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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...

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...

New Swan Shakespeare Named One of the 52 Best Places to see Plays and Musicals in Southern California

Southern California boasts some of the most prestigious playhouses in the country. These are the best places to see live theater around the region, including New Swan Shakespeare Festival.

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....

UCI Beall Center for Art + Technology Celebrates 25 Years of Innovation at the Intersection of Art and Science

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT On View: September 13 to October 11, 2025, at UCI and October 26 to December 28, 2025, at Great Park Gallery, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., September 9, 2025 — In 2025, the Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine, marks its 25th...

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...

Tara Rodman Receives Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize

Fantasies of Ito Michio reexamines the legacy of Japanese dancer through the lens of performance, identity and survival Tara Rodman, associate professor of doctoral studies in the Department of Drama at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts, has been awarded the 2025 Oscar G. Brockett...

Double the Drama: New Swan's Shakespeare Season Embraces Romance, Wit and Reinvention

REVIEW: From a Romantic-era “All’s Well” to a Wild West “Much Ado,” this season’s festival proves why its intimate, open-air productions remain one of Southern California’s most inventive and engaging takes on the Bard.

Summer Theater

UC Irvine alum Abel Garcia takes the stage for a fifth season at the New Swan Shakespeare Festival this summer.

UC Alianza MX Awards $150K for Binational Music and Community Project

Led by faculty from UC Irvine and UC San Diego, Cauces Sónicos explores collaborative artmaking and education across the U.S.–México border. IRVINE, Calif., May 12, 2025 — Funded with a Latino Studies Research Project award from the University of California Alianza MX Initiative, Cauces Sónicos...

UC Irvine Faculty Jennifer Bornstein and Liz Glynn Awarded 2025–26 Rome Prize in Visual Arts

Fellowships provide immersive interdisciplinary experience at the American Academy in Rome The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of the 2025–26 Rome Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious fellowship programs supporting innovative artists and scholars in the arts, humanities...

UC Irvine Professor Mari Kimura Honored with Prestigious SEAMUS Award

The Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine proudly announces that Professor Mari Kimura, a trailblazing violinist, composer and researcher, has been named the recipient of the 2025 SEAMUS Award. This prestigious honor, presented by the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States...

Arts and Environmental Activism

Professor Juli Carson awarded $120,000 to the UC multi-campus climate action initiative Juli Carson, professor of art and director of the University Art Galleries (UAG) at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts, has received a $120,000 University of California Office of the President (UCOP...

CTSA Research & Innovation and Theater of Community Faculty and Graduate Student 2024-25 Research & Innovation Grants

Creative Research in the Arts Now in its fourth year, the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) Department of Research and Innovation continues to prioritize projects that feature cutting-edge research and interdisciplinary collaborations with potential for external recognition and...

Songs of Light

Daniel Keeling shares his relationship with Alzheimer’s as he performs with UC Irvine Chamber Singers at the Irvine Barclay Theatre: A Q&A session  On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 8 p.m., the UC Irvine Department of Music and UCI MIND will present Finding Light: Alzheimer's Stories by...

Ancestral Stories

Zachary Price returns to his dramatist roots in a new play that explores racial injustice: A Q&A session Department of Drama Associate Professor of Doctoral Studies Zachary Price premiered performances of Ancestry as part of the International Theater of Community Festival at UC Irvine on Feb...

Beall Center for Art + Technology Presents ‘Engaging the Margins’

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT The exhibition showcases the work where artmaking, practice-based research and scholarship intersect IRVINE, Calif., January 7, 2025 — The Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine, is pleased to announce the opening of Engaging the...

UC Irvine Newkirk Faculty Fellowship Symposium Features Three CTSA Professors

The event will showcase the creative activities of Newkirk Faculty Fellows that build on the center's mission for Science & Society Please RSVP to join the UC Irvine Newkirk Faculty Fellowship Symposium, “Existential Crises and Imagining Futures,” on Friday, January 24, 2025, from...