UCLA

Judy Chicago moves to Los Angeles to attend UCLA.

Judy Chicago knows Billy Al Bengston from her days as a student at UCLA.

Judy Chicago earns her BA from UCLA.

Billy Al Bengston teaches for a year at UCLA when Judy Chicago is in graduate school. Bengston’s studio is the first Chicago ever visits, and she considers him the first real artist she’s met.

Judy Chicago receives her MFA in painting and sculpture from UCLA.

Vija Celmins receives her MFA from UCLA.

Immediately after graduating from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Barbara Kasten moves to Los Angeles to be a substitute teacher for Bernard Kester’s fiber arts course at UCLA.

Judithe Hernández serves as resident artist for Aztlán: Chicano Journal of the Social Sciences and the Arts, published by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

Larry Bell is included in the group exhibition Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space: 4 Artists at UCLA Art Galleries.

Judy Chicago’s Birth Project is exhibited at the Frederick S. Wight Gallery, UCLA.

Mary Kelly begins teaching in the School of Art and Architecture at UCLA, where Rodney McMillian and Catherine Opie are also teaching.

Catherine Opie becomes a professor of photography in the Art Department at UCLA.

Aaron Curry is included in the group exhibition Southern Exposure at the Wight Gallery, UCLA.

Rodney McMillian begins teaching at UCLA.

Carlos Almaraz is included in the group exhibition Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement at the Fowler Museum at UCLA.