Alumni Archive
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![A promotional image depicts female dancers in black leotards below the words 'Boston Ballet Mikko Nissinen Artistic Director' in white on a black background]()
Denise Korn
Denise Korn (B.F.A. ’87) is the creative strategist behind some of the most recognizable brands in real estate, hospitality, education, and the arts.
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![Detail view of curving building with wall of windows reflecting a bright blue sky and clouds.]()
Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’54) discovered architecture more or less by accident during what was proving to be a discouraging first year at Cornell.
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![Steel creates a spiraling vortex in this 14-foot sculpture suspended with cables from the ceiling.]()
Mark Gibian
Sculptor Mark Gibian (B.F.A./B.A. ’79) is a master at bending steel to his will and imagination.
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![Street-level view of a building at dusk.]()
Alan Chimacoff
Award-winning architect Alan Chimacoff (’63, B.Arch. ’64) has been a significant force in architectural practice and education for decades.
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![A video camera is filming in an art museum.]()
Shelly Silver
Video artist and filmmaker Shelly Silver (B.F.A. ’80), a native of New York City, graduated from Cornell with degrees in intellectual history (B.A. College Scholar/Phi Beta Kappa) and mixed-media arts in 1980.
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![Poster for documentary An Undeniable Voice, showing an older gentleman dressed in a suit and glasses, holding a microphone.]()
Price Arana
Price Arana (B.F.A. ’86) launched her first career — as a professional photographer — only months after graduating from Cornell.
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![An abstract painting with a brown, peach, and green color palette.]()
Amie Cunat
Japanese American artist Amie Cunat (M.F.A. ’12) is known for her unabashed use of color to explore, entice, and question.
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![Book cover 'Reinventing Cities: Equity Planners Tell Their Stories']()
Pierre Clavel
AAP Professor Emeritus Pierre Clavel (CRP Ph.D. ’66) is an authority on “progressive” planning. To him, progressives focus on the distributive effects of their work: more equality and wider participation are constant concerns.
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![Oil on linen still life painting of a large black pot surrounded by smaller dishes, a bulb of garlic, and an onion with an overgrown stem.]()
Ellen Buselli
Award-winning artist Ellen Buselli (B.F.A. ’74) is best known for realistic still-life and floral paintings that showcase her mastery of chiaroscuro, values, color, edges, and other painting techniques.
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![The Brooklyn Bridge forms the backdrop for a roof with greenery and benches.]()
Jay Valgora
As a Fulbright Fellow, Jay Valgora (B.Arch. ’85) created an ambitious proposal to transform and regenerate London’s Royal Docks.
