Campus & Community Opportunities

9:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., Weekdays

ADMISSION INFORMATION SESSION

Admission Office, Kravis Center Given by a member of the admission staff, group information sessions provide a solid overview of Claremont McKenna College and its academic programs and social culture. Admission requirements, financial aid, and merit scholarships also are covered in this presentation.

10:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., Weekdays

ADMISSION CAMPUS TOUR

Admission Office, Kravis Center Tours begin at 10:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., and last approximately one hour. Tours include Claremont McKenna College facilities only.

1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

CMC ART TOUR

Meet at the Alumni Club Unknown by many, CMC possesses a prolific art collection. Join the Student Art Council on one of two tours of the many masterpieces housed on campus. Repeated from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday

HUNTLEY BOOKSTORE

175 East Eighth Street Stop by the bookstore and fill your cart with all the latest CMC and CMS apparel and gear. 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Sunday

CLAREMONT FARMERS AND ARTISANS MARKET

2nd Street (between Indian Hill and Yale) Just a short walk away from campus, the Claremont Farmers Market in the downtown area, the Village, is a great place to pick up some fresh fruit or veggies, baked goods, tasty samples, fresh-cut flowers, and arts and crafts.

Anytime

CITY OF CLAREMONT SELFGUIDED WALKING TOUR

Enjoy a self-guided tour of the charming Village area of Claremont including the numerous murals that dot the city. Information is available on www.claremontheritage.org/tours.

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Daily

RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN SELF-GUIDED TOUR

1500 North College Avenue Enjoy a self-guided tour of one of the largest botanical gardens in California dedicated exclusively to the conservation of the state’s native plants. $8 per adult; $6 for senior citizens and students; $4 for children (ages 3–12); children under 3 years are free.

12:00 to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday–Sunday

POMONA COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

Montgomery Art Center, Pomona College Northeast corner of College and Bonita; public entrance is on the north side of the museum. www.pomona.edu/museum

CAMPUS & COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES

1:00 to 5:00 p.m., Wednesday–Friday

RUTH CHANDLER WILLIAMSON GALLERY

1030 Columbia Avenue, Scripps College Visit www.scrippscollege.edu/williamsongallery for a listing of exhibitions.

Anytime

MEET IN THE MIDDLE

Roberts Pavilion Located outside of Roberts Pavilion, Meet in the Middle by Chris Burden is a circular arrangement of eight street lamps and 24 benches. Intended to provide a point of focus and a recognizable meeting place on the CMC campus, it was designed by the artist to be optimistic, welcoming, and provocative, and provides a social setting where students and faculty can interact with the sculpture and each other. The lamps automatically illuminate at sunset and turn off at sunrise and are fitted with LED lights. Burden felt that these installations were about human relationships to the places we have built for ourselves: the posts and benches represent human scale, and they are more ornate than they need to be—small sculptures that dotted the streets of the past.

Meet in the Middle is part of a Burden body of work utilizing vintage street lamps. Urban Light, his 2008 large-scale assemblage sculpture of 202 restored L.A. street lamps from the 1920s and ‘30s, marks the entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Anytime

UNTITLED - TOTEM

North of Philips Hall A totem can be defined as an object imbued with spiritual significance, a place to gather, and a place to reflect. Claremont McKenna commissioned Ellsworth Kelly to create a unique totem sculpture, made of stainless steel, painted white, and standing at approximately 40 feet in height. Like an Egyptian obelisk, the totem will serve as both a landmark and a place for contemplation. As is the case with much of his considerable body of work, these totems take as their point of departure shapes and patterns found in the natural world. Situated within a small grove of trees, the smooth, modern form converses with its surroundings through the juxtaposition of the natural and the man made. Rising up above its surroundings, the totem provides a space for self-reflection, dwarfing us in the presence of the towering pillar.