Space for Experimentation Around the time that the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was established, John Baldessari, the schoolâs chair of âPost-Studioâ practice, jotted down a set of notes outlining his ideal art college: âA watering hole, a flow of artists. Artists as ordinary people. Have artists as models. Create an environment where art can happen.â Adapting his phrasing, Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts offers a bountiful history of the schoolâs formative decade, a companion to the eponymous 2019 exhibition at the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover. This volume partly aims to redress imbalances in previous critical coverage of CalArts, highlighting work by lesser-known figures and focusing on the legendary but long understudied Feminist Art Program.