Jo Ann Callis began teaching at CalArts in 1976. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Hammer Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Gallery Min, Tokyo; and Rose Gallery in Santa Monica. In 2009, a retrospective of her work, “Woman Twirling,” was presented by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Callis has received three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as many other awards and prizes.