Department of Art | Claire Trevor School of the Arts

Alumni Profile: Samira Yamin, M.F.A. ’11

September 21

Meet Samira Yamin, M.F.A. ’11. Yamin’s work has been exhibited nationally including solo exhibitions at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and PATRON Gallery in Chicago, and her work was recently acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Arts and Wellness

September 16

Learn what Arts and Wellness means to UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts
UC Irvine Art Department: Recontextualizing Instruction During Changing Times

September 15

KCET features how, when the statewide shutdown occurred in March, the four CTSA departments — visual art, dance, drama and music — formulated new teaching models, employing curricula through the end of the Spring semester.
From Waste to Wonder: Face Shields Transform Into Art

September 15

The UCI face shield project left behind piles of clear and colorful plastic scraps that were bound for the trash can, but Jesse Colin Jackson, associate dean of research and innovation, came up with a creative plan to turn waste into meaningful art.
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibitions - Fall 2020

September 1 - December 1 Online

The Department of Art M.F.A. Thesis Exhibitions delayed from the Spring quarter 2020 will be mounted in the University Art Galleries and available for virtual viewing online. Please check for updates.
Jesse Colin Jackson Named Inaugural Associate Dean, Research and Innovation

August 12

Jackson will develop a vision and plan for faculty and student research at CTSA. In the arts, research takes a variety of forms from the purely academic to the performative and the material.

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Alumni, Connect

Alumni Profile: Samira Yamin, M.F.A. ’11

By Allyson Unzicker, Associate Director...

Connect

Arts and Wellness

By Christine Byrd The seats were empty, the orchestra silent, the studios dark. More than 700 undergraduate and 150 graduate students, and the scores of faculty and staff who teach and support them, disappeared literally overnight. It was March 17, and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, like...

Faculty

From Waste to Wonder: Face Shields Transform Into Art

UCI art piece commemorates the efforts of UCI’s face shield project and global pandemic. September 15, 2020 By Kate Wokowsky / UCI Beall Applied Innovation News "The face shield project at UC Irvine left behind piles of clear and colorful plastic scraps that were bound for the trash can, but...

Art

UC Irvine and ‘Made in L.A.’: A Relationship Through Time and Space

Explore the special connection between the Department of Art at UCI and the Hammer Museum’s internationally renowned exhibition, “Made in L.A.”