Comic Book Hall of Fame - 1943 Helmut KroneHelmut KroneHelmut Krone was an art director and is considered to be a pioneer of modern advertising. Krone spent over 30 years at the advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach...
, legendary art director - 1943 Henry WolfHenry WolfHenry Wolf was an Austrian-born American graphic designer, photographer and art director best known for his art direction of Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, and Show magazines in the 1950s and '60s.- Life and work :...
, graphic designer, art director and photographer - 1944 Joe OrlandoJoe OrlandoJoseph Orlando was a prolific illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist during a lengthy career spanning six decades...
, comic book illustrator, Mad magazineMad (magazine)Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. Launched as a comic book before it became a magazine, it was widely imitated and influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century.The last...
Associate Publisher - 1945 Tony BennettTony BennettTony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....
, singer and painter - 1945 Joe GiellaJoe GiellaJoe Giella is an American comic book artist best known as a DC Comics inker during the late 1950s and 1960s period historians and fans call the Silver Age of comic books.-Early life and career:...
, comic book illustrator - 1946 Sy BarrySy BarrySeymour "Sy" Barry is an American comic strip artist, best known for his work on The Phantom comic strip, which he drew for three decades.-Career:...
, comic book illustrator - 1946 Vladimir KaganVladimir KaganVladimir Kagan, , furniture designer. Emigrated to the United States in 1938. Graduated from the School of Industrial Art in 1946, where he was an architecture major. Studied architecture at Columbia University. Opened his first shop in New York in 1949...
, furniture designer - 1946 Al Scaduto, syndicated cartoonist
- 1947 Alex TothAlex TothAlexander Toth was an American professional cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but is known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His work included Super Friends, Space Ghost, The...
, comic book illustrator, animator for Hanna-Barbera - 1947 John Romita, Sr.John Romita, Sr.John V. Romita, Sr. is an Italian-American comic-book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man...
, comic book illustrator - 1950 Dick GiordanoDick GiordanoRichard Joseph "Dick" Giordano was an American comic book artist and editor best known for introducing Charlton Comics' "Action Heroes" stable of superheroes, and serving as executive editor of then–industry leader DC Comics...
, comic book illustrator - 1951 Leo DillonLeo and Diane DillonLeo and Diane Dillon are an American husband and wife team of illustrators. Among their awards are two consecutive Caldecott Medals for the children's books Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People's Ears and Ashanti To Zulu: African Traditions....
, adult and children's book illustrator - 1951 Bill KresseBill KresseBill Kresse is an American cartoonist who started his career with Terrytoons.He received the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 1974....
, syndicated cartoonist - 1951 Murray Tinkelman, illustrator and educator
- 1952 Eva HesseEva HesseEva Hesse , was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. -Early life:Hesse was born into a family of observant Jews in Hamburg, Germany...
, minimalist painter and sculptor - 195? Regina Porter, fashion designer
- 195? Sam Scali, advertising agency owner, ADC Hall of Fame
- 1953 Bill Haire, fashion designer
- 1953 Hazel Haire, fashion designer
- 1953 Leon Hecht, textile designer
- 1953 Dick Roman, pop singer
- 1954 Roy Grace, legendary art director
- 1955 John AnthonyJohn AnthonyJohn "Jack" Anthony is a professional Australian rules football player who plays for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League . Anthony used to play for the Collingwood Football Club, but left the club at the end of the 2010 season.- Early life :Anthony originally played as a...
(John Anthony Iorio), fashion designer - 1955 I.C. Rapoport photojournalist
- 1956 Ralph BakshiRalph BakshiRalph Bakshi is an Israeli-American director of animated and live-action films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 1992, he directed nine theatrically released feature films, five of which he wrote...
, animator, filmmaker - 1956 John JohnsonJohn Johnson (reporter)John Johnson is an American television news reporter. He had been a fixture in New York City television news for many years.In 1972, he began a long run at WABC. In the late 1980s, he served as a rotating anchor of the 6 p.m. newscast in the aftermath of Roger Grimsby's firing with Kaity Tong and...
, TV news anchor, author and painter - 1956 Sheila Metzner, art photographer
- 1956 Barbara NessimBarbara NessimBarbara Nessim is an American artist, illustrator, and teacher. She studied at the Pratt Institute from 1956 to 1960 and has been teaching computer art since 1980...
, illustrator and educator - 1957 Bobby WeinsteinBobby WeinsteinBobby Weinstein is an American songwriter, singer, and music industry executive, whose hit songs, mostly co-written with Teddy Randazzo, include "Goin' Out Of My Head", "It's Gonna Take A Miracle", and "I'm On The Outside "....
