career and technical education
Vocational education is education that prepares people to work as a technician or to take up employment in a skilled craft or trade as a tradesperson or artisan. Vocational Education can also be seen as that type of education given to an i ...
high school
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...
in
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
,
New York City
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,
New York State
New York, officially the State of New York, is a state in the Northeastern United States. It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City. With a total area of , New York is the 27th-largest U.S. sta ...
, United States. Founded in 1936 as the School of Industrial Art, the school moved to 1075 Second Avenue in 1960 and more recently, its
Midtown Manhattan
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Second
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and
Third Avenue
Third Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, as well as in the center portion of the Bronx. Its southern end is at Astor Place and St. Mark's Place. It transitions into Cooper Squ ...
s, in September 2012. High School of Art and Design is operated by the
New York City Department of Education
The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) is the department of the government of New York City that manages the city's public school system. The City School District of the City of New York (or the New York City Public Schools) is t ...
.
History
On November 2, 1936, four art teachers began what was to become the High School of Art and Design, the School of Industrial Art, in a former
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
elementary school at 257 West 40th Street, which for a time had housed a WPA
Federal Theatre Project
The Federal Theatre Project (FTP; 1935–1939) was a theatre program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal to fund live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States. It was one of five Federal Pro ...
locale. Initially, they used orange crates and plywood to make storage and desks. One of the co-founders, John B. Kenny, became principal in 1941. The school soon moved to 211 East 79th Street on the
Upper East Side
The Upper East Side, sometimes abbreviated UES, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 96th Street to the north, the East River to the east, 59th Street to the south, and Central Park/Fifth Avenue to the we ...
, the site of the former annex to Benjamin Franklin High School."History of S.I.A" p. 14 /ref> In September 1960, the School of Industrial Art changed its name to the High School of Art and Design and moved to 1075 Second Avenue in east Midtown.
The 1936 school was first envisioned as a
continuation school
A continuation high school is an alternative to a comprehensive high school. In some countries it is primarily for students who are considered at risk of not graduating at the normal pace. The requirements to graduate are the same, but the sch ...
, that is, a school where children who had left school and gotten jobs attended for half days to continue their education, normally including vocational classes relevant to their current or possible future jobs. However, it opened as a vocational high school,
On November 8, 2004, a rally was scheduled on the occasion of the school's 68th anniversary. This was to include a press conference at which increased support of the school would be urged. On November 8, 2006, the school celebrated its 70th anniversary. The office of the
Mayor of New York City
The mayor of New York City, officially Mayor of the City of New York, is head of the executive branch of the government of New York City and the chief executive of New York City. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property ...
issued a proclamation making November 8 "High School of Art and Design Day".
Academics and events
Applicants must take an entrance exam and present a portfolio to be accepted. Freshmen sample all art and design subjects before selecting a major for their sophomore, junior and senior years. Students at Art and Design receive two periods of art instruction per day, choosing from among eight art majors: cartooning, animation, architecture, graphic design, illustration, fashion, photography, and film/video.
Art and Design's Kenny Gallery, named for the school's founding principal, John B. Kenny, hosts monthly art exhibits of student work. The gallery is open to the public. The Black Box Theatre was donated by the Friends of Art and Design (FAD).
Notable people
Faculty
Some members of the school's faculty became notable for their creative work outside teaching. These include:
*
Daisy Aldan
Daisy, Daisies or DAISY may refer to:
Plants
* ''Bellis perennis'', the common daisy, lawn daisy or English daisy, a European species
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* Asteraceae, daisy family
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, (1923-2001), poet, actress, editor and translator
* Irv Docktor, fine artist and book illustrator
*
Frank Eliscu
Frank Eliscu (July 13, 1912 – June 19, 1996) was an American sculptor and art teacher who designed and created the Heisman Memorial Football Trophy in 1935 when he was only 20 years old. The first Heisman Trophy, a strong young bull of a foo ...
, designer and sculptor of the
Heisman Memorial Trophy
The Heisman Memorial Trophy (usually known colloquially as the Heisman Trophy or The Heisman) is awarded annually to the most outstanding player in college football. Winners epitomize great ability combined with diligence, perseverance, and hard ...
and other works of art
*
Alvin Hollingsworth
Alvin C. Hollingsworth (25 February 1928 – July 14, 2000), at the
Bel Kaufman
Bella Kaufman (May 10, 1911 – July 25, 2014) was an American teacher and author, well known for writing the bestselling 1964 novel '' Up the Down Staircase.''
