The UCF Art Gallery at the University of Central Florida is seeking Exhibition Proposals for 2026-2028. Solo artists, artist groups and curators are encouraged to apply. The gallery is in the University of Central Florida’s School of Visual Arts and Design in Orlando, Florida. The gallery has about 3700 square feet of space with over 230 linear feet of wall space and about 96 feet of moveable wall space. Link to gallery website: https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/ Deadline for exhibition... Read More

WHO: Who would enjoy this workshop? Anyone with a creative practice, whether visual and/or written, who is interested in collaboration, zine making and learning how to print on a risograph machine! This workshop, facilitated by Rollins professor, printmaker and book artist Rachel Simmons and UCF professor and writer Chrissy Kolaya, will coincide with the letterpress exhibition Type Out Loud exhibition on view at the SVAD Art Gallery from Jan. 11 through Feb. 9, 2023. WHAT: By... Read More

A design workshop for having fun with vintage type! Join Dori Griffin, author of Type Specimens, for a virtual digital workshop that repurposes historical typographic material as a tool for self-expression. In this workshop, we'll explore type specimen books, starting with a quick, visual history shared by Dori. Then we'll mine the riches of these unique books for typographic beauty, combining diverse visual materials to craft visual poems or other forms of self-expression. No prior... Read More

Call for Artists: Pathways 2024: The Carlos Malamud Prize The Rollins Museum of Art and the UCF Art Gallery invite submissions for Pathways 2024: The Carlos Malamud Prize. Pathways is a biennial, juried art competition and exhibition for emerging professional artists living in Florida. This edition will consist of a juried selection process resulting in a Summer 2024 group exhibition for the competition’s finalists. All exhibited artists will receive support and networking through a... Read More

Join us for the 11th Annual SVAD Art History Symposium on March 31st, 2023 from 1:00 – 2:30 pm at the UCF Art Gallery. Students will present their art historical research from upper-level art history courses. The presentations include: Abbie Brown, The Horseflies, the Bees, and the Barberini Valeria Fajardo, Diego Velazquez: Desire Through Ambuguity in the Rokeby Venus Jules Condés, Juan de Pareja: The Portrait that Preceded Freedom Image credit: Diego Velázquez, Juan de... Read More

The UCF Art Gallery at the University of Central Florida is seeking Exhibition Proposals for the 2023-2024 academic year. Solo artists, artist groups and curators are encouraged to apply. The gallery resides in the University of Central Florida’s School of Visual Arts and Design located in Orlando, Florida. The gallery has about 3700 square feet of space with over 230 linear feet of wall space and about 96 feet of moveable wall space. Link to gallery... Read More

Join us for the 10th Annual SVAD Art History Symposium on April 1, 2022 from 1:00 - 3:00pm at the UCF Art Gallery. Students will present their art historical research from upper-level art history courses and Honors in the Major. The talks cover topics including Caravaggio’s Bacchi, Rubens’ Double Portrait, the characterization of the black in 19th Century art, Gaudi’s Gothic, and bodily interactions in Neo-Avant Garde art.... Read More

CALL FOR ARTISTS The Rollins Museum of Art and the UCF Art Gallery invite submissions for Pathways: The Carlos Malamud Prize. Pathways is a biennial, juried art competition and exhibition for emerging professional artists living in Florida. The inaugural edition will consist of a juried selection process resulting in a Summer 2022 group exhibition for the competition’s finalists. All exhibited artists will receive support and networking through a series of events and direct engagement with... Read More

Artist Talk Series: 2018 Faculty Exhibition Jason Burrell: Thursday, August 30 at 3:00pm Father, Jason Burrell, Mixed media on paper, 48" x 72", 2018     Rob Reedy: Wednesday September 5 at 10:00am Teapot Totem, Rob Reedy, earthenware, 2018     Carla Poindexter: Thursday, September 6 at 3:00pm Resonance is the Reason (Summer Afternoon), Carla Poindexter, acrylic on canvas, 70" x 70", 2018     Walter Gaudnek: Monday, September 10 at... Read More

