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The Chouinard Foundation is composed of the following Directors, Advisors and Staff.

We are all involved in the field of the visual arts in very different ways, yet remain committed to the aims of our Mission Statement and extending the tradition, scope and practice of the Chouinard School of Art. Directors

Sam Clayberger | Director
Lou Paleno | Director
Chuck Swenson | Director
Dave Tourjé | Executive Director

Advisors

Doris Kouyias
John Van Hamersveld
Gary Wong

01/28/2020

John Van Hamersveld and CHOUINARD

John was a student of Chouinard during the peak times during the ‘60s. This was when Chouinard was fueling everything from the Ferus Gallery to Light and Space to Conceptualism and more. John helped to found Pinnacle Rock Concerts during this time which put on many legendary concerts at the Shrine Auditorium through 1968 which ultimately turned into what we see now as concert promotions through Live Nation. The posters he created for these shows are all legendary. John did all the Chouinard Foundation graphics from 2002 culminating in the most amazing one for our CHOUINARD - 100 YEARS OF L.A. ART show opening at the L.A Art Show on February 5th.

See laartshow.com for details.

01/23/2020

CHOUINARD - 100 YEARS OF L.A. ART

Mat Gleason and Dave Tourjé of Coagula Secondary and the Chouinard Foundation respectively, have joined forces to curate a “mini” Museum Show opening on February 5th, 6pm at the upcoming 2020 L.A. Art Show in the Los Angeles Convention Center. The show will further illuminate the impact of Nelbert Chouinard, the pioneering woman of art education who founded the original Chouinard School of Art in 1921. Many of the historic works in the show come from the Chouinard Foundation’s archive and include the likes of Frederick Hammersley, Ynez Johnston, John Altoon, Emerson Woelffer and others. There will also be recent works by current Chouinard Artists including John Van Hamersveld, Judy Stabile, Robert Williams, Jill Sattler, Chaz Bojorquez, and many others. Gleason and Tourjé plan to mount a larger Chouinard masterworks show in 2021 and this show will provide a glimpse into their progress on that.

Purchase tickets here: www.laartshow.com

Banner graphic: John van Hamersveld

10/15/2019

CHOUINARD ARTIST. JILL SATTLER. FINE ART

Jill Sattler is a painter and photo dramatist in Santa Barbara, California. She is an honor graduate of Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles (currently CAL ARTS in Valencia). She has exhibited at the Carnegie Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Forum of Santa Barbara (currently Museum of Contemporary Art), Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Oceanside Museum, Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Ojai Valley Museum, Carl Schlosberg Fine Art Los Angeles and New York, Garth Clark New York, UCLA, Ridley Tree Museum of Art Santa Barbara and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Jill Sattler has had the privilege to photograph the internationally acclaimed ceramicist Beatrice Wood, Chantal of “Good Morning America” and her dog Mollie, actresses Sandy Duncan, Betty White, as well as Susan and Jeff Bridges, Christopher Reeve, and Santa Barbara writers Jane and Robert Easton. Jill’s works of art have been exhibited in conjunction with works by Beatrice Wood, Edward Curtis, Ansel Adams, and Timothy O’Sullivan, Kandinsky, Whistler, Lichtenstein, Matisse, Picasso, de Kooning, Diebenkorn, Toulouse-Lautrec as well as Giacometti, Sam Francis, Ed Kienholz, and David Hockney.
Jill gained notoriety in the field of jewelry design when her earrings were worn by Cher as the actress accepted an Academy Award for her work in “Moonstruck.” Diane English, writer/executive producer of the television show “Murphy Brown” was featured in Elle Magazine wearing necklaces designed by Jill. In addition, Vanity Fair, Ladies’ Home Journal, Memories Magazine (front cover), Los Angeles Magazine, Santa Barbara Magazine, Montecito Magazine, SB SEASONS Magazine, Style 1900 Magazine, as well as the Los Angeles Times and other publications, also displayed her work. Jill was also featured on HGTV.
Jill has the honor of having more than 100 of her works of art in the permanent collection at UCLA Medical Arts Center in Los Angeles, the permanent collection of Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Ojai, Francis M. Naumann collection in New York, and the Lotusland private collection in Montecito.

09/30/2019

GRANDVIEW MAGAZINE #7
The Grandview Magazine was the Chouinard Foundation's magazine from 1999-2004. Produced by the foundation's co-founder Bob Perine, it highlighted the past and present of all things "Chouinard", both promoting the Chouinard Foundation's programs and illuminating the illustrious history of the original Chouinard Art Institute, 1921-1972.

09/26/2019

THE SOUL OF AN ARTSCHOOL. Original Chouinard drawing bench 4 of 7.

In 1972, the renowned illustrator, artist and Chouinard alum, Corinne Hartley, heard that one of the most renowned artschools in history- her beloved Chouinard Art Institute, was being abruptly shut down. In order to somehow make sense of this news, she made her way up to the original school building near MacArthur Park to see what was happening. What she found was that her famous school was indeed closed and the doors chained shut by the Disney transition team after terminating Chouinard's entire staff in their awkward efforts to create the new Cal Arts in Valencia. On the side of the building was a large trash heap which she saw various records and materials in. What caught her eye were the drawing benches she recalled using in the early '50s, which she began pulling out of the pile. In all, there were only 7 of these which she fit into her car and took home as mementos, salvaging them from destruction. As it turns out, these drawing benches told the tale of the defunct school, having been built by Millard Sheets, Phil D**e and others during the 1920s as a means of offsetting their tuition fees. Well built, these benches stood the test of time and were used by every generation of Chouinard students for 50 years. People like Edith Head, Frederick Hammersley, Theadora Van Runkle, up through Robert Irwin, Mary Corse, Ed Ruscha and many, many others sat on these while working through their own unique problems as they evolved into the world-class artists they all became. The graffiti, paint, damage and patina on these is a 50 year time capsule of Chouinard's attitude and production that tells a powerful and unique story. Corinne Hartley donated them to the Chouinard Foundation in 2002 as we started our own attempt at an art school. We present them here as a sequence of nearly 100 year old museum pieces that may tell the story of Chouinard better than anyone or anything else ever could.

