Department Archives: School of Visual Arts and Design

The inaugural J.R. Hopes “Eye for Broadway” Art Competition is now open to students in UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design. The competition invites participants to create pieces of artwork inspired by upcoming Broadway performances at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. One winner will be selected for each of the first […]

Art and math — when those two words are together, it’s usually in an either/or scenario, but one local festival is hoping to break that trend by bringing the two together. The Art & Algorithms Festival will take place in Downtown Titusville, focusing on digital art as an artistic medium. The festival will span 10 […]

UCF’s annual School of Visual Arts faculty show will be held Oct. 9 to Nov. 7 in the university art gallery. The free exhibit will showcase painting, sculpture, book arts, drawing, photography and experimental digital media. A reception for the participating artists, who have received both national and international recognition for their creations, will be […]

Pembroke Circle, the debut feature film from recent graduate Max Rousseau, will premiere at the 2014 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Rousseau wrote and directed the film for his M.F.A. thesis. According to Rousseau, “Pembroke Circle could not have been made without the help and support of the UCF Film Program. Making a film under […]

On Friday October 17 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm, the UCF MFA in Emerging Media candidates will host their semi-annual Open Studio Tour. The studios, which house 16 MFA candidates, are located at the Center for Emerging Media, 500 West Livingston, Orlando, FL. This event is a semi-annual tradition, connecting candidates with the neighboring community. Get […]

The art of Ryan Buyssens will be on display at the World Maker Faire in New York City, September 20- 21. Buyssens is an artist, designer and inventor who makes kinetic art inspired by his own curiosities about various phenomena. He will be exhibiting devices of his own design called intertropes. They resemble zoetropes, 19th-century […]

Anastasia Salter’s debut book was released in August from The MIT Press. Salter, an Assistant Professor in UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design, co-authored Flash: Building the Interactive Web with John Murray. Salter and Murray investigate Flash’s innovative role in shaping interactive experiences on the web and new forms of gaming. The book has […]

What a star-studded lineup filmmaker Jenni Gold, a UCF graduate, assembled for her latest movie: Ben Affleck, Jamie Foxx, Gary Sinise, Jane Seymour, Marlee Matlin, Geena Davis, William H. Macy and others. And their film has an uplifting message for everyone: Push forward to reach your dreams. Gold’s dream — to become a movie director […]

The University of Central Florida was ranked today as the nation’s No. 3 “up-and-comer” university in the 2015 U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings of more than 1,300 higher-education institutions. The ranking is part of the magazine’s annual compilation that gauges universities in a dozen categories. The up-and-coming category is based on a […]

On September 3, M. Laine Wyatt delivered an Artist Talk at the Southeast Museum of Photography. She was recognized at a reception for her solo photography exhibition Obsessions, Curiosities, and Fancies. The exhibition, which runs until September 21, features photographic works drawn from five different series traversing expansive topics: the nature of women’s relationship to […]