List of California College of the Arts people

This is a list of notable people from the California College of the Arts; which was formerly known as School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts (1907–1908), California School of Arts and Crafts (1908–1935), and California College of Arts and Crafts (1936–2002).

Notable alumni

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Academia

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Artists

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Ceramics

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Film

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Painting

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Photography

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Printmaking

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Illustration

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Mixed media

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Musicians

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Sculpture and glass

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Designers

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Writers

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Notable current and past faculty

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Listed noted faculty both past and present, in alphabetical order by department and last name.

Curators and museum studies

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Designers

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  • Yves Béhar, industrial designer, professor, and head of the industrial design department from 2005–2012[77]
  • Brenda Laurel, video game developer, pioneer of VR, professor and chair of graduate design program from 2006–2012[78]
  • Christopher Simmons (attended in the 1990s), Canadian-born graphic designer, design leader, and former graphic design professor
  • Florence Resnikoff, jewelry designer, professor of jewelry and metal arts from 1973–1980
  • Lucille Tenazas, graphic designer[79]
  • Michael Vanderbyl, former faculty from 1973 to 2014, and dean of design department from 1986 to 2002[80][68]
  • Sandra Vivanco, former professor in the architecture division, and critical ethnic studies program

Film

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  • Rob Epstein, film director, producer, writer and editor; co-chair of the film program[81]
  • Kota Ezawa, Japanese-German and American abstracted computer animation artist; associate professor of film and fine arts[82]
  • Jeanne C. Finley, filmmaker, photographer, and video artist; professor of graduate fine arts[83]
  • JoAnn Gillerman, video, new media and performance artist; professor film program[84]
  • Lynn Marie Kirby, professor of graduate and undergraduate fine arts, film and interdisciplinary studies[85]

Painting

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Photography

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Printmaking

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Sculpture and glass

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Social practice

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Textiles

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Writers

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Presidents

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  1. Frederick Meyer (1907–1944)[125][126]
  2. Spencer Macky (1944–1954)[127]
  3. Daniel S. Defenbacher (1954–1957)[128][129]
  4. Joseph A. Danysh (acting; 1957–1959)[129][130][131]
  5. Henry X. Ford (1960–c. 1985)[132][133]
  6. Neil Hoffman (1985–1994)[134][135]
  7. Lorne Michael Buchman (1994–1999)[136][137][138]
  8. Michael S. Roth (2000–2007)[139]
  9. Stephen Beal (2008–2023)[140]
  10. David C. Howse (2023–present)[140]

See also

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References

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