Art Academy of Cincinnati

The Art Academy of Cincinnati is a private college of art and design, accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded as the McMicken School of Design, and was previously a department of the University of Cincinnati, and later, a museum school of the Cincinnati Art Museum. It offers four undergraduate degrees: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fine Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts with Emphasis in Art History, and an Associate of Science in Graphic Design. It also offers a Master of Arts in Art Education, which is taught during the summer semester.

Famous Graduates and Faculty

• Frank Harmon Myers (1899 – 1956) was an American painter. His work includes a variety of topics but he is best known for his seascapes.
• Paul Sawyier (1865-1917) was a Kentucky artist and an American lmpressionist.
• Edward Charles Volkert (1871-1935) a Cincinnati-based post-impressionist painter who was well known for his oil and watercolor cattle paintings from the Old Lyme artist colony.
• Jim Flora (1914-1998) best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for RCA Victor and Columbia Records during the 1940s and 1950s.
• Daniel Garber (1880-1958) was an American landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania.
• Harlan Hubbard (1900-1988) was an American artist and author.
• Tim Folzenlogen is a contemporary realist painter based in New York City.
• Charley Harper (1922-2007) was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist, best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations.
• Kevin T. Kelly is a contemporary painter known for his postmodern neo-pop works based out of New York City.
• Gregory Green is a contemporary "anarchist" artist whose works include homemade bombs, illustrating societies negligence towards terrorism. He is based in New York City.
• Edie Harper is a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist. She was also the wife of Charley Harper, whom she met while at the Academy.
• Frank Duveneck (1848 –1919) was an American figure and portrait painter who taught at the Art Academy during the 1890's and later became its chairman. He notably fought with the Cincinnati Art Museum administration for students' right to study directly from the live nude model.
• Noel Martin a graphic designer, and later a professor at The Art Academy of Cincinnati, as well as The University of Cincinnati.

The Art Academy of Cincinnati is a private college of art and design, accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded as the McMicken School of Design, and was previously a department of the University of Cincinnati, and later, a museum school of the Cincinnati Art Museum. It offers four undergraduate degrees: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fine Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts with Emphasis in Art History, and an Associate of Science in Graphic Design. It also offers a Master of Arts in Art Education, which is taught during the summer semester.