- Ray Eames
Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (December 15, 1912 - August 21, 1988) (pronounced) was an American artist, designer, architect and filmmaker who, together with her husband Charles, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century. She was born in Sacramento, California. Having lived in a number of cities during her youth, in 1933 she moved to New York, where she studied abstract painting with Hans Hofmann. - Harry Bertoia
Harry Bertoia (b. March 10, 1915 in San Lorenzo, Pordenone, Italy. d. November 6, 1978 in Barto, Pennsylvania, United States, Obituary piece) was an Italian-born artist and modern furniture designer. At the age of 15 he traveled from Italy to Detroit to visit his older brother, however he chose to stay and enrolled in Cass Technical High School, where he studied art and design and learned the art of handmade jewelry making. - Fumihiko Maki
Fumihiko Maki (born Tokyo, September 6, 1928) is a Japanese architect. After studying at the University of Tokyo he moved to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and then to Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1956, he took a post as assistant professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also was awarded his first commission: the design of Steinberg Hall (an art center) on the university's Danforth Campus, … - Duane Hanson
Duane Hanson (January 17, 1925 - January 6, 1996) was an artist based in South Florida, a sculptor known for his life-sized realistic works of people, cast in various materials, including polyester resin, fiberglass, "Bondo" and bronze. He was born in Alexandria, Minnesota. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College in 1946 and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1951. - Toshiko Takaezu
Toshiko Takaezu is an American ceramicist. She was born to Japanese immigrant parents in Pekeekeo, Hawaii in 1922. She studied at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and at the University of Hawaii under Claude Horan from 1948-1951. From 1951-1954 she continued her studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan where she befriended Finnish ceramist Maija Grotell, who became her mentor. - Ed Fella
Ed Fella(born 1938) is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist in Detroit for 30 years before receiving an MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. He has since devoted his time to teaching at the California Institute of the Arts and his own unique self-published work which has appeared in many design publications and anthologies. - Ralph Rapson
Ralph Rapson passed away March 29 of heart failure. He was 93. He served as head of the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture from 1954 to 1984. (It became the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in 1989). Rapson is most widely known as the architect of the original Guthrie Theater, which opened in 1963. - Marc Awodey
Marc Awodey (born November 4 1960) is an American contemporary artist and poet. His poetry collections include "Telegrams from the Psych Ward" (1999), and "New York; a haibun journey" (2002). His paintings are in many public and private collections throughout the United States. Awodey studied painting under George Ortman at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and received an MFA from Cranbrook in 1984. - Harry Weese
Harry Mohr Weese (June 30, 1915 - October 29, 1998) was an American architect, who was born in Evanston, Illinois in the Chicago suburbs who had an important role in 20th century modernism and historic preservation. His brother, Ben Weese, was also a renowned architect. Harry Weese studied under Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1938, … - Richard Devore
Richard DeVore (1933 - died 25 June 2006) was an American sculptor known for his ceramic pots. Devore attained a BE from the University of Toledo in 1955, and went on to attend the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1957. Based in Fort Collins, Colorado he was a member of the Colorado State University art faculty from 1978 to 2004, later becoming an adjunct professor. In 1987 DeVore was installed as a fellow of the American Craft Council. - Edmund Bacon
Edmund Norwood Bacon was a noted American architect, urban planner, educator, and author. As the Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970, his visions shaped today's Philadelphia, the city in which he was born. Bacon was educated in architecture at Cornell University, and subsequently studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art with renowned Finnish architect/planner Eliel Saarinen, … - Michael Smith
Michael Smith is an American artist born in Chicago, in 1951. He has been an influential figure in performance art, video art, and installation art since the early 1980s. He is best known for his performance persona named Mike, the central figure in an ongoing series of narrative projects. Mike, an innocent character who continually falls victim to trends and fashions and his own naive ambitions, … - Gyo Obata
Gyo Obata (born 1923) is a significant American architect. Obata was born and raised in San Francisco. Due to his family's Japanese heritage, he and his other family members were nearly interned with other Japanese-Americans during World War II. Obata earned his bachelor of architecture degree at Washington University in St. Louis, then studied under the great Eero Saarinen at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. - Lloyd Cross
Lloyd Cross is an American physicist and holographer. As a physicist, Cross' research started in the 1950s, and focused primarily on masers and lasers at Willow Run Laboratories, at the University of Michigan. In 1968, he and Canadian sculptor Gerry Pethick, developed a simplistic stabilization system for holographic cameras, that for the first time did not require expensive optics and an isolation table, effectively making the medium accessible to artists. - Mary Walker Phillips
