Otis
decade
1950s
1956
Billy Al Bengston enrolls at the Los Angeles County Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design) and studies with Peter Voulkos but leaves after a year.
decade
1960s
1965
Charles White begins teaching at Otis Art Institute.
1965
Judithe Hernández receives the first Future Masters Scholarship from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which allows her to attend Otis Art Institute.
1967
Carlos Almaraz is part of a group exhibition at Otis Art Institute.
late 1960s 1967
Suzanne Jackson serves as a model for Charles White’s classes at Otis Art Institute.
1968–72 1968
David Hammons takes night classes at Otis Art Institute. Hammons’s drawing teacher, Charles White, makes a profound impact on him as the first successful black man whom Hammons has encountered.
late 1960s 1968
Suzanne Jackson takes a drawing class with Charles White at Otis, where she also meets David Hammons.
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
1972–74 1972
Carlos Almaraz and Judithe Hernández are friends and classmates at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles. Almaraz graduates with an MFA in 1974.
1972
Judithe Hernández earns her BFA at Otis, where she studies under Charles White.
1979
Carlos Almaraz is included in the group exhibition L.A. Parks and Wrecks: Reflects on Urban Life at Otis Art Institute.
decade
1980s
1983
Carlos Almaraz is included in the group exhibition Miles Above at Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design Gallery.
decade
1990s
1990
Andrea Bowers teaches at Otis Art Institute.
decade
2010s
2010s 2011
Kori Newkirk holds a dual teaching appointment at SAIC and Otis College of Art and Design.
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Billy Al Bengston Carlos Almaraz Andrea Bowers David Hammons Judithe Hernández Suzanne Jackson Kori Newkirk Charles White Art Institute of Chicago California Chicago Chouinard Gallery 32 LACMA Los Angeles SAIC Los Four
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