Visual Arts graduates become successful artists, designers, teachers, and entrepreneurs in a wide range of fields.
Visual Arts Alumni
Visual Arts Alumni
Osamu Kobayashi, Class of 2002
Having earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Osamu Kobayashi lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited widely in the US and abroad including solo exhibitions at Underdonk Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, A+B Gallery in Italy, Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, FL, and the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, SC. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Lissone Contemporary Art Museum, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at Stony Brook University, and the Columbia Museum of Art. In 2013, Kobayashi was awarded the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, The Observer, and Artsy. He is currently doing a residency in Italy preparing for his 4th solo exhibition with A+B Gallery.
Sherita (Jennings) Cuffee, Class of 2003
Sherita (Jennings) Cuffee attended Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, the only all women's design school in the country. Cuffee was awarded the Tiffany & Co. Women's Leadership Fellowship, which gave her the opportunity to visit Ghana, West Africa. There she studied the native textile techniques of Kente cloth weaving and Adinkra stamping. Cuffee completed the selective Design Entrepreneurs NYC mini-MBA program at the Fashion Institute of Technology and holds an MBA with an entrepreneurship focus from Monroe College. Combining her experiences with a love affair of draping, beading and jewelry, Cuffee created the Luxe Demi-couture brand, Viscera NY. As a designer and Chief Executive Officer of Viscera NY, Cuffee is considered one of Fashion's Next Big Designers by Essence Magazine and has been featured in Essence, Uptown Magazine, and several online fashion blogs.
Rachel Inman, Class of 2007
Rachel Inman earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial design with an emphasis on interaction and urban design from Carnegie Mellon University. Currently, Inman is a Staff UX Design Lead at Google, where she leads a team of Google Maps UX designers, researchers, 3D visual artists, and writers focused on creating a mobile outdoor augmented reality pedestrian navigation and orientation experience called Live View. Prior to joining Google, she designed experiences for Nike and Samsung at the interactive agency, R/GA. She has also enjoyed teaching design classes around the world and has presented her work at IxDA’s Interaction South America, Stanford University and Google I/O. In 2019, Inman was named one of a dozen most inspiring women in design by Creative Bloq. Inman credits SCGSAH with instilling in her a methodical and thoughtful creation process, an avid curiosity about how others see the world, and the importance of giving back.
Maria Fabrizio, Class of 2004
Maria Fabrizio is an illustrator and designer who believes smart ideas make beautiful work. She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with an MFA in Graphic Design and Visual Communications. With an affection for process, Fabrizio works by hand and on screen for projects large and small while trying to maintaining her daily illustration blog — Wordless News. Maria is based in the hot metropolis of Columbia, South Carolina, where she lives with her husband, son (Charlie) and daughter (Jacqueline “Q”) and a very chubby kitty. Some of her clients include: Oprah Magazine, NPR, Stat News, Kaiser Health News, Resources Magazine, Web MD Magazine, University of South Carolina, Rhode Island Monthly, Writer's Digest, Charleston City Paper, and Vox.