Faculty News
Prof. Simon Leung receives 2017 FOCA fellowship
Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA) is pleased to announce the 2017 FOCAFellowship Awards. Artists Sean Griffin, Simon Leung, and Susan Silton have been selected to receive an unrestricted award of $10,000, each. Fellows of Contemporary Art will host an exhibition/...
Darryl Taylor featured on two CD recordings
Professor Darryl Taylor is featured on two CD recordings released in December 2016. Love's Signature: Songs for Countertenor and Soprano by Juliana Hall, has Taylor singing the 45 minute song cycle of 12 songs, O Mistress Mine. MSR Records. Radiance in Motion has diverse dong offerings from...
Bryan Jackson Organized Film Project for At-Risk High School Students
The Kant Institute and the Department of Digital Filmmaking collaborated on the film project Hidden Hallway Stories. The project was designed to promote storytelling and filmmaking with at-risk high school students in the community. The Hidden Hallway Stories was implemented by Lecturer of Art...
MULTIPLEX DANCE Company Hosting West Hollywood Dance Festival
Assistant Professor of Dance Chad Michael Hall’s dance company, MULTIPLEX DANCE, is hosting the West Hollywood Dance Festival on August 16 – August 20, 2016. The festival offers five exciting days of dance workshops, rehearsals and performances. LINK.
Joseph Lewis Served as Juror for 52nd Annual Newport Beach Art Exhibition
Professor of Art Joseph Lewis served as juror for the 52nd Annual Newport Beach Art Exhibition. The Exhibition showcased 263 works of art by artists from Southern California. He awarded first, second and third place winners in the categories of painting/mixed media, photography and sculpture....
Jazz: The House That America Built
JazzXchange: Six Dancers, Three Musicians, Three Poets... ...a groundbreaking audience experience designed to invoke empathy, well-being and joy that transcends barriers between movement and sound, performers and viewers , life and art. JazzXchange, led by Artistic Director and Associate...
Kojiro Umezaki, member of the Silk Road Ensemble, featured in a new documentary being released nationwide
Kojiro Umezaki, member of the Silkroad Ensemble, featured in a new documentary being released nationwide. The Music of Strangers is a documentary film featuring members of the Silk Road Ensemble and opens Friday, June 10. The film will be showing throughout the summer at theaters nationwide....
Deborah Oliver Curated Show at the LACE Gallery
Continuing Lecturer of Art Deborah Oliver curated the show Irrational Exhibits 9 at the LACE Gallery in Los Angeles. The show includes performances, installations and videos and features work from UCI Alumni Flora Kao (MFA 2012), Juan Meneses (BA 2015), and Bradford Chan Prairie (BA 2016)....
Drama Professor Receives Top Billing
Drama Professor Receives Top Billing May 5, 2016 In 1965, Robert Cohen, a young dramatist intent on gaining a tenured professorship, faced a choice between offers from UC Berkeley or the fledgling UC Irvine, sprouting amid cow pastures and orange groves. He chose the latter. “It was close...
Daniel Joseph Martinez Offers a Front-Row Seat to a Famous Artistic Murder - Starring Himself
April 23, 2016 Walk into Roberts & Tilton gallery in Culver City and you will stumble into a murder scene. A man lies dead in a bathtub. His wild-eyed assailant stands behind him, knife in hand, ready to strike again in case the deed is not done. Another figure reaches toward the...
Kojiro Umezaki and the Silk Road Ensemble Release New Album with Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble recently released the new album, Sing Me Home. Associate Professor of Music Kojiro Umezaki is a member of the Silk Road Ensemble and contributed to this album. Sing Me Home is a companion album, developed and recorded for the documentary, The Music of Strangers:...
Things are looking up for Orange County's Trio Céleste
A good thing to know about Trio Céleste, though not absolutely necessary, is how to pronounce the name. “I don’t even know how to correctly pronounce it, there you go,” the group’s cellist Ross Gasworth quips. The other two members, pianist Kevin Kwan Loucks and violinist Iryna Krechkovsky,...
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