Early life
Bella's father, Michael Kaufman (Mikhail Y. Koyfman) and her mother, La ...
, author of ''Up the Down Staircase''
*
Bernard Krigstein
Bernard Krigstein (; March 22, 1919 – January 8, 1990), was an American illustrator and gallery artist who received acclaim for his innovative and influential approach to comic book art, notably in EC Comics. His artwork usually displayed the s ...
, painter, illustrator, cartoonist
*
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.
From 1949 to 1951 he atte ...
, pop artist, famous for his "Great American Nude" series
Violet Barclay
Violet A. Barclay (November 5, 1922 – February 26, 2010), who also worked under the name Valerie Barclay and the married name Valerie Smith, was an American illustrator best known as one of the pioneering female comic-book artists, having s ...
, a pioneering female comic book artist
* 1940:
Al Plastino
Alfred John Plastino (December 15, 1921 – November 25, 2013) was an American comics artist best known as one of the most prolific Superman artists of the 1950s, along with his DC Comics colleague Wayne Boring. Plastino also worked as a comics w ...
, comic book illustrator, writer and editor
* 1940:
, comic book illustratorStone in
* 1941: Allen Bellman, comic book artist
* 1943:
Carmine Infantino
Carmine Michael Infantino (; May 24, 1925 – April 4, 2013) was an American comics artist and editor, primarily for DC Comics, during the late 1950s and early 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comic Books. Among his character creations are ...
, comic book artist, editor, member Comic Book Hall of FameKimball, Kirk "Gaspar Saladino — The Natural" . Dial B for Blog Retrieved February 11, 2012.
* 1943: Helmut Krone, art director
* 1943: Henry Wolf, graphic designer, art director and photographer
* 1944:
Joe Orlando
Joseph Orlando (April 4, 1927 – December 23, 1998) was an Italian American illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist during a lengthy career spanning six decades. He was the associate publisher of '' Mad'' and the vice president of DC Comics, ...
Tony Bennett
Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American retired singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett is also a painter, having created works under his birt ...
, singer and painterTweti, Mira "School's Alumni and Staff Feel Its Art Emphasis Is Neglected" ''The New York Times'', December 5, 2001. Accessed October 29, 2007. "Graduates include the designer Calvin Klein, the singer Tony Bennett, the playwright Harvey Fierstein and the filmmaker Ralph Bakshi."
* 1945: Joe Giella, comic book illustrator"Joe Giella" Kees Kousemaker's
Lambiek Comiclopedia
Galerie Lambiek is a Dutch comic book store and art gallery in Amsterdam, founded on November 8, 1968 by Kees Kousemaker (, – Bussum, ), though since 2007, his son Boris Kousemaker is the current owner. From 1968 to 2015, it was located ...
. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
* 1945:
Everett Raymond Kinstler
Everett Raymond Kinstler (August 5, 1926 – May 26, 2019) was an American artist, whose official portraits include Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.Sy Barry, comic book illustratorFischler, Marcelle S "Long Island Journal; Cartoonists Gather to Celebrate Real Life" ''The New York Times'', June 10, 2001. Accessed January 22, 2017. "Mr. Scaduto, Mr. Giella, Mr. Barry and Mr. Squelio attended the School of Industrial Art, now the School of Art and Design, together in the 1940s."
* 1946:
Vladimir Kagan
Vladimir Kagan (August 29, 1927 – April 7, 2016) was an American furniture designer. He was inducted in the Interior Designer Hall of Fame in 2009, 62 years after he started designing and producing furniture.
His Midcentury modern furniture wi ...
, furniture designer
* 1946:
Al Scaduto
Alvaro Scaduto (July 12, 1928 – December 8, 2007), better known as Al Scaduto, was a cartoonist noted for his 61-year span of work for King Features Syndicate on the classic strips, '' They'll Do It Every Time'' and '' Little Iodine'', which ...
, syndicated cartoonist
* 1947:
Alex Toth
Alexander Toth (June 25, 1928 – May 27, 2006) was an American cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but he is also known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera throughout ...
