Ex-Newport Curator to Be Honored

Paul Schimmel, former chief curator of the Newport Harbor Art Museum and currently chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, will be one of seven people honored tonight by Cal State Fullerton for contributing to the growth of the arts in Orange County.

The recognition ceremony and dinner, a fund-raiser for the university’s art gallery programs, will be held at the Waterfront Hilton in Huntington Beach. The event is sponsored by the school’s Art Alliance support group.

The other honorees are Rosalind Arnush, who founded the Cal State Fullerton Art Alliance; Doris Shields, who helped establish the Laguna Beach Art Commission; Molly and Leon Lyon, Newport Beach art collectors; Frederick R. Weisman, a prominent Los Angeles art collector who has loaned works to CSUF, and Florence Arnold, who founded the annual “Night in Fullerton” arts celebration.

Tickets are $150. Information: (714) 773-3262.