Happy 5th Anniversary to the Escalette Collection!
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. – Sir John Lubbock Yesterday, May 4th, 2015, marked…
Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at Chapman University
A Great Night of Beautiful Poetry
On Monday night we had the privilege of attending the community reading of original poetry written by an amazing group of Orange High School…
Orange High School Gets Creative
Orange High students create their works of art after a lesson in abstract poetry. On Monday, Chapman’s Escalette Permanent Collection of Art was very…
Slow Art Day, 2015
This Saturday, April 11, 2015, is Slow Art Day! It is one day every year in which people visit local museums and galleries all…
"Changing California"
Crowds gathered on Tuesday night in Leatherby Libraries to celebrate the opening of a temporary exhibit titled, “Changing California: Selected watercolors from the Mark and…
Compare and Contreras
Contemporary artists Albert Contreras and Patrick Wilson seem to create distinctly different works of art, yet share surprising common ground in at least one…
Michael Hafftka
Michael Hafftka is an internationally acclaimed American painter from New York City. He has exhibited in some of the most famous and important museums…
Disneyland is Burning
The night of Saturday, February 28th, Disneyland made headlines due to an unexpected fire that set trees ablaze near the attraction “It’s a Small…
Chapman's "Hidden Treasures" on view now at John Wayne Airport
Now through August 2015 you will have the opportunity to see art at John Wayne Airport from the collections of five Orange County colleges…
Happy Museum Advocacy Day!
As many of you may already know, today is the 7th annual Museums Advocacy Day, so we here at Chapman Collections are spreading the…
Sugar, Spit, and Bay Area Grit
Nathan Oliveira was a native California artist (born in Oakland) and since the 1950s has been the subject of thousands of solo and group…
Students Cross Curricula to Create WWI Exhibition
Last night marked the official opening of To Arms: The Western Front, 1914-1918, our new spring semester exhibit of WWI artifacts in the Doy and Dee…