Department Archives: School of Visual Arts and Design

Omnimodal, a transportation tech startup co-founded by David Thomas Moran ‘14 and Nathan Selikoff ‘04, was one of nine finalists admitted into the Central Florida Social Enterprise Accelerator (CFL SEA) program committed to creating positive social change through entrepreneurship. The first program of its kind in Central Florida, CFL SEA will help local entrepreneurs in […]

Six College of Arts & Humanities faculty members were among those honored with the inaugural UCF Luminary Award, designed to shine a light on exceptional faculty whose work is advancing their discipline and making a difference. The 2017 recipients from the arts and humanities include Keith Folse, Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and […]

Matthew Mosher, assistant professor in UCF’s School of Visual Arta and Design (SVAD), and his projects are gaining international recognition: His project, Tributaries of Our Distant Palpability, was installed at the Sound and Music Computing conference in Espoo, Finland. The interactive sculpture responds to changing light levels with bubbly music that recalls the ocean. The […]

Slate Magazine discusses some innovations in making fabric, featuring SVAD assistant professor Anne Sullivan’s project, Loominary. Loominary is a game system that uses a tabletop loom as the controller for the games. The games are written in Twine and the choices in the game are shown in distinct colors. The player weaves with the appropriate colored […]

A team of video game designers from UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design (SVAD) will visit Washington, D.C., this week to showcase its accessibility-friendly video game at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Team members also will meet with the secretary of the Smithsonian to demonstrate the power of video games to help children and […]

Each piece of public art at UCF tells the story of the faculty, staff and community members who make these works available to the public.

School of Visual Arts and Design associate professor Barry Sandler sat for an interview with David Reddish, UCF alumnus (B.F.A. Film) and film editor of Queerty magazine, to discuss his groundbreaking screenplay, Making Love. Making Love was the first major studio production to present gay characters and relationships in a positive light. Michael Ontkean plays a doctor married […]

ORLANDO to Read and Celebrate THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT HEAVEN BEARS JANUARY 8 –FEBRUARY 4, 2018 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, IN COLLABORATION WITH SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, is a recipient of a grant of $14,000 to host the NEA Big Read in Orlando. An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with […]

A team of University of Central Florida students who designed a solar-powered art sculpture celebrated this week after the Orlando Utilities Commission and Tavistock Development selected its project to be built in the innovative, master-designed Lake Nona community later this year. Four teams of senior-level undergraduate students in mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and […]

Dr. Phillips Academic Commons (UCF 578) UCF Downtown Campus University of Central Florida, Orlando Art Allocation: $85,000.00 The University of Central Florida is pleased to announce a major public art opportunity. The UCF/Florida Art in State Buildings Program seeks qualifications from artists and artist/design collectives to design, fabricate and install permanent site-specific public art into […]