Art History Student Recognized for Research
November 04, 2011 Art History major and McNair Scholar Adee Benartzy has had a passion for the arts ever since she was a child. She moved to America from Israel when she was eight years old. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. and a career as a museum curator and is currently involved...
Feldman and Kanhai Finalists in National Science Foundation Contest
October 31, 2011 The National Science Foundation ICubed project at UCF sponsors the collaboration of students doing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics research and students from the School of Visual Arts and Design for the creation of artifacts that are inspired by STEM research. Last year, STEM students who were involved in research...
Students take behind-the-scenes lead in Pajama Game
October 28, 2011 The University of Central Florida’s production of The Pajama Game won’t just be a showcase for actors. The classic musical also will be a creative channel for fine arts students who are taking the lead on many of the behind-the-scenes elements, from the costumes and choreography to the set design...
Percussion students join NYC music festival
October 28, 2011 On the longest day of the year, public spaces across the five buroughs of New York City erupt with sound during the Make Music New York festival—and UCF’s percussionists were there to join in on the celebration. The festival is an innovative approach to making music—it’s a free celebration of...
Theatre UCF Alumnus Michael Marinaccio Appointed Producer of Orlando Fringe Festival
October 28, 2011 Michael Marinaccio, who received his B.F.A.–Acting in 1998 from the University of Central Florida, has been hired as the producer for the Orlando Fringe Festival. Michael has contributed greatly to the Central Florida theatre community since his days at the university, working on and off stage with local theatres including...
Scott F. Hall exhibits sound art internationally
October 26, 2011 Scott F. Hall, a 2011 recipient of the UCF Research Incentive Award, exhibited sound art this summer at the Brunel Electronic and Analogue Music Festival at Brunel University in London. BEAM is a playground of homemade instruments and sonic robots, focused on electronic music being performed or created live. In early November, Hall’s work will...
English M.A. students active at national conferences
October 12, 2011 Students in the Master of Arts in English, Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program have been active at conferences around the country this calendar year. In addition, Lindsay Anderson and April Urban had an article published in Southern Discourse. Conference Presentations: Jessica Holland, “Chasing Posthuman Reality: Simulacra, Advertising, and Philip...
E. Brady Robinson Featured in The Washington Post
September 07, 2011 In January, while waiting to photograph head shots for an annual report by the CuDC, a local arts nonprofit, Robinson noticed a private workspace in a back room at Flashpoint Gallery. An ordinary assortment of stuff — glue sticks, a half-eaten box of gourmet crackers — sat on a steel...
Flying Horse Editions’ book purchased for MoMA permanent Collection
August 31, 2011 The Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, has purchased for its permanent collection a limited edition, hand-printed book by artist James Siena that was developed and published by Flying Horse Editions. The book has also recently entered the collections of Stanford University and the Johnson Art Museum at...
Donny Allen featured by UCF Today
August 31, 2011 It was the “BRPPBBBB” sound that blasts from a trumpet—“so appealing to a 5th grader”— that got Donny Allen hooked on music. Today, as the director of the Marching Knights and the Jammin’ Knights, it is music’s power to inspire and connect that keeps him playing his passionate tune. “94%...
UCF English Lit Majors Take Top Prizes in (Inter)National Jane Austen Essay Contest
August 23, 2011 Two UCF English majors—Faith Dickens and Hillary Casavant—have taken top prizes in the annual Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) essay contest. Faith Dickens won first prize in the undergraduate division for her essay entitled “Whims of the Wealthy: Marriage and Desire for Sense and Sensibility’s Miss Grey.” Hillary...
E. Brady Robinson to lecture at Smithsonian American Art Museum
August 16, 2011 E. Brady Robinson will lecture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on Sunday, August 28 at 1:30pm. Robinson will look at early landscape paintings on view in the Luce Foundation Center in relation to her own work, in which she explores the immediacy of capturing images made possible by modern...
E. Brady Robinson: Transfer solo exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum
August 16, 2011 The work of E. Brady Robinson is featured in Transfer, a solo photography exhibition on display through October 9 at Cornell Cornell Fine Arts Museum E. Brady Robinson’s work is informed by a culture of instant and mobile image capture. She uses the camera to examine her environment and record...
Music faculty join 9-11 memorial concert
August 15, 2011 On Sunday evening, September 11, UCF Music faculty members Kimberly Saunders Randall and Thomas Potter will be featured soloists in a special concert to remember and honor those who perished on “9-11” ten years ago. This First United Methodist Church of Orlando Chancel Choir and orchestra concert, entitled “We Remember...
UCF Music grad organizes Accidental Music Festival
July 27, 2011 Recent Music M.A. graduate Chris Belt has organized a contemporary music festival in downtown Orlando. The Accidental Music Festival will take place September 4-13, featuring ten days of concerts, public discussions with composers, open rehearsals, and a workshop for middle school and high school composers. Several UCF faculty members and...
CAH Faculty Deliver Games Workshop in Costa Rica
July 22, 2011 From July 11 to July 15, professors Rudy McDaniel (School of Visual Arts and Design) and José Maunez-Cuadra (School of Visual Arts and Design and Latin American Studies) traveled to Puntarenas, Costa Rica to deliver a hands-on workshop to nine faculty at the University of Costa Rica, Pacific Campus. The...
Atkins Foundation gives to technical communication scholarship
July 19, 2011 The Atkins Foundation, Inc., has awarded a grant of $3,000 to the UCF Foundation, Inc. in support of the STC-UCF Melissa Pellegrin Memorial Scholarship, an endowment established by the Orlando Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. The STC endowment is managed by the philanthropic arm of the University of...
Kelle Groom's memoir gaining national attention
July 18, 2011 UCF alum Kelle Groom is garnering critical acclaim with her newest book. I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl: A Memoir, from Free Press/Simon & Schuster, was recently selected by Oprah Winfrey for O Magazine’s 2011 summer reading list. In stirring, hypnotic prose, I Wore the Ocean...
Reedy and Potter in Orlando Arts Magazine
July 08, 2011 Robert Reedy and Thomas Potter are featured in the July/August 2011 edition of Orlando Arts Magazine. The latest issue profiles Reedy as a fine artist and a teacher and spotlights Potter’s professional career as well as the local outreach events he organizes through the UCF Opera program. Orlando Arts Magazine,...
UCF Theatre grad joins The Second City
June 30, 2011 David Knoell, who received his M.F.A. in Acting in 2006 from the University of Central Florida, has been accepted to the Directing Program at The Second City, the leading improv-based sketch comedy company. The competitive program is a year-long intensive program that will have Knoell teaching classes, working as the...