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Artist for the FutureArtist for the Future
Gabby Miller, M.F.A. ’20, crosses disciplines to explore the possibility of a future that is not predetermined By Christine Byrd “Can we turn the black box theater into an Oracle Machine?” was a question burning in Gabby Miller’s mind during the final year of her M.F.A. program at the Claire...
UC Irvine and ‘Made in L.A.’: A Relationship Through Time and SpaceUC Irvine and ‘Made in L.A.’: A Relationship Through Time and Space
By Richard Chang There’s a special connection between the Department of Art at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts and “Made in L.A.” — the influential art biennial founded and hosted by UCLA’s Hammer Museum since 2012. This year, the biennial will also take place at the Huntington...
Going ‘solo’ to come togetherGoing ‘solo’ to come together
UCI Illuminations contest showcases student creativity during COVID by Lilibeth Garcia, UCI | June 24, 2020 "Students have been social distancing since mid-March, and it hasn’t been easy for them. They have had to adapt to the loneliness being apart from friends and classmates, the...
‘Lint Lady,’ Long Beach artist Slater Barron dies at 89‘Lint Lady,’ Long Beach artist Slater Barron dies at 89
By Asia Morris, Long Beach Post From abstract lint paintings and life-sized installations to bite-sized works mimicking plates of upscale sushi in her series Chef’s Special, artist Slater Barron found joy in using a material most would consider worthy only of discarding: lint. Known as the “...
In remembrance of Peter AlexanderIn remembrance of Peter Alexander
UCI Institute and Museum of California Art and Claire Trevor School of the Arts remember Peter Alexander The University of California, Irvine’s Institute and Museum of California Art (IMCA) and Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) community mourn the passing of artist Peter Alexander—a...
Investigating Exploration and the ‘Aha’ MomentInvestigating Exploration and the ‘Aha’ Moment
"What happens in your brain when you experience an ‘aha!’ moment? Anecdotally you may feel your world expand and your understanding blossom…but what does that mean and how can someone create that experience? These questions sparked an innovative collaboration between two scientists, Linda Palmer...
A New Cultural Paradigm at the UC Irvine School of the Arts
The radical possibilities of a box The radical possibilities of a box
By Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson for Curbed Online Magazine "Brigham became a minor celebrity during her lifetime—regularly contributing articles to popular magazines like Ladies’ Home Journal and displaying rooms of box furniture inside model homes and at international exhibitions—but like so many...
Prof. Jennifer Pastor and two UCI Art Alumnae named 2020 Guggenheim FellowsProf. Jennifer Pastor and two UCI Art Alumnae named 2020 Guggenheim Fellows
Jennifer Pastor, professor of art in the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Art’s department of art, is among the 175 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists awarded the 2020 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Guggenheim Fellowships. In addition, two UCI Art alumnae Rheim Alkadhi (M.F.A. ’99...
Four UCI professors awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
The ArtistsThe Artists
By M.H. Miller for New York Times Style Magazine "For decades, the art world ignored artists of color — an institutional neglect it’s now trying to correct. But in the 1960s and ’70s, in Los Angeles and New York, three galleries led the way in showing the work of black artists, many of whom are...
Departments across UC Irvine design, build face shields for medical staff in OrangeDepartments across UC Irvine design, build face shields for medical staff in Orange
As medical providers and hospital administrations grow increasingly desperate for personal protective equipment, the UCI Medical Center in Orange is receiving a shipment of 5,000 face shields from an unlikely source — the very medical students it works to educate.
Art and soul 
Have a 3D Printer? You Can Use It to Make Face Shields for Medical WorkersHave a 3D Printer? You Can Use It to Make Face Shields for Medical Workers
Excerpts published by the thewirecutter.com, April, 3, 2020 Hospitals, universities, and other centers of research are looking into ways to produce face shields at a massive scale. A team at MIT, for example, has developed a die-cutting process that can produce thousands of face shields an hour...
Experimentation. Reflection. Wild ensembles. Photos show 5 L.A. artists working under quarantine Experimentation. Reflection. Wild ensembles. Photos show 5 L.A. artists working under quarantine
Painter Monica Majoli’s latest series captures the blissful ecstasies of living as an epidemic looms on the horizon. Titled “Blueboys,” her alluring white-line woodcuts are inspired by the 1970s gay porn magazine of the same name, expressions of ebullient male sexuality before HIV/AIDS was part of...
Medical, nursing, EMT students eager to contribute during coronavirus crisisMedical, nursing, EMT students eager to contribute during coronavirus crisis
Tim McMullen, a first year medical student at UCI, is part of a group making face shieds on Thursday, April 2, 2020. A group of students and professors are trying to make 5,000 shields by April 7, 2020. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, OC Register/SCNG)
#UCIArtsAnywhere #UCIArtsAnywhere
As our faculty, students, and staff prepare for an unusual spring quarter of remote teaching and learning, the lyrics to Barbra Streisand’s “People” keep swimming through my mind. “People, people who need people, are the luckiest people in the world.” In a world facing an international pandemic, it...
An important update from Dean BarkerAn important update from Dean Barker
As the situation with COVID-19 continues to evolve, we want to keep you, our valued supporters and community members, updated on how the Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) in collaboration with the greater UCI community are responding. We are working diligently to quickly adapt to the rapidly...
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