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

Please join us in the Gallery for: PERFORMANCE: Amy Williams Performing John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for solo prepared piano November 1 @ 7:00 p.m. UCF Art Gallery   This event is FREE, no ticket required. BIO: Amy Williams is a composer of music that is “simultaneously demanding, rewarding and fascinating” (Buffalo News), “fresh, daring and incisive” (Fanfare). Her works have been presented at renowned international contemporary music venues, including... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for ARTIST TALK: Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz and Katya Grokhovsky  Thursday, October 13 at 2:30pm   Katya Grokhovsky and Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz are both interdisciplinary artists involved with AiOP 2016 RACE/NYC and  AiOP 2016: Play/Orlando respectively. They will discuss their studio practice, involvement with AiOP and performance art.     About the Artists:   Wanda... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for ARTIST TALK: Ed Woodham November 9 at 3pm              Ed Woodham is a multi-disciplinary artist and arts educator dedicated to working in public space. He is best known for the public art project, Art in Odd Places (AiOP), a festival that happens along the length of 14th Street in Manhattan every October and has expanded to cities around the globe.   AiOP: PLAY is scheduled to happen in Orlando, FL Nov.... Read More

Please join us for: Artist Talk: Sanford Biggers   ACA Master Artist Outreach: Illustrated Talk, followed by Q & A Thursday October 27th, 2016 @ 2:30 pm UCF Art Gallery   About the Artist: Los Angeles native working in New York City, Sanford Biggers creates artworks that integrate film, video, installation, sculpture, drawing, original music and performance. He intentionally complicates issues such as hip hop, Buddhism, politics, identity, and art history in order to... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for   ARTIST TALK: Melissa Diaz September 29, 4pm         One of the exhibiting Alumni Artist from Legends: The Next Generation, Melissa Diaz will present her work and discuss her involvement in the Exhibition. Also presenting on September 29 will be Peter Angelora and Erika Heffernan followed by a Reception for the Exhibition.   Melissa Diaz::  www.melissadiazart.com   ARTIST BIO Melissa Diaz is an artist and a... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for   ARTIST TALK: Perry Angelora September 29, 2:30pm          Angelora is a painter and printmaker. He earned his BFA from the UCF and his MFA from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally and has taught at Montclair State University, Hunter College, and Edinburgh College of Art Summer School. In 2015 he was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for   ARTIST TALK: Erika Heffernan September 29, 10:30am   One of the exhibiting Alumni Artist from Legends: The Next Generation, Erika Heffernan will present her work and discuss her involvement in the Exhibition.   Also presenting on September 29 will be Peter Angelora and Melissa Diaz followed by a Reception for the Exhibition.   Erika Heffernan::   www.erikaheffernan.com ARTIST BIO Erika Heffernan was born... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for ARTIST TALK: Ginger Leigh   September 26, 2:00pm         One of the exhibiting Alumni Artist from Legends: The Next Generation, Ginger Leigh will present her work and discuss her involvement in the Exhibition. Ginger Leigh (Synthestruct) is a multidisciplinary artist creating interactive and audiovisual experiences that explore the beauty of science, math, and natural systems. Leigh received her B.A. in Digital Media in 2004 from... Read More

Art at UCF:  Memories Alive Faculty Panel  Presented by SVAD Faculty Carla Poindexter, Robert Rivers, Larry Cooper and Victor Davila Tuesday, September 13 at 10:00am In association with Legends: The Next Generation Exhibition, current SVAD professors will discuss their impact working with exhibiting Alumni... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for ARTIST TALK: Bryce Hammond and Luke Clark   Thursday August 25, 4pm           Followed by Closing Reception at 5pm.   Progeny is an International Collaborative Project, featuring the work of Luke Aaron Clark (UK) and Bryce Hammond (USA) currently on display at the UCF Art Gallery.  The exhibition focuses on an immersive architectural sound installation modeled after a Langstroth Beehive. There are ten partitions covered in acoustic... Read More