, songwriter, member Songwriters Hall of Fame - 1959 Neal AdamsNeal AdamsNeal Adams is an American comic book and commercial artist known for helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow; as the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates; and as a creators-rights advocate who...
, comic book illustrator - 1959 Norman Diekman, furniture designer
- 1960 Calvin Klein, fashion designer
- 1960 George KucharGeorge KucharGeorge Kuchar was an American underground film director, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic.-Early life and career:...
, cult filmmaker and director - 1960 Antonio LopezAntonio Lopez (illustrator)Antonio Lopez was a fashion illustrator whose work appeared in such publications as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Interview and The New York Times. Several books collecting his illustrations have been published...
, fashion illustrator - 1960 Gerard MalangaGerard MalangaGerard Joseph Malanga is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, curator and archivist.-Early life:Born in the Bronx, New York, Malanga graduated from the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan and attended Wagner College on Staten Island...
, poet, photographer and filmmaker - 1960 Robert VolpeRobert VolpeRobert Volpe , was a painter and New York City police officer and detective, specializing in art theft....
, painter and NYPD detective, the "Art Cop" - 1962 Simon GaonSimon gaonSimon Gaon is an American painter, Expressionist, and action painter. He is best known for his intense, tempestuous, action oriented paintings of the cityscape...
, painter - 1963 Ron Coro, award winning record album cover designer
- 1963 Ronnie LandfieldRonnie LandfieldRonnie Landfield is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction, , and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery.Landfield is...
, abstract painter - 1963 Joey SkaggsJoey SkaggsJoey Skaggs is an American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. He is considered one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. Skaggs used Kim Yung Soo, Joe Bones, Joseph Bonuso, Giuseppe Scaggioli, Dr. Joseph Gregor,...
, media prankster, performance artist - 1963 Michael SteinerMichael SteinerMichael Steiner , a national of Germany, was head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo . He studied law in Paris and Munich from 1971 to 1977 and qualified as a judge in 1981. Later that year, he entered the German Foreign Office...
, abstract artist and sculptor - 1964 Peter HellerPeter HellerPeter S. Heller is a recognized expert on fiscal policy and public finance. The former Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund , he has advised both industrial and developing countries on broad macroeconomic policy strategies and technical policy reforms...
, Emmy award winning TV news producer, author - 1965 Jackie CurtisJackie CurtisJohn Curtis Holder, Jr. , better known as Jackie Curtis, was an actor, writer, singer and Warhol Superstar.-Early life and career:...
, Warhol film star, poet, playwright - 1965 Art SpiegelmanArt SpiegelmanArt Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...
, Pulitzer Prize winning author and cartoonist - 1967 Bert MonroyBert MonroyBert Monroy is an American artist best known for his skill in using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.Monroy is considered by most PixelPerfect viewers to be one of the pioneers of digital art. Much of his work is photorealistic...
, digital art pioneer, author of books on Photoshop, Illustrator - 1967 Eric CarrEric CarrPaul Charles Caravello , also known as Eric Carr, was an American musician, best known as drummer for the rock band Kiss. Caravello was selected as the new Kiss drummer after Peter Criss left in 1980...
(Paul Charles Caravello), drummer in the rock band KissKISS (band)Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,... - 1967 Frank BrunnerFrank BrunnerFrank Brunner is an American comic book artist and illustrator best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s.-Comics:...
, comic book illustrator - 1967 Larry HamaLarry HamaLarry Hama is an American comic book writer, artist, actor and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s....
, writer and comic book illustrator - 1967 Lenny WhiteLenny WhiteLeonard White III, better known as Lenny White is an American jazz fusion drummer, who is best known for playing in Chick Corea's Return to Forever.-Biography:...
, jazz-funk drummer, member of Return to ForeverReturn to ForeverReturn to Forever is a jazz fusion group founded and led by keyboardist Chick Corea. Through its existence, the band has cycled through a number of different members, with the only consistent band mate of Corea's being bassist Stanley Clarke... - 1967 Ralph ReeseRalph ReeseRalph Reese is an American artist who has illustrated for books, magazines, trading cards, comic books and comic strips, including a year drawing the Flash Gordon strip for King Features...
, comic book illustrator - 1967 Terry WintersTerry WintersTerry Winters is an American painter whose work reintroduced figuration into painting in way that was consonant with the Modernist legacy...
