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We here at the Escalette Permanent Collection of Art are proud to house a wide variety of art pieces. These artistic works are diverse…
Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at Chapman University
Bauhaus
German architect Walter Gropius opened the Bauhaus school in 1919 in Weimer, Germany. The Bauhaus served not only as a school for architects, but a site…
Chapman Students Join Team OC in Solar Decathlon Competition
Chapman University has joined forces with three other local universities to create a beautiful and environmentally friendly home as a part of the Solar…
Never "Shai" Away
Shai Kremer, Military Ammunition Storage, Ten Years After Explosion, Chromogenic Print, 20X24″, 2001 Shai Kremer is an Israeli photographer best known for his series “Infected Landscape”.…
Escalette Celebrates Homecoming!
A homecoming crowd gathers to take a closer look at “Ancestors I” by William Warehem. This past week, Chapman University celebrated Homecoming with a variety of…
Three to See and More to Celebrate
Artists from our Escalette Collection of Art are frequently featured in galleries, exhibitions, art fairs, and beyond. This month, we have three top exhibitions…
Hand
I recently learned about the Escalette Collection’s large collection of hand-painted movie posters from Ghana. I had seen a couple of the posters before,…
Paperworks
Artist, writer, and curator Soo Kim’s work That was because this year will of course go on is the newest addition to Chapman University’s Escalette Collection…
The Boulevards of Heritage
September 15th to October 15th is National Hispanic Heritage Month. To celebrate, we here at Escalette would like to highlight a piece of art in…
Celebrating Escalette's Quinquennial!
This past Sunday, friends and visitors gathered to celebrate the closing reception of the Paths and Edges exhibition at the Guggenheim Gallery, which marks the fifth anniversary…
Kentridge Bridges Fine Art and Film
Growing up in South Africa during the mid to late 1900’s with an antiapartheid lawyer for a father made William Kentridge very aware of…
Miya Ando’s Industrial Watercolors
Miya Ando, whose sculptural structure is now on view at the 56th Venice Biennale, is most well-known for the paintings she creates with metal. These “industrial…