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Audience members watch a student experimental film featuring archival images from UC Irvine’s history on a large video wall during the Connecting Histories exhibition.

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Connecting Histories

June 15, 2026

In a new public video art project, UC Irvine students place themselves within the evolving story of campus

Teresa with two men reviewing what looks like Natalie Wood memorabilia — bronzed baby shoes, vintage magazines, cut-out doll books — in an exhibit or archive room.

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The Art of Giving Back

June 11, 2026

Arts Launch Intern Teresa Lam and her work with The Muckenthaler Center

Collage of 17 headshots of student awardees above text reading Medici Circle 2026 Scholarship Awardees on a blue background

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2026 Medici Circle Scholars

June 11, 2026

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts names 17 new Medici Circle Scholars

Yuzhe Zhang, a UC Irvine Class of 2026 graduate, smiles in a black cap and gown with a brown master's hood and a blue and gold UC Irvine 'Class of 2026' stole from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Department of Art. He stands on an outdoor terrace with the UCI anteater water tower and campus greenery behind him.

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Graduation Spotlight Series: Capturing Time in Abandoned Spaces

June 1, 2026

Yuzhe Zhang, M.F.A. ’26, studio art

The word "carla" in bold yellow rounded lettering against a light gray ceiling with fluorescent lighting, from the cover of Carla magazine issue 44.

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Against Outer Space Featured in Latest Issue of Carla

May 27, 2026

Beall Center for Art + Technology exhibition challenges the idea of space as a distant, empty frontier

Photo of UCI Professor Simon Penny seated outdoors on a beach, wearing a neon green hoodie and backpack, with a clear blue sky and ocean behind him.

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After the Fire

May 26, 2026

Professor of Art Simon Penny and Eaton Fire evacuee join UCSC panel on climate change

Ulysses Jenkins speaks into a microphone wearing a bold geometric-patterned jacket and a red, white, and blue headband, standing against a gray wall.

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Remembering Ulysses Jenkins (1946–2026), Contemporary Griot

May 1, 2026

UJ understood LA, his home city, not as backdrop but as medium

Installation view at Home in Sunlight at UC Irvine Langson

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At Home in Sunlight, A State in Motion

April 28, 2026

Second-year M.F.A. student brings an artist-researcher lens to yearlong curatorial initiative at UCI Langson Museum

Installation view of Gosia Wojas' piece in the University Art Gallery

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Making a Subject of the Object

April 28, 2026

Gosia Wojas, M.F.A. '22, works with artificial humans to examine the feminist ethics and politics embedded in AI

Image: (right) Monica Majoli, professor of art in the UCI Department of Art, works with students in the studio. Photo by Yubo Dong.

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Two Artists from UC Irvine Join the Guggenheim Foundation's 101st Class of Fellows

April 16, 2026

Department of Art professor Monica Majoli and M.F.A. alumna Samira Yamin are named among 223 fellows across 55 disciplines