, comic book illustrator, animator for Hanna-Barbera
* 1947: John Romita Sr., comic book illustrator
* 1949: Howard Beckerman, animator and author
* 1950:
Dick Giordano
Richard Joseph Giordano (; July 20, 1932 – March 27, 2010) was an American comics artist and editor whose career included introducing Charlton Comics' "Action Heroes" stable of superheroes and serving as executive editor of DC Comics.
Early ...
, comic book illustrator
* 1950: Jules Maidoff, artist and founder of SACI (Studio Arts College International) in Florence, Italy
* 1951:
Leo Dillon
Leo Dillon (March 2, 1933 – May 26, 2012) and Diane Dillon (''née'' Sorber; born March 13, 1933) were American illustrators of children's books and adult paperback book and magazine covers. One obituary of Leo called the work of the husb ...
, adult and children's book illustrator
* 1951: Bill Kresse, syndicated cartoonist
* 1952: Eva Hesse, minimalist painter and sculptor
* 1952: Sam Scali, advertising-agency owner
* 1953:
Peter Hujar
Peter Hujar (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) was an American photographer best known for his black and white portraits. He has been recognized posthumously as a major American photographer of the late-twentieth century. Yet Hujar's work r ...
, photographer
* 1953:
Ronald Wayne
Ronald Gerald Wayne (born May 17, 1934) is a retired American electronics industry businessman. He co-founded Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) as a partnership with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs on April 1, 1976, providing administrative ...
, Apple Computer co-founder
* 1955: I. C. Rapoport, photojournalist
* 1956:
Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is an American animator and filmmaker. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 1992, he directed nine theatric ...
, animator, filmmaker
* 1956: John Johnson, TV news anchor, author and painter
* 1956: Barbara Nessim, illustrator and educator
* 1956: Regina Porter, fashion designer
* 1957:
Bobby Weinstein
Robert Weinstein (July 16, 1939 – March 16, 2022) was an American songwriter, singer, and music industry executive, whose hit songs, mostly co-written with Teddy Randazzo, include "Goin' Out of My Head", "It's Gonna Take a Miracle" and " I ...
, songwriter, member of the
Songwriters Hall of Fame
The Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) is an American institution founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer, music publisher/songwriter Abe Olman, and publisher/executive Howie Richmond to honor those whose work, represent, and maintain, the her ...
* 1957:
Phoebe Gilman
Phoebe Gilman (April 4, 1940 – August 29, 2002) was a Canadian-American children's book author and illustrator. Her books were notable for their strong lead female characters. Her book ''Something from Nothing'', adapted from an old Yiddish ...
, children's book author and illustrator
* 1959:
Neal Adams
Neal Adams (June 15, 1941 – April 28, 2022) was an American comic book artist. He was the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates, and was a Creator ownership, creators-rights advocate who helped secure a pension and re ...
Time
Time is the continued sequence of existence and event (philosophy), events that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various me ...
'' magazine cartographer
* 1960:
Calvin Klein
Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, he also has given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, an ...
, fashion designer
* 1960:
George Kuchar
George Kuchar (August 31, 1942 – September 6, 2011) was an American underground film director and video artist, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic.
Early life and career
Kuchar trained as a commercial artist at the School of Industrial Art, now kn ...
, cult filmmaker and director
* 1960: Antonio Lopez, fashion illustrator
* 1960:
Gerard Malanga
Gerard Joseph Malanga (born March 20, 1943) is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, actor, curator and archivist.
Early life
Malanga was born in the Bronx in 1943, the only child of Italian immigrant parents. In 1959, at the beginning of h ...
, poet, photographer and filmmaker
* 1960:
William T. Williams
William T. Williams (born 1942) is an American painter and educator. He is known for his process-based approach to painting that engages motifs drawn from personal memory and cultural narrative to create non-referential, abstract compositions. ...
, abstract painter
* 1961: Robert Volpe, painter and
NYPD
The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, established on May 23, 1845, is the primary municipal law enforcement agency within the City of New York, the largest and one of the oldest in ...
detective, the "Art Cop"
* 1962: Roscoe Orman, actor, author and artist, best known as "Gordon" on ''Sesame Street''
* 1962: Simon Gaon, painter
* 1963:
Ronnie Landfield
Ronnie Landfield (born January 9, 1947) is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction (related to Postminimalism, Color Field painting, and ...