Calling all Southern visual artists! Join us to learn about the major regional art prizes in the South: South Arts’ Southern Prize, ArtFields, and the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art. Together, these programs account for $210,000 in annual prizes and awards for Southern artists. Susie Surkamer, executive director of South Arts, and Jamison Mady, graphic design and creative project manager of ArtFields, will share information about these award programs, discuss requirements,... Read More

How are art programs working toward taking chances and exploring new curriculum, projects, and objectives? What is successful when trying new ideas and approaches in the classroom? What are the experimental failures and how do you compensate and reassess? Please join us for a Southeast Regional FATE Conference at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida for a symposium to share your new and developing pedagogical approaches, curriculum, and projects. This will provide the unique... Read More

The UCF Art Gallery is seeking Solo and Group Exhibition Proposals for the 2018-2019 academic year. The gallery resides in the University of Central Florida’s School of Visual Arts and Design located in Orlando, Florida. The gallery has about 3700 square feet of space with over 230 linear feet of wall space and about 96 feet of moveable wall space. Exhibition Proposals will be accepted February 10 through March 3, 2018 and works in all media will be considered. Notification of acceptance... Read More

We are thrilled to host Lauren Greenwald and Casey McGuire as visiting artists included in the current exhibition Finding Home: The Global Refugee Crisis. Join us for and in-depth discussion of each artist's work, research, and process.  LAUREN GREENWALD, who received an MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico, is an assistant professor of art at the University of South Carolina. Using a pinhole camera, she investigates travel, migration, and the ways in which the... Read More

Come enjoy a reading and book signing by Dinaw Mengestu, the award-winning author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) and How to Read the Air (2010). Mengestu is a graduate of Georgetown University and of Columbia University’s M.F.A. program in fiction and the recipient of a 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation, a 20 Under 40 award from The New Yorker, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius... Read More

Join us for a gallery talk by Kate Shults, current Lecturer of Film at the School of Visual Arts and Design, University of Central Florida and co-curator of the From the Margins: A Retrospective of Experimental Cinema at UCF exhibition. Shults will give insight into her own work included in the exhibition and the motivations for partnering with the UCF Art Gallery to showcase experimental film artworks. Shults has written and produced a variety of moving image works, focused primarily on... Read More

The University of Central Florida Art Gallery is holding a call for submissions: Finding Home: The Global Refugee Crisis "After seventeen years here, I am certain of at least one thing: the liberal idea of America is at its best in advertising." — Sepha Stephanos in The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, and inspired by MacArthur Foundation Fellow Dinaw Mengestu’s first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007), the... Read More

LECTURE w/  Keri Watson  Curatorial Talk Tuesday, February 28 1:00pm - 2:00pm       Keri Watson is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Central Florida, and has curated the exhibition In the Eyes of the Hungry: Florida’s Changing Landscape, which will open at the University of Central Florida Art Gallery on February 26, 2017. Managed by Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read offers grants to support innovative community... Read More

ARTIST TALK w/ Josh Jalbert Thursday, March  23 3:00pm – 4:00pm             Josh Jalbert is an artist and educator working in photography. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon’s MFA program, and a doctoral candidate at the European Graduate School. He is a Professor in the Photography Department at Savannah College of Art and Design and is represented by Galerie 124 in Savannah, Georgia. "Photography, for me, is a... Read More

ARTIST TALK w/  Coco Fusco Friday, March 31 11:00am – 12:00pm   "... I wanted to make sense out of the clashes between cultures that cause so many of us so much trouble and pain, but I chose to do so within the realm of art." -Coco Fusco     Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator, who lives and works in North America. For much of her work explores the politics of gender, race, war, and identity through multi-media productions... Read More

LECTURE w/ Dale Slongwhite Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food Wednesday, March 1 1:00pm - 2:00pm     Dale Slongwhite will discuss her book, Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food, which presents oral histories of African American farmworkers whose lives were forever altered by one of the most disturbing pesticide exposure incidents in United States’ history. Free and Open to the Public!     About the Author: In Fed Up, Dale Slongwhite... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for LECTURE w/  Susan Shillinglaw  The Legacy of Steinbeck Friday, March 3 3:00pm - 5:00pm         Key Note Speaker Susan Shillinglaw is a Professor of English at San Jose State University, Director of the National Steinbeck Center, and author of Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage, On Reading The Grapes of Wrath, and A Journey into Steinbeck’s California, will discuss Steinbeck and the legacy of The... Read More

