Department of Art | Claire Trevor School of the Arts

Charisse Pearlina Weston, M.F.A. ’19, named a 2025 Trellis Art Fund Stepping Stone Grantee

January 12

Charisse Pearlina Weston, M.F.A. ’19, named a 2025 Trellis Art Fund Stepping Stone Grantee
Limited Hang: M.F.A. 2nd Year Exhibition

February 7 - February 28 Room Gallery

In times of climate crisis, and while democracies are eroding and infrastructures and social webs are breaking apart, the idea of repair is tempting. Repair promises to make things whole again, even if they have never worked properly and have only ...
Beatrice Schleyer: Reclaiming Wreckage, Reframing Modernism

January 30

Beatrice Schleyer: reclaiming wreckage, reframing Modernism; Medici Circle Scholar Beatrice Schleyer and her trip to The Chinati Foundation
The Unworld to Come. Imagining an Otherwise...

January 24 - April 4 Contemporary Arts Center Gallery

In times of climate crisis, and while democracies are eroding and infrastructures and social webs are breaking apart, the idea of repair is tempting. Repair promises to make things whole again, even if they have never worked properly and have only ...
Meredith Monk in Conversation with Louise Steinman

March 10 - March 10 UCI Humanities Gateway

Meredith Monk, interdisciplinary artist, and Louise Steinman, author of The Knowing Body, will be in conversation, focusing on Monk’s use of body, voice, and movement as central elements of interdisciplinary performance practice.
Meredith Monk Large-Scale Video Installation: Rotation Shrine, 2021

March 10 - March 12 Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)

Meredith Monk's Rotation Shrine, 2021 is a single-channel video installation in black and white, with stereo sound, on a 10-minute loop. This is limited-time viewing.
The Art of Performance @ UC Irvine 11th Edition featuring legendary artist Meredith Monk

March 12 Winifred Smith Hall

Recognized as one of the most unique and influential artists of our time, composer/performer Meredith Monk offers one of her rare, more intimate concerts with renowned members of her Vocal Ensemble, Katie Geissinger and Allison Sniffin. Monk has been ...

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 cri

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The Art of Opportunity

Through two paid internship programs, the office of Access & Engagement uses the arts as a catalyst for developing creative career pathways for students Simon Harrison ’17 was 8 years old when he discovered his passion for dance. He credits his involvement with the office of Access & Enga

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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 fou

Department Programs

Programs

The Department of Art offers degrees in Art, with minors in Digital Arts, and Digital Filmmaking. It also offers an Honors in Art program, which is designed to further develop students’ critical, analytical, and technical skills, and is suited to those pursuing graduate school and/or exhibition careers. Honor students will be given access to a studio space for the academic year.

21st Annual Guest Juried Undergraduate Exhibition