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Arts Advocates: Matt BaileyArts Advocates: Matt Bailey
ARTS ENTREPRENEUR Q&A with Matt Bailey Trained as a fine art photographer, Matt Bailey blended artistry with entrepreneurship throughout his career — from opening a tattoo shop in Albuquerque to co-founding a software company serving photographers. Bailey went on to earn an M.B.A. from...
Teerath Majumder: The Social Phenomenon of MusicTeerath Majumder: The Social Phenomenon of Music
Support UCI Giving Day By Mia Hammett While continuing his creative work as an independent artist and producer, Majumder hopes to step into a near-future teaching position –– thus securing his place in music academia. He’s already got a jump-start by teaching a winter course of his own making...
Music: Advanced Dynamic Music with Yihui LiuMusic: Advanced Dynamic Music with Yihui Liu
University of California, Irvine | April 14, 2022 Yihui Liu is a composer, music producer, songwriter, classical pianist, and educator. She has been professionally trained in music for over 20 years. Holding a bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory as well as a master’s degree...
Drama: Institutional Critique with Jesús López VargasDrama: Institutional Critique with Jesús López Vargas
University of California, Irvine | May 13, 2022 Jesús López Vargas graduated from the Master of Fine Arts program in stage management in 2021, where he was awarded a grant from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts’s Institute for 21st Century Creativity (21C). 21C supports artistic...
Launching Clara Schumann Studies, Celebrating Women in MusicLaunching Clara Schumann Studies, Celebrating Women in Music
On March 1, 2022, in association with the Women in Global Music Network, the Department of Music was pleased to host the online launch of Clara Schumann Studies, a collection of essays edited by Dr. Joe Davies for Cambridge University Press. The event, attended by an...
Play explores UCI’s PrisonPandemic projectPlay explores UCI’s PrisonPandemic project
The disembodied voices of incarcerated people – scared, pleading, angry, upset – will haunt a UCI play about the coronavirus in California’s crowded penitentiaries. Set to run April 29 through May 1 in the campus’s Little Theatre, “COVID in Custody” chronicles the real-life efforts of three UCI...
Tiffany López is named dean of UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the ArtsTiffany López is named dean of UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Visionary arts and diversity leader comes from Arizona State University Tiffany López, Ph.D., visionary artist and administrator and proven champion for diversity and inclusion, has been named dean of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, following a...
Music Theatre Talent Kayla Quiroz on Identity and the FutureMusic Theatre Talent Kayla Quiroz on Identity and the Future
Support UCI Giving Day By Mia Hammett Triptych talent and third-year music theatre B.F.A. Kayla Quiroz won’t be slowing down anytime soon. The actor-singer-dancer’s resume boasts a string of music theatre experience as early as her formative years. From an eight-year-old’s ...
UCI M.F.A. Thesis Exhibitions 2022 head to the UAGUCI M.F.A. Thesis Exhibitions 2022 head to the UAG
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Part I The Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine, is pleased to present the solo exhibitions of M.F.A. candidates Hiroshi Clark, Doris Rivera, and Gosia Wojas. This is the first round of 2022 M.F.A. thesis exhibitions. Please join us for the opening...
Forging a Common BondForging a Common Bond
Three UCI M.F.A. artists from 1969-71 reconvene in an Armory exhibition in Pasadena. By Richard Chang In 1969, three young women entered the newly formed M.F.A. program at UCI not really knowing what to expect. They were all divorcees with children. Each was doing a kind of art that was...
Hooked from the StartHooked from the Start
Professor Michael Hooker receives top honor for career achievement in sound design By Jill Kato Professor Michael Hooker has received the 2022 Distinguished Achievement Award in Sound Design from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), the premiere organization in his...
UCI’s Bruce Yonemoto is named a 2022 Guggenheim FellowUCI’s Bruce Yonemoto is named a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
Professor of art is among 180 recipients of the renowned award Bruce Yonemoto, a video and digital media installation artist, educator, writer, curator, and professor of art at the University of California, Irvine, has been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. He joins 179 other American and...
Dance: Embodiment and Empathy with Lindsay GilmourDance: Embodiment and Empathy with Lindsay Gilmour
University of California, Irvine | April 12, 2022 Lindsay Gilmour is a performer, choreographer, filmmaker, and educator. Her work explores presence, ritual, and our body’s relationship with the natural world. She combines the mystical, somatic and scientific looking deeply into what it...
Art and Embodiment with Simon PennyArt and Embodiment with Simon Penny
University of California, Irvine | April 12, 2022 Simon Penny is a professor of electronic art and design in the Department of Art, with joint appointments in the Department of Music and the Department of Informatics. Penny sat down for a virtual interview with Associate Dean of...
Dance: Embodiology with Dr. S. Ama WrayDance: Embodiology with Dr. S. Ama Wray
University of California, Irvine | April 12, 2021 Dr. S. Ama Wray is a Professor of Dance at the UC Irvine, and an improviser, choreographer, director, teacher and scholar. Dr. Wray is a former UK National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts and received an Emerging Scholar Award...
Art: The Art of Performance with Ulysses Jenkins and Deborah OliverArt: The Art of Performance with Ulysses Jenkins and Deborah Oliver
University of California, Irvine | April 12, 2021 The Art of Performance, co-founded and curated by Ulysses Jenkins and Deborah Oliver, is an annual event dedicated to experimentation in live art and pedagogical research at UCI’s Experimental Media and Performance Lab, which includes...
A Year in Review: Eleanor Yu on Memory, the Pandemic and Creative SufferingA Year in Review: Eleanor Yu on Memory, the Pandemic and Creative Suffering
Support UCI Giving Day By Mia Hammett Art and Film and Media Studies double major Eleanor Yu is a third-year student with all the cool, calm, and collectedness of a seasoned artist. She’s driven to create by an equally acute attention and appreciation for the subtleties of modern...
Los Angeles exhibit features work of video art pioneer Ulysses JenkinsLos Angeles exhibit features work of video art pioneer Ulysses Jenkins
PBS Newshour (CANVAS Arts), March 18, 2022 (Video) Ulysses Jenkins is considered a pioneer in the world of video art, which emerged as artists in the 1960s and '70s began using lighter and more affordable video cameras to create work and tell stories. One of the first Black artists in the field...
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