 In Los Angeles, Kisch enrolled at the Otis College of Art and Design where she studied alongside artists such as Bas Jan Ader and Barry Le Va and went on to attain both a BFA and an MFA in 1969.While at Otis she embarked on a series of hard-edge paintings, described by the critic Naomi Baker in the "San Diego Evening Tribune" as "geometric paintings, vivid and sharply defined with color areas and shapes.