Sentences with phrase «groundbreaking photography program»

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And given UCLA's rank as the No. 2 graduate fine art program in the country, it's a compelling list, which includes Woman's Building pioneer Judy Chicago, conceptual artist Barbara Kruger, painters Lari Pittman and Toba Khedoori (the latter of whom recently had a one - woman show at LACMA), installationist Rodney McMillian, photographer James Welling and groundbreaking photo collagist Robert Heinecken (who established the photography program at UCLA in the 1960s and was the subject of a retrospective at the Hammer Museum in 2014).

Ambitious and innovative, many early California photographers were responsible for cultivating groundbreaking educational programs — a legacy that began with the founding of the nation's first fine art photography department, led by Ansel Adams at the California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute), and continues today with a number of nationally recognized photography programs at local art schools.