{"id":4095,"date":"2023-01-11T08:42:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T16:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/collections\/2023\/01\/11\/student-perspective-engagements-with-the-escalette-collection\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:13:23","slug":"student-perspective-engagements-with-the-escalette-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/collections\/2023\/01\/11\/student-perspective-engagements-with-the-escalette-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective: Engagements with the Escalette Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Escalette Collection of Art<\/a> is looking back at some of the fantastic work students created in the Fall 2022 semester based on artwork in the collection. Displaying artwork throughout Chapman\u2019s campus allows students to engage with the collection, whether in their classes or just walking by. By bringing their unique backgrounds, perspectives, and knowledge to an artwork, the students and broader Chapman family work together to learn, shape, and redefine the collection in important ways.<\/p>\n

Dr. Wendy Salmond’s Art History 335: Theories of Modernism<\/i> class examined the intricacies and foundations of the art world as it developed during the 20th and 21st centuries. Throughout the class, students familiarized themselves with the Escalette Collection of Art by creating a Panther Perspective – a short, recorded response that will be used as a public audio guide. Their final project was to select a work from the collection to use as the inspiration to either curate a virtual exhibition or create their own artwork. Let’s look at just some of the wonderful interpretations of artworks from the Escalette Collection.<\/p>\n

Sloan Watson’s Final Project – Art Project<\/h3>\n
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Bovey Lee, Cross Section<\/em>, oil on canvas, 1994. Gift of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Attracted to its bright colors and layers of pattern, Sloan Watson (Studio Art ’24) chose Bovey Lee’s Cross Section\u00a0<\/em>as inspiration for a knitted art project. Now known for her intricate paper cut sculptures, Cross Section\u00a0<\/em>was an early work created by the artist during graduate school. Cross Section<\/em> reveals Lee’s early passion for intricate details that would come to shape the rest of her career. Sloan approached her knitted project with the same rigor for details, carefully selecting thirteen shades of yarn to match those in the painting and using a software system to design her own pattern.<\/p>\n

“Upon first viewing the work, I took notice of the use of colors and their seemingly flat planes, which upon further observation consist of a variety of shades and underlying colors, likely achieved by glazing with oils, as well as a secondary composition that uses these colors to play with the sight of a nearly unidentifiable object in its background (one which is of a floral nature\/motif). My product design intends to emulate these colors in a more simplified manner, finding the balance between detail and necessity, and using rudimentary colors to accurately represent the piece.” – Sloan Watson<\/p>\n