Orange High School Gets Creative
On Monday, Chapman’s Escalette Permanent Collection of Art was very proud to participate in the Chapman University-Orange High School Literacies Partnership! Students from OHS have gathered every week after school at Chapman to participate in the 2015 Young Writers’ Workshop, in collaboration with the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing. For this week’s session, the students were given
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 over the world to really take their time to look at art slowly. The idea is that each person should look at five works of art for 10 minutes each, and
"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 Janet Hilbert Collection of California Art at Chapman University.” The exhibit features eleven pieces from the Hilbert Collection, each representing life across California, especially the social, cultural, and historical changes occurring
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 aspect of their creative processes. When creating his iconic “X” paintings, Contreras begins with custom wood panels. He paints on a layer of gesso, then one of glittery
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 in the United States, and we at Chapman have a beautiful group of his paintings in our Escalette Collection. In 2011 we received an incredibly generous donation from Mr. Hafftka, which
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 World.” Thankfully, no one was injured during the mishap, and the fire was quickly extinguished. Officials are still investigating the cause of the fire, although they suspect it was related to the
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 and universities, including works from our very own collection here at Chapman! The exhibition was curated by Chris Hoff, and is titled “HIDDEN TREASURES: Art from the Permanent Collections of
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 word about the importance of museums, galleries, and collections on view to the public. Not only are museums and galleries totally awesome, super fun places to visit, but they are crucial
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 exhibitions worldwide. He is most commonly associated with the Bay Area Figurative movement, which emerged as a reaction to the Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s and 60s. To this day the
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 Henley Galleria on the second floor of Argyros Forum. This was a collaborative effort among various departments and groups of students at Chapman, and it’s the first time that students were