Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts
Commencement speaker indicated by *
- 2012
- Wang Shu*
- Rebecca Solnit
- Studio Ghibli
- 2011
- Arnold Berleant
- Bill Moggridge*
- Mierle Laderman Ukeles
- 2010
- Seymour Chwast
- Paula Granoff
- Ruth J. Simmons*
- Art Spiegelman
- 2009
- Caterina Fake
- Jonathan Ive
- Roger Mandle
- Sir Ken Robinson*
- 2008
- Laurie Anderson*
- Yo-Yo Ma
- Ed Ruscha
- Roberta Smith
- 2007
- Gore Vidal*
- Richard Leacock
- Seth MacFarlane
- 2005
- Kurt Andersen*
- Deborah Berke
- Zuzana Licko
- Rudy VanderLans
- Yuri Norstein
- Eva Zeisel
- 2004
- Nathan Lyons
- David Macaulay*
- Esther Metcalf Mauran
- 2003
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Dave Hickey*
- Jenny Holzer
- Jens Risom
- 2002
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.*
- Szymon Bojko
- Ann Hamilton
- Pauline Trigère
- Adrian Cann
- 1993
- Elizabeth Murray
- 1992
- Magdalena Abakanowicz
- 1988
- John Prip
- Massimo Vignelli
- 1987
- Frank Gehry
- 1986
- Dale Chihuly
- 1983
- Beatrice (Oenslager) Chace
- Unknown Year
- Louis A. Fazzano
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