Notable Alumni
- Martin Arnold - Filmmaker
- Robert Berdella, serial killer
- Dan Christensen - Painter
- Nick Cave (performance artist)
- Richard Corben - Comic book creator
- John Steuart Curry - Painter
- John de Martelly - Regionalist printmaker, KCAI printmaking teacher
- Walt Disney - Animator, media entrepreneur (attended Saturday morning classes as a child)
- Angela Dufresne - Painter
- Ellen Fullman - Inventor of long string instrument
- Jon Gnagy, - Nationally syndicated television art teacher
- Michael Greathouse - Video artist
- April Greiman - Graphic designer
- Christian Holstad - Conceptual artist
- Dennis Hopper - Actor, attended Saturday classes during high school
- Arthur Kraft - Sculptor and Painter
- Frank S. Land, founder of DeMolay
- Ronnie Landfield - Painter
- Doris Lee - Painter
- Jim Mahfood - Comic book and Graffiti artist
- Mercedes Matter - Painter, co-founder of the New York Studio School
- Louisa Matthiasdottir - Painter
- Christina McPhee - New Media artist
- Roger Medearis - Regionalist Painter, student of Benton
- Robert Morris - Sculptor, performance and installation artist
- Jackson Lee Nesbitt - Artist known for his regionalist etchings and lithographs, student of Benton
- William F. Nolan - Screenwriter, original Twilight Zone co-author
- Theo Parrish – DJ
- Victor Papanek - UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) designer/mediator; author, Design for the Real World; campaigned against unsafe design, advocate for design in the developing world
- Margot Peet - Painter, student of Benton
- Sam Prekop - Chicago Photographer, musician with The Sea and Cake
- Archer Prewitt - Chicago Illustrator, musician with The Sea and Cake and the Coctails
- Robert Rauschenberg - Painter
- Mikel Rouse - Musician with Tirez Tirez, composer who developed Totalism (music)
- Eric Sall - Painter
- Jim Suptic - Sculptor, musician
- Akio Takamori - Ceramic artist
- Christopher Willits - Musician, sound and multimedia artist
- Delmer J. Yoakum - Artist, set designer/painter
- Arnie Zimmerman - Ceramicist
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