To elevate and advance art education, preservation, exhbition and research within UCI’s Institute and Museum for California Art (IMCA).

To enhance The Irvine Museum collection activities, including maintaining the collection, advancing education and outreach efforts and supporting UCI Museum-affiliated faculty, staff and students.

To support the construction of an art museum on the UC Irvine Campus

In honoring memory of Joan Irvine Smith for the benefit of the Institute and Museum of California Art at UCI