Mission Statement
To provide a venue for artists and exhibitions that question aesthetic conventions and address social issues in a timely and provocative fashion.

To encourage programming that crosses cultural, professional and organizational boundaries.

To offer exhibition opportunities for established as well as emerging, under-recognized and minority artists.

To serve as an educational tool for Chapman University and the Orange County arts community.

Gallery History
The Guggenheim Gallery, housed in the Moulton Center on the campus of Chapman University, was built with a gift from Robert and Shirley Guggenheim in 1975. It sponsors an annual schedule of exhibitions by professional artists, students and community arts organizations.

Solo exhibitions by internationally known California artists such as Manuel Ocampo and Tim Hawkinson alternate with group exhibitions organized around themes which have included death and dying, sex and humor, the Vietnam war, public art, and religion.

Part of the regular gallery programming are collaborations with area institutions, such as Confronting Nature: Silenced Voices with Cal State Fullerton, Art and Architecture, with ten Southern California museums and galleries, and the 1994 Orange County Olympic Arts Festival.

Chapman students mount group exhibitions each semester and are required to show their work individually as juniors and seniors.

Community arts organizations such as So. Cal. Artists, the Orange Unified School District, the Orange Art Association, and the Orange PTA sponsor exhibitions in the gallery when classes are not in session. University organizations also hold receptions in the gallery.