Here is a link to a review of our June-July Exhibition, A Cold and Overcast Day. Article by: Adam... Read More

Please join us in the Gallery for PERFORMANCE:  In The Hive Friday, August 26 at 7pm In adjacent with the Progeny  Exhibition, UCF Assistant Professor of Music Thad Anderson + UCF Percussionists will perform John Cage’s Four4.     John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist.  A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical... Read More

UCF Photo in 60, is a short series of interviews by Brooks Dierdorff, Assistant Professor at UCF. He talks with exiting BFA students: Melissa Berrios, Heather Hubbard, and Jenn Allen about Photography at the UCF School of Visual Arts and... Read More

Please join at the UCF Gallery for the   Fifth Annual Art History Symposium Thursday, April 14th, 2016 at 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm   Neoclassicism's Exceptional Artists: Jacques-Louis David's Female Students - Jennifer Laffick José Guadalupe Posada and the Printmaker's Role in the Mexican Revolution - Emilia Nicholson-Fajardo A Life Lived in the Service of Passion: Ana Mendieta's Activism - Elizabeth Baker Destabilizing Identity: the Works of Dorothy Cross - Aileen... Read More

May 26 at 10:30 AM           Ian Winters – Master Artist Outreach: Illustrated Talk, followed by Q & A Visual Arts Building, Art Gallery University of Central Florida, Orlando, 32816 For more information call 407-823-3161 Bio: Ian Winters is an award winning video & media artist working at the intersections of performance, architectural form, and time-based media. In addition to individual work he often collaborates with composers, directors, and... Read More

Here is a clip from Channel 13 News about our Zora Exhibition: Art Gallery News... Read More

Please join us at the UCF Art Gallery for a Presentation and Talk: Shame the Devil! Theatre Performance of One Woman Show Based on the Life of Fanny Kemble Performed by Megan Burnett Produced/Directed by Be Boyd and John Shafer – Associate Professors of Theatre Wednesday, March 23 at  10:00 am   The Performance of Shame the Devil!  is scheduled at UCF Theatre Black Box Tuesday, March 22 at 7:00 pm Doors will open at 6:30 - Admission is... Read More

The UCF Art Gallery invites you to a Performance: 'Sculptures in Wood' Tuesday, March 29 @ 7:00 p.m. in the UCF Art Gallery The recital will featuring marimba solos performed by members of the UCF Percussion Studio. This event is free and open to the... Read More

'Their Eyes, Our Voices'   Showcase The UCF School of Visual Arts & Design and UCF Art Gallery will host “Their Eyes, Our Voices” Personal Showcase with a special performance by Dietrich Squinkifer, a writer, programmer, musician, and visual artist who creates games and playable experiences about gender identity and social situations. This showcase will feature a curated collection of personal narrative games created by UCF digital media students enrolled in Anastasia... Read More

Panel Discussion: March 16, 2015 2:30-5:00 pm Purpose: An artistic and culturally dedicated think tank devoted to brainstorm, and develop strategies to unite the fragmented arts and cultural communities in Orlando into a unified landscape capable of rivaling other mid-sized artistic meccas. The panel discussion will begin with the moderator asking the panelists a series of questions. And then opening the floor to the audience for a short Q&A with the panelists. The event... Read More

On Friday, January 29, the Dr. Phillips High School Art Magnet Program visited our Gallery at UCF! The students were given a tour of the art department and interacted with our Professors in a series of demonstrations and short class sessions. We are excited to have had the chance to show them what the School of Visual Design is all... Read More

UCF Art Gallery is pleased to host  Assistant Professor of Art History  Dr. Ilenia Colón Mendoza for a BOOK TALK  discussing her recent publication: The Cristos Yacentes of Gregorio Fernandez: Polychrome Sculptures of Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain (Visual Culture in Early Modernity series of Ashgate) Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernandez, author Ilenia Colon Mendoza investigates how and why the artist and his patrons... Read More

