The West Coast art scene would be bereft were it not for the Chouinard Art Institute, which counts some of the most innovative names in art -- from painter Ed Ruscha, and Academy Award winning costume designer Edith Head to Low Brow/Pop Surrealism progenitor Robert Williams, among many others -- as its alumnae. Under the hands of Walt and Roy Disney, Chouinard merged with the California Conservancy in 1961 and was finally completely absorbed as the California Institute of the Arts in 1972 when C...
The West Coast art scene would be bereft were it not for the Chouinard Art Institute, which counts some of the most innovative names in art -- from painter Ed Ruscha, and Academy Award winning costume designer Edith Head to Low Brow/Pop Surrealism progenitor Robert Williams, among many others -- as its alumnae. Under the hands of Walt and Roy Disney, Chouinard merged with the California Conservancy in 1961 and was finally completely absorbed as the California Institute of the Arts in 1972 when C...
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