Otis

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.

Charles White begins teaching at Otis Art Institute.

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.

Carlos Almaraz is part of a group exhibition at Otis Art Institute.

Suzanne Jackson serves as a model for Charles White’s classes at Otis Art Institute.

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.

Suzanne Jackson takes a drawing class with Charles White at Otis, where she also meets David Hammons.

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.

Carlos Almaraz and Judithe Hernández are friends and classmates at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles. Almaraz graduates with an MFA in 1974.

Judithe Hernández earns her BFA at Otis, where she studies under Charles White.

Carlos Almaraz is included in the group exhibition L.A. Parks and Wrecks: Reflects on Urban Life at Otis Art Institute.

Carlos Almaraz is included in the group exhibition Miles Above at Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design Gallery.

Andrea Bowers teaches at Otis Art Institute.

Kori Newkirk holds a dual teaching appointment at SAIC and Otis College of Art and Design.