UCF Art Gallery is pleased to host Chakaia Booker for an Artist Talk: January 26, 10:30 AM - 11:30AM Over the past decade, Chakaia Booker has become one of America's most important contemporary sculptors. Booker is best known for the material and process that characterize the majority of her work: cut-up automobile tires that are reassembled on wooden or steel armatures to create abstract sculptures. This recycled material, and the surface patterns that it creates, reference African... Read More

UCF School of Visual Arts and Design SPONSORED ART EXHIBITION:   OTRONICON 2016 ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER, 3rd Floor Mezzanine Art Gallery, Orlando, Florida Exhibition Dates: January 14 – March 26 EVENT INFORMATION: UCF School of Visual Art is pleased to present the first ever exhibition at the Orlando Science Center, an ongoing collaboration which will produce rotating exhibitions on the third floor mezzanine of the Center annually.  The UCF STEAM Exhibition is... Read More

Artist Talk: Rachel Simmons Feb 12, 2016; 3:00pm to 5:00pm Rachel Simmons lives and works in Winter Park, Florida. She holds an MFA from Louisiana State University. Since 2000 she has been actively involved in socially engaged art projects as an artist-educator at Rollins College. In 2009, she was given the Florida Campus Compact Service-Learning Faculty Award for the State of Florida. That same year, Rachel journeyed to Antarctica for the second time to make work about climate change... Read More

Violin Concert Feb. 16 at 7.30 pm. Violinist Nicole Paglialonga enjoys a diverse career as a recitalist, orchestral musician, teacher, and community builder. Ms. Paglialonga has performed in Asia, Europe, South America, and throughout North America. Recent highlights include performances at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the AIMS Festival in Graz, Austria, as well as concerts in Thailand and Colombia. Her performance of Mark Phillips’ Violin Power at the 2015 Society for Electro-Acoustic... Read More

Once a year the Film Program at the UCF School of Visual Arts & Design hosts the Fall Showcase, ­a retrospective of short films that will expose viewers to the groundbreaking world of independent, micro-budget cinema. Some of the finest examples from the previous year's BFA student films, and select choices from years prior, are brought together for a single night of celebration each Fall semester. This event is FREE and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30pm.  Films... Read More

The concert is in collaboration with TD Anderson and the UCF Music... Read More

Gabriele Heidecker is an installation artist from Germany presenting her project: LAL-RED in Hounour of Kali created as part of the anniversary year of the national museums of Berlin featured at the Museum of Indian Art Berlin. The dialogue between the installation LAL-RED and the permanent collection of antique Indian Art represented the quintessence of a multitude of meanings and aspects. Gabreile states: The juxtaposition of Red and Black has been a leitmotif in numerous of my... Read More

Maintaining Paradise Photography students collaborate with Atlantic Center for the Arts Community Artists-in-Residence to produce two exhibitions and a publication. Erin Charpentier and Travis Neel are the Community Artists-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. The collaborators have been working on an interdisciplinary project called Maintaining Paradise. The project documents the everyday experience of working in a tourist and retirement destination. Over the course... Read More

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Movie Screening of Tangerine Followed by a panel discussion with Lisa Mills and Jonathan Perez Date: November 18 Time: 6 pm Location: Visual Arts Building, room 132 **FREE and Open to the... Read More

  We are very happy to share the exciting news that our permanent collection has been enriched by a donation of two paintings by eminent artist Arnold Mesches. The legendary career of Bronx-born, Florida-based artist Arnold Mesches, now 92, spans six decades of studio work, four decades as Professor of Art at the University of Florida, and over 100 solo exhibitions. Mesches received particular recognition for a series of highly charged politics: "The FBI Files”... Read More

