Background
Jo Ann Callis was born on November 25, 1940 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
(Other Rooms, the first publication to comprehensively fea...)
Other Rooms, the first publication to comprehensively feature Jo Ann Callis' mid-1970s investigation of the nude body and sexuality, is a revelation; the work is provocative, seductive and remarkably fresh. The artist's playful, evocative use of constrictions and overlays on the human form, including twine, belts, tape and other everyday materials, are both humorous and fraught, offering an intensely personal assessment of the variable meanings of pleasure and the female nude as a staple of fine art photography.
https://www.amazon.com/Jo-Ann-Callis-Other-Rooms/dp/1597112755/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Catalogue from an exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center...)
Catalogue from an exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center, February 11-April 2, 1989. Limited edition catalogue with 150 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the artist, 1000 softcover copies.
https://www.amazon.com/Jo-Ann-Callis-Photographs-1977-1989/dp/096146156X/?tag=2022091-20
Jo Ann Callis was born on November 25, 1940 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
Jo Ann Callis earned both her Bachelor of Arts (1974) and Master of Fine Arts (1977) from University of California. Callis enrolled at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1970 initially in graphic design. When she took a course from Robert Heinecken in photography, she was encouraged by Heinecken to explore things within her mind.
In 1975, while still a student at UCLA, a year before finishing her Masters in Fine Arts, she was offered a position to work at California Institute of the Arts (S. CA).
Jo Ann Callis has taught at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia from 1976, and since 1978 has also taught photography through University of California at Los Angeles Extension. From 1977 to 1978 she was a teacher at California State University in Fullerton. Callis received an NEA Fellowship in 1980.
(Other Rooms, the first publication to comprehensively fea...)
2014(Catalogue from an exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center...)
A member of SPE since 1976.
Though Jo Ann Callis initially pursued a degree at Ohio State University in 1958, she dropped out in her second year when she got married. She and her husband moved to Southern California in 1961. Her father died after the birth of her first son Stephen in the same year. In 1963, her second son Michael was born.