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Dance Alumni Receive Honors at Dance City Festival Chicago

November 6, 2025

M.F.A. Dance graduates Yinqi Wang and Maggie Liang recognized for their choreographic work A Touch

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Professor Irene Messoloras to Release “A Meridian Christmas”

November 5, 2025

The London-based professional choir returns with a holiday recording under Messoloras’ direction

A long timeline wall wrapping a corridor, tracing UCI Arts history from 1960 to the present in blue and white panels, with "60 Years at UCI Arts" in large type across a photo collage at the base.

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UCI Arts Unveils 60th Anniversary Timeline Wall

November 3, 2025

New installation in Winifred Smith Hall highlights six decades of artistic history at UC Irvine

Close-up of an abstract sculptural form made of curved tan shapes and spherical elements, one sphere densely covered with colorful beads in green, blue, and orange, lit dramatically against a dark background.

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Against Outer Space, Curated by Zachary Korol Gold and Valerie Olson

October 30, 2025

On View: November 15, 2025–February 28, 2026

Aerial view of a snow-covered town under a clear blue sky, with buildings and roads visible and a tall structure casting a long shadow across the snowy ground.

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Parallel Play: Experiments in Picturing the Arctic

October 28, 2025

UC Irvine Art Professor Jesse Colin Jackson presents a film installation and colloquium with anthropologist

Interior of a contemporary art gallery with exposed concrete beams, featuring a projected video installation on glass and abstract geometric artworks mounted on white walls.

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Making Space to Redefine

October 27, 2025

Alison O’Daniel (M.F.A. ’10) is changing the game in art and film

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

October 24, 2025

Southern California boasts some of the most prestigious playhouses in the country.

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UC Irvine alumnus Tuan Andrew Nguyen named 2025 MacArthur Fellow

October 24, 2025

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts alum and multi-disciplinary artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow. Nguyen, 49, is one of six artists and 22 total recipients this year to win the prestigious award.

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Tuan Andrew Nguyen ’99 Named 2025 MacArthur Fellow

October 8, 2025

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts alumnus recognized for his multidisciplinary works exploring mem

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UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Alumna Molly Cotten '05 Featured in VoyageLA

October 7, 2025

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts alum Molly Cotten was recently featured in VoyageLA, where she shared her path from the arts and education nonprofit sector to her current role as Director of Major Gifts at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.