Come celebrate public art — a gift to us all

Imagine strolling through our campus and not seeing any public art. Not a pretty picture!

So make a point to come out and celebrate Chapman’s great public art and some of its greatest benefactors Tuesday, May 4, at the official naming ceremony and reception for the Phyllis and Ross Escalette Permanent Collection of Art.

The festivities begin at 4:30 p.m. and include a talk by Joanne Corday Kozberg, a trustee of The J. Paul Getty Trust, titled “Our Shared Legacy: Public Art Collections.”

Few universities have permanent art collections, and Chapman’s is becoming one of the premier such university collections in Southern California. In 2010, philanthropists Phyllis and Ross Escalette made a naming gift to the rapidly growing collection, which encompasses more than 700 pieces, with particular strengths in African art, Russian iconography, and prints by modern American and European masters such as Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein and Nauman.

Take a virtual tour of the collection
here
on Facebook.

The event is free and open to the public.