Harvey Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is a Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, playwright, and screenwriter.

Robert Wilson (born 4 October 1941) is an internationally acclaimed American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America]'s - or even the world's - foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer. He is best known for his collaborations with Philip Glass on "Einstein on the Beach", …

Joshua Davis (born June 13, 1971) is an American web designer, author and artist in new media. He was an early pioneer in the use of Macromedia Flash. He is the author of "Flash to the Core" (2002) and was featured in the seminal book "New Masters of Flash" (2000).

Roger Cook (born Rajie Cook, 1930) is an internationally known American graphic designer, photographer and artist. He was president of Cook and Shanosky Associates, a graphic design firm he founded in 1967. The firm produced all forms of corporate communications including: Corporate Identity, Advertising, Signage, Annual Reports and Brochures. His graphic design and photography have been used by IBM, Container Corporation of America, Montgomery Ward, Bristol Myers Squibb, …

Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera was an American animator, cartoon artist, storyboard artist, director, producer, and co-founder, together with William Hanna, of Hanna-Barbera. The studio produced popular cartoons such as "Tom and Jerry", "The Huckleberry Hound Show", "The Flintstones", "The Jetsons", and "Scooby-Doo", as well as the musical film Charlotte's Web.

Peter Zumthor is a Swiss architect. The son of a cabinet-maker, Zumthor learned carpentry at an early age. He studied at Pratt Institute in New York in the 1960’s. During lean years, Zumthor worked on many historic restoration projects, which gave him a further understanding of construction and the qualities of different rustic building materials.

Daniel Gillespie Clowes (born April 14, 1961 in Chicago) is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books, including "Eightball" and "Lloyd Llewellyn". He is also known for the movies "Ghost World" and "Art School Confidential", which he adapted from "Eightball".

Bernard Chang (born May 26, 1972 in Montreal, Canada) is an Asian-American artist/designer best known for his work in the comic book industry and entertainment design. He started drawing comics professionally in 1992 while attending Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York on a full scholarship for architecture. Within his first year, he was voted onto the Wizard Magazine Top Ten Artists list for his work on The Second Life of Dr. Mirage for Valiant Comics, …

Max Weber was an American painter who worked in the style of cubism before migrating to Jewish themes towards the end of his life. Born in Białystok, part of Poland belonging to Russia at that time, he immigrated to America with his parents at the age of 10. He studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn under Arthur Wesley Dow.

The artist and sculptor David Ascalon was born in Tel Aviv, Israel on March 8, 1945. He received his early artistic training as an apprentice of his father, the Hungarian-born sculptor and industrialist, Maurice Ascalon (1913-2003). David came to the United States as a teenager when his father took the family across the Atlantic as a means to broaden their horizons.

Kent Williams is an American painter, illustrator and graphic novel artist. From 1980 he studied in New York City at the Pratt Institute. Among his works, the miniseries "Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown" for Epic Comics (1989) and "Blood: A Tale", written by J. M. DeMatteis. His work has been published in numerous national and international publications including "Playboy", "Omni", and "The Learning Channel" magazine.

John Conant Flansburgh (born May 6, 1960) is an actor and musician from Brooklyn, New York (though born and raised in Lincoln, Massachusetts). He is half of the longstanding alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants, for which he writes, sings and plays rhythm guitar. He is also left-handed. Commonly referred to by the nickname "Flans" (and by "Flansy" on the song "Mr. Xcitement" from the album "Mink Car"), he is married to writer/singer/puppeteer Robin Goldwasser, …

Martin Nodell was a cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. Some of his work appeared under the pen name "Mart Dellon."

William van Alen was an American architect, best known as the architect in charge of designing New York City's Chrysler Building.

Richard T. Foster was a modernist architect who worked in the New York area, and also around Greenwich, Connecticut, often in partnership with Philip Johnson, including the Glass House located in New Canaan, Connecticut. He was educated at the Pratt Institute. He founded the company Richard Foster Associates.

Arnold Lobel (born May 22, 1933, died December 4, 1987) was a popular author of children's books. Among his most popular books are those in the Frog and Toad series, and "Mouse Soup", which won the Garden State Children's Book Award from the New Jersey Library Association. Lobel won the 1981 Caldecott Medal for his book "Fables". Lobel also illustrated the works of other authors. A notable example is "Sam the Minuteman" by Nathaniel Benchley, …

Beverly Pepper is a modern sculptor, and abstract painter. She was born Beverly Stoll on December 20, 1922, in New York City, New York, USA, and educated at the Pratt Institute (from 1940) and the Art Students League of New York. Beverly Pepper started her career as a commercial artist in New York before shifting to painting and sculpture. She later studied in Paris (from 1949) with Fernand Leger and Andre Lhote, and from 1951 lived in or near Rome.

