Lisa Frank
American artist and businesswoman (born 1955)
Lisa Frank (born 21 April 1955) is an American artist and businesswoman, the founder of Lisa Frank Incorporated, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. She is known for producing whimsical, colorful commercial design for school supplies and other products that are primarily marketed to children and young adolescents.2
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Born Apr 21, 1955.1
About
Her designs were popular in the 1980s and 1990s and experienced a resurgence in popularity in the 2010s and 2020s.
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Companies
- Lisa Frank IncorporatedFounder7
Early life and education
- Date not recordedCranbrook Educational Community3
Frank's father was an art collector and introduced her to the work of such Pop Art artists as Peter Max. Frank is a 1972 graduate of the Cranbrook Kingswood School, a preparatory school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She attended the University of Arizona.
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Career
Occupation: artist, businessperson.5
- Date not recordedFounded Lisa Frank Incorporated4
After moving from the Detroit, Michigan, area to Tucson, Arizona, in the 1970s to study art at the University of Arizona, she founded the children's jewelry company Sticky Fingers, operating at first from a guest house in Frank's back yard, which became Lisa Frank Inc. circa 1980 when she was 24. She continued to lead it as of 2019. As of 2021 Frank's son, Forrest Green, was the company's director of business development and partnerships.
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Personal life
- CitizenshipUnited States6
Frank is "notoriously private". In a 2012 interview video with Urban Outfitters, the company agreed to obscure her face.
In 1994, Frank married James A. Green, who from 1990 to October 2005 was president and chief executive officer of Lisa Frank Incorporated. They had sons born in 1995 and 1999. Frank filed for divorce in September 2005. That same month, she sued to remove Green from the company, and he resigned the following month. The court agreed to assign control of the company to Lisa Frank.
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Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataLisa Frank on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaLisa Frank on Wikipedia
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- 7WikidataLisa Frank Incorporated, Founder