Distinguished Visitors
Distinguished Visitors in Savannah
2012
- George Akerlof, UC Berkeley Koshland Professor of Economics, International Monetary Fund guest scholar and Nobel laureate in economics
- Verda Alexander, co-founder of Studio O+A
- Markku Allison, leader on industry transformation issues including integrated practice, collaboration, sustainability and health
- Glaire D. Anderson, art history professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Eric Baker, design director for The O Group in Manhattan
- Malcom Beith, author
- Charlie Bell, leader of the new Teknion Studio Group division of Teknion
- James Belzer, director
- Deborah Berke, founding partner of Deborah Berke & Partners Architects in New York City and professor of architectural design at Yale University
- Charles F. Bloszies, architect and structural engineer
- Lea Bogdan, lead designer, Masco Design
- Mohamed Bourouissa, artist
- John Bricker, principal and creative director, Gensler
- Susan Buck, conservator
- Deborah Berke, founding partner of Deborah Berke & Partners Architects and professor of architectural design at Yale University
- Erika Burton, co-president, Rhythm & Hues film division
- Jay Chapman, product development manager, Geiger International
- James Cromwell, actor
- Rachel Dacks, furniture designer
- Frank DeLise, video game designer, Autodesk
- Richard Edlund, multiple Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor
- Wes Enzinna, editor, Oxford American
- Jeremy Ernst, character rigger and technical animator, Epic Games
- Carol Ann Fitzgerald, editor, Oxford American
- Amy Flurry, Writer and fashion stylist: "Recipe for Press"
- Hank Forrest, lighting designer
- Robert George, managing partner at Impact Consulting Services, Inc.
- Robin Givhan, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Wes Gordon, women's wear designer
- Caroline Gore, artist
- David Green, principal at Perkins+Will
- James Gurney, author and illustrator of The New York Times bestselling Dinotopia book series
- Allan Haley, director of words and letters at Monotype Imaging
- Lauren Hartstone, director and designer
- Linda Heasley, president and CEO, The Limited
- Steve Hodges, principal, Steve Hodges Associates, Inc.
- Florian Idenburg, award-winning architect
- Dave Inscore, art director, Zynga East
- Steve Jones, founder of bettershelter
- Robert Jepson Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Jepson Associates Inc.
- Alice Jepson, arts and education advocate
- Jeff Kleiser, visual effects supervisor; CEO and co-founder of Synthespian Studios
- Sigalit Landau, artist
- Justin Leibow, Süperfad
- Lawrence Lessig, Harvard law professor and author of numerous books
- Tommy Linstroth, LEED AP, Trident Sustainability
- Kalup Linzy, video and performance artist
- Dana Lockett, architectural project manager with the National Park Service's Historic American Engineering Record
- Liza Lou, artist
- Ann-Marie Manker, artist
- Ezio Manzini, sustainability expert and design strategist
- Joe Maris, design director, Microsoft Entertainment Division
- Louis Menard, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Dennis Miller, professor and Visual Music Marathon founder
- Tom Monahan, creative advertising legend and author of "The Do-It-Yourself Lobotomy"
- Abelardo Morell, photographer
- Ivan Navarro, artist
- David Noh, journalist and costume historian
- Simon Njami, Paris-based independent curator, lecturer and art critic
- Primo Orpilla, co-founder of Studio O+A
- Jose Parla, artist
- James W. Pennebaker, UT Austin Psychology Chair and Regents Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts
- Laurie Pressman, vice president, Pantone
- Katja Prins, artist
- Joan Raspo, director, On-Air Creative and Branding, VH1/MTVN
- Jay Reardon, president and chairman of the American Furniture Association's marketing division
- Lisa Robinson, artist
- Bruce Rogers, designer for last six Super Bowl halftime spectaculars, the 2008 Democratic National convention and tours for numerous bands
- Hal Rubenstein, fashion director, InStyle magazine: "100 Unforgettable Dresses"
- Ralph Rucci, American couturier
- Erin Sarofsky, principle and owner of Sarofsky Corp.
