Department Archives: School of Visual Arts and Design

When Erin Gordon created and photographed dresses made of recycled material for a photography class, she didn’t expect her designs to grab the attention of the NBC network. But they did. Last week, the University of Central Florida senior’s designs were on display at the NBC Experience Store, located in New York City’s Rockefeller Center. […]

Five aspiring UCF student artists have been awarded the 2011 J.R. Hopes Art Scholarship, named after the senior vice president of marketing at AOL-Time Warner during the height of the Internet boom. The scholarship was established to encourage talented arts students with financial need to further their artistic careers. Each winner will receive a $2,000 […]

UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design will hold its annual “Premiere and Exposition” this week at the downtown Center for Emerging Media, showcasing student work from throughout the year. The event will be held from 6 to 9pm Thursday, April 21, at UCF’s 500 W. Livingston St. campus. It is free and open to […]

Carla Poindexter is featured at the Twelve21 Gallery along with Robert Poindexter in Our Small Private Stories. Both artists are native to Houston, Texas and have exhibited in multiple solo exhibitions and group shows nationally. Carla is also known for her animated short film produced in 2009 and for her 8 ft x 28 ft […]

M.F.A. in Studio Art and the Computer graduate student Bryce Hammond’s painting will be featured at Verge Art Brooklyn Art Fair, March 3–6 during Armory Week 2011 in New York. Verge Art Brooklyn is a highly competitive national art fair juried by a panel of distinguished arts professionals, curators and art critics. This year Verge […]

UCF’s Interactive Expeditions (INTX), a partnership between the university and Cobham Inc., recently returned from South Africa and Swaziland. While on the road between Johannesburg and Cape Town, the team led by Phil Peters produced real-time, interactive webcasts that connected over 100 undergraduate anthropology and philosophy students at UCF with two professors teaching live from […]

The University of Central Florida is teaming up with the Orlando Museum of Art to host the area’s first national fine arts print fair next month. “Impressions Orlando” will offer the public a chance to peruse and buy high-quality, limited-edition works by emerging and established artists from New York City and elsewhere. The fair will […]

Across the street from the old Amway Center downtown, tucked inside an institutional-looking brick building, an unobtrusive printing operation with a big reputation is quietly turning out some unique items. Flying Horse Editions, a 20-year-old nonprofit that publishes limited-edition art objects and fine-art books, is located here in the University of Central Florida’s Center for […]

“Mocha Latte”, a 3-D computer animated short created by six students in the Art – Emerging Media B.F.A. program, has been juried into the 2010 Red Stick International Animation Festival. Joseph Barbour, Christina Fowinkle, Janae’ Fox, Nadia Jarquin, Donald Marks, and Nicole Walsh produced the short in just four months in Scott F. Hall’s spring […]

Five MFA art students will be exhibiting their multimedia work at Gallery 500 in UCF’s Center for Emerging Media next month. The new works were created by Heather Comparetto, Corey Robertson, Sherri Nienass, Jeffrey Hoffman and Nanette Cherry — all pursuing MFA degrees in Studio Art & the Computer in downtown Orlando. Read more from […]