Chouinard Art Institute

Yes, Jan Smithers was a very popular model.

She attended the Chouinard Art Institute, which is now known as the California Institute of the Arts.

But she really did make her mark as a model long before TV or any acting career.

And, and this is something like nobody knows about Jan Smithers.

I think that another one of these pieces, which is important to talk about, is from 1959.

So just a year later, the piece Anon is, which was named for a dear friend of his, Pauline Annan, who was an artist and illustrator who was trained at the Chouinard Institute in San Francisco.

And she was a lifelong friend of Volkos.

And this piece, this piece really starts to feel, for me, much more like a sculpture.

In 1932, Millicent's family moved to Glendale, California where she attended Glendale Junior College and worked as an assistant art editor on the school yearbook.

She eventually left without graduating and enrolled at the Chouinard Art Institute where she studied illustration and drawing for three years and reportedly earned three scholarships for her work.

And then in 1939, she landed a job at Walt Disney Productions, which is where her story starts getting really, really interesting.

melissa joined the disney team as a color animator and worked on a team of women who became known as the ink and paint girls and i think it's important to understand just how labor intensive this work was because animation at the time required thousands upon thousands of individual drawings Women in the ink and paint department transferred animators' drawings onto transparent celluloid sheets and applied color by hand.