09/18/2019

GRANDVIEW MAGAZINE #6
The Grandview Magazine was the Chouinard Foundation's magazine from 1999-2004. Produced by the foundation's co-founder Bob Perine, it highlighted the past and present of all things "Chouinard", both promoting the Chouinard Foundation's programs and illuminating the illustrious history of the original Chouinard Art Institute, 1921-1972.

09/17/2019

After wrapping up the "Chouinard at L.A. Rec and Parks" program in '09, the Chouinard Foundation, along with continuing production of its film CURLY, embarked on the creation of the "Chouinard Foundation Library" - a massive, interactive website which contained everything the Chouinard Foundation had accomplished over 12 years, as well as housing much information about Nelbert Chouinard and the Chouinard Art Institute's past. Designed by artist and Chouinard Foundation co-founder, Dave Tourjé, the website won the prestigious DESIGNFIRMS Website Award 2012 and was released to the public by the following article in the L.A. Times, written by Mike Boehm.

09/10/2019

GRANDVIEW MAGAZINE #5
The Grandview Magazine was the Chouinard Foundation's magazine from 1999-2004. Produced by the foundation's co-founder Bob Perine, it highlighted the past and present of all things "Chouinard", both promoting the Chouinard Foundation's programs and illuminating the illustrious history of the original Chouinard Art Institute, 1921-1972.

09/05/2019

THE SOUL OF AN ARTSCHOOL. Original Chouinard drawing bench 3 of 7.

In 1972, the renowned illustrator, artist and Chouinard alum, Corinne Hartley, heard that one of the most renowned artschools in history- her beloved Chouinard Art Institute, was being abruptly shut down. In order to somehow make sense of this news, she made her way up to the original school building near MacArthur Park to see what was happening. What she found was that her famous school was indeed closed and the doors chained shut by the Disney transition team after terminating Chouinard's entire staff in their awkward efforts to create the new Cal Arts in Valencia. On the side of the building was a large trash heap which she saw various records and materials in. What caught her eye were the drawing benches she recalled using in the early '50s, which she began pulling out of the pile. In all, there were only 7 of these which she fit into her car and took home as mementos, salvaging them from destruction. As it turns out, these drawing benches told the tale of the defunct school, having been built by Millard Sheets, Phil D**e and others during the 1920s as a means of offsetting their tuition fees. Well built, these benches stood the test of time and were used by every generation of Chouinard students for 50 years. People like Edith Head, Frederick Hammersley, Theadora Van Runkle, up through Robert Irwin, Mary Corse, Ed Ruscha and many, many others sat on these while working through their own unique problems as they evolved into the world-class artists they all became. The graffiti, paint, damage and patina on these is a 50 year time capsule of Chouinard's attitude and production that tells a powerful and unique story. Corinne Hartley donated them to the Chouinard Foundation in 2002 as we started our own attempt at an art school. We present them here as a sequence of nearly 100 year old museum pieces that may tell the story of Chouinard better than anyone or anything else ever could.

08/26/2019

In June of 2006, after running the Chouinard School of Art in South Pasadena for 4 years, the
Chouinard Foundation was forced to close its doors. Perhaps the idea of a return to the old
Chouinard methods was overly ambitious or perhaps ahead of its time, but whatever the case, the
school made a lasting impact on thousands of students. With faculty and adjunct faculty such
as George Herms, Doris Kouyias, Larry Bell, Sam Clayberger, Karen Wight, Llyn Foulkes, Nob Hadeishi, Ed
Bereal, Theadora Van Runkle, Chuck Swenson, Jill Sattler, Martin Charlot, Guy and
Laddie John Dill and many others, the statement was made. All was not lost, however. As this
LA Times article chronicled the demise in South Pasadena, it was also the one which Kevin
Regan, the Asst General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks read.
After doing so, his vision of bringing meaningful art education into the innercity became a
reality, giving birth to another 4 years of innovation with Chouinard at LA Rec and Parks, from
2006 -2009, which ultimately resulted in the award-winning film about Chouinard entitled CURLY, released in 2014.

08/16/2019

CHOUINARD ARTIST. ED RUSCHA. FINE ART

One of the most important postwar artists, Ed Ruscha came into prominence during the 1960s
pop art movement. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute under Robert Irwin and Emerson
Woelffer from 1956 through 1960. While at Chouinard, Ruscha edited and produced the journal
"Orb" (1959–60) together with Joe Goode, Emerson Woelffer, Stephan von Huene, Jerry
McMillan, and others.
First recognized for his associations to graphic design and commercial art, Ruscha became
admired for his meditations on word and image. Working in a variety of media and taking the
environment of Los Angeles as a guide, Ruscha creates candid, comic presentations of familiar
ideas and locations that continue to impact contemporary art.

In 2003, Ruscha curated the tribute to his mentor and friend, the late Abstract Expressionist heavyweight Emerson Woelffer, which was the inaugural show for the Disney REDCAT Gallery at the Disney Hall in Downtown L.A. Ruscha features prominently in the award-winning 2014 film CURLY, which touches on the history of Chouinard and was executive produced for the Chouinard Foundation by .

Photo #1 Dennis Hopper

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