[19] Resistance from the more socially conservative administration, including to a controversial March 1972 performance by Wolfgang Stoerchle in which he urinated on a rug, led to a mass exodus of the art faculty in 1973.

[25] The new facility, named after donor and trustee Janet Inskeep Benton (class of 1979),[26] more than tripled the exhibition and storage space available to the museum.

[30] The museum is located near the southwestern edge of Pomona's campus, adjacent to the Village, Claremont's downtown commercial district.

Mick Rhodes of the Claremont Courier described the material palette as "clean and cool without being cold" and noted the spaciousness of the galleries.

[26] The museum oversees several notable public artworks on Pomona's campus, including The Spirit of Spanish Music by Burt William Johnson (1915), Prometheus by José Clemente Orozco (1930), Genesis by Rico Lebrun (1960),[36][37][10]: 485–487  and Dividing the Light by James Turrell (2007).

A statue by Alison Saar, Imbue, is located in the museum's courtyard; it depicts the Yoruba goddess of childbirth, Yemọja, carrying a large stack of pails on her head.