of Art and, in the form of a challenge grant of $6 million, sharply increase the number of scholarships the school is able to give out.
== Notable faculty ==
Thomas Hart Benton – Leader of Regionalist art movement; KCAI professor, (1935–1941)
Anne Boyer – Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Poet
Harold Bruder – Painter (1963–1965)
Christiane Cegavske - Guggenheim Fellow in 2019
John de Martelly – Regionalist Printmaker, (1934–1941)
Jill Downen (‘89 Painting) - Guggenheim Fellow in 2010
Dale Eldred – Sculptor, Environmentalist; Professor and Chair of Sculpture at KCAI (1959–1993)
Ken Ferguson – Ceramicist, KCAI Professor Emeritus, (1964–1996)
Glenn Gant – Regionalist painter, KCAI alumni and student of Benton, KCAI teacher, (1948–1960)
Frederic James – Watercolor Painter, KCAI teacher, (1940–1950)
Rob Roy Kelly - Graphic Designer and Printmaker, Chair of the Graphic Design Department (1964–1972)
Cyan Meeks – Filmmaker and Video Artist
Wilbur Niewald – Watercolor Painter, chairman of the Painting and Printmaking …
