studio owner, choreographer and team coach for Abby Lee Dance Company; featured on TV show Dance Moms Chloe Lukasiak – actress and former featured dancer on TV show Dance Moms Paul Taylor – choreographer Jonathan Wolken (1949–2010) – founder of the Pilobolus dance company Maddie Ziegler – actress and former featured dancer on TV show Dance Moms Visual arts Matt Baker – comic book artist Romare Bearden Martin Beck – painter Seddon Bennington Sharif Bey – sculptor, ceramist, educator Ailsa Mellon Bruce – Mellon heir and art patron Norman Daly — visual artist Vanessa German – sculptor, poet David Hanna – artist Charles "Teenie" Harris – photographer Jerry Harris – sculptor Yvonne Jacquette – painter and printmaker Michael Lotenero – painter and sculptor Scott McDaniel – comic book artist James Michalopoulos – painter and sculptor Burton Morris – artist Thaddeus Mosley – sculptor Sharon Needles – drag queen, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 4 Jackie Ormes Philip Pearlstein – painter Sara Penn – designer and curator Robert Qualters – painter Lawrence Saint – stained glass artist Naomi Sims – model George Sotter – painter Renee Stout – multi-media artist Andy Warhol – painter Julia Warhola Authors Joseph Bathanti – poet, writer, professor; NC Poet Laureate, 2012–2014 Nellie Bly – Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and writer Kenneth Burke – literary theorist Willa Cather – author, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Murray Chass – New York Times baseball writer, author Stephen Chbosky – author Malcolm Cowley – poet, critic Melanie Craft – novelist; wife of Larry Ellison of Oracle Stephen Dau – writer Annie Dillard – author and Pulitzer Prize winner Harry Dolan – writer Zak Ebrahim – Author, Peace Activist, Public Speaker Jack Gilbert – poet Lester Goran – writer and professor Beth Gylys – poet and professor George Heard Hamilton – art historian Kerry Hannon – author Samuel Hazo – poet and professor Lori Jakiela – author George S. Kaufman – humorist, playwright Joseph Koerner – art historian David Leavitt – novelist Stephen Manes – magazine writer, author David McCullough – historian and author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Burton Morris – painter Elizabeth Moorhead – novelist Stewart O'Nan – author Peter Oresick – poet Mary Roberts Rinehart – mystery writer Gladys Schmitt – writer Jim Shooter – comic book writer, editor and publisher Michael Simms – poet in Pittsburgh since 1987 George Smith –