UC Davis
decade
1960s
1962
William T. Wiley begins teaching at the University of California, Davis, alongside Roy De Forest.
1963–66 1963
Stephen Kaltenbach attends the University of California, Davis, where William T. Wiley and Roy De Forest are teaching.
1965–92 1965
Roy De Forest teaches alongside William T. Wiley at the University of California, Davis.
1966
Stephen Kaltenbach earns his BA from UC Davis.
1967
Stephen Kaltenbach earns his MA from UC Davis.
1968–69 1968
While living in New York, Stephen Kaltenbach makes his version of the slant step, an object found in a Northern California salvage shop and brought back to UC Davis. There it became an unlikely source of inspiration for students and faculty.
1969
Infuriated with being defined as Funk artists, Roy De Forest and others coin the term “Nut Art,” which primarily refers to artists teaching at UC Davis.
decade
1980s
1980s 1980
Roy De Forest has solo exhibitions at UC Davis’s Nelson Gallery in 1980 and 1983.
decade
1990s
1993–2004 1993
Lynn Hershman Leeson is a professor of electronic arts at the University of California, Davis.
decade
2010s
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