Contemporary Pianist R. Andrew Lee Performs Solo Concert Tuesday, November 10th at 7:00 p.m. UCF Art Gallery Featuring works by William Duckworth and Adrian Knight Orlando, FL – Pianist R. Andrew Lee is one of the foremost interpreters of minimal music. He has been described as having “consistently impressive solo releases” (New York Times), and his CD, Eva-Maria Houben: Piano Music, was chosen by Alex Ross in The New Yorker as one of the Top 10 Classical Recordings of 2013. In... Read More

Presented by the UCF Center for the Humanities & Digital Research Flickering Landscapes Conference - Nov. 13-14th Floridas's Landscape, History, and Identity on the Screen UCF Center for Emerging Media Downtown Orlando  $99.00, Register now and Save! register at :... Read More

PUPPET STATES: Race, Narrative and Lo-Tech Video Video Screening // Artist Lecture // Q & A // Workshop Inspired by Leon Damas and other writers and artists from across the African diaspora, Dr. Paulette Richards uses her own hand-made puppet dolls to tell stories of workplace struggle, self-image adjustment, emotional fulfillment and more. According to Richards, "... in his 1937 poem, Limbe Leon Gontran Damas called for the return of 'my black dolls' as an antidote to the 'big... Read More

Gabriel Delponte is coming to talk about his exciting project Bridge Me Japan! He will give two talks: -Tuesday September 22, 12pm in the UCF Art Gallery - Wednesday September 23, 3pm at the Center For Emerging Media Downtown. "A contemporary artist’s cycling journey, north to south, in Japan in search of communication." http://www.bridgemejapan.com ABSTRACT In the 17th century Japanese poet Basho set out on foot across the country, composing haiku as... Read More

Free and Open to the Public http://www.artinoddplaces.org/orlando/ New York based interdisciplinary artist and curator, Katya Grokhovsky's work deals with issues of alienation, gender politics and migration, through thecombination of performance, sculpture, installation, video, photography, painting and drawing. She will discuss her art practice and her ongoing project "Status Update", which will be performed live during Art in Odd Places Festival, Orlando from 17th-20th... Read More

Are you interested in the creative potential of animated GIFs, motion graphics, interactive installations, video shorts, and other forms of moving images? At this lecture, local artists Michael Forrest and Nathan Selikoff will be sharing their passion for this form of art with a diverse group of students and faculty from the departments of Digital Media, Film and Studio Art. Earlier this year, Forrest and Selikoff curated and organized the first ever BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) Orlando, a... Read More

The UCF Art Gallery in collaboration with Theatre UCF presents: Keep Her Safe, an evening of awareness to stop campus sexual assault with a live performance in the gallery. ‘Our daughters may be out of sight, but are never out of mind. Together, we have the power to keep our daughters safe from sexual assault.’ MFA Acting students, Madelyn James and Maddie Tarbox, perform a staged reading of Carol Lee Campbell’s, Goddess Diaries, under the direction of Julia... Read More

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David Haxton will speak at the Center for Emerging Media in Downtown Orlando. David Haxton (b. 1943, Indianapolis Indiana) is an artist who works primarily in photography and film. His current work is concentrated in the use of the photographed image. As it has always been, Haxton's work is approached from a painter's perspective and more specifically current thinking that is sourced in objectivity, intermingled with process and materials. In the early seventies he moved away from... Read More

Gabriel Delponte is coming to talk about his exciting project Bridge Me Japan! He will give two talks: -Tuesday September 22, 12pm in the UCF Art Gallery - Wednesday September 23, 3pm at the Center For Emerging Media Downtown. "A contemporary artist’s cycling journey, north to south, in Japan in search of communication." http://www.bridgemejapan.com ABSTRACT In the 17th century Japanese poet Basho set out on foot across the country, composing haiku as... Read More

Artist Talk by Eric Gottesman www.ericgottesman.net Monday, September 14, 2015 at the Center for Emerging Media in Downtown... Read More