, abstract painter
* 1963:
Joey Skaggs
Joey Skaggs (born 1945) is an American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. Skaggs is one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. Skaggs has used Kim Yung Soo, Joe ...
, media prankster, performance artist
* 1963: Jim Simon, animator and artist
* 1963: Michael Steiner, abstract artist and sculptor
* 1965:
Jackie Curtis
Jackie Curtis (February 19, 1947 – May 15, 1985) was an American actress, writer, singer, and Warhol superstar.
Early life and career
Jackie Curtis was born in New York City to John Holder and Jenevive Uglialoro. She had one sibling, half-br ...
, Warhol film star, poet, playwright
* 1965:
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman (; born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman on February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel '' Maus''. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines ''Arcade'' and '' Ra ...
, Pulitzer Prize winning author and cartoonist
* 1967:
Bert Monroy
Bert Monroy is an American artist best known as an early Photoshop expert. He wrote the first book on the use of Photoshop (''The Official Adobe Photoshop Handbook'', coauthored with David Biedny), and became an established Photoshop educator. ...
, digital art pioneer, author of books on Photoshop, Illustrator
* 1967:
Eric Carr
Paul Charles Caravello (July 12, 1950 – November 24, 1991), better known professionally as Eric Carr, was an American musician who was the drummer for the rock band Kiss from 1980 to 1991. Caravello was selected as the new Kiss drummer after ...
(Paul Charles Caravello), drummer in the rock band
Kiss
A kiss is the touch or pressing of one's lips against another person or an object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, romance, sexual attraction, ...
* 1967:
Frank Brunner
Frank Brunner (born February 21, 1949) is an American comics artist and illustrator best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s.
Early life
Brunner attended Manhattan's High School of Art and Design. He was in the same graduating class ...
, comic book illustrator
* 1967:
Larry Hama
Larry Hama (; born June 7, 1949) is an American comic-book writer, artist, actor, and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s.
During the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows ''M*A*S*H' ...
, writer and comic book illustrator
* 1967: Ralph Reese, comic book illustrator
* 1967:
Lenny White
Leonard "Lenny" White III (born December 19, 1949) is an American jazz fusion drummer who was a member of the band Return to Forever led by Chick Corea in the 1970s. White has been called "one of the founding fathers of jazz fusion". He has won ...
, jazz-funk drummer, member of
Return to Forever
Return to Forever was an American jazz fusion band that was founded by pianist Chick Corea in 1972. The band has had many members, with the only consistent bandmate of Corea's being bassist Stanley Clarke. Along with Weather Report, The Headhu ...
* 1967:
Terry Winters
Terry Winters (born 1949, Brooklyn, NY) is an American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose nuanced approach to the process of painting has addressed evolving concepts of spatiality and expanded the concerns of abstract art. His attention ...
, abstract painter and printmaker
* 1968:
Candida Royalle
Candida Royalle (born Candice Marion Vadala; October 15, 1950 – September 7, 2015) was an American producer and director of couples-oriented pornography, pornographic actress, sex educator, and sex-positive feminist. She was a member of the ...
, producer and director of couples-oriented erotic films
* 1968:
John Steptoe
John Steptoe (September 14, 1950 – August 28, 1989) was an author and illustrator for children’s books dealing with aspects of the African-American experience. He is best known for ''Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters'', which was acknowledged ...
, author and illustrator of children's books
* 1968: Robin Tewes, artist and painter
* 1968:
Frank Verlizzo
Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo is an American design artist and Drama Desk Award-winner. He is best known for creating the posters for many prominent Broadway productions, including the original productions of Stephen Sondheim's '' Sweeney Todd: The Demon ...
("Fraver"), Drama Desk Award-winning designer of theater art
* 1969:
Pat Cleveland
Patricia Cleveland (born June 23, 1950)The History Makers August 14, 2014. Retrieved March ...
, fashion model
* 1969:
Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Forbes Fierstein ( ; born June 6, 1952) is an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for his theater work in '' Torch Song Trilogy'' and '' Hairspray'' and movie roles in '' Mrs. Doubtfire'', ''Independence Day'', an ...
