This week, staff from the Guggenheim Gallery and the Escalette Collection, along with their team of student assistants, have been beating the relentless July heat to install Chapman’s new exhibit in the Guggenheim Gallery: Paths and Edges: Celebrating the Fifth-Anniversary of Our Escalette Collection. The exhibit will consist of over one dozen works of art from the collection,
The Collection’s art storage warehouse and display areas in Beckman Hall are getting a makeover! After months of preparation and planning, which included condition reporting and safely wrapping works of art, the mini-renovation process has begun. In storage, existing shelving units have been adjusted to hold pieces more securely, and are repositioned to distribute weight evenly
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. – Sir John Lubbock Yesterday, May 4th, 2015, marked the fifth anniversary of the dedication of the Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, as well as Phyllis and H. Ross Escalette Plaza, on Chapman University’s campus. On that day in 2010, the event
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
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all across campus, Not a work of art was stirring, not even a canvas. The paintings were hung in Beckman with care, In hopes that more visitors soon would be there. The Adkins was settled, hung safe on his wall, With Rauschenberg’s Cardbird just across the hall. Two Wayne Whites
Thanks to the hard work and collaboration among the amazing teachers and staff of the CU/OHS Literacies Partnership, we here at the Escalette Collection were able to host student visitors from Orange High School for an afternoon of great art and creativity. Upon their arrival, this group of 15 young artists were given a