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California Institute of the Arts
California Institute of the Arts, commonly known as CalArts, was founded in 1961 through the merger of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and the Chouinard Art Institute, with significant funding and involvement from Walt Disney, who envisioned a combined school for all the arts under one institution. The school built an especially strong reputation in animation specifically, and its alumni include numerous influential figures who went on to lead major animation studios, reflecting CalArts's close historical ties to Disney and the broader Los Angeles entertainment industry. CalArts has also built a significant reputation for experimental and avant-garde approaches across music, theater, and fine arts, giving the school a somewhat unusual dual identity spanning both mainstream entertainment animation training and more conceptually experimental artistic disciplines. CalArts's combination of its founding with direct Walt Disney involvement and its outsized influence on the professional animation industry has made it one of the most distinctively positioned art schools in the country.
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago was founded in 1866, making it one of the oldest art schools in the United States, and it has operated in close connection with the adjacent Art Institute of Chicago museum, giving students direct access to one of the largest art museum collections in the country. The school built a particularly strong reputation in fine arts and has historically emphasized experimental and conceptual approaches to art-making, and its notable alumni include influential figures across painting, photography, and contemporary art more broadly. The school's deep integration with a major encyclopedic art museum is relatively unusual among American art schools, letting students study working artworks spanning thousands of years of art history as a direct extension of their own studio training. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's combination of its status as one of the oldest American art schools and its unique direct integration with a major world-class art museum has made it one of the most academically distinctive art schools in the country.
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