- John Alcorn, illustrator
- Stan Allen, Dean of the School of Architecture, Princeton University
- Daniel Arsham, artist, with alumnus Alex Mustonen established Snarkitecture
- Alex Bag, video artist
- Shigeru Ban, pioneer of "Paper Architecture"
- Donald Baechler, painter
- Karen Bausman, Rome Prize recipient, the only American woman architect to hold both the Eliot Noyes (Harvard) and Eero Saarinen (Yale) chairs
- Billy Bitzer, cinematographer
- Louise Brann, muralist
- Dik Browne, cartoonist and creator of Hagar the Horrible
- Albert Carnesale, former chancellor of UCLA
- Martin Charnin, Tony Award-winning lyricist, writer, and theatre director
- Remy Charlip, choreographer, writer, and illustrator
- John Walter Christie, engineer and inventor
- Guy Coheleach, wildlife artist
- Will Cotton, painter
- Miriam Cooper, silent film actress who appeared in Birth of a Nation
- William Francis Deegan, architect and political leader, namesake of the Major Deegan Expressway
- Roy DeCarava, photographer
- Elizabeth Diller, with Ricardo Scofidio, the first architects to win a MacArthur Prize
- Michael Doret, graphic designer, font designer, lettering artist
- Lou Dorfsman
- Thomas Edison, inventor
- Jeffrey Epstein, investor
- Mitch Epstein, photographer
- Thom Fitzgerald, filmmaker
- Audrey Flack, pioneer of photorealism
- Max Fleischer, animator
- Robert Florczak, artist, illustrator, author, composer
- Laura Ford, sculptor
- Janet Gardner, filmmaker
- Milton Glaser, graphic designer, founder New York Magazine, creator of the I Love New York logo
- Sagi Haviv, partner, Chermayeff & Geismar; designer of the Library of Congress and Armani Exchange logos
- John Hejduk, one of New York Five a group of five New York City architects
- Eva Hesse
- Chuck Hoberman, winner of the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation and Design.
- Kim Holleman, artist
- Russell Hulse, a 1993 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Alexander Isley, graphic designer
- Crockett Johnson, author of Harold and the Purple Crayon
- Bob Kane (1915–1998), comic book artist and writer, creator of Batman
- Michael J. King, professor of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M
- William King
- R.B. Kitaj, painter
- Lee Krasner, painter
- Daniel Libeskind, architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center
- Herb Lubalin
- Ellen Lupton, graphic designer, writer, curator and educator
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- Noah Lyon, artist
- Jay Maisel, photographer
- Fred Marcellino, illustrator
- Sylvia Plimack Mangold
- Joseph Margulies, artist
- Mike Mills, filmmaker
- Matthew Monahan, sculptor
- Jacqueline Moss, art historian, educator
- Michel Mossessian, architect
- Wangechi Mutu, artist
- Albert Nerken, chemical engineer, industrialist and philanthropist
- Victor Papanek, early proponent of ecologically and socially responsible design
- Bruce Pasternack, President and CEO of the Special Olympics
- Charles E. Pont, painter, illustrator, printmaker, graphic designer
- Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, artists and educators
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Beaux-Arts sculptor
- Erik Sanko, marionette-maker and leader of the rock band Skeleton Key
- Alfred Sarant Soviet spy, and later became head of Zelenograd, the Soviet "silicon valley"
- Richard Sarles, CEO and General Manager of Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
- Domitilla Sartogo, owner, founding partner and executive director of DRAGO Media Kompany
- Augusta Savage, sculptor
- Arnold Alfred Schmidt, painter
- Sy Schulman, civil engineer and planner, Mayor of White Plains, New York (1993-1997)
- Ricardo Scofidio, with Elizabeth Diller, the first architects to win a MacArthur Prize
- Samuel R. Scottron, inventor, grandfather of entertainer Lena Horne
- Georgette Seabrooke, muralist, artist, art therapist and educator
- George Segal, pop art sculptor
- Redmond Simonsen, graphic artist and game designer at the wargame company Simulations Publications, Inc.
- Dr. Michael B. Sisti, neurosurgeon at Columbia University
- Zak Smith, artist
- Charles B.J. Snyder (1860–1945), chief architect and Superintendent of School Buildings, New York City Board of Education, 1891–1923
- Edward Sorel, graphic designer
- Thaddeus Strassberger, opera director
- Philip Taaffe, painter
- TRUE, artist
- Hy Turkin, sportswriter and editor of the first baseball encyclopedia
- Richard Velazquez, Honda and Porsche designer
- Allyson Vieira, artist
- Edward J. Wasp, engineer and pioneer of slurry pipelines
- Adolph Alexander Weinman, sculptor
- Tom Wesselmann, painter
- Jerome Witkin, painter
- Joel-Peter Witkin, fine art photographer
- Dan Witz, painter, street artist
- Tobi Wong, designer, artist
- Harry Zaverdas, ITC Herb Lubalin Award 1985, graphic designer, photographer
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