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Beall Center Education Outreach Mission
The Donald R. and Joan F. Beall Center for Art and Technology is a research and exhibition center that explores new relationships between the arts, sciences, and engineering, promoting new forms of creation and expression using digital technologies. The Beall Center’s Outreach program is devoted to developing new audiences for these emerging art forms and to addressing the digital divide. The Beall Center Community Outreach program provides opportunities for K-12 children, their families, and their teachers to participate in activities incorporating art and technology.
In addition, The Beall Center exercises its commitment to education through its support of the UCI ArtsBridge program, undergraduate Digital Arts Minor and the ACE graduate program.
Students drawn from the undergraduate digital minor are offered internships and mentored in technology applications and gallery management. Digital minor students come from throughout UC Irvine: Arts (26%), Biological Sciences (3%), Engineering (9%), Humanities (6%), ICS (24%), Physical Sciences (1%), Social Ecology (8%), and Social Sciences (23%).
The ACE graduate program accepted its first incoming class in Fall 2003; the Beall Center exhibits the work of the ACE students in an annual exhibition each spring.