Chouinard
decade
1950s
1956
Ed Ruscha plans on enrolling at ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles, but the student quota is full. Ruscha attends Chouinard Art Institute instead.
1957–59 1957
Larry Bell attends Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.
1958–60 1958
At Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, Joe Goode, Jerry McMillan, and Ed Ruscha meet and befriend fellow Okies Patrick Blackwell and Don Moore. They refer to themselves as the “Students Five.”
1959–61 1959
1959–61 1959
1959
Joe Goode meets his first wife Judy Winans at Chouinard, where she is a ceramics major.
decade
1960s
1960
1959–61 1960
Patrick Blackwell, Joe Goode, Jerry McMillan, Don Moore, and Ed Ruscha (who refer to themselves as the Students Five) live with Wally Batterson in a house on Madison Avenue in Silver Lake, California; all attend Chouinard. They then move into a little house on New Hampshire Avenue in Hollywood.
1962
Allen Ruppersberg enrolls in Chouinard Art Institute. Robert Irwin and Emerson Woelffler are some of his professors.
1962
Terry Allen moves to Los Angeles to attend Chouinard Art Institute.
1962
Terry Allen and Allen Ruppersberg meet on the first day of school at Chouinard.
1966
David Hammons attends Chouinard Art Institute and graduates in 1968.
1966
Terry Allen earns his BFA from Chouinard.
1966
Terry Allen, Allen Ruppersberg, and a group of friends from Chouinard cofound Gallery 66, a cooperative gallery in Los Angeles that operates for one year.
1967
Allen Ruppersberg graduates from Chouinard with a BFA.
1968
Suzanne Jackson founds Gallery 32 (1968–70) out of her studio at 672 North Lafayette Park Place, near MacArthur Park, around the corner from Otis and Chouinard Art Institute.
decade
1970s
1973
Judy Chicago, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, and Arlene Raven cofound the Women’s Building, which opens on November 28. They first rent the former Chouinard Art Institute building, located at 743 Grandview Avenue.
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