Chouinard

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.

Larry Bell attends Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.

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.”

Joe Goode attends Chouinard Art Institute.

Joe Goode works as a janitor at Chouinard.

Joe Goode meets his first wife Judy Winans at Chouinard, where she is a ceramics major.

Ed Ruscha graduates from Chouinard.

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.

Allen Ruppersberg enrolls in Chouinard Art Institute. Robert Irwin and Emerson Woelffler are some of his professors.

Terry Allen moves to Los Angeles to attend Chouinard Art Institute.

Terry Allen and Allen Ruppersberg meet on the first day of school at Chouinard.

David Hammons attends Chouinard Art Institute and graduates in 1968.

Terry Allen earns his BFA from Chouinard.

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.

Allen Ruppersberg graduates from Chouinard with a BFA.

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.

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.