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Hilbert Museum Debuts New Space
By Anastacia Grenda • 11mo
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The reimagined Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University is “a storytelling museum,” according to donor and founder Mark Hilbert. The narrative it presents is rich in characters and plotlines, and written in ink and oils, acrylics, and watercolors. On Feb. 23, you can see the story unfold when the museum opens after a three-year renovation that expanded the space from 7,500 to 22,000 square feet.

“There are so many little gems of storytelling; it gets you excited,” says Hilbert, as he admires Frank Ashley’s painting “The Barefoot ’60s: Enrico’s San Francisco” in December. “The stories are about the artists as well as what’s in the paintings.”

Those artists include Mary Blair—renowned Disney illustrator and designer who Hilbert said was one of the greatest artists ...