, actor, playwright, gay activist
* 1970:
Amy Heckerling
Amy Heckerling (born May 7, 1954) is an American filmmaker. An alumna of both New York University and the American Film Institute, she directed the commercially successful films ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'' (1982), ''National Lampoon's Europ ...
, film director, writer, actress
* 1971:
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (born September 4, 1953) is an American actor and singer. Best known for playing Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington in ''Welcome Back Kotter'' (1975–79), he has also appeared in a number of films and television shows, in ...
, actor and singer
* 1971:
Alan Kupperberg
Alan Kupperberg (May 18, 1953 – July 16, 2015) was an American comics artist known for working in both comic books and newspaper strips.
Early life
Alan Kupperberg was born on May 18, 1953 in New York City. He graduated from the High School o ...
, cartoonist and illustrator
* 1971:
Steven Meisel
Steven Meisel (born June 5, 1954) is an American fashion photographer, who obtained popularity and critical acclaim with his work in ''Vogue'' and '' Vogue Italia'' as well as his photographs of friend Madonna in her 1992 book, '' Sex''. He i ...
, fashion photographer
* 1971:
Lynette Washington
Lynette Washington is an American jazz vocalist. She was the winner in the Jazzmobile Anheuser-Busch Jazz Vocal Competition in 2005.
Biography
Washington is a native New Yorker and has had a career that has taken her across the globe. Her tra ...
, jazz vocalist
* 1973: Lisa Jane Persky, actress.
* 1973: Tom Sito, animator, filmmaker, educator
* 1974: Manny Vega, painter, muralist, mosaicist
* 1976: Marcelino Sanchez, film and television actor
* 1976:
Tracy 168
TRACY 168 (born Michael Tracy in 1958) is an American graffiti artist. He pioneered the art form known as Wildstyle. Tracy 168 came to be known as one of the most influential graffiti and street artists of all time, as variations of Wild Style wri ...
(Michael Tracey), graffiti artist
* 1976: Mike Carlin, comic book writer and editor
* 1977: Joe Jusko, comic book illustrator
* 1977: Gladys Portugues, champion body builder
* 1978:
Lasana M. Sekou
Lasana M. Sekou (born 12 January 1959) is a poet, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and publisher from the Caribbean island of Saint Martin.
Biography
Lasana M. Sekou has authored over 20 books and is considered one of the prolific Carib ...
, poet, journalist, author, publisher
* 1978: Lorna Simpson, artist and photographer
* 1978:
Lee Quiñones
George Lee Quiñones (born 1960) is a Puerto Rican artist and actor. Quiñones rose to prominence by creating massive New York City subway car graffiti that carried his moniker "LEE". His style is rooted in popular culture and often with politic ...
, actor and graffiti artist
* 1978: Margaret Matz, architect and illustrator
* 1978:
Malcolm Jones III
Malcolm Jones III (1959–1996) was an American comic book artist best known as an inker on '' The Sandman'', where he added his illustrative line and textures to the work of pencillers such as Mike Dringenberg, Kelley Jones, and Colleen Doran. H ...
ComicMix
IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books, graphic novels, art books, and comic strip collections. It was founded in 1999 as the publishing division of Idea and Design Works, LLC (IDW), itself formed in 1999, and is regularly recog ...
. Quote: "I knew (we all knew) that Malcolm was a troubled soul and I'm sad to say that when he committed suicide a few years ago I was not that surprised.
Denys
Denys ( uk, Денис) is both a form of the given name Denis and a patronymic surname. Amongst others, it is a transliteration of the common Ukrainian name ''Денис''. Closely related forms are ''Denijs'' and ''Dénys''. Notable people with ...
and I would often talk about how to deal with Malcolm and reached out to him many times. That does little to erase the feeling that we somehow let our friend down."
* 1979:
Denys Cowan
Denys B. Cowan (born January 30, 1961) is an American comics artist, television producer, media executive and one of the co-founders of Milestone Media.
Early life
Denys Cowan was first inspired by superheroes as a child from reruns of the 1950s ...
, comic book illustrator
* 1979:
Jimmy Palmiotti
James Palmiotti (born August 14, 1961) is an American writer and inker of comic books, who also does writing for games, television and film.
Early life
Palmiotti attended the High School of Art and Design in New York City.
Career
Palmiotti sta ...
