In response to Wilkinson College’s 2024 Engaging the World Initiative, Leading the Conversation on Gender and Sexuality, students worked collaboratively to curate a new exhibition of Escalette Collection artwork titled Echoes in the Mirror. The exhibition is located in the first-floor hallway in Roosevelt Hall and will be on display until November 2025. The student-curators
We are thrilled to announce that Chapman University and Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences have been awarded a $5,000 Humanities for All Quick Grant from California Humanities for “Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop and exhibition guide for exhibition ‘Body of the World: The California Landscapes of Inna Jane Ray.’” This grant will support a
This edition of From Our Eyes features Ysabella Rodriguez (Art History). Rodriguez attended The Structure of Photography lecture by event, Photographer Catherine Opie. Rodriguez reflects on the event and what it meant to her. Earlier this month, photographer and educator Catherine Opie took the audience on a journey through her body of work beginning with
During the spring 2024 semester, the Escalette Collection of Art and the Department of English’s Creative Writing Program collaborated to host an Ekphrasis Poetry Competition. Undergraduate and graduate students were invited to submit ekphrasis poetry in any style inspired by artwork from the Escalette Collection on display in Smith Hall and Roosevelt Hall, the home
This past summer, Cassie Chan (‘25 Art History) and Bella Marinos (’24 Psychology major, Studio Art minor) interned for the Escalette Permanent Art Collection. The two students worked on collections management, curation, research, and more. Chan and Marinos reflect on their ten week internship; what skills they learned, the projects they worked on and how
This past spring semester, Art and Text (ART 195), the introductory class for all studio art and art history majors and minors, piloted an exciting class project with the Escalette Collection of Art, an academic unit of Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Art and Text (ART 195) educates art students on how
This edition of From Our Eyes features Natalie Teeter, a rising junior pursuing a major in Strategic and Corporate Communication and minor in Studio Art. Teeter and a group of Wilkinson students and staff recently visited the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens to view their exceptional collection of Asian American artifacts. The trip
The Escalette Permanent Art Collection recently welcomed Tahereh Sheerazie, textile artist and landscape designer, to Chapman University. Sheerazie is a member of The Running Stitch, a sewing and quilting collective for Muslim women based in Los Angeles that has been active for over twenty-two years. In her lecture, Sewing In Community, Sheerazie emphasized the idea
Over the summer Diya Patel (’26 Philosophy and Psychology) interned for the Escalette Permanent Collection of Art. Her responsibilities included collections management, marketing/social media, and creating/designing display cases. Patel wrote a story about her time interning, highlighting a few of her favorite things she did. Take a look! This past summer I lived and breathed
While officially I joined the Escalette Collection of Art as a Collections Management and Research Intern on June 8th, 2023, I would argue my journey with the collection actually began 12 years ago, during one particularly scalding Southern California summer. While other children cooled off theaters and shopping malls, I found my sanctuary in the