Mary Walker Phillips is an American artist, author and teacher. She earned an MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and in 1963 moved to New York City. Jack Lenor Larsen (a textile designer) wrote in the forward to Phillips' book, "Step by Step Knitting", “she is the great knitter of our time. She has taken knitting out of the socks-and-sweater doldrums to prove that knit fabric can be a blanket, a pillow, … - Olga de Amaral
Olga de Amaral is a Colombian textile artist. Her works, which are internationally known, often take the form of large tapestries covered with gold or silver leaf. She is one of the textile artists who, in the 1960s, first turned textile arts from a primarily two-dimensional representational art form into a three-dimensional, abstract art form. Her work has been shown around the world. - John Kearney
John Kearney (1924-) is a Chicago- and Provincetown-based American artist famous for making figurative sculptures, often of animals, using multiple, found metal objects, specifically bumpers from automobiles. Kearney received his artistic education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy. In 1950, he co-founded the Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago. - Marc Harrison
Marc Harrison is an industrial designer and pioneer of Universal Design. As the result of a severe brain injury when he was 11 years old, Harrison had to relearn basic functions such as walking and talking and thus gained inspiration for this career in industrial design. Harrison earned his BFA in industrial design at Pratt Institute in 1958, and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1959. After a brief stint of freelance designing in New York City, … - Joann Giordano
JoAnn Giordano is an American textile artist and curator who has exhibited since 1977. An international artist, her work has shown in Mexico and Japan. She has exhibited at prestigious American venues, including the Cleveland Museum of Art. A popular art educator, Giordano has taught classes since 1979, including classes sponsored by the Cleveland Museum of Art, LaGuardia Community College, Young Audiences of Greater Cleveland, and Kent State University. - Michael A. Padgett
Michael A. Padgett , M.F.A., Chair of the Art Department at UWRF since 1989 and professor in the department since 1978, has served as Senior Manager, responsible for the direction of all administrative, operational and financial aspects of the UW-System's Pigeon Lake Field Station since January 1998. Mr. Padgett earned his B.S. in Education at Eastern Michigan University in 1967 and his M.F.A. in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1970. - Brian Kritzman
- Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libsekind's architectural designs are endless juxtapositions. They honor the historical yet are unapologetically modern. Some view his work, such as the spiral addition to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as controversial - while others view it as a brilliant representation of modern-day architecture in all its glory. His work harmoniously combines materials, shapes, and structure in a way most thought impossible, improbable, and many would even say, questionable. - Harry Bertoia
Harry Bertoia (b. March 10, 1915 in San Lorenzo, Pordenone, Italy. d. November 6, 1978 in Barto, Pennsylvania, United States) was an Italian-born artist and modern furniture designer. - Christopher Ozubko
- Claire Brassil
- Ryan Buyssens
- Annabelle Gould
- Guido Zuliani
- Allegra Pitera
Allegra Pitera , Director Allegra Pitera joined the University of Detroit Mercy in 2001. She has a Master of Fine Art from the Cranbrook Academy of Art as well as a professional degree in Architecture from the California College of Arts. - Sean Rhodes
Over my head. It was cold at first but with friction came heat and light. I'm just sitting here. I wish I was in over my head. Wait, now I'm moving again. Did I ever stop? Is it all in my head? I'm just moving in relation to things, that are moving in relation to other things, that are moving... What's the point? Where is this going? What's the story? The story is, there is no story. - Kosta Stratigos
Learning how to play the venerable C chord. finding it to get along pretty well with G. wondering where the tiny cuts on my index finger come from when playing barred chords on the cheapie Korean Les Paul knockoff with the cool switches.... Tangentially speaking, I am also in the market for a new winter coat. - Bethany Shorb
Record Release party - Perspects' Peopleskills Remix EP: featuring The Hacker, Franz & Shape, Kill memory Crash and Goudron. - Veleta Vancza
I am kinda stressed out but feeling pretty good since I started the Zoloft & laid off the pot. - Kai
I am a sculptor and metalsmith. My website is kaiwerx.com. I recently have completed my masters in metals at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Check out my pictures of current work, and please give any comments. Most of my work is made in copper and steel though I also use other metals as well as wood and stone. My work is created with hammers, stakes, and sand bags; constructed with TIG welding. - Tao
Chaotic Good, http://www.taourban.com. - Joshua
- Heather Erickson
Homepage Personal: homepage.mac.com/heathermaerickson/ Professonal: homepage.mac.com/heathermaerickson/ceramicdesign. - Kosta Stratigos
gatherer and sharer of tales, short and tall, big, small and otherwise // better driver than passenger // easily distracted by the big hole 45's // i just went to HAIR WARS // my shoes sit on shelves made of 1X12 pine and empty soup cans // there are broken organ levers in the ashtray in my car. - Shawn
Looking for those moments that don't come by enough. Like to build things. Looks like I'm into extreme ends of the spectrum; been stationed on a nuclear submarine and love being in the middle of 10,000 acres of open space. - Chad
I'm not so much a music or art snob as I am an only child with very particular tastes and distastes... I'm trying to figure out what to do with a masters degree in Fine Art while paying the bills as a general contractor (carpentry, painting, rehabbing homes...) with my dad on the North Side of Chicago and Evanston. I am a technology/computer geek.
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