San Francisco Art Institute, not in the south but it is a good art school.
San Francisco Art Institute -- Wikipedia
Notable current faculty
* Linda Connor, large-format photographer
* Trisha Donnelly
* Okwui Enwezor
* Sharon Grace
* Renee Green
* Hou Hanru
* Lynn Hershman Leeson
* Reagan Louie
* George Kuchar, filmmaker
* Tony Labat, performance artist
* Jane McGonigal, game theorist
* John Roloff
* Henry Wessel, Jr., one of the New Topography photographers
* Griff Williams
Notable former faculty
* Kathy Acker
* Ansel Adams, landscape photographer, founded the photography department in 1945
* Imogen Cunningham, portrait photographer
* Angela Davis (joined 1976)
* Drew Daniel, member of Matmos
* Dorothea Lange, influential documentary photographer, "Migrant Mother"
* Lydia Lunch
* Frederick Meyer, founder of the California College of the Arts (1907)
* Eadweard Muybridge, inventor of the Zoopraxiscope (1880)
* Charlemagne Palestine
* Sidney Peterson, film director, initiated first film courses at SFAI (1947)
* M.C. Schmidt, member of Matmos
* Clyfford Still, Abstract expressionist, Color field painter (1946)
* Dean Roy Ascott (1975-78) pioneer [1] of art involving cybernetics and telematics, and founder of the Planetary Collegium
Notable Alumni and Former Students
* Lance Acord, cinematographer (2003)
* Michael Arcega (1999)
* Devendra Banhart, musician
* Gutzon Borglum, creator of Mt. Rushmore (1927)
* Joan Brown, painter
* Kathryn Bigelow, film director
* Emily Carr, painter
* Enrique Chagoya, printmaker
* Nate Conrad
* Michael Cotten (1971)
* Ronald Davis, painter
* Richard Diebenkorn, American abstract and figurative artist (1946/7)
* John Duff, sculptor
* Karen Finley, performance artist
* Fritz Fox, filmmaker, lead singer and songwriter of The Mutants
* Jerry Garcia, member of the Grateful Dead
* Robert Graham (sculptor)
* Percy Gray, painter
* Don Ed Hardy, tattoo artist
* Michael Heizer, earth artist, sculptor
* Mike Henderson, painter, blues musician
* Penelope Houston, musician, lead singer and songwriter of The Avengers
* Grace Carpenter Hudson, painter of Pomo people
* David Ireland
* Rea Irvin, art editor of The New Yorker
* Sargent Johnson, sculptor (1919-1923)
* Alex Kahn, pageant performance artist, chief designer for New York's Village Halloween Parade
* Molly Katzen, author of the Moosewood Cookbook
* Eduardo Kingman, master Latin American painter
* Greg Kulz tattoo artist
* Laura Kipnis, author, media critic, professor at Northwestern University
* Henry Kiyama published The Four Immigrants Manga, the first graphic novel published in the U.S. (1931)
* Asya Komarova, photographer
* Ronnie Landfield, painter
* Courtney Love, actress and rock musician [2]
* Annie Leibovitz, photographer (1973)
* Brendan Lott, painter (2001)
* Arthur Frank Mathews, painter
* Paul McCarthy (1968)
* Darrell McClure cartoonist
* Barry McGee (aka TWIST) painter/graffiti artist (1991)
* Frosty Myers, sculptor
* Errol Morris Documentary Filmmaker - attended in 1973
* Manuel Neri, sculptor (1958)
* Win Ng, co-founder of Taylor & Ng (1971)
* Catherine Opie, photographer
* Mark Pauline, founder and director of Survival Research Labs
* Lourdes Portillo, filmmaker
* Peter Reginato, sculptor
* Jason Rhoades, sculptor
* Katherine Sherwood, Guggenheim Fellow (2005)
* Jeremy Arlo Simmons, painter (2003)
* Gary Stephan, painter
* James Swinnerton, cartoonist
* Stephanie Syjuco, (1991)
* Christopher Vena, painter (2002)
* Carlos Villa, painter
* Leo Valledor, painter
* William T. Wiley, Guggenheim Fellow
* Griff Williams, painter, founder of Gallery 16 and Urban Digital Color
* Robin Winters, sculptor, painter
* Jonathan Yegge, performance artist, Catholic theologian (expelled 2000)
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