Arts

Kim Kanatani, inaugural museum director of the UCI Institute and Museum of California Art. Behind her is Richard Diebenkorn’s 1952 oil-on-canvas painting “Albuquerque #9"

What’s next: The future of museums

As cultural and educational nexuses, they must explore creative ways of engaging with diverse audiences

UCI 2020-21 Hellman Fellows from left to right: J. Zoe Klemfuss, Jenna Riis, Lindsay Gilmour, Sameer Singh, Elizabeth Bess.

Five UCI junior faculty named Hellman Fellows for 2020-21

Assistant professors in chemistry, computer science, dance and psychological science awarded grants to support research, scholarly work

Melissa Ongko, a fourth year art major, created a 2D animation to visualize her conflicting emotions about staying at home

Going ‘solo’ to come together

UCI Illuminations contest showcases student creativity during COVID

Four UCI professors awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Honorees specialize in history, science, art and literary journalism

First-year medical student Catriona Lewis assembles face shields developed by UCI engineering, arts, medicine and nursing faculty at Beall Applied Innovation’s University Lab Partners facility.

UCI supports those on front lines with face shields

Interdisciplinary team designs, tests, produces and delivers 5,000 units to medical center within 17 days

The Claire Trevor School of the Arts’ #UCIArtsAnywhere project encourages people to post photos or videos of themselves engaging with the arts on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Art and soul

Social media project underscores common humanity during crisis

Shawna Jackson

From ball to ballet

With scholarship support, first-gen student pursues second passion: performing arts

UCI to celebrate Lunar New Year

EVENT: UCI will celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year – heralding the Year of the Rat – with an academic discussion, multicultural entertainment, artistic demonstrations, interactive workshops, a Disney-sponsored raffle, lion and dragon parades, food, a laser light show and more. WHEN/WHERE: 2-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, at the Multipurpose Academic & Administrative Building (bldg. […]

UCI to present mock trial of Shylock from ‘The Merchant of Venice’

EVENT: In the wake of last year’s successful mock trial of Hamlet, the UCI Shakespeare Center and UCI School of Law will host a mock trial of Shylock from “The Merchant of Venice.” In Shakespeare’s controversial play, the Jewish moneylender takes the Christian merchant Antonio to court but is ruled against. In this staged appeal, […]

Behind the scenes at the New Swan

The festival’s artistic director, Eli Simon, discusses this summer’s productions and the enduring appeal of Shakespeare