Department Archives: School of Visual Arts and Design

Four graduate students in UCF’s M.F.A. film program will premiere films at upcoming festivals. Zachary Beckler, Maria Emilia Garcia, and Max Rousseau will screen their respective feature-length thesis films Interior, La Descorrupción, Pembroke Circle at the Starlite Film Festival. John Goshorn’s The Happiest Place on Earth will debut at Cinequest 25 in San Jose, CA. […]

Counseling and Psychological Services, in collaboration with School of Visual Arts and Design and Student Disability Services, is having its third annual Healing Art Exhibition, featuring the artwork of UCF students, faculty, staff and alumni. The UCF community is invited to attend the 2015 Healing Art Exhibition Opening Reception on February 19 from 5-7 p.m. […]

In December, Katia Porro, SVAD History student, left for Venice, Italy upon graduation to intern at the prestigious Peggy Guggenheim Museum. The museum is one of Europe’s premier museums of modern art. Porro also had the great fortune of studying abroad in Italy with SVAD Assistant Professor, Margaret Ann Zaho, Ph.D. While Porro worked on […]

On December 12 – February 1, M. Laine Wyatt showcased a body of photography at the Portfolio 2014 exhibition at the Atlanta Photography Group Gallery in the Tula Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia. The competition and exhibition was sponsored by the Atlanta Photography Group and was juried by Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography at the Ogden […]

Robert Hoekstra has lived in two worlds for many years — engineering and the arts. Now, he’s officially bringing them together in unprecedented fashion at UCF. Hoekstra, an associate professor in UCF’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, was recently named an associate professor of art and is co-teaching this spring with art professor […]

Staging a week of artistic presentations – ranging from a musical based on historic Civil War diaries and letters, to the futuristic tale of a young boy traveling to the edge of a black hole – the University of Central Florida will host UCF Celebrates the Arts 2015 at the new Dr. Phillips Center for […]

Last month, Keith Kovach was selected as artist-in-residence for Quartier21 in Vienna, Austria. During his month-long residence from January 15 through February 15, Kovach will produce a body of street photography capturing the sense of time and place of Vienna in the winter of 2015. His work will be displayed February 24-25 at the MuseumsQuartier […]

Patty Sheehan earned her B.A. in art at UCF back when UCF was a commuter campus. She then went on to serve as President of the Colonialtown North Neighborhood Association and is a former Administrator with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Currently Sheehan is serving as the Orlando Commissioner, of District 4. […]

Since her arrival in Orlando six months ago, UCF Art Gallery Director Yulia Tikhonova has been busy introducing herself to the Orlando art community. She has an ambitious agenda of expanding UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design presence downtown through the arts and highlighting local artists. Her overall goal is to develop a more […]

When he was a young boy, Ryan Buyssens chopped up his toys. “Then I would do something unusual,” he said. “I would take them apart and figure out how things work, and put them together in weird ways and have them do something different. I’ve always made machines.” Until August, Buyssens was the director of […]