, abstract painter and printmaker - 1968 Donna Jordan, fashion model and actress
- 1968 Candida RoyalleCandida RoyalleCandida Royalle is an American producer and director of couples-oriented pornography and a former pornographic actress. She is member of the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame....
, producer and director of couples-oriented erotic films - 1968 John SteptoeJohn SteptoeJohn Steptoe is an award winning author and illustrator for children’s books dealing with aspects of the African American experience....
, author and illustrator of children's books - 1969 Pat Cleveland, fashion model
- 1969 Harvey FiersteinHarvey FiersteinHarvey Forbes Fierstein is a U.S. actor and playwright, noted for the early distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and originating the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family, as well as writing the...
, actor, playwright, gay activist - 1969 Oz Garcia, nutritional counselor, life extension specialist, author
- 1970 Amy HeckerlingAmy HeckerlingAmy Heckerling is an American film director, one of the few female directors to have produced multiple box-office hits.-Early life:...
, film director, writer, actress - 1971 Lawrence Hilton-JacobsLawrence Hilton-JacobsLawrence Hilton-Jacobs is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in a number of films and television programs, including Claudine , Cooley High , Roots , Welcome Back, Kotter , Bangers and Mash , and The Jacksons: An American Dream .Lawrence's name, at least as shown in the credits of Welcome...
, actor and singer - 1971 Alan KupperbergAlan KupperbergAlan Kupperberg is an American comic artist known for working in both comic books and newspaper strips.-Career:Kupperberg began writing and drawing for Marvel Comics in 1974, mostly doing fill-ins and one-shots...
, cartoonist and illustrator - 1971 Steven MeiselSteven MeiselSteven Meisel is an American photographer, who obtained popular acclaim with his work in US and Italian Vogue and his photographs of friend Madonna in her 1992 book Sex...
, fashion photographer - 1973 Lisa Jane PerskyLisa Jane PerskyLisa Jane Persky is an American actress.Persky was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Jane Holley and Mort Persky...
, actress. - 1973 Tom SitoTom SitoTom Sito is a well-known American animator, animation historian and teacher. He has been called a "key figure in the Disney Renaissance", and one of the One Hundred Most Important People in Animation.-Education:...
, animator, filmmaker, educator - 1975 Bill Bilowit, feature film art director, documentary filmmaker
- 1976 Marcelino SanchezMarcelino SánchezMarcelino Sánchez was a Puerto Rican-American film and television actor. He is primarily remembered for playing Rembrandt in the cult classic film The Warriors, and as Ricardo on The Bloodhound Gang mystery vignettes featured on the 1980s children's educational television show 3-2-1 Contact...
, film and television actor - 1976 Mike Carlin, comic book writer and editor
- 1977 Joe JuskoJoe JuskoJoe Jusko is an American artist known for his realistic, highly detailed painted fantasy, pin-up, and cover illustrations, mainly in the comic book industry...
, comic book illustrator - 1977 Gladys PortuguesGladys PortuguesGladys Portugues is an American actress and former professional female bodybuilder. She attended the High School of Art and Design in New York City and is the wife of Belgian-American actor Jean-Claude Van Damme....
, champion body builder - 1978 Lorna SimpsonLorna SimpsonLorna Simpson is an African American artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal. Her work often portrays black women combined with text to express contemporary society's relationship with race, ethnicity and sex...
, artist and photographer - 1979 Denys CowanDenys CowanDenys B. Cowan is an American comic book artist and television producer. He gained prominence as the primary artist on The Question, an acclaimed comic book series published by DC Comics for 36 issues from 1987 on, written by Dennis O'Neil.-Career:Denys Cowan is a 1979 graduate of the High School...
, comic book illustrator - 1979 Jimmy PalmiottiJimmy PalmiottiJames "Jimmy" Palmiotti is an American writer and inker of comic books, who also does writing for games, television and film.-Early life:Palmiotti is a graduate of the High School of Art and Design in New York City.-Career:...
, inker and writer of comic books, games and film - 1979 Mark TexeiraMark TexeiraMark Texeira is an American comic book artist. Classically trained as a painter, Texeira broke into the comics field in the early 1980s.-Career:Mark Texeira was born and raised in New York City...
, comic book illustrator - 1980 Chris 'Daze' Ellis, graffiti writer and artist
- 1980 Steve CarrSteve CarrSteve Carr is an American film director and producer of several movies, mostly of the comedy and family genre.-Biography:Carr will direct the film adaption of the Rumpus Entertainment comic Meet the Haunteds.-As a director:* Next Friday...
