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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 M.F.A '27 student, Beatrice Schleyer, 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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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...
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Simon Leung and Yong Soon Min Featured in ARTnews Awards 2025 Best Thematic Museum Exhibition

Artists recognized for the second consecutive year in ARTnews Award–winning exhibitions For the second consecutive year, UC Irvine Department of Art professor Simon Leung and the late professor emerita Yong Soon Min are featured artists in an exhibition recognized by ARTnews as Best Thematic...
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Against Outer Space, Curated by Zachary Korol Gold and Valerie Olson

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT On View: November 15, 2025–February 28, 2026 IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 30, 2025 – The Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine, is pleased to announce the opening of Against Outer Space, curated by Zachary Korol Gold, assistant curator of the...
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Parallel Play: Experiments in Picturing the Arctic

UC Irvine Art Professor Jesse Colin Jackson presents a film installation and colloquium with anthropologist Lindsay Bell, exploring northern life through art and ethnography The UC Irvine Department of Anthropology, Center for Ethnography, and EcoGovLab will host Parallel Play: Experiments in...
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Making Space to Redefine

Alison O’Daniel (M.F.A. ’10) is changing the game in art and film By Richard Chang Alison O’Daniel (M.F.A. art, 2010) has placed Deaf culture at the focal point in her art and film work, and that has positioned her at the forefront of an international cultural movement.  The visual artist and...
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen ’99 Named 2025 MacArthur Fellow

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts alumnus recognized for his multidisciplinary works exploring memory, displacement and the legacies of war Department of Art alumnus Tuan Andrew Nguyen ’99 has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The...
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Art That Moves L.A.

UC Irvine artists featured at the Hammer Biennial By Christine Byrd When Made in L.A. 2025 opens at the Hammer Museum on Oct. 5, the highly anticipated biennial will not only offer insight into the City of Angels’ artistic impulses but also UC Irvine’s growing influence on the region’s art scene...
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UCI Arts Summer 2025 Faculty Highlights

A look at faculty news and creative activity from summer 2025 From curating thought-provoking exhibitions and premiering new choreography to receiving national awards and fellowships, faculty across the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts (UCI Arts) remained active throughout the summer....
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UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Art: A Culmination of Legacy & Resurgence

by Peter Lefevre  Drive past the carefully manicured lawns of Irvine, the most famously planned city in America, and the last words that occur to you might be “radical” and “avant garde.” Yet those are exactly the terms that define the 60-year legacy of UC Irvine’s Department of Art. There, in...
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OCDE and UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Launch ‘Earn and Learn’ Apprenticeships

The collaboration creates stronger pathways connecting classrooms, communities and careers in the arts The Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) and UC Irvine are partnering to create new registered apprenticeships that combine paid, hands-on experience with industry-recognized credentials...
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A Legacy Worth Celebrating

Anniversaries of UC Irvine and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts offer a moment of reflection and possibility By Christine Byrd Every day, UC Irvine students and visitors walk by Claire Trevor’s Oscar and Emmy awards outside the theater named in her honor — golden reminders of that rare...
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Growth and Experimentation: The UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (2000-2025)

by Peter Lefevre  It’s the turn of the millennium. We’ve escaped the mortal threat of Y2K. Beanie Babies are the next big thing.  And the UC Irvine School of the Arts is launching itself into a new and transformative era.  It started with a new name.  Orange County resident and Oscar-winning...
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UCI Art celebrates a milestone year with "The Inoperative Community: Exhibition X Practice, UCI 1965-2025"

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT IRVINE, Calif. – The University of California, Irvine’s University Art Galleries is pleased to present The Inoperative Community: Exhibition X Practice, UCI 1965–2025, curated by Juli Carson, Kevin Appel, and Sasha Ussef. This landmark exhibition will span all three campus...
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Origins and Evolution: The UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (1965-1999)

by Peter Lefevre  Six decades. 25 Guggenheim Fellows. More than 1,000 students every year, producing hundreds of performances and exhibitions.  Numbers don’t tell the whole story of the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, but they’re a revealing snapshot of the outsized impact the school...