Department Archives: School of Visual Arts and Design

UCF students are taking the designing of a pedestrian bridge over Alafaya Trail and University Boulevard into their own hands. On Dec. 1, UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design department held an exhibit featuring 27 bridge designs created by UCF students. Ranging from simple one-way bridges with a Pegasus in the middle, to a […]

A mixed media exhibition and discussion on creativity featuring an FSU art instructor will be hosted by the University of Central Florida Art Gallery. “Leafstorm,” featuring the works of professor Mary Stewart, will kick off with a free reception 6-8 p.m. Jan. 8 in the gallery, Rm. 140A in the UCF Visual Arts Building. The […]

A team of UCF students will compete in Leap Motion’s 3D Jam. 3D Jam is a six-week global competition for developers to build innovative experiences for desktop, virtual reality, and more. Six Digital Media majors in the School of Visual Arts & Design developed “Hollow,” a horror hayride adapted from the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” […]

A film by Justin Lader (Film B.F.A. ’06) has been nominated for “Best First Screenplay” at the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards. Described as “more surreal than romantic with unpredictable results,” The One I Love stars Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss and and Ted Danson. The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Festival. The One I Love […]

“Solo,” the latest film from Robert Jones, will screen December 17 as part of the NewFilmmakers New York series. Jones is an independent film producer, writer and director as well as an Associate Professor of Film at UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design. He has directed over fifty productions including “Solo,” an animal rights […]

The UCF School of Visual Arts & Design proudly announces the winners of the inaugural J.R. Hopes “Eye for Broadway” Art Competition. The competition invited SVAD students to create art inspired by upcoming Broadway performances at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Joy Garcia won for The Phantom of the Opera Hebah Abdelqader […]

Letterpress. Learning. Libations. UCF’s Flying Horse Editions will host an open house on Thursday, November 20 for visitors of all ages to have a hands-on experience with letterpress and to print their own holiday cards. Letterpress is the process of printing from an inked raised surface when paper is impressed directly on the surface, and […]

SVAD Associate Professor and Assistant Director Kevin Haran earned first prize at the annual Works on Paper exhibition at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, Massachusetts. His mixed-media drawing UFO 3 was selected from over 700 entries. Juror Al Miner, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, comments on […]

Knock ‘Em Dead a film written by Barry Sandler, recently screened at the Writers Guild of America’s Los Angeles headquarters. The WGA’s Gay & Lesbian Writers Committee and Committee of Black Writers hosted a special preview screening of the new comic murder mystery on November 3. Knock ‘Em Dead follows three sniping actresses whose hatred […]

UCF MFA Film graduate Zachary Beckler who directed “Interior” and “Where is Alice?” will be premiering both films at four locations this October. “Interior” and “Where is Alice?” will be showing at the Orlando Freak Show Horror Film Festival, Atlanta Horror Film Festival, Knoxville Horror Film Festival and Atlanta Horror Film Festival (see show dates […]