List of Cranbrook Academy of Art alumni and faculty

This is a list of notable people from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Ceramics

 * Richard DeVore – ceramicist
 * Leza McVey – studio potter
 * Annabeth Rosen - ceramic sculptor
 * Monica Rudquist – ceramic artist
 * Stacy Jo Scott – ceramic artist, digital fabricator arts educator, writer
 * Toshiko Takaezu – ceramic artist

Mixed media

 * Olga de Amaral – (B.F.A. textiles)
 * Nick Cave – fabric sculptor, performance artist
 * Diana Guerrero-Maciá – visual artist
 * Anne Wilson – visual artist, mixed media

Painters

 * Marc Awodey – contemporary artist, painting and poetry
 * Shiva Ahmadi – painter
 * Frederic James – painter
 * Judith Lodge – painter
 * Fred Mitchell – painter

Printmakers and book artists

 * Walter Hamady – artist, book designer, papermaker
 * Stephanie Pogue - artist and art educator
 * Roland Poska – papermaker, printmaker
 * Ron Kowalke - artist and art educator

Sculptors

 * Susan Aaron-Taylor – sculptor
 * Barbara Cooper – artist, sculptor
 * Paul Granlund – sculptor
 * Waylande Gregory – art-deco ceramics sculptors
 * Duane Hanson – artist, sculptor
 * Beth Katleman – sculptor
 * Tony Rosenthal – sculptor
 * Sherri Smith – (M.F.A. 1967) fiber artist, sculptor, and professor
 * Susan York – artist, sculptor

Architecture

 * Ed Bacon – urban planner, architect
 * Peter Bohlin – architect
 * Theodore Galante – architect
 * James Hubbell – artist, architect, sculptor, founder of the Ilan-Lael Foundation
 * Fumihiko Maki – architect
 * Gyo Obata - architect
 * Ralph Rapson – architect
 * Eero Saarinen – architect, industrial designer, and furniture designer. Designs include the Tulip group, Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri and the main terminal of Dulles International Airport
 * Joseph Allen Stein – architect
 * Harry Weese – (Fellowship Urban Planning 1938–1939) architect
 * Hani Rashid – (M.A. architecture, 1985) architect

Furniture design

 * Harry Bertoia – artist, sound art sculptor, modern furniture designer
 * Charles Eames – architect, furniture designer; designer of the Eames Chair (see Ray Kaiser, below)
 * Ray Kaiser Eames - abstract artist and furniture designer who married Charles Eames in 1941 and collaborated on most of the Eames designs
 * Florence Knoll – architect, furniture designer
 * Jay Sae Jung Oh – artist and furniture designer

Graphic design

 * Ed Fella – graphic designer, artist, educator
 * Jeffery Keedy – graphic designer, type designer
 * P. Scott Makela – graphic designer, type designer
 * Nancy Skolos – (B.F.A. design, 1977) graphic designer
 * Lorraine Wild – (B.F.A. 1975) graphic designer

Industrial design

 * Niels Diffrient – ergonomics designer, industrial designer

Textile design

 * Ruth Adler-Schnee – (M.F.A. 1946) textile designer and first female architecture graduate student from Cranbrook
 * Mary Balzer Buskirk – (M.F.A.) mid-century modern fiber artist
 * Carolyn Crump – 3D quilt maker
 * Jack Lenor Larsen – (M.F.A. 1951) textile designer.
 * Mary Walker Phillips – (M.F.A. 1963) popularized contemporary hand knitting
 * Bhakti Ziek – (M.F.A. fiber, 1989) contemporary textile artist

Other design

 * Chunghi Choo – jewelry designer and metalsmith
 * Wu Liangyong – urban planner

Notable faculty
This is a list of both current and past notable faculty and visiting artist-in-residence, listed in alphabetical order by last name.
 * Marshall Fredericks – sculptor
 * Maija Grotell – ceramics
 * Keith Haring – artist-in-residence and mural installation in 1987.
 * Ken Isaacs – head of the design department from 1956–1958, known for matrix-based modular system to build living structures.
 * Jane Lackey – textile and fiber artist
 * Daniel Libeskind – architect
 * Carl Milles – sculptor-in-residence
 * Eliel Saarinen – Finnish architect known for his work with art nouveau buildings.

Presidents and directors

 * Eliel Saarinen, President, 1932–1946
 * Zoltan Sepeshy, President, 1946–1966
 * Glen Paulsen, President, 1966–1970
 * Wallace Mitchell, 1970–1977
 * Roy Slade, 1977–1994
 * Susana Torre, Director, 1994–1996
 * Gerhardt Knodel, Director, 1997–2007
 * Reed Kroloff, Director, 2007–2014
 * Christopher Scoates, Director, 2014–2018
 * Susan Ewing, Director, 2019–present