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 for re-imagining the material world through the unification of all the arts. The school combined crafts school, academy of the arts, and architecture school, providing workshops in cabinetmaking, textile making, metalworking,
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 Decathlon. Named Casa Del Sol, it draws inspiration from our state flower, the Golden Poppy. We love the convergence of the Arts and Sciences happening here, which is why we’re asking
Never "Shai" Away
Shai Kremer is an Israeli photographer best known for his series “Infected Landscape”. Kremer was educated in photography at Tel Aviv’s Camera Obscura School of Arts, as well as in media arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY. The photographs Military Ammunition Storage, Ten Years After Explosion and Shooting Defense Wall, Gilo Neighborhood are from
Escalette Celebrates Homecoming!
This past week, Chapman University celebrated Homecoming with a variety of fun and informative events, and the Escalette Collection was proud and happy to be a part of the festivities! On Saturday, October 3rd, students and family members were able to tour the sculptures and the newly completed modern art exhibit located on the 3rd and 4th floors of Beckman Hall, led by Student Art
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 on our radar within Southern California: Soo Kim and Chris Nathrop in Paperworks at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, on view until January 3, 2016. Frank Gehry retrospective at the
Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana
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, but I had no idea where they had come from, and just how many there were in the collection. The Escalette Collection is home to sixty five of these unique and
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 of Art. Dedicated to the memory of Ross and Phyllis Escalette, her piece is an intricately designed piece of hand-cut paper that conveys themes of presence and absence, levity and gravity.
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 our collection by Edward Ruscha entitled, Pico and Sepulveda. Ruscha has lived the majority of his life in Southern California, where he continues to live, teach, make art, and publish books to
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 of the Escalette Permanent Collection of Art. Several of the exhibit’s featured artists were in attendance, including Soo Kim, whose artwork That was because this year will of course go on is the
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 what was happening in South African society at the time. This awareness led him to pursue a career in politics and African studies; however, after obtaining degrees in those areas, Kentridge