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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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UCI Arts Professor Coleman Collins Named 2025–26 Hellman Fellow

The program supports research by accomplished assistant professors Coleman Collins, assistant professor in the Department of Art at the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, has been selected as a 2025–26 Hellman Fellow. His funded proposal, Passagenwerken, continues his interdisciplinary...
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Amanda Ross-Ho Named 2025 Trellis Art Fund Milestone Grant Recipient

Department of Art professor awarded $100,000 to sustain artistic and caregiving practice UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Professor Amanda Ross-Ho has been named one of 12 recipients of the 2025 Trellis Art Fund Milestone Grant. The national award recognizes artists who have...
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Experimental Film Installation Debuts at UC Irvine's Middle Earth’s Pippin Recreation Center

New public art project explores student life, memory, and culture through multiscreen video The Department of Art at UC Irvine, in partnership with Undergraduate Housing, presented a new public art installation at Middle Earth’s Pippin Recreation Center showcasing student-made experimental films...
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UC Irvine Professor Joe Lewis Joins Genre-Defying Musical Performance

de las sombras / from the shadows blends sound, story and social commentary in an urgent call for justice Joe Lewis, professor in UC Irvine’s Department of Art and former dean of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, joins a powerful live performance of de las sombras / from the shadows, an...
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Seven UC Irvine Arts Educators Receive the U18 Faculty Professional Development Award

The recognition provides opportunities for U18 faculty to enhance pedagogy UC Irvine and the University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) recently announced awardees of the Unit 18 Faculty Council on Professional Development for the 2024–25 academic year, including seven U18...