  ARTIST TALK w/ Will Cotton Thursday, January 26 4:00pm – 5:00pm       Will Cotton is an American Artist with work ranging from painting, printmaking, drawing and sculpture. Interested in cultural iconography, Cotton’s art makes use of the common language of consumer culture shared across geographical boundaries. He considers the visual threads in his work, drawn from imagery ranging from the Candy Land board game and gingerbread houses to pinup art and... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for   ARTIST TALK w/ Bea Nettles Tuesday, January 24 2:30pm – 3:30pm         In conjunction with UCF’s Special Collections, Bea Nettles will talk about her photography, artist books and career spanning 40 years. Many of her books from the Special Collection’s permanent collection will be available to view. Be a Nettles'  artists' books and photographic works often using alternative photographic processes,... Read More

LECTURE w/  Cindy  Hahamovitch  The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870 - 1945 Thursday, March 2 3:00pm - 5:00pm Followed by a  Book Signing with Cindy Hahamovitch and Panel Discussion               In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal. Cindy Hahamovitch's pathbreaking account of migrant farmworkers... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for   ARTIST TALK w/ Cesar Cornejo Wednesday, March 1 10:00am - 11:15am         Cesar Cornejo, Associate Professor of Sculpture and Extended Media at the University of South Florida and Creative Capital Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Sculpture Space grantee will give a talk on his work. Cornejo has been awarded grants and residencies from the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Creative Capital... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for Lecture w/ John Fauth: Environmental Concerns on the Little Econ Tuesday, February 28th 3:00pm - 4:00pm       John Fauth, Associate Professor of Biology at UCF and expert in ecology, evolution, conservation and restoration biology, and herpetology, will give a talk on environmental issues and the Econ River. John's research extends into quantitative and experimental ecology, with special emphasis on amphibians & reptiles,... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for     FILM SCREENING:  A Roll for Peter  January 19 7:00pm – 9:00pm      Following the Public Reception for the Exhibition Florida Noir: Sunny Place with Shady Circumstances       A tribute to the late Filmmaker Peter Hutton, A Roll for Peter will be screened at the UCF Art Gallery.  Twenty-plus former students, colleagues, and admirers of Peter Hutton answered an invitation to shoot A ROLL... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for an Artist Talk w/ Brooks Dierdorff November 14 at 11:00 am   One of the exhibiting artists currently on display in the Faculty Exhibition, Brooks Dierdorff is an artist working in photography, video, sculpture and performance. He has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally at galleries that include Salander O’Rielly in New York; Punch Gallery in Seattle; the Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland; High Desert Test Sites in... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for an Artist Talk w/ Ryan Buyssens November 21 at 2:30 pm   One of the exhibiting artist currently on display in the Faculty Exhibition, Ryan Buyssens was born and raised near Detroit, MI; an environment that imparted a rich, lifelong influence from the automotive industry’s mechanized culture. A recipient of the North Carolina Arts Fellowship for 2012/13, he exhibits his work internationally. As an artist, inventor and maker of kinetic... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for an Artist Talk w/ Matthew Mosher November 17 at 10:00 am One of the exhibiting artists currently on display in the Faculty Exhibition, Matthew Mosher is an intermedia artist and mixed methods research professor focusing on embodied experiential systems. He received his BFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006 and his MFA in Intermedia from Arizona State University in 2012.  While in Phoenix, Arizona he co-founded... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for an Artist Talk w/ Maria Harrington November 16 at 2:00 pm   One of the exhibiting artists currently on display in the Faculty Exhibition, Maria C. R. Harrington is an assistant professor of digital media at the University of Central Florida. She is an American information scientist and artist who studies virtual reality for learning, ecological simulation technologies, serious games with respect to causal modeling, human-computer (and... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for an Artist Talk w/ Maria Santana   November 7 at 11:30am   One of the exhibiting artists currently on display in the Faculty Exhibition, M. C. Santana is an Associate Professor of Digital Media and Program Director of  UCF Women’s and Gender Studies Program.  Her research interests include women’s history, media representation, human trafficking, global issues and mass communication. Santana is a former photojournalist and... Read More