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Two Artists from UC Irvine Join the Guggenheim Foundation's 101st Class of Fellows

Department of Art professor Monica Majoli and M.F.A. alumna Samira Yamin are named among 223 fellows across 55 disciplines Two members of UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts have been awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships, one of the nation's highest honors for scholarly and creative...
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UCI Giving Day on April 28 to Support the Claire Trevor School of the Arts

Support scholarships, creative research and professional pathways for UCI Arts students The University of California, Irvine will mark its 10th annual Giving Day on Tuesday, April 28, with a campuswide call to support the programs that shape the university’s future. At the Claire Trevor School of...
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UCI Arts Awards the 2025–26 Research & Innovation Grants

Creative Research in the Arts Now in its fifth year, the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts (UCI Arts) Department of Research and Innovation continues to prioritize projects that feature cutting-edge research and interdisciplinary collaborations with potential for external recognition and...
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The Artists’ Laboratory

In the Experimental Media Performance Lab, technology blends with art to offer immersive, boundary-pushing experiences for audiences  By Christine Byrd In William Fastenow’s, Ph.D. ’25 capstone recital, Art of the Unheard, audiences walked on elevated paths with pairs of speakers above and below...
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Disruptive Cultures

The Beall Center for Art + Technology concludes its 25th anniversary with an examination of social media By Christine Byrd Visitors to the Beall Center for Art + Technology this spring will be greeted by two ghostly figures on a screen, their endless, friendly chatter to each other powered by...
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Yong Soon Min Memorial Fund Reaches Endowment Goal

Endowed fund honors the late artist and professor while supporting future generations of UC Irvine graduate students The Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine has successfully reached the $50,000 goal to establish the Yong Soon Min Endowed Memorial Fund, ensuring...
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Amanda Ross-Ho Joins FXR Collective for Getty Performances and Venice Biennale Collaboration

UC Irvine professor contributes to international FXR project exploring care, community and collective artistic practice Getty announced a new performance engagement with Fac Xtra Retreat (FXR), a collective of seven Los Angeles-based Asian American artists and educators that includes UC Irvine...
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Ulysses Jenkins, visionary video artist and cultural storyteller, dies at 79

A visionary educator and early innovator in video art, Jenkins shaped generations of artists and expanded the language of media and performance. Ulysses Jenkins, a trailblazing video, performance and multimedia artist whose work helped define the language of contemporary media art while fiercely...
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The Art of Opportunity

Through two paid internship programs, the office of Access...
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Meredith Monk honored with Claire Trevor Lifetime Achievement Award during UC Irvine residency

The annual Art of Performance series welcomes the trailblazing composer and performer for a week of interdisciplinary engagement Irvine, Calif., Feb. 19, 2026 — The UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts will welcome visionary interdisciplinary artist Meredith Monk to campus this March for a...
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Beatrice Schleyer: Reclaiming Wreckage, Reframing Modernism

Medici Circle Scholar Beatrice Schleyer and Her Trip to The Chinati Foundation By Gamy Cortes For Department of Art student Beatrice Schleyer, M.F.A '27, making art with auto parts that have been involved in collisions, entails having an awareness of their provenance.  “I'm interested in...
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Amanda Ross-Ho Debuts Durational Performance at Frieze Los Angeles 2026

Untitled Orbit (MANUAL MODE) (2026) marks the artist’s longest performance to date UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Art Professor Amanda Ross-Ho will present a new durational performance, Untitled Orbit (MANUAL MODE) (2026), at Frieze Los Angeles, taking place Feb. 26...
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UC Irvine Launches Certificate in Teaching Artistry to Prepare Artists for Expanding Education Careers

The new program aims to support the growing demand from arts organizations, schools and community partners Irvine, Calif., Feb. 14, 2026 – The UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, in collaboration with the UC Irvine Division of Continuing Education, has launched a new Certificate in...
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Kevin Appel Explores Rhythm and Restraint in New York Exhibition 'Intervals'

A new body of work expands Appel’s geometric abstraction through color and material experimentation. Intervals, a new solo exhibition by Kevin Appel, professor and chair of the Department of Art at the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, opens Feb. 19 at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York....
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The Mutable Archive Brings Arts Research into Dialogue with Medical Humanities

Organized by Associate Dean of Research and Innovation Jesse Colin Jackson and  Director for the Center of Medical Humanities, Dr. Kelli Sharp, the Feb. 12–13 xMPL program features Patricia Olynyk and Adam Hogan in a two-day expanded cinema event UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts will...
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The Unworld to Come. Imagining an Otherwise…

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT Artists: Marwa Arsanios, Ashley Hunt, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and virgil b/g taylor  Curators: Juli Carson, Annika Haas, and Sasha Ussef Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Gallery On View: January 24-April 4, 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 7, 2-5 p.m. IRVINE,...
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Charisse Pearlina Weston, M.F.A. ’19, named a 2025 Trellis Art Fund Stepping Stone Grantee

The Department of Art alumna is among 20 artists selected nationwide for the expanded two-year Stepping Stone grants program UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts alumna Charisse Pearlina Weston, M.F.A. ’19, has been named one of the 2025 Trellis Art Fund Stepping Stone Grantees, receiving an...
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UCI Arts 2025 Year in Review

Reflecting back on a year of exceptional milestones  The past year marked a significant moment for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, coinciding with UC Irvine’s 60th anniversary and the continued celebration of the 25th anniversary of the naming of the school. Together, these milestones...