Turner House – Marylyn and Chuck Klaus
Syracuse University art professor Kevin Larmon with Turner House owners Marylyn and Chuck Klaus. Every semester, three promising Syracuse University Masters of Fine Arts students are selected by faculty to make a pilgrimage to Turner House in San Pedro for an art immersion program that lasts 15 weeks. The scholarship program was established by one of Palos Verdes’ most ardent advocate of the arts, Marilyn (Turner) Klaus in 2010. Since then, it has evolved into what current Syracuse scholarship recipient Candice Corgan describes as an “intensive and interdisciplinary submersion into the arts, yet every week on Sundays we come up for air to make food together, sit down together and have a cocktail.” Klaus’s goal was two-fold. She wanted to express thanks to her upstate New York alma mater where she earned both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree. And she wanted to give serious students a “leg up” in the art world. Klaus lost her father when she was seven and attended Syracuse on a scholarship from General Electric, where her mother worked. She supplemented her scholarship money cleaning houses for 50 cents an hour. In 2014, Syracuse recognized her with the…
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