The Art Academy of Cincinnati is a private college of art and design in
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...
, accredited by the
National Association of Schools of Art and Design
The National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), founded in 1944, is an accrediting organization of colleges, schools and universities in the United States. The organization establishes standards for graduate and undergraduate degrees ...
. It was founded as the McMicken School of Design in 1869, and was a department of the
University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 44,00 ...
, and later in 1887, became the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the museum school of the
Cincinnati Art Museum
The Cincinnati Art Museum is an art museum in the Eden Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies, and is one of the oldest in the United States. Its collection of ov ...
.
In 1998, the Art Academy of Cincinnati legally separated from the museum and became an independent college of art and design. Degrees granted are the Associate of Science in Graphic Design; the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Design, Illustration, Painting and Drawing, Photography, Print Media, and Sculpture; and the Master of Arts in Art Education, which is taught during summer semesters.
The Art Academy moved into its current facility at 1212 Jackson St. in the
Over-the-Rhine
Over-the-Rhine (often abbreviated as OTR) is a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Historically, Over-the-Rhine has been a working-class neighborhood. It is among the largest, most intact urban historic districts in the United State ...
neighborhood in the fall of 2005. This move has been pivotal in the Over-the-Rhine revitalization and renovation as an arts district. The new facility provides 24-hour access for students with around the clock security. Students are guaranteed studio spaces in Junior and Senior years. The 12th and Jackson St. building also has an open air atrium, connecting two formerly separate buildings, enlarged classroom spaces, computer labs, a student commons area, lecture hall, and Learning Services Center. In 2008, the Art Academy facility received
Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) Green Building certification by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).
AAC housing is required for out-of-town Art Academy freshmen at the Academy Housing Facility at the nearby corner of 12th and Vine streets. Spaces are also available to local freshmen. Twelve suites for 28 students are available each with fully equipped kitchens and with washer and dryer. A Resident Advisor is also available and lives on the premises.
Notable alumni and faculty
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Wilbur G. Adam (1898–1973) divided his career between Cincinnati and Chicago and is best known as a portrait painter and for his landscapes of western United States.
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Josef Albers
Josef Albers (; ; March 19, 1888March 25, 1976) was a German-born artist and educator. The first living artist to be given a solo show at MoMA and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he taught at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College, ...
(1888-1976) was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of modern art education programs of the twentieth century. He taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1949.
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Paul Chidlaw
Paul Chidlaw (April 5, 1900April 25, 1989) was an American painter and art instructor who spent most of his career in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Early life, studies and travels
Paul Chidlaw was born in Cleves, Ohio on April 5, 1900 to Edward H. and Ca ...
(1900–1989) was a modern American painter and long-time instructor at the Academy. Chidlaw Gallery is named after him.
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Petah Coyne
Petah Coyne (born 1953) is a contemporary American sculptor and photographer best known for her large and small scale hanging sculptures and floor installations. Working in innovative and disparate materials, her media has ranged from the organi ...
, is an internationally recognized sculptor and installation artist.
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Jenny Eakin Delony
Jenny Eakin Delony, also known as Jenny Eakin Delony Rice and Jenny Meyrowitz, (1866–1949) was an American painter and educator. She specialized in portraits of notable and historic figures in the United States, but also made miniature, land ...
,(aka: Jenny Delony, Jenny Meyrowitz, Jenny Eakin Delony Rice) (1866–1949) was an American painter and educator. She specialized in portraiture, but her subject matter also included miniatures, landscape, wildlife, still life, and genre.
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Frank Duveneck
Frank Duveneck (né Decker; October 9, 1848 – January 3, 1919) was an American figure and portrait painter.
Early life
Duveneck was born in Covington, Kentucky, the son of German immigrant Bernhard Decker. Decker died in a cholera epidemic whe ...
(1848–1919) was an American figure and portrait painter who taught at the Art Academy during the 1890s and later became its chairman. He notably fought with the Cincinnati Art Museum administration for students' right to study directly from the live nude model.
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Frances Farrand Dodge
Frances Julia Farrand Dodge (22 November 1878 – 12 January 1969) was an American artist and teacher.
