- John Lasseter
John A. Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American animator and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is also currently the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering. Widely considered an innovative genius, many praise him as the "current Walt Disney." - Morton Subotnick
Morton Subotnick (born April 13, 1933 in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his "Silver Apples of the Moon", the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch. Subotnick has also worked extensively with interactive electronics and multi-media, co-founding the San Francisco Tape Music Center with Ramon Sender, and often collaborating with his wife Joan La Barbara. - Wadada Leo Smith
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (18 December 1941 in Leland, Mississippi) is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. He started out playing drums, mellophone and French horn before he settled on the trumpet. He played in various R&B groups and by 1967 became a member of the AACM and co-founded the Creative Construction Company, a trio with Leroy Jenkins and Anthony Braxton. In 1971 Smith formed his own label, Kabell. - David Rosenboom
David Rosenboom (born September 9, 1947 in Fairfield, Iowa) is an American composer and pioneer in the use of neurofeedback. Rosenboom has also worked with cross-cultural collaborations and compositional algorithms. He studied composition, performance, and electronic music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Salvatore Martirano, Lejaren Hiller, Kenneth Gaburo, Gordon Binkerd, Bernard Goodman, Paul Rolland, Jack McKenzie, Soulima Stravinsky, John Garvey, … - Vinny Golia
Vinny Golia (b. The Bronx, New York City, New York, March 1, 1946) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in woodwind instruments. He performs in the genres of contemporary music, jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation. Golia lives in Los Angeles, California and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. He has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Japan. - Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (born Judy Cohen on July 20, 1939) is a feminist artist, author, and educator. Judy Chicago is a feminist artist who has been making work since the middle 1960s. Her earliest forays into art-making coincided with the rise of Minimalism, which she eventually abandoned in favor of art she believed to have greater content and relevancy. Major works include The Dinner Party and The Holocaust Project. - Anne Lebaron
Alice Anne LeBaron is an United States composer and harpist. She holds a B.A. in music from the University of Alabama (1974), an M.A. in music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1978), and a D.M.A. from Columbia University (1989). She studied with György Ligeti as a Fulbright Scholar at the Köln Musikhochschule in 1980-81 and also studied Korean traditional music at the The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts in Seoul (1983). - Mel Powell
Mel Powell (born Melvin Epstein, February 12, 1923 in the Bronx, New York City - April 24, 1998 in Sherman Oaks, California) was a jazz pianist and composer of classical music. Powell was born to Russian Jewish parents and began playing piano as a child, and performed jazz professionally in New York City as a teenager. In 1941-42 he played, composed, and arranged for Benny Goodman. A member of Glenn Miller's Army Air Corps Band in 1943-45, … - John Bergamo
John Bergamo (b. May 28 1940, Englewood, New Jersey) is an American percussionist and composer. Since 1970 he has been the coordinator of the percussion department at the California Institute of the Arts. He studied Carnatic percussion with T. Ranganathan, and composition with Michael Colgrass. He plays both Western drum set and percussion as well as a wide variety of non-Western percussion instruments, including tabla. - Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley (born 1954 in Detroit, lives and works in Los Angeles) is an American artist. His work involves stuffed animals, textile banners and carpets, and his output also includes drawings, objects, assemblage, collage, performance and video. His oeuvre is often discussed by critics as engaging with the concept of Abjection. He staged his most ambitious show to date in November/December 2005, … - Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow studied at New York University (art at the undergraduate level, philosophy at the graduate) and received his MA from Columbia in art history. He also studied at the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts in New York City and later with John Cage . His teaching career has included faculty positions at Rutgers, Pratt Institute, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the California Institute of the Arts (Associate Dean). - Jules Engel
Jules Engel (11 March 1909-6 September 2003) was a Jewish-Hungarian American filmmaker, animator, painter,sculptor, and teacher. He is most remembered as the founding director of the Experimental Animation Program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he taught until his death, serving as mentor to several generations of animators. - Henry Selick
Henry Selick (born November 30, 1952), is an American stop motion animation director who directed both "The Nightmare Before Christmas", and "James and the Giant Peach". He studied at the Character Animation Program at California Institute of the Arts, while at the same time, studying experimental animation techniques from Jules Engel. - Faith Wilding
