IRVINE, CALIF (PNAN) – Beginning Friday, July 1, 202, visionary artist and administrator Tiffany Lopez who is a proven champion for diversity and inclusion, has been named Dean of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California.
Lopez comes from Arizona State University, where she serves as vice provost for inclusive excellence and as a Foundation Professor in the Sidney Poitier New American Film School in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. The granddaughter of migrant farmworkers and a first-generation college student, Lopez has dedicated her career to increasing opportunities in higher education, furthering the role of the arts and forging routes to support success through leadership.
“I am thrilled and honored to be joining the Claire Trevor School of the Arts as its next dean,” Lopez said. “What’s particularly exciting is how the school collectively embraces the call of our moment to enrich and expand pathways for 21st-century art making and to cultivate citizen-artist leaders who exemplify the role of creativity in exploration. I’m inspired by the stellar range of artists, scholars and advocates and look forward to collaborating to advance the work being done by this incredible community.”
For more on Claire Trevor School of the Arts and Dean Lopez see: https://www.arts.uci.edu/