Early life and education
The eldest of four girls, Frances Farrand was born on 22 November 1878 in Lansing, Michigan. Her father, Hart Au ...
(1878 - 1969) was a US artist and teacher, appreciated by critics for her skillful command of all media, namely oil, pencil, etching, watercolors.
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James Flora
James Flora (January 25, 1914 ‒ July 9, 1998), best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for RCA Victor and Columbia Records during the 1940s and 1950s, was also a prolific commercial illustrator from the 1940s to th ...
(1914–1998) idiosyncratic album cover
illustrator
An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...
for
RCA Victor
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and
Columbia Records
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during the 1940s and 1950s,
commercial illustrator
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,
fine artist
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, and author/illustrator of seventeen popular
children's books
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Tim Folzenlogen is a contemporary realist painter based in New York City.
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Daniel Garber
Daniel Garber (April 11, 1880 – July 5, 1958) was an American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his large impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, in which he o ...
(1880–1958) was an American landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania.
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Marie Bruner Haines
Marie Bruner Haines (November 16, 1885 – 1979) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, craftsman, lecturer and teacher.
Biography
Marie Bruner Haines was born on November 16, 1885, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Charles Henry Haines and Oliv ...
(1885–1979), painter and illustrator
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Charley Harper
Charley Harper (August 4, 1922 – June 10, 2007) was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist. He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters, and book illustrations.
Born Charles Burton Harper in Fr ...
(1922–2007) was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist, best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations.
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Eli Harvey
Eli Harvey (September 23, 1860 – February 10, 1957) was an American sculptor, painter and animalier.
Biography
Harvey was born in Ogden, Ohio, a Quaker community in Clinton County, to William P. and Nancy M. Harvey. He attended art school ...
(1860-1957) American sculptor, painter and
animalier
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.
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Maud Hunt Squire
Maud Hunt Squire (January 30, 1873 – October 25, 1954) was an American painter and printmaker. She had a lifelong relationship with artist Ethel Mars, with whom she traveled and lived in the United States and France.
Early life and education
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(1873 – 1954) American painter and printmaker.
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Edna Boies Hopkins
Edna Boies Hopkins (October 13, 1872 – March 24, 1937) was an American artist who made woodblock prints, based upon Japanese ukiyo-e art and Arthur Wesley Dow's formula of three main elements: '' notan'', a balance of light and dark, line and c ...
(1872-1937) American artist of woodblock prints.
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(1860s–1899), American sculptor.
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Noel Martin, graphic designer who revolutionized type and publication standards for American museums, and later a professor at The Art Academy of Cincinnati, as well as The University of Cincinnati.
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Lewis Henry Meakin
Lewis Henry Meakin (12 July 1850 – 15 August 1917) was an English- American Impressionist landscape artist. Born in Newcastle, England, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio with his family in 1863. After studying art in Europe he returned to Cincin ...
(1850-1917)
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Lê Hiền Minh
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(born 1979), installation artist
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Myra Musselmann-Carr (b. 1880) was a sculptor who exhibited at the
Armory Show
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in 1913.
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Frank Harmon Myers
Frank Harmon Myers (1899 – 1956) was an Impressionist painter. His work includes a variety of topics but is best known for his seascapes.
Personal life
Frank H. Myers was born in Cleves, Ohio. His family moved to Cincinnati in 1907. Myers s ...
(1899–1956) was an American painter. His work includes a variety of topics but he is best known for his seascapes.
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Thomas Satterwhite Noble
Thomas Satterwhite Noble (May 29, 1835 – April 27, 1907) was an American painter as well as the first head of the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Biography
Noble was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and raised on a plantation wher ...
(1835-1907) was an American painter and teacher.
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Elizabeth Nourse
Elizabeth Nourse (October 26, 1859 – October 8, 1938) was a realist-style genre, portrait, and landscape painter born in Mt. Healthy, Ohio, in the Cincinnati area. She also worked in decorative painting and sculpture. Described by her contempo ...
(1859-1938) Realist and Genre painter later based in Paris. Best known for her depictions of peasant women.
