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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.

School

Complexity in Focus

August 25, 2025

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

A large cast stands across a theater stage in elaborate period costumes and masks, arranged in formation beneath warm stage lighting, with a multi-level wooden set and balconies visible behind them.

Drama

Design for the Future

April 28, 2025

UC Irvine scenic arts faculty revolutionize sustainability in theater

(left to right) Curators Jesse Colin Jackson and Antoinette LaFarge seated with Yvette Granata and Alina Nazmeeva’s Pregame, 2024, Interactive XR, multimedia. Photo by Emily Zheng.

Art

Beall Center

Engaging the Margins: Art, Ecology and Sustainability

April 1, 2025

Beall Center for Art + Technology's exhibition reframes art, ecology and sustainability

Art

Arts Advocates: Derek Sabori

April 1, 2025

SUSTAINABILITY STEWARD

Q&A with Derek Sabori

Fabricio Cavero performing at the ICIT Showcase Concert. Photo by Will Tee Yang.

Music

Reclaiming Sound

April 1, 2025

Doctoral students Fabricio Cavero and Reed Wixson blend sustainability and sound

Sakina Ibrahim works with Santa Ana resident and student Celeste Nunez.

Dance

Dancing for Generations

March 20, 2025

Sakina Ibrahim’s (M.F.A. ’14) journey from dance scholar to advocate for sustainable change

Art

Arts Advocates: Steven Lam

March 5, 2025

LEGACY BUILDER

Q&A with Stephen Lam

Na Mira portrait with "Subrosa," 2023. Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson. © MOCA Tucson, 2023

Art

Forward Looking

March 4, 2025

Department of Art Welcomes Three New Faculty

End of the World Variety Show. Photo: Courtesy of Brown Bag Theatre Company.

Art

Dance

Drama

Music

Creative Communities

February 4, 2025

How Claire Trevor School of the Arts clubs cultivate belonging and equity beyond the classroom and across c

(Left to right) Zachary Price and Bryan Reynolds. Photo: Emily Zheng.

Drama

Dramatic Action

January 6, 2025

Theater of Community festival challenges bigotry, bias and ideas of identity