Department Archives: School of Visual Arts and Design

Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, assistant professor in the UCF School of Visual Arts and Design, will create a live performance portrait at Knowles Chapel in Winter Park on Tuesday, March 21 at 6 p.m. The piece, inspired by Michelangelo’s Pietà will feature Raimundi-Ortiz sitting and cradling 33 young people of color, the same age as Jesus at […]

Robert Rivers, professor of art at the UCF School of Visual Arts and Design, is featured in Artborne Magazine . The article includes an interview with Rivers in his home and studio, and expounds upon his life experiences in accordance with his art. Robert Rivers has taught art at UCF since 1980, and he currently […]

Educational workshops for aspiring and veteran filmmakers and an exhibition of 14 student films will be sponsored by UCF’s College of Arts & Humanities as part of the seventh annual Love Your Shorts Film Festival in Sanford on Feb. 9-12. This is the third year of the university and festival’s growing partnership, which this year […]

The Anita S. Wooten Gallery will host ‘Counterpoint,’ an exhibition of work by Kevin Haran. The show features Haran’s 3-D models of miniature tanks, battleships and other war machines, along with mixed media drawings of UFOs. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday January 12, 2017, 5-7 p.m. The artist will give […]

Science and art often overlap – as in an upcoming climate-change exhibit presented by UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design and the CREATE Program. The exhibit, “Today for Tomorrow: A Visual Response to Climate Change,” will feature emotionally driven artwork created by students from UCF and local elementary schools beginning Jan. 13 at the […]

Outfest, the world’s foremost LGBT Film Festival, will honor Barry Sandler with a screening of The Mirror Crack’d. Sandler wrote the screenplay based on the novel by Agatha Christie. The 1980 comedy/mystery stars Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring role, along with Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Angela Lansbury and Geraldine Chaplin. The January […]

Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz has been invited to be a visiting artist at Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C. next fall. Sidwell has been described as “the Harvard of Washington’s private schools.” Raimundi-Ortiz will also present a solo exhibition of her work at the school’s Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery. In addition, Raimundi-Ortiz will present her newest work […]

Cuba In Transition: A Photo Journey, a new book from Keith Kovach and Linda Grimm-Kovach, explores the island nation through image and text. Fine art photographer Keith Kovach captured the images in Cuba in May 2016. His compelling street photography illustrates subtle urban beauty that’s nearly invisible to hurried passersby. They are accompanied by Grimm-Kovach’s […]

An All-Girl Art-Zine Set Out to Empower and Inspire! A group of students and alumni have pooled their talents to create their first digital art-zine. Lana Lasher and Stephanie Nava are two recent UCF graduates that are also active in the Orlando art community. They launched their ‘zine in October under the moniker Planet Venus […]

You’d think that after a half century the Grinch would remember his lesson. But every year since the December 1966 television special How the Grinch Stole Christmas! first appeared, the animated green curmudgeon returns to his old tricks of sabotaging the holiday once again. “Basic human nature does not change,” said Jo Anne Adams, an […]