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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

A student instructor leads a music class, holding a conductor’s baton while standing in front of a whiteboard, as seated students follow along with sheet music; the setting is a UCI Creative Connections classroom.

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OCDE and UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Launch ‘Earn and Learn’ Apprenticeships

September 29, 2025

The collaboration creates stronger pathways connecting classrooms, communities and careers in the arts

A silhouetted figure stands in front of a large immersive projection covering the wall. The digital artwork displays abstract, swirling imagery with floating shapes and web-like lines in shades of blue, green, and white, filling the dark gallery space with light.

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Complexity in Focus

August 25, 2025

Getty and the Beall Center for Art + Technology highlight the complexity of our modern challenges

(left to right) Ruth Ann and John Evans in Aldrich Park. Photo by Steve Zylius/UC Irvine.

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A Legacy in Harmony

August 8, 2025

John and Ruth Ann Evans Support Music at UCI Arts

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Megan Belmonte Receives Tamara Austin Legacy Award at 2025 UC Irvine Dynamic Womxn Awards

June 2, 2025

Claire Trevor School of the Arts leader honored for lasting contributions to equity at UC Irvine

Noritaka Minami inside the Nakagin Capsule Tower. Photo by Shuichi Iketani.

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Noritaka Minami, M.F.A. ’11, Featured in Upcoming MoMA Exhibition

May 16, 2025

New exhibition at MoMA explores the 50-year history and cultural legacy of the Nakagin Capsule Tower

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

March 14, 2025

Creative Research in the Arts

(left to right) Michael Dessen, Mr. Kim and Tiffany Ana López. Photo by Steve Zylius.

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$1 Million Endowment Aspires to Build Musical Bridges

February 19, 2025

Business leader and philanthropist Jong Sup Kim views music as a universal language that bridges communitie

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"A Song for Cesar" Documentary Screening at UC Irvine Celebrates Cesar Chavez’ Legacy

September 8, 2024

Post-screening panel illuminates the impact of the arts on the movement

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2024 Medici Circle Scholars

June 10, 2024

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts names eleven new Medici Circle Scholars