Support Langson Museum
UC Irvine Langson Museum believes that art has the power to transform lives by catalyzing curiosity, inciting imagination, and creating opportunities for lifelong learning.
You can help sustain the impact of the visual arts in our community by making a gift to Langson Museum today.
Your contributions empower us to care for our collection, present exhibitions and programs, engage artists and scholars, provide learning and professional opportunities for UC Irvine students, and contribute to the region’s robust cultural landscape.
Giving Opportunities
Exhibitions
Your gift enables us to continue presenting research-based exhibitions that investigate our collection of California art, host thought-provoking traveling exhibitions, and collaborate with our peers on campus and beyond. Together, we can engage in new dialogues that examine the Californian experience.
Academic Engagement
Langson Museum's dual purpose as a museum and institute means that we both steward and curate our collection of California art. We also involve UC Irvine faculty, students, and peers in new research and scholarship. In addition, we provide academic enrichment and professional development opportunities for UC Irvine students.
Education and Community Engagement
Donations support museum tours for students of all ages, gallery talks by curators and artists, film screenings, and drop-in artmaking workshops for students, lifelong lerners and families. Our popular Education Studio offers drop-in activities and self-directed art making, and our new Reading Lounge features a browsing library of books on California art and artists.
Art Conservation Fund
Preserving our collection for future generations is a top priority. Your gift supports the conservation, preservation, and stewardship of artworks in our permanent collection.
Art Acquisitions
Langson Museum continues to be as a resource for California art by utilizing its two founding collections as a springboard for growth. Your gift allows us to acquire new work that broadens and deepens our holdings, fills gaps in the collection, reflects work by UC Irvine faculty and alumni, and supports artists of diverse backgrounds. Your gift also provides crucial support for the curatorial research behind every new acquisition that adds scholarly value to the collection.
The Irvine Museum Collection Fund
Your gift provides support for the care and display of California Impressionism and plein air painting in the museum’s permanent collection, generously donated by The Irvine Museum.
Memorial Giving Honoring Joan Irvine Smith
Joan Irvine Smith was an arts patron and philanthropist who played a pivotal role in the founding and advancement of UC Irvine. We are immensely grateful to the Irvine family and The Irvine Museum for identifying UC Irvine as steward of select works from their renowned collection. By making a gift in memory of Joan Irvine Smith, you support Langson Museum's ongoing commitment to California art.
Make a General Donation
A donation to the Director’s Innovation Fund ensures that your gift helps support the museum’s highest priorities.
Contact Us
Kelsey Sippola
Senior Director of Development
ksippola@uci.edu
(949) 824-1448
Jamie Bigman
Assistant Director of Development
jamieh6@uci.edu
(949) 824-1429