- Ravi Swahney, industrial designer
- Jesse Seppi, co-founder of Tronic Studio
- Michael Skalka, National Gallery of Art Conservation director
- Marc Smirnoff, Oxford American founder and executive editor
- Martin Smith, LEED Green Associate manager
- Nancy Spector, deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Christopher Sprigman, Class of 1963 Research Professor in honor of Graham C. Lilly and Peter W. Low at the University of Virginia
- Matthew Steinke, technical director, Ubisoft
- Josep (Pep) Subirós, writer, philosopher, exhibition curator and the director of Gao Iletres
- Andre Leon Talley, Vogue contributing editor and SCAD Board of Trustees member
- Jerry Tessendorf, Academy Award winner for Scientific Achievement and educator
- Dana Thomas, Paris-based fashion and culture journalist and contributing editor for the Wall Street Journal's monthly magazine
- Peter Van Dijk, FAIA, preservation architect
- Sarah Ward, AICP, LEEP AP, Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission
- Gregory Wein, style director, Surface magazine
- Hedy Weiss, theater and dance critic
- Wendy White, artist
- Carroll William Westfall, architectural historian and the Frank Montana Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame
- Joanna Wezyk, Polish artist
- Danny Williams,modeler, DreamWorks Animation
- Fred Wilson, conceptual artist
- Don Wollenhaupt, National Park Service
- Minh Uong, art director for The New York Times
- Anthony Vanky, Ph.D. candidate and MIT researcher
- Vern Yip, interior designer
2011
- Marina Abramović, performance and visual art pioneer
- Charles Adler, co-founder and CEO of Kickstarter
- Waris Ahluwalia, jewelry designer, House of Waris
- John Akomfrah, artist
- Sergio Aragones, distinguished himself with his "Marginal Thinking" strips in MAD Magazine, which were printed up, down, across and around the corners of comic panels to fill in the margins.
- Istvan Banyai, illustrator
- Ellen Barkin, actress
- Mark Behm, artist, Valve
- Roy Blount Jr., author
- Grace Bonney, founder, Design*Sponge
- Bill Borden, producer/director of "High School Musical" and "Kung Fu Hustle"
- David Bram, photographer, editor, founder and curator of Fraction Magazine
- Sandra Brown, author
- Robert Bruegmann, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an architecture, landscape and built environment historian
- Debbie Fleming Caffery, photographer
- Daniel Carey, president and CEO of Historic Savannah Foundation since December 2008 after 18 years in field positions at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
- Nicholas Carr, author, journalist and blogger
- Mark Changizi, theoretical neurobiologist
- Chris Cherubini, co-owner, Jupiter Moon
- Lesley Chilcott, award-winning producer for "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Waiting for Superman"
- Paul Coker, Jr., contributor to MAD Magazine since 1962 and has appeared in more than 300 issues
- Gail Collins, columnist, The New York Times
- CJ Cowan, story design lead, Bungie Studios
- Mark Cutler, interior designer and principal at Mark Cutler Design
- Jack Davis, one of the original cartoonists for MAD Magazine in 1952
- Barbara Knoke de Arathoon, anthropologist and associate researcher at Museo Ixchel del Traje Indagena
- Gilles de Mont-Marin, architect
- Philippe de Montebello, museum director
- Dan Devening, artist, educator, curator and gallerist
- E.J. Dionne, columnist, The Washington Post
- Josh Earl, supervising editor for Emmy award-winning show the "Deadliest Catch"
- Aaron Eckhart, actor
- 'Duck' Edwing, wrote "Spy vs. Spy" for about 12 years, along with his own feature, "Tales from the Duckside"
- Isidro Ferrer, designer and illustrator
- Pamela Fiori, editor-at-large for Town & Country magazine
- Greg Foertsch, project art director, Firaxis Games
- Kenneth Foote, professor of cultural and historical geography, University of Colorado
- Philip Freelon, architect
- Carrie Gates, new media artist and designer
- Jim Geduldick, filmmaker, editor and VFX artist
- Steff Geissbuhler, graphic designer
- Whoopi Goldberg, comedian, actress, author
- Carter Goodrich, illustrator
- Bob Greenberg, R/GA founder, chairman, CEO and global chief creative officer
- Gordon Greenberg, director
- Carl Hacken, executive vice president of Fox 2000
- Joe Halper, director of production, Virtual Heroes - ARA
- Lina Song Halper, senior game programmer, Epic Games
- Trenton Doyle Hancock, artist
- Chace Hartman, illustrator, designer and animator
- John Hull, painter
- Nina Jacobson, former president of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group and principal of Color Force Productions
- Al Jaffee, MAD Magazine's longest-running freelance contributor
- Nina Katchadourian, artist
- Navid Khonsari, independent cinematic director
- Wayne Koestenbaum, professor of English, City University of New York
- Parish Kohanim, photographer
