Ayanah Moor, artist, SAIC faculty member Jim Morphesis, painter Ree Morton, artist Eleanor Moty, metalsmith, jewelry artist Nicholas Muellner, photographer, writer Lowell Blair Nesbitt, artist Albert Paley, artist Laura Parnes, artist Marlo Pascual, photographer Janet Perr, designer, art director Amy Pleasant, painter Eric Pryor, President of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Erin M. Riley, artist Paula Scher, designer Susan Sensemann, artist James Sheehan, artist Lorraine Shemesh, artist Sarai Sherman, painter Sondra Sherman, painter, jewelry artist Aaron Shikler, painter Lisa Sigal, artist Laurie Simmons, photographer Nina Sobell, artist Andrew Spence, artist Kara Springer, artist John Stango, artist Richard Sylbert, production designer Patricia Renee' Thomas, painter, draftswoman, and art educator Linda Threadgill, artist William Villalongo, artist Diana Vincent, jewelry artist Angela Washko, artist Hannah Wilke, sculptor, photographer Lisa Yuskavage, painter Paul O. Zelinsky, author, illustrator Syd Carpenter, artist Notable current and past faculty Adela Akers, textile and fiber artist Philip Betancourt, archaeologist and art historian Doug Bucci, metals artist Richard Callner, painter Jon F. Clark, glass artist Richard Cramer, painter John E. Dowell Jr., printmaker Coco Fusco, artist Mark Thomas Gibson, artist Hermann Gundersheimer, art historian Marcia B. Hall, art historian Jesse Harrod, fiber artist Amy Hauft, sculptor C.T. Jasper, artist Nicholas Kripal, sculptor Stanley Lechtzin, jewelry and metals artist Roberto Lugo, ceramic artist Winifred Lutz, sculptor Keith Anthony Morrison, artist Dona Nelson, painter Odili Donald Odita, painter Karyn Olivier, artist Pepón Osorio, artist Gerda Panofsky-Soergel, art historian David Pease, painter Rudolf Staffel, ceramic artist Robert Storr (art academic), art historian Stanley Whitney, painter History Arts patron Stella Elkins Tyler (of the Elkins/Widener family) donated her estate in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, to Temple University in the early 1930s. With an interest in progressive education and a deep appreciation of her mentor, the sculptor Boris Blai, Tyler offered her estate with the expressed wish that, through Boris Blai, it would become an environment for the advancement of the fine arts, scholarly study in the arts and individual creativity. As founding dean of what was then known as the Stella Elkins Tyler School of Fine Arts, Blai instilled the school with a commitment to progressive education emphasizing the student's mastery of technique within the framework of a liberal arts curriculum. Blai insisted upon individual attention to each student's needs as the basis of successful teaching. During his 25-year tenure as dean, Blai shaped the school into one of the finest visual arts centers