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24 notable alumni

Notable Alumni of Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Notable alumni of Minneapolis College of Art and Design include James Rosenquist (Artist and pop art proponent), Wanda Gág (Artist and author of children's book Millions of Cats) and Hend Al-Mansour (Saudi-American visual artist and physician).

College data and admissions

Alumni list

Politics and law

  • Linda Berglin 1944–

    Former Minnesota state senator

Arts and media

  • James Rosenquist 1933–2017

    Artist and pop art proponent

    Also attended: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

  • Wanda Gág 1893–1946

    Artist and author of children's book Millions of Cats

  • Hend Al-Mansour 1956–

    Saudi-American visual artist and physician

    Also attended: University of St Thomas (MN)

  • F. Keogh Gleason 1906–1982

    MGM set decorator and four-time Academy Award winner

  • Dan Jurgens 1959–

    Comic artist known for The Death of Superman

  • Rosemary Valero-O'Connell 1994–

    Illustrator and cartoonist known for DC Comics work

  • Wayne Boring 1905–1987

    Comic artist best known for Superman

    Also attended: School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • John Flannagan 1895–1942

    Sculptor and pioneer of direct carving

  • Dewey Albinson 1898–1971

    American painter

  • Emma L. Brock 1886–1974

    Children's author and illustrator

    Attended until 1914

    Also attended: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

  • Alexandre Hogue 1898–1994

    Realist painter of the Dallas Nine

  • Belle Baranceanu 1902–1988

    Painter, muralist and teacher

  • Kinji Akagawa 1940–

    Sculptor, printmaker and arts educator

    Also attended: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

  • Florence Kawa 1912–2008

    American painter

    Also attended: University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee

  • Tomoko Miho 1931–2012

    Japanese-American graphic designer, AIGA Medalist

  • Stu Mead 1955–

    Artist living and working in Berlin

  • Lucile Blanch 1895–1981

    Artist and art educator known for murals

  • Mark Mallman 1973–

    Minnesota musician and film composer

  • Rob Roy Kelly 1925–2004

    Graphic design educator and wood type collector

    Bachelor of Fine Arts · Class of 1952

    Also attended: Yale University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • Orabel Thortvedt 1896–1983

    Painter, sculptor and local historian

    Also attended: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

  • Lester Johnson 1919–2010

    Painter of the Second Generation New York School

  • Jin Meyerson 1972–

    Korean-born American painter

    Also attended: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

  • George Morrison 1919–2000

    Ojibwe abstract painter and sculptor

From Wikidata “educated at” records (including people who attended without graduating), ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions. Degrees and years follow Wikidata and are left out where it has none.

Alumni network

Colleges that share the most alumni with Minneapolis College of Art and Design (people who attended both).