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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 commercial design for school supplies and other products that are primarily marketed to children and young adolescents. Her designs were popular in the 1980s and 1990s and experienced a resurgence in popularity in the 2010s and 2020s.
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.
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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