"Gramophone's" Video of the Day Highlights Dr. Irene Messoloras' Professional Choir

Department of Music faculty Dr. Irene Messoloras’ professional choir, Meridian, is featured as the Video of the Day from "Gramophone" magazine. The outlet is one of the most central classical music mags…

Reclaiming Sound

Doctoral students Fabricio Cavero and Alyssa Wixson blend sustainability and sound By Diana Kalaji In 2024, the Department of Music’s Ph.D. program in Integrated Composition, Improvisation and Technology (ICIT) celebrated 15 years of innovation and community. ICIT pushes beyond...

Arts Advocates: Derek Sabori

SUSTAINABILITY STEWARD Q&A with Derek Sabori Derek Sabori, ’95, MBA ’02 is founder of The Underswell, where he is a podcaster and sustainability consultant. Before that, he was a senior director at a sustainability strategy and communications agency and vice president of global...

Engaging the Margins: Art, Ecology and Sustainability

Beall Center for Art + Technology's exhibition reframes art, ecology and sustainability By Christine Byrd Wildfires, rising sea levels, nuclear waste. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the scale of problems humans have created that we cannot solve alone. However, art invites another...

UC 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...

Juliette Carrillo Named 2025 MacDowell Spring-Summer Fellow 

UC Irvine Department of Drama professor joins internationally recognized residency for artists The Claire Trevor School of the Arts is pleased to announce that Juliette Carrillo, professor of drama, has been named a 2025 MacDowell Spring-Summer Fellow. Founded in 1907, MacDowell is the first...

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...

Professor Darryl Taylor Releases DEAR FRIENDS AND GENTLE HEARTS with Louise Toppin

The album explores the artistry of African American Art Song through a collaboration 30 years in the making Professor Darryl Taylor from the Department of Music at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts has released Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts, a collaborative album with Louise Toppin,...

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...

Finding Light

UCI Music and UCI MIND Join Forces for a Profound Musical Journey into Alzheimer’s On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 8 p.m., the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Music and UCI MIND will present Finding Light: Alzheimer’s Stories by Robert S. Cohen at the Irvine Barclay...

Arts Advocates: Steven Lam

LEGACY BUILDER Q&A with Stephen Lam Artist, curator and educational leader Steven Lam M.F.A. ’04, is the dean of the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts, known as CalArts. A mentee and friend of late artist, activist and UC Irvine professor emerita Yong Soon Min, Lam...

Songs of Light

Daniel Keeling shares his relationship with Alzheimer’s as he performs with UC Irvine Chamber Singers at the Irvine Barclay Theatre: A Q&A session  On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 8 p.m., the UC Irvine Department of Music and UCI MIND will present Finding Light: Alzheimer's Stories by...

Forward Looking

Department of Art Welcomes Three New Faculty By Christine Byrd The Claire Trevor School of the Arts recently welcomed three new faculty to the Department of Art. Na Mira, Coleman Collins and Jibade-Khalil Huffman are forward-looking artists and educators who bring distinctive worldviews...

Activist and academic Dr. Shamell Bell led a workshop at UC Irvine for Theater of Community

Serena Williams’ crip walk is more than a Drake dis. What it means to LA and Black culture - Laisit reporter Dana Littlefield experiences Dr. Shamell Bell’s Workshop on "Pedagogies of the Liberated" at Theater of Community at UC Irvine.

$1 Million Endowment Aspires to Build Musical Bridges

Business leader and philanthropist Jong Sup Kim views music as a universal language that bridges communities and enhances lives. With a $1 million gift, he aims to help the UC Irvine Department of Music at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) extend its impact, both locally and globally...

UC Irvine Undergraduates Bell Hernandez ’27 and Jeyna Lynn Gonzales ’25 Awarded Cody Renard Richard Scholarship

Department of Drama students recognized for leadership in theater arts  UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Drama students Bell Hernandez and Jeyna Lynn Gonzales have been selected for the Cody Renard Richard (CCR) Scholarship Program. In its fifth year, the CCR...

Creative Communities

How Claire Trevor School of the Arts clubs cultivate belonging and equity beyond the classroom and across campus By Diana Kalaji At UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA), students’ success goes beyond main-stage productions, choral performances and thesis exhibitions. With...

UC Irvine’s Artists Featured in Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2025 Biennial

Four Department of Art faculty and alumni featured Hammer Museum has announced 27 artists selected for the 2025 Made in L.A., the highly anticipated biennial showcasing contemporary artists working in the greater Los Angeles area. Among them are four artists from UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor...