Expand the sections below to see selections of BFA and MFA alumni from each of the School of Arts’ four programs.

  • K. Bradford Art–(Creative Writing MFA 14), poet, performer
  • Nick Rodrigues (MFA 12), mixed, installation and performance artist
  • Paul Rosero (MFA 15), interdisciplinary installation artist, sound artist, DJ
  • Liz Toonkel (Art–Theater MFA 12), film and theater production designer
  • Sean Adams (BFA 86), creative director — AIGA Fellow
  • Bijan Berahimi BFA 13, Facebook Designer in Residence
  • Anne Burdick (MFA 92, BFA 91), book designer, chair of Graduate Media Design Program, Art Center College of Design
  • Denise Gonzales Crisp (MFA 96), graphic designer, writer, professor of graphic design at North Carolina State University College of Design
  • Kim Dulaney (BFA 05), independent art director, illustrator
  • Cameron Ewing (MFA 07), creative director, Facebook
  • Jessica Fleischmann (MFA 01), graphic designer; principal, Still Room
  • Jens Gehlhaar (MFA 97), creative director, Logan & Sons
  • Barbara Glauber (MFA 90), principal, Heavy Meta; co-founder of The Smoking Gun
  • Hilary Greenbaum (MFA 06), graphic designer, writer, design director of the Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Sibylle Hagmann (MFA 96), type designer, Kontour
  • Peter Kaplan (MFA 03), graphic designer, design director of Museum of Arts and Design
  • Yasmin Khan (MFA 05), graphic designer, Counterspace
  • John Kieselhorst (MFA 96), chief design officer and founding partner, Made Movement
  • Golden Krishna (BFA 10), senior interaction designer, Google
  • Mark Kulakoff (MFA 04), motions graphics designer
  • Zak Kyes (BFA 05), founder and creative director of Zak Group
  • Deborah Littlejohn (MFA 94), graphic designer, professor of graphic design at North Carolina State University College of Design
  • Amanda Lui (BFA 14), graphic designer, Walt Disney Imagineering
  • Kevin Lyons (MFA 96), founder and creative director of Natural Born
  • Ian Lynam (MFA 04), creative director; design scholar, writer; principal, Ian Lynam Design.
  • Geoff McFetridge (MFA 95), graphic designer, artist, founder of Champion Graphics — Cooper Hewitt National Design Award
  • Penny Pehl Moore (MFA 04) and James Moore (BFA 93), founders and creative directors of Tenderling
  • Noreen Morioka (BFA 88), founder and creative director of M+ Works — AIGA Medal
  • Karen To Nakada (BFA 10) and Masato Nakada (MFA 11), founders and creative directors of The Happening
  • Kali Nikitas (MFA 90), graphic designer, chair of MFA graphic design and communication arts, Otis College of Design
  • Jonathan Notaro (BFA 99), founder and creative director of Brand New School
  • Michael Polish (BFA 92), filmmaker (Big Sur)
  • Brian Roettinger (BFA 04), principal, Hand Held Heart
  • Tanya Rubbak (MFA 07), graphic designer, assistant chair of graphic design at Otis College of Design
  • Nick Steinhardt (BFA 09), art director, SMOG Design
  • Jesse Lee Stout (MFA 10, BFA 02), video designer, L.A. creative director of Moment Factory
  • Jon Sueda (MFA 04), founder and creative director of Stripe, chair of MFA graphic design at California College of the Arts
  • Jae Hyouk Sung (MFA 03), founder and creative director of IMJ, professor of visual communication and design, Kookmin University, Seoul
  • Andrea Tinnes (MFA 98), type and graphics designer, founder of font and graphics label typecuts
  • Daryn Wakasa (MFA 10), motions designer, art director, filmmaker
  • Jeff Zwerner (BFA 92), branding and UX designer, Evernote