2023
For several years, it has been standard practice for the Escalette Collection of Art, an academic unit of Wilkinson College, to include students in…
Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at Chapman University
Escalette Collection on Loan
This past Spring semester, The Honarkar Foundation in Laguna Beach featured three Tony DeLap artworks from the Escalette Collection of Art in its inaugural…
Maia Cruz Palileo: De
This blog post was written by Olivia Anderson, double major in Peace Studies and French. Maia Cruz Palileo (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose…
Opening the Pink Box
Created on familiar bright pink boxes, Phung Huynh’s art is an intriguing entrance point into the world of Cambodian refugees and their connection to…
LOOK!
Students in Marcus Herse’s Spring 2023 Curatorial Practice class partnered with the Escalette Collection of Art to curate and install an exhibition on the…
Bound in Bone
In response to Wilkinson College’s 2023 Engaging the World Initiative, Leading the Conversation on Health Equity, the Escalette Collection of Art partnered Wilkinson and…
Sewing in Community: Artist Talk with Tahereh Sheerazie
Tahereh Sheerazie On Tuesday, December 5th, the Escalette Permanent Art Collection welcomed Tahereh Sheerazie, textile artist and landscape designer, to Chapman University. Sheerazie is…
Highlights of an Escalette Collection Summer Intern
This past summer I lived and breathed the Escalette Collection of Art. But, if I’m being honest, I have been fixated since registration day…
A Week in the Life of an Escalette Collection Intern
While officially I joined the Escalette Collection of Art as a Collections Management and Research Intern on June 8th, 2023, I would argue my…
Stillwater— How Three Photographers Suspend an Ever
As summer sends thousands fleeing to seas and poolsides, we find ourselves reminded of water’s constant need to move— waves recede, riverbeds race, ice…
The Escalette Collection Breathes New Life into the Rinker Campus
Wilkinson College’s Escalette Collection has expanded its ‘museum without walls,’ serving students in the much needed campus center at Chapman’s Rinker Campus for Health…
"No Mākou Ke Ānuenue": Decolonizing Conversations on Queer Identities
In the piece “No Mākou Ke Ānuenue,” which translates to “A Rainbow for All,” undulating rainbows wrap around each other, flowing like a series…