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Finding Light 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...
Songs of LightSongs 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 LookingForward 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...
$1 Million Endowment Aspires to Build Musical Bridges $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...
UCI Drama Students Shine in Masterclass with Broadway’s Kerry ButlerUCI Drama Students Shine in Masterclass with Broadway’s Kerry Butler
Masterclass leads to a surprise duet as Butler invites student Nathan Bravo to perform at her concert. On Friday, January 24, UC Irvine Drama faculty members Daniel Keeling and Myrona DeLaney accompanied 25 music theatre students to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts for a special masterclass...
UC Irvine’s Artists Featured in Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2025 Biennial 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...
UC Irvine Newkirk Faculty Fellowship Symposium Features Three CTSA ProfessorsUC Irvine Newkirk Faculty Fellowship Symposium Features Three CTSA Professors
The event will showcase the creative activities of Newkirk Faculty Fellows that build on the center's mission for Science & Society Please RSVP to join the UC Irvine Newkirk Faculty Fellowship Symposium, “Existential Crises and Imagining Futures,” on Friday, January 24, 2025, from...
Dramatic ActionDramatic Action
Theater of Community festival challenges bigotry, bias and ideas of identity By Christine Byrd Can theater help us navigatethe real-life dramas created by bigotry, bias and our own sense of identity? The creators of Theater of Community believe it can. Running through the spring of...
In Memory of Lorraine O’GradyIn Memory of Lorraine O’Grady
Lorraine O’Grady (1934–2024) Lorraine O’Grady, pioneering conceptual artist, writer, critic and former UC Irvine faculty member, passed away on December 13 at 90. O’Grady’s transformative career spanned decades and mediums, exploring the intersections of race, gender and identity. Working...
Professor of Art Simon Leung Selected for “Artforum's” Best of 2024: Critics' Favorite CriticsProfessor of Art Simon Leung Selected for “Artforum's” Best of 2024: Critics' Favorite Critics
Leung’s recognition highlights his continuing impact on contemporary Asian American art UC Irvine Professor of Art Simon Leung has been recognized in Artforum’s Best of 2024: Critics’ Favorite Critics section, a new feature spotlighting the year’s most compelling contributions to criticism. Art...
UC Irvine faculty and Alumnus Awarded ARTnews 2024 Award for Best Thematic Museum ShowUC Irvine faculty and Alumnus Awarded ARTnews 2024 Award for Best Thematic Museum Show
Scratching at the Moon exhibition is the first focused survey of Asian American artists in a major Los Angeles contemporary art museum The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) exhibition Scratching at the Moon has been awarded the ARTnews Award for Best Thematic Museum Show of...
Robert Cohen, the founding chair of the Department of Drama at UC Irvine passesRobert Cohen, the founding chair of the Department of Drama at UC Irvine passes
Robert Cohen (1938-2024) Claire Trevor Professor of Drama Emeritus Robert Cohen passed away on Nov. 15, 2024, at 86. A towering figure in the theater world, Cohen was a founding faculty of the Department of Drama at UC Irvine. Cohen joined UCI in 1965 after earning his undergraduate...
The UC Irvine Chamber Singers Release Holiday EPThe UC Irvine Chamber Singers Release Holiday EP
Celebrate the holidays with classical hymns in Winter Night The UC Irvine Chamber Singers release their first holiday EP, Winter Night, on Friday, November 29, 2024. Produced by Signum Records, the musical collection features four songs with an available single, Gabriel’s Message, featuring...
‘9 to 5’ hits all the right notes‘9 to 5’ hits all the right notes
Department of Drama presents Dolly Parton’s hit musical with a message of equality Claire Trevor School of the Arts is preparing for a rollicking production of 9 to 5: The Musical, set to take the stage from Nov. 21-24 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre. Based on the 1980s film, this lively musical...
UC Irvine Chamber Singers Place Second in the American PrizeUC Irvine Chamber Singers Place Second in the American Prize
Chamber Singers receive national recognition in choral performance The UC Irvine Chamber Singers, directed by Dr. Irene Messoloras, professor in the Department of Music, have earned second place in the 2024 American Prize in Choral Performance—college/university division (smaller program). The...
Movement that HealsMovement that Heals
Dr. Kelli Sharp embodies the connection between dance and science By Christine Byrd Kelli Sharp has been called a unicorn. A doctor of physical therapy science who strives to improve rehabilitation for patients with neurological disorders, Sharp may not fit the typical mold of a...
Drama Costume Designers join the Art + Nature initiative at the Laguna Art MuseumDrama Costume Designers join the Art + Nature initiative at the Laguna Art Museum
Professor Holly Poe Durbin, fellow faculty, staff and students present a sustainable fashion show in collaboration with the Laguna Art Museum By Haily Lewis-Eastman On November 2, 2024, in collaboration with the Laguna Art Museum’s (LAM) Art + Nature initiative, Holly Poe Durbin, head of the...
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Art as Lover
Professor of Art Monica Majoli presents two exhibits around intimacy and the aids crisis in Düsseldorf Monica Majoli, painting professor in the Department of Art at UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts, presents two new exhibitions in Düsseldorf: Distant Lover (2009–2024) and With...
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