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Launching Clara Schumann Studies, Celebrating Women in Music

The Department of Music hosted the online launch of Clara Schumann Studies, a collection of essays edited by Dr. Joe Davies for Cambridge University Press. The event provided opportunities to reflect on recent developments in the study of women in music.
Teerath Majumder: The Social Phenomenon of Music

Graduate student Teerath Majumder is a Bangladeshi composer, instrumentalist, and producer whose work irreconcilably bounds between traditional-experimental and acoustic-electronic distinctions.
2022 UCI Open Studios

Art Culture & Technology Building

The 2022 UCI Open Studios is an opportunity to visit the UCI campus and view the works of the current M.F.A. students as we open our studios to the public.
Art and Embodiment with Simon Penny

Penny sat down for a virtual interview with Associate Dean of Research and Innovation Jesse Colin Jackson to discuss his Industrial Crafts Research Network (ICRN), embodied interaction, virtual lattes, and the best advice he ever received.
Drama: Institutional Critique with Jesús López Vargas

Jesús López Vargas graduated from the Master of Fine Arts program in stage management in 2021, where he was awarded a grant from the CTSA's Institute for 21st Century Creativity (21C). 21C supports artistic creation and associated research across campus.
Jazz Pianist Hime Ikehara: Music as Second Nature

Highly versatile and deliberate in her approach to music, fourth-year jazz piano major Hime Ikehara has only actively played jazz piano for five years, but her approach to the craft is a deep, diligent appreciation for the music.
UCI Music: Spring 2022 Honors Concert

May 25
Winifred Smith Hall

Outstanding students from the Music Department perform a wide-ranging program covering many genres.

UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts Names Thirteen New Medici Circle Scholars

UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) is pleased to announce the 2022 Medici Circle Scholars. Thirteen awards were given to both undergraduate and graduate students offering an opportunity to take their education beyond the classroom and collaborate with academics and artists in the community... (more)

In the News

The art of inquiry

While much of the attention on research at UCI is directed at the sciences, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts has also generated research, although to much less notice. Jesse Colin Jackson is on a mission to change that.

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Arts Advocates: Matt Bailey

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Spotlights

The Claire Trevor School of the Arts' Office of Research and Innovation seeks to highlight faculty and graduate students' ongoing creative research activities at UC Irvine.