14 Facts About Brooks Institute

Brooks Institute was a private for-profit art school in Ventura, California.

In 1952, the Brooks Institute family purchased the former David Gray estate 'Graholm' after the owner at that time, Herschel McGraw, died.

Brooks Institute continued to expand the Brooks Institute of Photography facilities.

In 1976 Brooks Institute purchased the former Jefferson School in the Riviera neighborhood of Santa Barbara, that had been slated for demolition, and opened the Brooks Institute Jefferson Campus.

Brooks Institute has been involved in many extraordinary projects in recent years, but this forward vision and involvement was happening even in the 1980s when the institute was permitted to photograph the Shroud of Turin.

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In 2011, Brooks Institute moved its programs and offices located on the Brooks Jefferson Campus in Santa Barbara to the new Ventura Campus.

In 2013 Brooks Institute announced its consolidation of all its educational programs to the Ventura Campus, and departure from Santa Barbara planned for 2015.

In June 2015 the Brooks Institute was sold by CEC to Gphomestay—Massachusetts Homestay Company, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based company that specializes in finding homes for international students studying abroad in the United States.

Brooks Institute completed consolidating all its visual arts education programs and facilities for new students onto one campus in the Autumn of 2014, the Ventura Campus, located on North Ventura Avenue in the city of Ventura.

Brooks Institute had a research vessel, 'Just Love, ' on which Ernest H Brooks II led a photographic research and travel expedition to the Sea of Cortez in 1986.

Brooks Institute had two public art galleries that display student, faculty, alumni, and guest photographer work: the Gallery 27 at the former Cota Street Campus in Santa Barbara; and the Visions Gallery in Ventura, operated in conjunction with the Marriott Ventura Beach.

Brooks Institute was nationally accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools which offered accreditation to mostly vocational schools.

Up until the mid-1980s, Brooks Institute was the only national level university program regionally accredited to offer a full Bachelor of Arts degree in photographic sciences, underwritten by WASC.

In November 2008, Brooks Institute laid off five faculty members and 12 staff members as part of a restructuring.