Breuk Iversen is a designer and writer. Iversen was nicknamed the Mayor of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, one of the liveliest and largest art communities in the world. He is famous for his production, with Jan McLaughlin, at the Dam Stuhltrager Gallery of the "Salon des Refuses": the Offal Project, a site-specific exhibit that explored issues of economy, aesthetics, politics and popular culture through society's by-products.
Edwin Howland Blashfield was an American painter and muralist, most known for painting the murals on the dome of the Library of Congress Main Reading Room in Washington, DC.
William Merritt Chase was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons School of Design.
Thomas Hovenden, was an Irish artist and teacher. He painted realistic quiet family scenes, narrative subjects and often depicted African Americans.
Roy DeCarava was an African American artist. DeCarava received early critical acclaim for his photography, initially engaging and imaging the lives of African Americans and jazz musicians in the communities where he lived and worked. Over a career that spanned nearly six decades, DeCarava came to be known as a founder in the field of black and white fine art photography, advocating for an approach to the medium based on the core value of an individual, subjective creative sensibility, which was separate and distinct from the "social documentary" style of his predecessors.
Wolf Kahn is a German-born American painter.
Eric Millegan is an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Zack Addy on the Fox series Bones.
Henry Hornbostel was an American architect and educator. Hornbostel designed more than 225 buildings, bridges, and monuments in the United States. Twenty-two of his designs are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Oakland City Hall in Oakland, California and the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum and University Club in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Yvonne Jacquette is an American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, especially her low-altitude and oblique aerial views of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive, pointillistic technique. She is currently represented by DC Moore Gallery, New York.
Justin Lee Brannan is currently serving as a New York City Councilmember from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York. A former musician, he was a founding member of the New York City hardcore bands Indecision and Most Precious Blood.
Reuben Tam (1916–1991) was an American landscape painter, educator, poet and graphic artist. He was born in Kapa'a on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i on Jan. 17, 1916. He earned a BA degree from the University of Hawaii in 1937, and also studied at the California School of Fine Art, at Columbia University with Meyer Schapiro and at the New School of Social Research in New York City. From 1946 to the 1970s, he taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School where his students included Frances Kornbluth and Jean Arcoleo. He also spent many summers painting on Monhegan Island in Maine. Upon retirement in the 1970s, Tam returned to Kaua'i and died there on January 3, 1991 of lymphoma.
Sylvia Plimack Mangold is an American artist, painter, printmaker, and pastelist. She is known for her representational depictions of interiors and landscapes. She is the mother of film director and screenwriter James Mangold, and a musician Andrew Mangold.
Alfred T. Fellheimer was an American architect who was lead architect for Grand Central Terminal and Cincinnati Union Terminal.
Thomas Bigelow Craig (1849–1924) was an American landscape painter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for his paintings depicting cows in summer environments. Craig's landscapes often featured meadows and streams. The animals in his earlier paintings did not take up a large part of the canvas compared to the surrounding landscapes; in his later paintings, however, the animals were drawn larger and became more important than the landscapes around them.
Anthony J. DePace (1892–1977) was an American architect who designed numerous Roman Catholic churches throughout the Northeastern United States area during the mid to late 20th century.
William Sergeant Kendall, was an American painter, most famous for his evocative scenes of domestic life; his wife and three young daughters were frequent subjects in his early work.
Kristin Capp is a photographer, author and educator. She has published three books of photography: Hutterite: A World of Grace (1998), Americana (2000) and Brasil (2016).
Anne Mette Iversen is a Danish jazz bassist and composer. She leads and composes for the Anne Mette Iversen Quartet / Quartet +1 as well as the groups Double Life, Poetry of Earth, and the Ternion Quartet. She has released 9 albums as a leader.
Clarity Haynes is an American artist and writer. She was born in 1971 in McAllen, TX, and currently lives and works in New York, NY. Haynes is best known for her paintings of torsos.
