Department Archives: School of Visual Arts and Design

“Life is a constant game of observation, considering potential in the things I see, the people I meet, and the experiences I have to turn into art…” —Austin Bynon, one winner of the 2013 J.R. Hopes Art Scholarship Jim Hopes, creator of the J.R. Hopes Art Scholarship in the College of Arts and Humanities started […]

Si Jung Jun Kim gave a keynote speech, “Affective Media Design from the Cognitive Perspectives,” at the 1st International Workshop on Emotional Materials and Components. The workshop was a two-day event held June 27-28, 2013 in Seoul, South Korea. Approximately one thousand people attended the conference which covered topics in emotional engineering such as affective […]

Photos by E. Brady Robinson will be exhibited at the Dali Photo Festival in Yunnan, China this August. Desks as Portraits: An Inside Look at the DC Art World will be included in the “American Life” exhibition. The show is curated by Yan Li.

Recent graduate Kate Weddle (B.A., 2010) was accepted into the Art Directors Guild’s new Production Apprentice Program. Kate is one of only four inductees in the program’s inaugural class. She was selected from a pool of more than 90 applicants. Weddle, a writer and designer, specialized in Character Animation while earning her B.A. in Digital […]

Valencia architecture students pin up their work–and their hopes for admission to architecture school. The temperature in the room is rising. So is the level of stress and excitement. Architectural models, foam board and pins are scattered all over the floor at Valencia’s Special Events Center. Nearly 80 architecture students are painstakingly pinning their favorite […]

UCF’s Gallery 500 is kicking off its summer’s exhibitions with a solo sculpture show called (re)CLAIMed by Stephanie Cafcules, an MFA student in the School of Visual Arts & Design. Cafcules works with found objects and industrial materials in a wide range of processes to create art that indirectly evokes nature. Each piece explores the […]

Professional Artist magazine recently published E. Brady Robinson’s Pocket Guide to Self-Publishing for Artists. The guide takes a broad look at publishing opportunities for visual artists, including several in-depth interviews with artists who have recently gone through the process. It also looks at the many ways in which artists publish and share images of work […]

The Southeast Museum of Photography is currently featuring recent work by Steven Spencer, a faculty member in UCF’s Photography program. The exhibition highlights work from Spencer’s Six Miles and Also Equivalents, reflections of life on the Florida coast. The exhibition runs May 29 through July 28, 2013. An opening reception will be held Wednesday, May […]

SVAD student Aleisha Breter’s work will appear in the Atlantic Center for the Arts 24th Annual University Student Exhibition. Breter is one of four university students from around the state to be selected for this prestigious exhibition, juried by New York-based artist Diana Cooper. According to the ACA, “The selection process for this exhibition begins […]

Five UCF students and two faculty members from the School of Visual Arts and Design were awarded Sony Scholarships on April 19. The Sony Scholarship is awarded to current, full-time UCF students or faculty who have shown superior academic achievement in the fields of digital and emerging media such as Game Design, Animation, Graphic Design, […]