The college features three public galleries that offer changing art exhibitions, the Pearlman Gallery, the Chidlaw Gallery and the McClure Gallery. Exhibitions include emerging and professional artists, students, faculty and alumni artists. ==Notable alumni and faculty== •
Wilbur G. Adam (1898–1973), divided his career between
Cincinnati and
Chicago; best known as a portrait painter and for his landscapes of the western US •
Josef Albers (1888–1976), German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the US, formed the basis of modern art education programs of the twentieth century; taught at the academy of Cincinnati in 1949 •
Paul Chidlaw (1900–1989), modern painter and long-time instructor at the academy; Chidlaw Gallery is named after him •
Kreigh Collins (1908–1974), cartoonist and creator of
Kevin the Bold •
Petah Coyne, sculptor and installation artist •
Jenny Eakin Delony (aka Jenny Delony, Jenny Meyrowitz, Jenny Eakin Delony Rice) (1866–1949), painter and educator who specialized in portraiture, miniatures, landscape, wildlife, still life, and genre •
Frank Duveneck (1848–1919), portrait painter; taught at the academy during the 1890s and later became its chairman; fought with the Cincinnati Art Museum administration for students' right to study directly from the live nude model •
Frances Farrand Dodge (1878–1969), artist and teacher, appreciated by critics for her command of all media, including oil, pencil, etching, and watercolor •
James Flora (1914–1998), idiosyncratic album cover illustrator for
RCA Victor and
Columbia Records during the 1940s and 1950s,
commercial illustrator,
fine artist, and author and illustrator of seventeen popular
children's books •
Tim Folzenlogen, contemporary realist painter based in New York City •
Daniel Garber (1880–1958), landscape painter and member of the art colony in
New Hope, Pennsylvania •
Marie Bruner Haines (1885–1979), painter and illustrator •
Charley Harper (1922–2007), Cincinnati-based Modernist artist, best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations •
Eli Harvey (1860–1957), sculptor, painter, and
animalier •
Edna Boies Hopkins (1872–1937), artist of woodblock prints •
Maud Hunt Squire (1873–1954), painter and printmaker •
J. Augustus Knapp, esoteric illustrator of
The Secret Teachings of All Ages •
Louise Lawson (1860s–1899), sculptor •
Noel Martin, graphic designer who revolutionized type and publication standards for American museums, later a professor at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the
University of Cincinnati •
Lewis Henry Meakin (1850–1917) •
Lê Hiền Minh (born 1979), installation artist •
Myra Musselmann-Carr (born 1880), sculptor who exhibited at the
Armory Show in 1913 •
Frank Harmon Myers (1899–1956), painter whose work includes seascapes •
Thomas Satterwhite Noble (1835–1907), painter and teacher •
Elizabeth Nourse (1859–1938), realist and genre painter later based in
Paris best known for her depictions of peasant women •
Roy Cleveland Nuse (1885–1975), Pennsylvania impressionist artist and teacher at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts •
Anna Oliver (1840–1892), preacher (attended) •
Ruthe Katherine Pearlman (1913–2007), Cincinnati-based artist and educator who worked with Art Beyond Boundaries from its inception in 2005, Pearlman gallery is named after her •
Louis Rebisso (1837–1899), sculptor and teacher whose students at the academy included
William Jacob Baer,
Solon Borglum,
Janet Scudder,
Mary Chase Perry,
Louise Lawson, and
Eli Harvey •
John Ruthven (1927–2020), artist specialized in wildlife paintings •
Paul Sawyier (1865–1917),
Kentucky artist and impressionist •
Joseph Henry Sharp (1873–1892), one of six founding members of the
Taos Society of Artists •
Mary Given Sheerer (1865–1954), ceramicist and instructor affiliated with
Newcomb Pottery •
Harry Shokler (1896–1978), 20th-century artist known for his oil paintings and
screen prints •
Julian Stanczak, abstract painter and founder of the Op Art movement •
Tony Tasset (born 1960), multimedia artist •
Edward Charles Volkert (1871–1935), Cincinnati-based post-impressionist painter of oil and watercolor cattle paintings from the
Old Lyme Art Colony •
John Ellsworth Weis (1892–1962), faculty member •
Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004), pop artist of
The Great American Nude series of paintings ==References==