Faith Wilding is a Paraguayan-American multidisciplinary artist, writer and educator, widely known for her contribution to the progressive development of feminist art. Faith Wilding immigrated to the United States from Paraguay in 1961. She holds a degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Performance/Installation/Feminist Art from California Institute of the Arts. - Barry Schrader
Barry Schrader (b. 1945) is a contemporary composer of electroacoustic music. He is the founder and the first president of SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States,) and his compositions for tape, dance, film, video, mixed media, live/electro-acoustic music combinations, and real-time computer performance have been presented throughout the world. - Joe Labarbera
Joe LaBarbera (born February 22, 1948) is an American jazz drummer and composer. He is best known for his recordings and live performances with the trio of pianist Bill Evans in the final years of Evans's career. Prior to joining Evans he worked in the quartet of Chuck Mangione. He was born in Mt. Morris, New York, younger brother to saxophonist Pat LaBarbera and trumpeter and arranger/composer John La Barbera. - James Benning
James Benning (born in 1942 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American filmmaker. He is the son of German immigrants and studied film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1975). He has worked as an independent filmmaker ever since. His films focus on a sense of place and are often built from long, unedited takes. He used to work in Chicago but in recent years has been based on the West Coast. - Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939) is an American performance artist, known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois. A member of the Fluxus group, her work is primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the individual in relationship to social bodies. Her works have been shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, … - David Salle
David Salle is an American painter and leading contemporary figurative artist. David Salle was born in Norman, Oklahoma. He gained a BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied under John Baldessari. Salle’s work first came to public attention in New York in the early 1980s. His paintings comprised what appeared to be randomly juxtaposed images, or images painted on top of each other with deliberately ham-fisted paint handling. - Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford is an American painter living and working in Los Angeles. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts, located at Valencia, California, USA, earning an MFA in 1997 and a BFA in 1995. He is known for grid-like abstract paintings combining collage with paints. He has won numerous awards for his work. Among them are: Bucksbaum Award (2006), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2003), … - Sam Durant
Sam Durant (1961 -) is a Los Angeles based contemporary artist who works in a variety of media. Durant was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended the Massachusetts College of Art and the California Institute of the Arts. Durant's work often deals with the conflicts between differing classes, cultures and value systems. His work of the 90s was inspired largely by the work of Robert Smithson, an artist well known for his interest in history and entropy. - Carl Stone
Carl Stone (born Carl Joseph Stone, February 10, 1953) is an American composer, primarily working in the field of live electronic music. His works have been performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, and the Near East. Stone studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. - James Mangold
James Mangold (born December 1963) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is the son of artists Robert Mangold and Sylvia Plimack Mangold. He was born in New York City and is perhaps best known for "Walk the Line" which he co-wrote and directed. Working consistently as a feature writer and director since 1995, when his first feature, the independent film "Heavy", won the best directing prize at Sundance. - Harold Budd
Harold Budd (born May 24, 1936) is an American ambient/avant-garde composer. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was raised in the Mojave Desert, and was inspired at an early age by the humming tone caused by wind blown across telephone wires. His career as a composer began in 1962. In the following years he gained a notable reputation in the local avant-garde community. In 1966 he graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in musical composition. - Natalie Bookchin
Natalie Bookchin (born 1962) is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. She is well-known for her in new media, and serving as the co-Director of the Photography and Media Program in the Art School at California Institute of the Arts. She has also previously taught at the University of California, San Diego. Her recent projects include the online work "agoraXchange", created with Jackie Stevens, commissioned by the Tate Online. - Ravi Coltrane
Ravi Coltrane (born August 6 1965) is an American post bop jazz saxophonist. Ravi Coltrane is the son of the legendary tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and jazz pianist Alice Coltrane, and was named after the great sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar. He studied music at the California Institute of the Arts. Ravi has worked extensively with M-Base guru Steve Coleman, a significant influence on Ravi's own musical conception. He has also worked with Elvin Jones. - Thom Andersen