- Ronald Knapp, professor emeritus, State University of New York at New Paltz
- Karen Kunc, master printmaker, professor and artist
- Eva Kwong, ceramic artist
- Derek Lam, multi-Council of Fashion Designers of America Award-winning designer
- Sarah Lewis, art historian
- Ray Liotta, actor
- Richard Longstreth, professor, American studies, George Washington University
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, installation artist
- Joseph Lupo, printmaker
- Mary Lum, painter and artist
- Matt Mahurin, illustrator, photographer and filmmaker
- James Marsden, actor
- Nick Meglin, former editor of MAD Magazine, a position he held for over thirty years
- Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, composer, multimedia artist and writer
- Dominic Molon, chief curator, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
- Carrie Moyer, a Brooklyn-based painter and writer
- Lawrence Nees, professor of art history, University of Delaware
- Louis Nelson, associate professor of early American architecture and chair of the department of architectural history, University of Virginia
- Britt Nolan, creative director/copywriter in Leo Burnett's Chicago office
- Jonathan Notaro, founder, Brand New School
- Zizi Papacharissi, Ph.D., professor and head of the communication department, University of Illinois-Chicago
- Rey Parla, painter and filmmaker
- Lisa Perry, fashion designer
- Tom Richmond, a regular contributor to MAD Magazine since 2000
- Faith Ringgold, painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist and illustrator
- Whitney Robinson, senior editor, "Town & Country" magazine
- Jack Romanos, former President and CEO of Simon & Schuster
- Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art
- Erin Sarofsky, president, owner and executive creative director of Sarofsky Corp.
- Jan-Hendrik Schlottmann, CEO of Derek Lam International.
- Scott Schulman, the founder and photographer behind "The Sartorialist"
- Barry Schwartz, Dorwin P. Cartwright professor of social theory and social action, Swarthmore College
- Douglas Seidler, assistant professor at Marymount University and director of the interior design program at Reston Center
- Glen Senk, director and chief executive officer of Urban Outfitters Inc.
- Tanja Softic, printmaking artist
- Will Staehle, graphic designer
- Oliver Stone, Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning writer/director
- Andre Leon Talley, Vogue contributing editor and SCAD Board of Trustees member
- Bob Thacker, legendary adman
- Sarah Thornton, art historian and author
- Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Lily THomlin, Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-nominated, Emmy Award-winning actress
- Alfred Uhry, Pultizer Oscar and Tony Award-winning playwright
- Brad Vanacata, sequential artist
- Abigail Van Slyck, professor of art history, Connecticut College
- Simine Vazire, assistant professor of psychology and director of the Personality and Self-Knowledge Lab at Washington University in St. Louis
- Carlo Vega, creative director, animator, artist and photographer
- Sam Viviano, art director, MAD Magazine
- Dan Wakin, New York Times arts writer
- Wendy White, artist
- Kehinde Wiley, New York-based visual artist
- Boo Wong, senior producer of design and content, The Mill
- Peter Wood, advertising creative leader
- Richard Saul Wurman, architect and graphic designer
- Emma Zaks, actress
2010
- Ashley Abess, business partner of designer Chris Benz
- Chuck Anderson, artist, illustrator, designer
- Frances Anderton, host of DnA: Design and Architecture, a monthly show on Los Angeles' public radio station KCRW
- Eva Amurri, actress
- Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief, Wired Magazine
- Philippe Apeloig, principal owner and founder, Apeloig design studio, Paris, France
- Victoria Bartlett, fashion designer
- Chris Benz, fashion designer
- Vanessa Bertozzi, director of communications for Etsy.com
- Bettina, former supermodel
- Sarah Blankenship, senior designer at the Texas Historical Commission
- Derek Blasberg, author and editor-at-large of Style.com and news and special projects editor at V and V Man
- Paul Bloodgood, co-founder in the late 1980s of New York's influential AC Project Room
- Mickey Boardman, Paper Magazine
- Brian Bolke, co-owner of Dallas boutique Forty Five Ten
- Matteo Bologna, creative director, Mucca Design in New York City
- Olivier Bouet, assistant professor of computer science and data processing, member of the board of Paris Val-de-Seine School of Architecture
- Hamish Bowles, European editor-at-large for Vogue
- Peter Brown, author and illustrator
- Sally Randall Brunger, co-founder of The Brungers and creative director of Holsted Marketing
- Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator
- Steven Charny, senior art director, Rolling Stone
- Howard Chaykin, sequential artist
- Chuck Chewning, creative director of Donghia, Inc.