A special screening at the Enzian Theater of the film Dukale’s Dream with Hugh Jackman.  It is about Jackman’s trip to Ethiopia to learn about fair trade coffee and clean cookstove technology (among other things).  You can see the trailer at dukalesdream.com/home.html and tickets are on sale... Read More

OMA 2416 N Mills Ave. Orlando, FL 32803 Eclectic Knights VII Thursday, Oct. 1 6-9 p.m. The Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) Associates invite you to participate in the 17th season of 1st Thursdays. Showcase your art as part of Orlando's original art party at the Eclectic Knights VII art show. The annual event hosted by the UCF College of Arts and Humanities Alumni Chapter will feature selected works created by UCF alumni, faculty and staff in a variety of media. Call for Artist... Read More

August 26: Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz Join Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz for a talk about her artwork on display in the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art. Inspired by background in drastically different social environments, Ortiz is an artist who has created a theatrical cast of archetypal characters. By acting as these characters in videos, photographs, graphics and live performance, she explores the communication methods and stereotypical personalities of different groups, all the while looking inward... Read More

Here are some photos from our First Year Faculty Orientation Party that was hosted in the UCF Gallery in conjunction with the United Faculty of Florida... Read More

A GUIDE TO ART IN ORLANDO (2015-2016)     AUGUST 2015   -Florida Prize in Contemporary Art 2015 Orlando Museum of Art June 12 – September 6, 2015 http://omart.org/   -Call to Artists - Sight Unseen: Touchable Sculpture June 25, 2015 at 6pm to September 18, 2015 at 11:45pm The Polasek Museum Application Deadline: Friday, September 18, 2015 The Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens is now accepting submissions for the 2015-2016... Read More

Aca 101 is a chance for students interested in joining an a cappella group on campus to get all the information they need to have a successful audition and learn more about how students are using their only their voices to make music around the world." If you're interested in participating in UCF A Cappella's Fall Rush you can find more information at the facebook event! You can also signup for an audition slot at the link below! 2015 Fall Rush FB Event -... Read More

The UCF Art Gallery hosts a seasonal Kids Summer Camp in collaboration with the Creative School for Children at UCF! Thanks so much to our Professors and Staff: Hadi Abbas Matt Dombrowski Debi Starr Wanda Ortiz Keri Watson Steven Spencer Yulia... Read More

Josiah McElheny will talk about his work as part of a Master Artist Residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts followed by Q & A.  FREE and open to the public... All are Welcome to Attend! About Josiah McElheny Josiah McElheny was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1966, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and apprenticed with master glassblowers Ronald Wilkins, Jan-Erik Ritzman, Sven-Ake Caarlson, and... Read More

Keeping it Current in the OC: LIVE Art Happening, Student Night, OC Art Legends Exhibition, and OC Homeless Advocacy!! Thursday, September 10, 2015; 5:00pm - 8:00pm Skip the hassle of downtown and try something new at the Polasek after-business hours as we celebrate all things current that are happening in the OC! Join us for our Orange County awareness night on Thursday, September 10, 2015 from 5-8pm where art and community issues combine. Check out our Hal McIntosh exhibit and... Read More

  Join us for this very special event: Guitars in the Gallery // A Blend of Sight and Sound with BEEMO at the UCF Art Gallery. Listen Here: www.mynameisbeemo.com FREE Admission All... Read More

Here is a Photo Tour of our current Exhibition: Step Right Up// Art of the... Read More

Saturday, August 29; 4-6pm UCF Art Gallery A Look at the Side Show - written and directed by Be Boyd and John Shafer An entertaining and poignant performance piece that portrays the challenging lives of real side show performers. The show includes characters based on the following real life Side Show performers: John Merrick - The Elephant Man Annie Jones - The Bearded Lady Francesco A. Lentini - the Three-legged Wonder Ella Harper - The Camel Girl Grady... Read More

