Research News
UCI Arts Awards the 2025–26 Research & Innovation GrantsUCI Arts Awards the 2025–26 Research & Innovation Grants
Creative Research in the Arts Now in its fifth year, the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts (UCI Arts) Department of Research and Innovation continues to prioritize projects that feature cutting-edge research and interdisciplinary collaborations with potential for external recognition...
UC Irvine to Present Restive Moves: A Multimedia Festival of Dance, Music, Film and MindfulnessUC Irvine to Present Restive Moves: A Multimedia Festival of Dance, Music, Film and Mindfulness
Led by Professor S. Ama Wray, Ph.D., the festival unites artists, educators and community members at the xMPL Irvine, Calif., March 31, 2026 – The University of California, Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts will present Restive Moves: A Multimedia Festival of Dance, Music, Film and...
The Artists’ LaboratoryThe Artists’ Laboratory
In the Experimental Media Performance Lab, technology blends with art to offer immersive, boundary-pushing experiences for audiences By Christine Byrd In William Fastenow’s, Ph.D. ’25 capstone recital, Art of the Unheard, audiences walked on elevated paths with pairs of speakers above...
Against Outer Space, Curated by Zachary Korol Gold and Valerie OlsonAgainst 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 ArcticParallel 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
UCI Arts Summer 2025 Faculty HighlightsUCI 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....
Origins and Evolution: The UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (1965-1999)Origins and Evolution: The UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (1965-1999)
by Peter Lefevre Six decades. 25 Guggenheim Fellows. More than 1,000 students every year, producing hundreds of performances and exhibitions. Numbers don’t tell the whole story of the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, but they’re a revealing snapshot of the outsized...
UCI Beall Center for Art + Technology Celebrates 25 Years of Innovation at the Intersection of Art and ScienceUCI 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 FellowUCI 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 PrizeTara 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...
Summer Theater
Double the Drama: New Swan's Shakespeare Season Embraces Romance, Wit and ReinventionDouble 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.
UC Alianza MX Awards $150K for Binational Music and Community ProjectUC 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 ArtsUC 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 AwardUC 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 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 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...
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