- Ed Connor, Ph.D., professor, Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, and director, Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
- Gabriel Craig, metalsmith, writer and craft activist
- Jean-Claude Croize, professor of economics and humanities, Paris Val-de-Seine School of Architecture
- Kelly Cutrone, fashion publicist
- Morris Dickstein, professor of English and cinema studies and a humanities fellow at City University of New York Graduate Center
- Gwendolyn Dubous-Shaw, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
- Stephane Dupoux, French designer and founder of Dupoux Design, a full-service architecture and design firm
- Mark Edmundson, Ph.D., author and professor of English, University of Virginia.
- Carl Elefante, FAIA, LEED AP, principal, director of sustainable design, Quinn Evans Architects
- Craig Evans, associate creative director/art director, McCann Erickson
- Stanley Fish, prolific author and one of America's leading intellectuals
- John Foster, designer and author
- Kelly Framel, curator, theglamourai.com
- James H. Gilmore, co-author of "The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage"
- Kim Hastreiter, Paper Magazine
- Susan Herbst, Ph.D., chief academic officer, University System of Georgia
- Brooke Hodge, design writer and curator
- Jennifer Hyman, co-founder Rent the Runway
- Robert Ivy, editor-in-chief, Architectural Record
- Klaus Jansen, sequential artist
- Chris Jones, hospitality and real estate professional
- Robert Klanten, founder and publisher of Gestalten
- Jaithan Kochar, co-founder of lifestyle company Eddie Ross Inc.
- Rita Konig, Domestic diva and author
- Kip Kotzen, founder of brand strategy and design distribution company Neo-Utility
- Rob and Leon Krier, world-renowned figures in architecture and urban planning
- Nina Kummelstedt, Swedish architect and owner of the Stockholm-based architecture firm Nina Kummelstedt Ltd.
- Jane Lackey, fibers artist
- Martina Lantin, ceramics artist
- Jim Leach, National Endowment for the Humanities chairman
- Christiane Lemieux, designer and founder, DwellStudio
- Faythe Levine, founder of the popular Midwest craft fair, Art vs. Craft, and the director and producer of the documentary film "Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft and Design"
- Jaqui Lividini, international retail and fashion expert, and owner of the marketing agency LWP
- Fern Mallis, senior vice president of IMG Fashion
- Elizabeth Marlowe, expert on Roman art
- Kristen Martincic, printmaking artist
- Eugene Migliaro, director, new business development, Chris Benz
- Jason Miller, creative director of contemporary lighting company Roll & Hill
- Claude Morais and Brian Wolk, fashion designers and founders, Ruffian
- Rebecca Morris, painter
- Caleb Mulvena, principal architect, New York-firm Mapos
- Walter Murch, sound designer
- Simon Njami, a Paris-based independent curator, lecturer and art critic
- Jonathan Olivares, industrial designer and founder Design Research
- Nick Olsen, interior designer
- Joe Pantigoso, senior marketing communications profressional
- Chris Parachini, owner, Roberta's restaurant
- Judicaël Petrowiste, lecturer, department of history, University of Paris-Diderot
- Nicole Phelps, executive editor of Vogue's Style.com and an expert on fashion trends
- Keith Pollock, editorial director, Elle.com
- Andrea Ponsi, adjunct professor, Syracuse University and Kent State University in Florence and in the United States
- Warren Raisch, chief customer officer, Digitaria Interactive Inc.
