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From innovative community theaters to world-class concert venues, Orange County is home to a vibrant arts community — powered, in no small part, by UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts alumni

Michelle Maasz Brouwer ’14 connects audiences and artists as director of programming at Irvine Barclay Theatre

John Forsyte, president and CEO of the Pacific Symphony, champions music education across Orange County, including UC Irvine’s Side-by-Side rehearsal series. He is a member of the Claire Trevor Society and UC Irvine’s Chief Executive Roundtable.

Broadway and touring veteran speaks with music theatre students about craft, financial sustainability and professional practice

Medici Circle Scholar Beatrice Schleyer and Her Trip to The Chinati Foundation

A 35th anniversary celebration at Irvine Barclay Theatre highlights how local institutions, including UC Irvine, sustain dance across the region

Organized by Associate Dean of Research and Innovation Jesse Colin Jackson and Director for the Center of Medical Humanities, Dr. Kelli Sharp, the Feb. 12–13 xMPL program features Patricia Olynyk and Adam Hogan in a two-day expanded cinema event

The University of California, Irvine’s Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Gallery is pleased to host The Unworld to Come. Imagining an Otherwise… featuring artists Marwa Arsanios, Ashley Hunt, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and virgil b/g taylor and curated by Juli Carson, Annika Haas and Sasha Ussef

Bruce Yonemoto has spent a lifetime exploring experimental cinema and video art and has developed a body of work that positions itself within the overlapping intersections of art and commerce.

"Time is both the subject and the material that I work with." Made in L.A. 2025 artist Amanda Ross Ho takes us inside a new installation of four monumental doors, modeled after the doors in her father's and aunt's nursing facility.