, film director - 1981 Marc JacobsMarc JacobsMarc Jacobs is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, with more than 200 retail stores in 60 countries. He has been the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton since 1997...
, fashion designer - 1981 Cheryl Green, art director for television, publishing and beauty, Board of Governors-Nat'l. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NY Emmys)
- 1984 Christopher "Play" Martin, rapper and actor
- 1984 Lady PinkLady PinkLady Pink is a graffiti artist. She was raised in Queens, New York, and started her graffiti writing career in 1979 following the loss of a boyfriend who had been sent to live in Puerto Rico after he had been arrested. She exorcised her grief by tagging her boyfriend's name across the city...
(Sandra Fabara), graffiti writer, artist and muralist. - 1985 Roger SanchezRoger SanchezRoger Sanchez, also known as Roger S. and The S Man, is a Grammy award-winning American House music DJ who has scored many hits in the European and World Charts...
, Grammy Award winning DJ, producer, recording artist - 1986 Pharoahe MonchPharoahe MonchPharoahe Monch is an American hip hop artist. He is known for his complex lyrics, complex delivery, and internal and multisyllabic rhyme schemes.-Biography:...
(Troy Donald Jamerson), hip hop artist - 1987 Ivan de PrumeIvan de PrumeIvan de Prume is a heavy metal drummer whose music became famous in the groove metal band White Zombie.Born in Brooklyn, New York City, de Prume comes from a rich history of artists. Ivan's sister, Cathryn is a successful actress and they have collaborated on two short films together. But it is...
, former drummer in the groove metal band White ZombieWhite ZombieWhite Zombie was a Grammy Award-nominated American heavy metal band. Based in New York City, White Zombie was originally a noise rock band. White Zombie are better-known for their later heavy metal-oriented sound... - 1987 Malcolm Jones IIIMalcolm Jones IIIMalcolm Jones, III was an American comic book artist best known as an inker on The Sandman, where he added his illustrative line and textures to the work of pencillers such as Mike Dringenberg, Kelley Jones, and Colleen Doran...
, comic book illustrator - 1990 Jamal IgleJamal IgleJamal Yaseem Igle is an American comic book artist, editor, art director and animation storyboard artist.-Career:...
, comic book and animation storyboard artist - 1992 Joe Madureira, comic book illustrator
- 1992 Mobb DeepMobb DeepMobb Deep is an American hip hop duo from Queensbridge, Queens, New York, U.S., that consists of Havoc and Prodigy. The duo is "one of the most critically acclaimed hardcore East Coast hip-hop groups." The group is best known for its dark, hardcore delivery, as exemplified by the single "Shook Ones...
, hip-hop duo
Faculty includes
- Daisy Aldan, poet, editor of Folder Magazine and Two Cities (with Anaïs NinAnaïs NinAnaïs Nin was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories...
), recognized as one of America's best poets - Irv DocktorIrv DocktorIrving Sidmond Docktor was a prolific artist and educator best known for his work as a book and magazine illustrator in the 1950s and 1960s. His psychologically arresting and aesthetically distinctive style, featuring angular often overlapping faces executed with a moody palette, made him one of...
, a fine artist and book illustrator - Frank Eliscu, designer and sculptor of the Heisman Memorial Trophy and other works of art
- Max Ginsburg, noted oil painter, in the realistic, social observation tradition
- Irwin Greenberg, noted watercolorist
- Alvin HollingsworthAlvin HollingsworthAlvin Hollingsworth , whose pseudonyms included Alvin Holly, was an African-American painter and one of the first Black artists in comic books.-Early life and comics:...
, comic book illustrator and fine artist - Bernard KrigsteinBernard KrigsteinBernard Krigstein , was an American illustrator and gallery artist who received acclaim for his innovative and influential approach to comic book art, notably in EC Comics. He was known as Bernie Krigstein, and his artwork usually displayed the signature B...
, painter, illustrator, cartoonist - Thomas F. Naegele, illustrator, commercial artist, philatelic designer, author
- Tom WesselmannTom WesselmannTom Wesselmann was an American artist associated with the Pop art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.-Early years:...
, pop artPop artPop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
ist, famous for his "Great American Nude" series
External links
- High School of Art and Design
- NYC Department of Education: Art and Design High School
- High School of Art and Design Alumni Association
- Friends of Art and Design High School
- Art and Design, Class of 1973
- Art and Design Class of 1985 The Schools Silver Anniversary
- High School of Art & Design Class of 1989 Reunion Site