- Julia Reed, contributing editor at Newsweek, founding contributor to the women's Web site wowowow.com, and creative director of taigan.com
- Joy Reidelbach, senior associate and healthcare design expert, NBBJ
- Britta Riley, artist and entrepreneur
- Eddie Ross, co-founder of Eddie Ross Inc. and daily blog at eddieross.com
- Heather Ross, illustrator and designer
- Isabella Rossellini, model, actress, author
- Robert Rufino, senior editor-at-large for House Beautiful
- K. Andrea Rusnock, professor, Indiana University, South Bend
- Frank Sanchis, senior advisor to the Municipal Art Society of New York
- Michael Schmidt, costume designer
- Bob Shay, ceramic artist
- David Shields, author
- Cameron Silver, owner, Decades vintage boutique in Los Angeles, and co-owner of Decadestwo, a contemporary designer consignment boutique
- Cameron Sinclair, co-founder and CEO of Architecture for Humanity
- Keegan Singh, stylist
- Bruce Smith, animator
- Kristine Stiles, co-editor, author and professor of art, art history and visual studies at Duke University
- Kelly Stinnett, executive vice president of sales for Chris Benz
- Lisa Stone, curator of the Roger Brown Study Collection in Chicago
- DJ Stout, graphic designer
- Susan Szenasy, editor-in-chief of Metropolis magazine
- David Taylor, creator of photo constructions, multimedia installations and artist's books
- Cindy Tower, performance painter
- Roland van Kralingen, co-founder of one of Europe's top consulting firms, INNOA, based in Amsterdam
- Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer
- Sarah Ward, preservation planner at the Metropolitan Planning Commission, Savannah, Ga., area
- Amy Walker, architectural historian, Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology
- Wayne White, Emmy Award-winning designer
- Jeff Whitty, Tony Award-winning playwright
- Bunny Williams, interior designer, and John Rosselli, antiques dealer
- Jim Youngston, partner, Gabler-Youngston, an architectural lighting design firm founded by Morgan Gabler and Jim Youngston
2009
- Amy Astley, editor-in-Chief, Teen Vogue
- Jonathan Barnbrook, graphic designer and renowned typeface designer
- Mark Barrow, emerging New York-based artist
- Nick Cave, artist
- Glenn Close, actress
- Patrick Connors, artist and expert in perspective and pictoral space
- David Ellis, painter
- Mia Fineman, Ph.D., senior research associate, department of photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Lea Freid, gallery executive and partner, Lombard-Freid, New York
- Marc Gobe, designer, photographer, filmmaker, and respected author of "Emotional Branding: The New Paradigm for Connecting Brands to People"
- Charles Hall, branding specialist and professor of advertising, VCU
- Trenton Doyle Hancock, artist
- Mark Hughes, director, Galerie Lelong, New York
- Richard Hunt, African-American sculptor
- Janine James, founder of The Moderns, New York, N.Y.
- Marilyn Minter, artist
- Tom O'Keefe, executive creative director, DraftFCB, Chicago and West Coast
- Dennis Oppenheim, architect
- Sarah Parke, emerging New York-based artist
- Michael Scoggins, artist
- Sean StarWars, printmaker
- Richard Vine, senior editor at Art in America magazine
- Anuththaradevi Widyalankara, Ph.D., Fulbright Scholar and a lecturer in the department of history, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Christopher Wilcox, founder, Natural Curiosity, a Los Angles-based image archive company
- Charles Wilkin, principal, Automatic Art and Design and Prototype Experimental Foundry, New York City
- Marcia Wood, executive director and owner, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
- Vivien Woofter, interior designer, Department of State
2008
- Camilo Alvarez, owner, director, curator and preparator of Samson Projects, Boston, Mass.
- Louise Borden, author and illustrator of children's books
- Winka Dubbeldam, architect
- Sylvie Fortin, editor-in-chief, ART PAPERS magazine, Atlanta, Ga.
- Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and author
- Manuel Junco, graphic artist and humorist
- Chip Kidd, graphic designer specializing in book jackets and novelist
- Gary Koepke, Chief Creative Officer of Modernista!, the innovative Boston ad agency
- Hung Liu, Chinese-American painter
- Steve Locke, painter
- Brian MacKay-Lyons, architect
- Monique Meloche, owner of Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Ill.
- Joshua Prince-Ramus, president and principal at REX, a New York-based architecture and design firm
- Gerald Scarfe, Political Cartoonist for the New York Times, and original artist for Pink Floyd's The Wall graphics
- Yinka Shonibare, Member of the Order of the British Empire and internationally renowned artist
- Luke Sullivan, award-winning author and copywriter, and creative head of GSD&M, Austin, Texas
- Andre Leon Talley, Vogue contributing editor
- Neda Ulaby, National Public Radio's arts and culture reporter
- Michael Waugh, director of Momenta Art, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Daniel Adel, painter and renowned illustrator
2007
- Josh Atkins, game developer and Xbox director
- Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher, creators of digital photography, sculpture, video and architectural installation works
- Luiz de Basto, marine designer
- Denis Blackburn, CFO, sustainable development firm Melaver Inc.