  Wednesday, July 15, 2015 “Icon of the Spiral,” a painting by School of Visual Arts and Design’s founding father, Steve D. Lotz, has returned to its home at the University of Central Florida Art Gallery. It was exhibited at the UCF Art Gallery in 2000 when it caught the eye of soon-to-be graduate, Nell Vitril. Vitril was an art student of Lotz and greatly respected him as a professor and mentor while she was a student at the University of Central Florida. Vitril as a... Read More

Halee Sommer has done so much for the gallery in her time with us. She has recently accepted a scholarship to attend UF in the fall to pursue her Master's Degree. We caught up with her to get the inside scoop:   G: So, your time at the UCF Art Gallery is coming to a close. What do you have planned for the future? H: I am sad this time has arrived. I have been awarded a graduate assistantship to the University of Florida to pursue my Master’s degree in Museology with a... Read More

UCF Art Gallery hosts a Summer Camp for the students of UCF Creative School for Children. ( http://csc.sdes.ucf.edu/ ) This was our pilot program and it was fantastic! We are looking forward to develop our Summer Camp into an interactive and engaging program for school children in the Winter and Summer of 2016, as we move forward in our service and outreach programs. We would like to say a special thanks to our faculty for volunteering their time and creative energy! Hadi Abbas ... Read More

  The University of Central Florida Art Gallery is proud to present an artist talk by Beatriz Vasquez, the artist featured in our current exhibition Papel Picado with a Modern Twist. Please join us for an exciting artist talk by Beatriz on July 2 from 1-2:30 pm. In this talk, Beatriz will discuss her unique technique, artistic influences, and purpose in reviving the ancient art form of Papel Picado to a modern audience. ***THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC*** Papel... Read More

The University of Central Florida Art Gallery is proud to host a performance by VOICEBOX Voicebox was formed in the fall of 2014 with six founding members and quickly grew to a lucky number of 13 members. Since forming, Voicebox has been selected to perform in many showcases and competitions in locations ranging from North Carolina to South Beach. Most recently, Voicebox took first place at our quarterfinal for the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, otherwise known as ICCA... Read More

The University of Central Florida Art Gallery is proud to host a performance by the UCF Percussion Ensemble. Featuring: Thad Anderson, John Gavin, Anthony Grande, Mitchell Gribbroek, Christian Martin, & Austin Warren will be performing on found and handmade wooden instruments, hi-hat, snare drums, and kick drums. Performances to include: Stridulations, by composer Billy Martin who "when not performing with Medeski Martin & Wood," according to his website, "continues to collaborate... Read More

Will Cotton is a New York City painter known for his surreal candy landscapes. His most recognizable work is his collaboration in Katy Perry's "California Gurls" music video, in which Perry frolics in Candyfornia, a paradise of cupcakes and lollipops. Cotton’s work speaks of addiction and temptation, and an adult hedonism that no amount of sugar coating can mask. "Candy," he says, "is the most universal metaphor for all pleasure-seeking." Cotton is currently an artist in residence at... Read More

The UCF Art Gallery presents a lecture by Paul Niell of Florida State University. The lecture is part of the September exhibit Caribbean Expressions: Art, Life and Culture. Paul Niell is assistant professor of Spanish Colonial and African Diaspora art history and visual culture at Florida State University. His articles have appeared in the peer-reviewed journals, Cultural Landscapes, the Bulletin of Latin American Research, The Latin Americanist, and the Colonial Latin American Review. He is... Read More

The UCF Art Gallery presents a lecture by Dr. Ilenia Colón Mendoza of the University of Central Florida. The lecture is part of the September exhibit Caribbean Expressions: Art, Life and Culture. Dr. Ilenia Colón Mendoza received a B.A. in Art History and Archaeology from the University of Evansville in Indiana and her M.A. and Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Colón Mendoza's major area of research is seventeenth-century Spanish art. In addition to the visual arts of the... Read More