Eric Goldberg (born in 1955) is an American animator and film director. He is best known for his work at Walt Disney Feature Animation, animating notable characters such as the Genie in "Aladdin" and "Phil" in "Hercules". Goldberg is also the co-director of Disney's 1995 feature "Pocahontas". He attended Pratt Institute, where he majored in illustration.

Robert James Sabuda (b. 1965) is a leading children's pop-up book artist and paper engineer. His recent books, including those depicting the stories of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland have received wide popular and critical acclaim.

William Devereux Byron, II (May 15, 1895 - February 27, 1941) a democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 6<sup>th&lt;/sup> congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1939 to February 27, 1941. After his death in an airplane crash in Georgia on February 27, 1941 his widow, Katharine Byron, a granddaughter of U.S. Senator Louis E. McComas, was elected in a special election to complete his term of office.

Marcus McLaurin (born Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American comic-book writer and editor best known for developing the landmark Marvel Comics limited series "Marvels" by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross. McLaurin studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, before joining Marvel as an assistant editor. He rose to become a full editor working on the Epic Comics imprint and on other Marvel projects. These included Epic's various Alien Legion limited series, …

Norman Norell (born Norman David Levinson April 20, 1900 in Noblesville, Indiana - died in New York, October 25, 1972) was an American fashion designer, known for his elegant suits and tailored silhouettes. The son of a haberdasher, from early childhood Norell had an ambition to become an artist. After spending a short period at military school during World War I, he studied fashion design at the Pratt Institute.

Bill Griffith (born William Henry Jackson Griffith in Brooklyn, NY 1944) is a popular cartoonist in the United States. He is best known for his comic strip "Zippy the Pinhead". Griffith grew up in Levittown, Long Island, where one of his neighbors was science fiction illustrator Ed Emshwiller, whom he credits with pointing him towards the world of art.. Griffith began his comics career in New York City in 1969.

Roberto Parada (1969 -) is a freelance illustrator who has been creating paintings for major American magazines for the past 15 years. Some of the publications include TIME, Rolling Stone, Reader's Digest, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated and Esquire. Roberto graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY where he studied fine arts and illustration. Upon graduating in 1991, Roberto started working in the editorial illustration market.

Morton Meskin (born May 1916, Brooklyn, New York City; died May 1995) was a prolific American comic book artist best-known for his work in the 1940s Golden Age of comic books, well into the late-1950s and 1960s Silver Age.

David Mauro (b. May 27, 1981) is an American painter whose large scale pixelated allegories utilize the Renaissance technique of egg tempera on wood panel. Mauro's images are pregnant with themes of classical antiquity, translated into a contemporary context by supplanting gods and heroes with representations of popular video game characters, such as Kid Icarus and Mega Man. Unlike the dystopian narratives frequently proffered by science fiction writers and artists, …

Jeremy Scott is a Missouri-born fashion designer. He attended the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Jeremy is best known for his outrageous and sometimes comical designs. After showing in Paris for several years in order to establish his name, he returned to the United States. His unique creations have been worn by celebrities including Kanye West, Lindsay Lohan, Björk, Cameron Diaz, Christina Aguilera, Kylie Minogue, and Madonna.

John Peterson (1924 - 2002) was an American author of children's books during the 20th century. He is best remembered as the creator of "The Littles", which began as a series of books in 1967, later adapted into a long-running animated cartoon series by DiC Entertainment. Peterson was also the author of "The Secret Hide-Out", a popular Scholastic Books title in the 1960s and 1970s. John Lawrence Peterson was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania on February 10, 1924, …

Amy Ryan is the Project Coordinator for the Research Database component of Child Care and Early Education Research Connections, a joint project of National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) of Columbia University, the Child Care Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Malcolm Jones III was an American comics 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. He was also known for inking Denys Cowan's pencils on "The Question". He took his own life in 1996.

Gwendolyn B. Bennett (July 8, 1902-May 30, 1981) was an African American writer who contributed greatly to the Harlem Renaissance. She is chiefly remembered for her column "The Ebony Flute" in the periodical "Opportunity", which chronicled cultural advancements in Harlem. Though often overlooked, she herself made considerable accomplishments in poetry and prose. She is perhaps best known for her short story, "Wedding Day", …

Louis Delsarte (born September 1st, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American artist who is known for what has sometimes been called his "illusionistic" style. When Delsarte was growing up he was surrounded by music, including jazz, opera, musicals, and the blues. From this experience, as well as from his knowledge of African history and culture, he has drawn much of the inspiration for his art.