ENTERTAINMENT
January 14, 2012 | By Mike Boehm, Los Angeles Times
The museum at Scripps College in Claremont enlisted a Los Angeles art dealer as co-curator of a Getty-funded Pacific Standard Time exhibition, violating a prominent ethics code that warns museums against allowing commercial interests to shepherd shows in nonprofit venues. "Clay's Tectonic Shift: John Mason, Ken Price and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968" focuses on three artists credited with breakthroughs that transformed pottery from a studio craft to a sculptural form widely appreciated as fine art. The work of the trio being highlighted at Scripps' Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery has been cited as perhaps the first movement in postwar L.A. art to win renown in the wider world.
ENTERTAINMENT
January 29, 2010
$4-million ceramics gift Thanks to a grateful alumna from the class of 1949, Scripps College and the affiliated Claremont Graduate University are getting $4 million in dough to benefit art students learning to work with clay. The gift for ceramic art programs at the two institutions in Claremont comes from Joan Lincoln and her husband, David, who live in Paradise Valley, Ariz. It includes a $3.5-million pledge to Scripps, funding a new, 3,000-square-foot ceramics building and an endowment for various ceramic art studies programs and exhibitions, and $500,000 to establish an endowment for graduate student scholarships at Claremont Graduate University.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 22, 2007 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Nancy Y. Bekavac, president of Scripps College in Claremont for 17 years, announced Wednesday that she will step down June 30. Bekavac, 59, was the first woman president of the liberal arts school for women and is credited with helping to increase its enrollment from 600 students to 850 and in leading successful fundraising and campus construction efforts. An attorney with a law degree from Yale, Bekavac said she has no immediate plans for another job.
NEWS
July 6, 2006 | Cindy Chang, Special to The Times
FOR those of us whose bright college years are a distant memory, a visit to a university campus is tinged with mourning for our lost youth and envy for those fresh-faced things preoccupied with final exams and whether the cute boy down the hall is interested. Alumni of certain local schools may beg to differ, but there is arguably no better place in the Los Angeles area to step into that universe of remembrance and regret than the Claremont Colleges.
NEWS
January 27, 2005 | Andy Brumer, Special to The Times
Ceramist Tony Marsh has been thinking big. As a professor in the art department at Cal State Long Beach, Marsh directs the school's ceramics program. With kilns capable of firing mammoth-scale works and an exhibition area that replicates a commercial gallery, it has become a magnet for students and artists who want to work in new, experimental and often large ways in clay.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 30, 2004 | From a Times Staff Writer
Katharine Eleanor Howard Miller, vice chairwoman of the board of Scripps College and a civic leader in Santa Barbara, has died. She was 71. Miller died Sunday at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara of complications from leukemia. A native of Los Angeles, she was the great-granddaughter of both Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, the first publisher of the Los Angeles Times, and Volney P. Howard, one of Los Angeles' first Superior Court judges.