, inker and writer of comic books, games and film
* 1979:
Mark Texeira
Mark Texeira () is an American comic book artist. Classically trained as a painter, he broke into the comics field in the early 1980s.
Career
Mark Texeira was born and raised in New York City. He attended Manhattan's High School of Art and ...
, comic book illustrator
* 1980: Chris 'Daze' Ellis, graffiti writer and artist
* 1980:
Nicole Willis
Nicole Willis (born 1963) is an American singer-songwriter, producer, director, and visual artist. Willis lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
Biography
Professional
Willis contributed vocals in London, United Kingdom in 1985 with Washingto ...
, musician, artist
* 1981:
Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs (born April 9, 1963) is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for his own fashion label, Marc Jacobs, and formerly Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, which was produced for approximately 15 years, before it was ...
, fashion designer
* 1982:
Lady Pink
Lady Pink, born Sandra Fabara (1964), is an Ecuadorian-American graffiti and mural artist. Early life
Fabara was born in Ambato, Ecuador in 1964 and moved to the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York when she was seven years old. She grew up ...
(Sandra Fabara), graffiti writer, artist and muralist.Graffiti School – Art & Design High School (NYC) "Mare 139 & Lady Pink in an Art & Design Bathroom (From Hip Hop Files)"
* 1983:
Mare139
Carlos Rodriguez (also known as Mare 139) is a New York-based artist born in 1965 in Spanish Harlem, New York City. He was best known as the subway graffiti writer Mare 139, and has since adapted the graffiti lettering styles to metal sculpture in ...
(Carlos Rodriguez), graffiti artist and designer
* 1985:
Roger Sanchez
Roger Sanchez (born June 1, 1967) is a Dominican-American house music DJ, remixer and producer. He won a Grammy Award for his remix of " Hella Good" by No Doubt in 2003, and is best known for his song " Another Chance", which was an internati ...
, Grammy Award-winning DJ, producer, recording artist
* 1985: Christopher Martin, rapper
* 1986:
Pharoahe Monch
Troy Donald Jamerson (born October 31, 1972), better known by his stage name Pharoahe Monch, is an American rapper from South Jamaica, Queens, New York. He is known for his complex lyrics, intricate delivery, and internal and multisyllabic rhy ...
Ivan de Prume
Ivan de Prume is a heavy metal drummer whose music became famous in the groove metal band White Zombie.
DePrume was born in Brooklyn, New York City. His great-great-grandfather was Frantz Jehin-Prume. He started playing drums when he was ...
, former drummer in the groove metal band White Zombie
* 1990: Kwamé (Kwamé Holland),
rapper
Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...
and
music producer
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* 1990:
Jamal Igle
Jamal Yaseem Igle . jamaligle.com. Retrieved November 28, 2012. is an American
Joe Madureira
Joe Madureira (born December 1974), often called Joe Mad,Smith, Andrew (May 3, 2002). "Canceled Comics Cavalcade Catch-up". ''Comics Buyer's Guide'' #1485. p. 38 is an American comic book artist and game developer, best known for his work on ''Dar ...
, comic book illustrator
* 1992:
Mobb Deep
Mobb Deep was an American hip hop duo from New York City. The duo consisted of rappers Prodigy and Havoc. They are considered to be among the principal progenitors of hardcore East Coast hip hopEdwards, Paul, 2009, '' How to Rap: The Art & Sc ...
, hip-hop duo
* 1995:
Cool Calm Pete
Peter Chung (born March 25, 1979), better known by his stage name Cool Calm Pete, is a Korean American rapper and producer from Seoul, Korea, who is currently based in Queens, New York. Cool Calm Pete has been profiled in major publications su ...
(Peter Chung), hip hop artist as a member of Babbletron and then as a Solo artist
* 1998:
Fabolous
John David Jackson (born November 18, 1977), better known by his stage name Fabolous, is an American rapper. Raised in Brooklyn, he first gained recognition while still a senior in high school, when he performed live on American music executive ...
, rapper
* 2006:
ASAP Ferg
Darold Durard Brown Ferguson Jr. (born October 20, 1988), known professionally as ASAP Ferg (stylized as A$AP Ferg), is an American rapper from New York City's Harlem neighborhood. Aside from his solo career, he is a member of the hip hop collec ...