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Roy Cleveland Nuse (1885-1975) was a Pennsylvania Impressionist artist and a respected teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Anna Oliver
Vivianna Olivia Snowden, (April 12, 1840 – November 21, 1892) better known by her professional name Anna Oliver, was an American preacher and activist who was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was one of the first women to attempt f ...
(1840–1892), American preacher (attended)
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Ruthe Katherine Pearlman
Ruthe Katherine Pearlman (June 30, 1913 – January 30, 2007) was an American painter, art propagandist, art educator and philanthropist.
Early years
Ruthe G. Pearlman was born Ruthe Katherine Gottman in 1913 in Connersville, Indiana in a Jewi ...
(1913-2007), Cincinnati-based artist and educator who was working with Art Beyond Boundaries
from its inception in 2005, Pearlman gallery is named after her.
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Louis Rebisso
Louis Thomas Rebisso (1837 in Italy – 3 May 1899 in Norwood, Ohio) was an Italian-born American sculptor and teacher.
Biography
In Italy, Rebisso studied with the sculptor Rubalto and in an art academy under Varni. At 20, he joined in Giuseppe ...
(1837–1899) sculptor and teacher whose students at CAA included
William Jacob Baer
William Jacob Baer (January 29, 1860 – September 21, 1941) was an American artist, considered the foremost American miniature painter.
Biography
William Jacob Baer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on January 29, 1860. He was a lithographer' ...
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Solon Borglum
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He was awarded the Croix ...
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Janet Scudder
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Mary Chase Perry
Mary Chase Perry Stratton (March 15, 1867 – April 15, 1961) was an American ceramic artist. She was a co-founder, along with Horace James Caulkins, of Pewabic Pottery, a form of ceramic art used to make architectural tiles.
Biography
Strat ...
,
, and
Eli Harvey
Eli Harvey (September 23, 1860 – February 10, 1957) was an American sculptor, painter and animalier.
Biography
Harvey was born in Ogden, Ohio, a Quaker community in Clinton County, to William P. and Nancy M. Harvey. He attended art school ...
.
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John Ruthven (b. 1927) American artist best known for wildlife paintings.
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Paul Sawyier (1865–1917) was a Kentucky artist and an American impressionist.
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Joseph Henry Sharp
Joseph Henry Sharp (September 27, 1859 – August 29, 1953) was an American painter and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists, of which he is considered the "Spiritual Father". Sharp was one of the earliest European-American artists t ...
, (1873-1892), was one of the six founding members of the
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.
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Mary Given Sheerer
Mary Given Sheerer (1865–1954) was an American ceramicist, designer, and art educator, best known for her affiliation with the Newcomb Pottery project at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, now part of Tulane University.
Biography
Sheerer w ...
(1865-1954), ceramicist and instructor affiliated with
Newcomb Pottery
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.
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Harry Shokler (18961978) was a 20th-century American artist known for his oil paintings and
screen prints.
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Julian Stanczak
Julian Stanczak (November 5, 1928 – March 25, 2017) was a Polish-born American painter and printmaker. The artist lived and worked in Seven Hills, Ohio with his wife, the sculptor Barbara Stanczak.
Biography
Julian Stanczak was born in Boro ...
, is an internationally recognized abstract painter, founder of the Op Art movement.
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Tony Tasset (b.1960), American multimedia artist.
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Edward Charles Volkert
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(1871–1935) a Cincinnati-based post-impressionist painter who was known for his oil and watercolor cattle paintings from the
Old Lyme Art Colony.
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John Ellsworth Weis
John Ellsworth Weis (1892–1962) was an American painter.
Biography
He was born in Powell County, Kentucky, moved to Higginsport, Ohio at an early age, and then moved again to Norwood, Ohio, at nine years of age. At 14 years of age, he enroll ...
(1892-1962) graduate and faculty member
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Tom Wesselmann
Thomas K. Wesselmann (February 23, 1931 – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.
Early years
Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati.
From 1949 ...
(February 23, 1931 – December 17, 2004) pop artist of ''The Great American Nude'' series of paintings.
Galleries
The college features three public galleries that offer changing art exhibitions, the Pearlman Gallery, the Chidlaw Gallery and the Convergys Gallery. Exhibitions include emerging and professional artists, students, faculty and alumni artists.
References
External links
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