Anteaters in the Arts

Alumni keep arts & culture vibrant in O.C. By Christine Byrd From innovative community theaters to world-class concert venues, Orange County is home to a vibrant arts community — powered, in no small part, by UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts (UCI Arts) alumni. ...

Curating Community

Michelle Maasz Brouwer ’14 connects audiences and artists as director of programming at Irvine Barclay Theatre By Diana Kalaji At Irvine Barclay Theatre (IBT), Michelle Maasz Brouwer curates experiences that bring together students, artists and audiences, strengthening the creative connection...

Arts Advocates: John Forsyte

SYMPHONIC LEADER Q&A with John Forsyte John Forsyte is president and CEO of the Pacific Symphony. During his 27-year tenure, he has been a strong advocate for music education across Orange County, including at UC Irvine, where the Pacific Symphony’s Side-by-Side rehearsal series features...

UCI Drama Alumnus Alan Mingo Jr. Returns to Campus During The Wiz run at Segerstrom

Broadway and touring veteran speaks with music theatre students about craft, financial sustainability and professional practice While performing as The Wizard in The Wiz at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, UCI Drama alumnus Alan Mingo Jr., a Broadway and national touring performer whose credits...

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...

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts and ‘Ignite Dance’ Reflect OC’s Dance Ecosystem

A 35th anniversary celebration at Irvine Barclay Theatre highlights how local institutions, including UC Irvine, sustain dance across the region.

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...

Bruce Yonemoto Named CSUN’s Orndorff Artist-in-Residence

Bruce Yonemoto has spent a lifetime exploring experimental cinema and video art and has developed a body of work that positions itself within the overlapping intersections of art and commerce.

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...

Reed Wixson Blurs the Line Between the Natural and the Artificial Through Music

Medici Circle Scholar Reed Wixson and their Project Xylocyclos By Gamy Cortes Early in their compositional journey, Reed Wixson followed conventions aligned with classical composition. Later, however, as a PhD student in UC Irvine’s Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT...

Now on Hammer Channel! Watch the Made in L.A. 2025 Artist Profile on Amanda Ross-Ho

"Time is both the subject and the material that I work with." Made in L.A. 2025 artist Amanda Ross Ho takes us inside a new installation of four monumental doors, modeled after the doors in her father's and aunt's nursing facility.

UCI Drama Alumni Chris Renfro ’14 and Justine Rafael ’21 Join Center Theatre Group’s Here Lies Love at the Mark Taper Forum

Center Theatre Group’s Here Lies Love brings an all-Filipino cast to Los Angeles, featuring UC Irvine drama alumni Two alumni from UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Drama have been cast in Center Theatre Group’s upcoming production of Here Lies Love at the Mark Taper Forum...

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...

The Next Stage

A UC Irvine & South Coast Repertory collaboration ushers in a new era of O.C. theater  By Christine Byrd South Coast Repertory (SCR) and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts are opening a new act in their longstanding relationship. With support from the Nicholas Endowment, they...

UCI Students showcase art in fall 2025 ‘Tenth Thursday’ exhibition

The Claire Trevor School of the Arts held its quarterly undergraduate student exhibition on Dec. 4, showcasing a wide range of creativity and projects that students have been working on throughout the quarter.

Professor Irene Messoloras Featured on KUSC’s Classical Californians Broadcast Station

The UC Irvine choral conductor and faculty member shares a curated selection of works spanning Manuel de Falla to holiday repertoire UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Music faculty member Irene Messoloras is featured on Classical Californians' weekly program from KUSC...

Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa Confronts Injustice Through Performance

Medici Circle Scholar Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa and L’OPERA! By Gamy Cortes “Anytime you put pen to paper, whether you want to acknowledge it or not, you are political,” said Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa, M.F.A. student in UC Irvine’s Department of Drama. Funding Creativity Founded in 2004, the...