- Grace Bonney, designer, writer and trendspotter, design*sponge
- Brenda Brathwaite, game designer, game consultant and SCAD game design professor
- Edouard Duval Carrie, Haitian artist
- Carey Carter, hair stylist, Carter-Barnes Hair Artisans
- Esther Charlesworth, founder and managing director of Architects Without Frontiers
- Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Rackstraw Downes, painter
- Mark Edge, accessories designer
- Don Friedlich, jeweler
- Matt Gagnon, lighting and set designer
- Joseph Giovannini, principal of Giovannini Architecture and the architecture critic for New York Magazine, editor-at-large for Architecture magazine
- Maja Godlewska, Polish artist
- Mario Gooden, architect
- Greg Gorman, fine art photographer
- Justin Gunther (M.F.A., historic preservation, 2005), curator of buildings and collections at Fallingwater, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Mill Run, Pa.
- Tom Hanchett, staff historian, Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, N.C
- Bethann Hardison, fashion designer and model
- Charles Harrison, industrial designer
- Charles Hively, creative director, art director, ad agency founder, graphic designer, copywriter and former illustrator
- Brian Holcombe, founder and director of Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta
- Robert Hughes, Former TIME magazine art critic
- Nathan Hunt, vice president and group creative director, Deutsch/New York
- Chi Huynh, jewelry designer
- Marco Spier and Marie Hyon from Psyop, Brien Holman and Jayson Whitmore from Exopolis, Jakob Trollbäck from Trollbäck + Company, Dale Herigstad from Schematic and Jose Gomez and Andre Stringer from Shilo
- Dakota Jackson, furniture and product designer
- Marc Jacobs, fashion designer
- John Jeanes, director of restoration at Montpelier, home of James Madison's Montpelier in Orange, Va.
- Andrew Keller, executive creative director, Crispin Porter + Bogusky
- Steve Kelley, architect and engineer with Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates in Chicago
- William M. Kelso, Ph.D., archeologist
- Morna Livingston, documentary photographer
- Steve Locke, painting professor at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and a dean of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine
- Orlando T. Maione, architect
- Berry Matthews, ceramic artist and teapot designer
- Chaz Maviyane-Davies, Zimbabwean graphic designer
- Edward Mazria, internationally recognized architect, author and educator focused on sustainability
- Mark McDonald, executive director, Historic Savannah Foundation
- Christopher Mead, dean of the College of Fine Arts and professor in the departments of art history and architecture, University of New Mexico
- Warren Miller, chairman, U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad
- Trinh Minh-ha, filmmaker and feminist theorist
- Vincent Musi, National Geographic magazine photographer
- Jo Noero, director of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Cape Town
- Kiev Osborne, makeup artist, Carter-Barnes Hair Artisans
- Turker Ozdogan, ceramics professor, George Washington University
- Michael Rees, sculptor
- Tracy Rosenthal-Newsom, senior producer at Harmonix Music Systems
- Cynthia Rowley, fashion designer
- D.K. Ruth, architect
- Sebastian Schmaling, architect
- Gray Scott, fashion photographer
- Monica Seggos, vintage fashion retailer
- Nan Smith, sculptor and installation artist
- Andy Spade, co-founder of Kate Spade Handbags
- Regina Spektor, singer-songwriter
- DJ Spooky, electronic and experimental hip-hop musician, conceptual artist and writer
- Mary Stewart, author
- Margaret Stratton, University of Iowa art history professor
- Emily Summers, interior designer
- Caroline Weber, historian and scholar
- Camille Wells, architectural historian
- Vicente Wolf, interior designer, photographer and author
- Simon Worrall, National Geographic magazine journalist
- Bora Yoon, musical architect and multi-instrumentalist sound artist
2006
- William Adair, restorationist and frame gilder
- Ray Anderson, founder and CEO of Interface Inc.
