Black Diamond Equipment ’ s history dates back to the late 1950 ’ s, when climber Yvon Chouinard began hand-forging pitons and selling them from the trunk of his car in Yosemite Valley.

Walt Disney ’ s promise to keep the school alive and independent was changed with an abrupt transition period in which Chouinard as a corporate entity and a brand, was closed, and dozens of much-loved, long-term artists and designers who had been teachers at the college were let go.

The Disney animator's drawing skills learned at Chouinard were not only supportive to Walt Disney ’ s ideas concerning the future of animation, this collaboration between Chouinard's teaching and Disney's animators made possible numerous advances in Disney's animation style.

Disney ’ s collaboration with Chouinard would continue until his death in 1966.

The Ducks sent Chad Kilger, Oleg Tverdovsky, and a third-round pick to the Jets in return for Marc Chouinard, a fourth-round draft pick, and right winger Teemu Selanne.

He studied art at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, then moved to New York, where he worked as a magazine illustrator, producing artwork for Collier's, Esquire and National Geographic.

Some, such as Yvon Chouinard, made and sold climbing equipment in the camp's parking lot, laying the foundation for successful businesses later.

In 1972, when clean climbing became an issue in the US, Yvon Chouinard began manufacturing chocks made specifically for rock climbing, with the familiar wedge shape still in use today.

Guy Camil " Gramps " Chouinard ( born October 20, 1956 ) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the 1970s and 80's for the Atlanta Flames, Calgary Flames, and St. Louis Blues.

Chouinard has also had a brilliant career ( more than 10 years ) coaching in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, notably for the Victoriaville Tigres, Quebec Remparts, and Prince Edward Island Rocket and was enshrined in the QMJHL Hall of Fame in 2005.

His nephew, Marc Chouinard, played in the NHL for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Minnesota Wild and Vancouver Canucks.

Eric Chouinard ( born on July 8, 1980 ) is an American-born Canadian professional ice hockey player, who currently plays for the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga ( DEL ).

Born in Atlanta during his father's days with the Atlanta Flames, but raised in Calgary, Alberta, Chouinard has played for Team Canada in international competition despite getting offers to play for Team USA.

Since then, he has also played for the Philadelphia Flyers and the Minnesota Wild, where he played alongside his cousin, Marc Chouinard, during the 2003 – 04 season.

In 2006 – 2007, Chouinard played four games in Switzerland for HC Sierre-Anniviers.

Every major Hollywood film studio in the late 1930s and early 1940s looked to Mrs. Chouinard to provide the talent pool for their art departments and many legendary film and entertainment design careers were launched under her guidance.

To the Chouinard community, the transition meant the demise of a nationally-noted professional art college that was famous for producing cutting-edge artists, top-flight animators, illustrators, designers and photographers.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s Chouinard continued to be highly-regarded as a hotbed of experimental art, and as the primary training ground for graphic and fashion designers, animators and ceramists.

Asked how to say her name, Chouinard told the Literary Digest: " Properly, oui as the French for ' Yes ': almost shwee-nar ; but generally spoken shu-nard ', u as in shun.

Yvon Chouinard with equipment for rock climbing, including Hexentrics.

Yvon Chouinard ( born November 9, 1938 ) is a rock climber, environmentalist and outdoor industry businessman, noted for his contributions to climbing, climbing equipment and the outdoor gear business.

In 1937, Partch enrolled at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, where he attended Rico LeBrun's classes for six months before dropping out.

After attending Pasadena Junior College and briefly working as a draftsman for Douglas Aircraft, Reitherman returned to school at the Chouinard Art Institute, graduating in 1933.

This was followed by: the wildly overhanging Leaning Tower, also done with Denny and still one of the most popular big-wall routes in Yosemite ; the North Face of the ' Rostrum ' just outside Yosemite Valley, again with Denny ( a notoriously hard and spectacular later one-day testpiece as a free climb ); and the beautiful and isolated 2500 foot face of Mount Watkins across from Half Dome, done with Yvon Chouinard and Chuck Pratt ( with ' hard man ' Harding famously refusing water on the parched last days of the climb to save it for those doing the final leads ).

Longueuil failed to qualify for the playoffs in their next two seasons, but in returned to the playoffs in 1987 coached by Guy Chouinard.

With that new Merlino / Mancuso / Chouinard lineup plus a new keyboardist called Alan St. John and producer Jim Vallance, the band recorded its second album — which probably would have come out in 1991 or 1992 were it did not for office politics.

Black Diamond was founded on December 1, 1989, when the assets of Chouinard Equipment Ltd. were purchased by a group of former company employees led by current Black Diamond Equipment CEO Peter Metcalf, and a few outside investors.

An important milestone occurred with the 1972 Chouinard Equipment Catalog, which included two articles on environmental concerns and climbing gear.

It was designed by Tom Frost and Yvon Chouinard in 1959, and manufactured by Chouinard Equipment in the 1960s.

Carson said that the fact that Chouinard's horse shied probably saved him, as Chouinard was a splendid shooter

The duel with Chouinard is said to have made Carson famous among the mountain men but was also considered uncharacteristic of him.

CalArts was originally formed as a merger of the Chouinard Art Institute ( founded 1921 ) and the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music ( founded 1883 ).

Both of the formerly existing institutions were going through financial difficulties around the same time, and the founder of the Art Institute, Nelbert Chouinard, was also fatally ill.

It was through the will of Disney, who discovered and trained many of his studio artists at Chouinard ( including Mary Blair, Maurice Noble and some of the Nine Old Men, among others ), that the merger of the two institutions was coordinated.

In this period American watercolor ( and oil ) painting was often imitative of European Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but significant individualism flourished within " regional " styles of watercolor painting in the 1920s to 1940s, in particular the " Cleveland School " or " Ohio School " of painters centered around the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the " California Scene " painters, many of them associated with Hollywood animation studios or the Chouinard Art Institute ( now California Institute of the Arts ).

Guy Chouinard was the lone player to score 50 goals in one season.

Bob MacMillan, acquired in the Myre deal, became the first Flame other than Lysiak to lead the team in scoring in six years and, along with Guy Chouinard, was one of the first two Flames ' players to score 100 points in one season.

Martin was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Lumina ( née Chouinard ) and Joseph Philippe Ernest Martin.

Williams moved on to a short stint at The Chouinard Art Institute where he was branded an " illustrator " in a derogatory fashion.

One was written by Chouinard and Tom Frost ; another was by Doug Robinson titled " The Whole Natural Art of Protection ".

Chouinard was the 28th overall pick in the 1974 NHL Entry Draft, following a successful junior career with the Quebec Remparts in which he was a regular at the age of 15.

Chouinard was hired by the QMJHL's Prince Edward Island Rocket to replace Yanick Jean as head coach, on October 22, 2007, a position he holds to this day.

Chouinard was nicknamed " Gramps " because he appeared much older than he really was.

Yvon Deschamps was the host, and appeared alongside Normand Chouinard, Normand Brathwaite, Pauline Martin and Michèle Deslauriers.