Thom Andersen (born 1943, Chicago) is a filmmaker, film critic, and teacher. He currently teaches film theory and history at the California Institute of the Arts, and has previously taught at the SUNY Buffalo and Ohio State University.In the early 60's, he studied film at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He has also been the programmer for Film Forum in Los Angeles during the late 90's. His more recent work, including "Los Angeles Plays Itself", … - Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Anthony Rzewski (born April 13 1938 in Westfield, Massachusetts) is an American composer and virtuoso pianist. - Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie (born 1961) is an American artist specializing in the photography of transgendered people. Most recently, she has turned to photographing architectural spaces (skyways and urban spaces) as well as landscapes (icehouses and surfers in the ocean). She is currently a professor of Photography at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Her works are displayed in museums in Los Angeles, Chicago, and London. - Michael Asher
Michael Asher is a conceptual artist known since the late 1960s for site-specific installations that offer a critique of art institutions. Rather than designing new art objects, Asher typically alters the existing environment, by repositioning or removing artworks, walls, facades, etc. Born in 1943, Asher is the son of Gallerist Betty Asher and Dr. Leonard Asher. Asher is also reputed as a teacher at the California Institute of the Arts, … - Chris Sanders
Christopher Michael Sanders (born 15 March, 1960) is an American film animator and voice actor best known for co-directing the Disney animated feature "Lilo & Stitch", and providing the voice of Experiment 626 from Lilo & Stitch and Leroy from Disney's "Leroy & Stitch". A 1984 graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, Sanders began his career as a character designer for "Muppet Babies". He also served as a storyboard artist, artistic director, … - Craig McCracken
Craig McCracken (b. May 29, 1971) is an American animator. Craig draws upon diverse sources of inspiration for his work, from The Beatles (of whom Craig is a huge fan) to obscure Japanese films. - Suzan Pitt
Suzan Pitt is an American film animator and painter, whose surreal, psychological animated films and paintings have been acclaimed and exhibited worldwide. She teaches at the Experimental Animation program at California Institute of the Arts. - Meg Cranston
Meg Cranston (b. 1960) is an artist who works in sculpture and painting as well as a writer. She has exhibited internationally since 1988. She received and M.F.A in Studio from California Institute of the Arts in 1986 and a B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology in 1982. She also attended the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands in 1988. She is on the Faculty at Otis College of Art and Design. - Stephen Hillenburg
Stephen Hillenburg (born August 21, 1961, in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA) is an American animator and is best known as the creator of Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants". He was a marine biology teacher at what is now the Orange County Ocean Institute. He worked as a marine biologist from 1984-1987. In 1987 Hillenburg decided to pursue a career in animation, his second lifelong passion. - John Bischoff
John Bischoff (born 1949, San Francisco) is an early pioneer of live computer music. He is known for his solo constructions in real-time synthesis as well as his ground-breaking work in computer network bands. He is a visiting [[assistant professor] and composer at Mills College in Oakland, California, and is associated with its Center for Contemporary Music. He earned an MFA from Mills (1973) and a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (1971). - Marc Davis
Marc Fraser Davis was a prominent artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films. Some of the animated characters Davis mainly designed and animated are Thumper from "Bambi" (1942), Brer Rabbit from "Song of the South" (1946), "Cinderella" (1950), Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" (1951), Tinker Bell in "Peter Pan" (1953), … - Ross Bleckner
Ross Bleckner (born 1949) is an American artist from New York City. He is the youngest artist ever to have a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His series of "stripes" paintings in the 1980s revitalized interest in Op art. He has a B.A. from New York University (1971) and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts (1973). He is also Jewish, gay, and an activist for AIDS organisations. Bleckner graduated from George W. Hewlett High School in 1967. - Christopher Williams
Christopher Williams (born 1956) is an American conceptual artist and photographer. He was born in Los Angeles, California, and studied at the California Institute of the Arts. - Allen Ruppersberg
Born in 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio, Allen Ruppersberg is one of the first generation of American Conceptual artists that changed the way art was thought about and made. His work includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, and books. Ruppersberg graduated with a BFA from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles (now California Institute of the Arts) in 1967. During his early years in Los Angeles, he began significant relationships with John Baldessari, …
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