- Guillermo Arriaga, screenwriter
- Steve Badanes, architect and one of the original members of Jersey Devil's Architecture
- John Bjerklie, artist
- Isidro Blasco, artist
- Brian Vanden Brink, photographer
- Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS, site-specific installation artists
- Boyd Coons, executive director of the Atlanta Preservation Center
- Phoebe Crisman, architect
- Bruce Dern, actor
- Mark Edge, jeweler
- Rita Folsse Elliott, archaeologist
- David Ellis, motion painter
- Ned Farr, writer and director
- Pliny Fisk III, architect
- Scott Hanna, ink artist
- Walter Hill, director
- Grace Jeffers, design historian and practicing designer
- Tommy Lee Jones, Academy Award-winning actor and director
- Wendy Kaplan, art historian
- Stacy Levy, sculptor and environmentalist
- Ross Merrill, chief curator, National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
- Tim Miller, actor
- Mira Nair, film director and producer
- Tim Prentice, kinetic sculptor
- Rex Reed, critic and author
- Paolo Rivera, Marvel Comics painter
- David Rockwell, architect/designer
- Liev Schreiber, actor
- Gary Schwartz, world's leading Rembrandt expert
- Michael Scoggins, artist
- RitaSue Siegel, design industry insider
- Michael Skalka, conservation administrator, National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
- André Leon Talley, Vogue editor-at-large
- Alexandra Telgmann, jeweler
- Spencer Tunick, photographer
- Trina Turk, fashion designer
- Rob Walker, writer
- Vera Wang, fashion designer
- Dreya Weber, producer and actress
- David Zucker, producer, director and writer
2005
- Julia Barton, installation artist
- Don Bluth, producer, director and animator
- Frank Boclet, Paris fashion designer
- Slater Bradley, video artist
- Benjamin Bratt, actor
- James Brown, musician
- Ellen Burstyn, actress
- Jeff Daniels, actor
- Tom Ford, fashion designer
- Gary Goldman, producer, director and animator
- Richard Haas, muralist, painter and printmaker
- Jason Hedges, Miami-based food artist
- Alan Ladd Jr., producer, former president of 20th Century Fox, past CEO of MGM/UA Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and founder of Ladd Company
- Spike Lee, filmmaker
- Sidney Lumet, director
- Walter Murch, sound designer and film editor
- Natasha Richardson, actress
- David Rodriguez, fashion designer
- Joel Siegel, film critic
- Deborah Wasserman, painter and installation artist
- Tom Wolfe, author
2004
- Magdalena Abakanowicz, artist
- Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer
- Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, National Museum of Women in the Arts founder
- Roger Ebert, film critic
- Norman Jewison, director
- Stratton Leopold, producer
- Peter O'Toole, actor
- Duane Michals, photographer
- Jason Patric, actor
- Zac Posen, fashion designer
- Daniel Shiffman, interactive video artist
- Elzbieta Sikorska, artist
- Kathleen Turner, actress
2003
- Army Archerd, columnist
- Rosanna Arquette, actress
- Alec Baldwin, actor
- Charles Bergman, Pollack-Krasner Foundation chairman
- Thora Birch, actress
- Xu Bing, artist
- Allan Greenberg, architect
- Arliss Howard, actress
- Horacio Pagani, industrial and automobile designer
- Arthur Penn, director
- Miuccia Prada, fashion designer
- Jan Erik Ritzman, master glassman
- David Shannon, children's book illustrator
- Debra Winger, actress
2002
- Gregory Hines, actor, singer, dancer, choreographer
- Joel Meyerowitz, photographer
- Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer
2001
- Stanley Donen, director
- Jane Fonda, actress
- Maya Lin, architect and sculptor
- Judy Pfaff, artist
- George Pratt, illustrator, comics artist, art teacher, documentary filmmaker
- Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer
2000
- Danny Glover, actor
- Wendy Maruyama, artist
- Betye Saar, artist
- Miriam Schapiro, artist
1999
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude, installation artists
- Nora Ephron, filmmaker and writer
1998
- Maya Angelou, author
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- May 17, 2013
SCAD performing arts ends season May 23-26 - May 06, 2013
SCAD Museum of Art honored - May 06, 2013
SCAD team named finalist - May 03, 2013
SCAD presents annual Sand Arts Festival
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- Craig Stevens receives educator prize
- C&R Press publishes Chris Bundy book
- Absher was named Liz Claiborne Design Scholar
- Builteman, Bowerman chair contest finalists
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