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The Art of Opportunity

Through two paid internship programs, the office of Access...
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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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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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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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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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Engaging the Margins: Art, Ecology and Sustainability

Beall Center for Art + Technology's exhibition reframes art, ecology and sustainability By Christine Byrd Wildfires, rising sea levels, nuclear waste. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the scale of problems humans have created that we cannot solve alone. However, art invites another perspective....
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Arts Advocates: Derek Sabori

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Forward Looking

Department of Art Welcomes Three New Faculty By Christine Byrd The Claire Trevor School of the Arts recently welcomed three new faculty to the Department of Art. Na Mira, Coleman Collins and Jibade-Khalil Huffman are forward-looking artists and educators who bring distinctive worldviews — adding...
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Creative Communities

How Claire Trevor School of the Arts clubs cultivate belonging and equity beyond the classroom and across campus By Diana Kalaji At UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA), students’ success goes beyond main-stage productions, choral performances and thesis exhibitions. With over 100...
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Complexity in Focus

Getty and the Beall Center for Art + Technology highlight the complexity of our modern challenges By Christine Byrd If we learn anything from living through this era of “unprecedented” events, it might be to expect the unexpected. Weather affects the supply chain, health impacts education,...
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Embracing Artistic Risks

Mike Davis, who runs the West Hollywood art gallery of Hauser...
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Intersection of Art and Education

In November, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts collaborated with the Segerstrom Center for the Arts to present "Creative Wayfinding: Teaching Artist Panel." The event illuminated new pathways for CTSA students in their creative journeys. Dean Tiffany López expressed, "The night was more than a...
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More than Just a Phase

L.A. Gallery Helps UCI Art Students and Alumni By Richard Chang According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a phase is a temporary manner, attitude or pattern of behavior. But a temporary art space in Los Angeles founded by a UC Irvine M.F.A. graduate seems to have left a lasting impact.  ...
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Change Agent: Leading the Way

Third-year M.F.A. artist teams up with professor for ‘Affective Resistance’ exhibition By Greg Hardesty Alberto “Berto” Lule stripped down to his boxer shorts and lay on his back on a sheet of clear plexiglass. He slowly moved into different positions in which he’d been arrested or detained by...
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Creative Wayfinding

Roadmaps in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts guide students to artistic success By Christine Byrd When emerging artists come to the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, they encounter more than an art school. Students find themselves at a top-10 public research university nestled in Orange...
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Art + Technology = Innovation

Alum Garnet Hertz’s new book chronicles 100 years of innovative DIY technology practices By Greg Hardesty As a child and teenager, Garnet Hertz lived in two worlds. He grew up in Saskatoon, a city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. In Saskatoon, snow is on the ground a third of the year...