California | Bachelor of Arts | University of California, Berkeley | high school | University of Southern California | University of California | Berkeley, California | Baja California | Harvard Business School | London School of Economics | Harvard Medical School | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | Southern California | Oakland, California | Santa Barbara, California | National Endowment for the Arts | Sacramento, California | Pasadena, California | secondary school | California Institute of Technology | Harvard Law School | Master of Arts | Eastman School of Music | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Electronic Arts | Long Beach, California | University of California, San Diego | Juilliard School | Public school (government funded) | High School Musical |
Briggs studied painting at the Schaeffer School of Design, San Francisco, CA (1946–47) and later at The California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco (1947-1951), where he thrived under the tutelage of such ab-ex greats as Clyfford Still, Ad Reinhardt, David Park, and Mark Rothko.
Discovering clay at this time, she studied at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), and with Glen Lukens at the University of Southern California.
Baruch was born in Berlin on June 15, 1922, and later moved to the United States, where she studied photography at Ohio University (receiving an MFA) and at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
From 1950-1951, he served apprenticeships with Minor White, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams through the San Francisco Art Institute (formerly known as the California School of Fine Arts).