Department Archives: School of Visual Arts and Design

UCF art student Christie Gonzales was presented with a recent $1,000 scholarship for her work in watercolor painting by the Florida Watercolor Society at its 41st annual awards banquet in Orlando. Christie, a Bachelor of Fine Arts student majoring in painting and art history, is pursuing a teaching certificate in art education with plans to graduate […]

If, as Pablo Picasso said, “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary,” then the upcoming exhibit at the UCF Art Gallery reflects the turbulent and optimistic pages from the lives of some young artists – children who are homeless, living in foster care or in other disadvantaged situations. “Hearts from the Arts,” the […]

E. Brady Robinson will be featured in Untitled No. 3, a group exhibition presented by Randall Scott Projects in in Washington, DC. This special 3-day exhibition opens August 31st and will run through September 2nd. Randall Scott is a private dealer based in NY and DC with changing exhibition spaces, editions, and public art installations. […]

So there I was, knife in hand, hoping that no blood would be spilled in the creation of my art. Sounds like a mad scientist at work, but really, it was a cozy evening at the Mennello Museum of American Art where I was about to create my own art print. This was something of […]

Flying Horse Editions, UCF’s fine art press, has published a 14-color silkscreen on digital print with Thomas Nozkowski. As the New York art gallery, Senior & Shopmaker, writes, “For over thirty years, Nozkowski has practiced his own form of idiosyncratic abstraction, foregoing a signature style or subject matter in favor of seemingly limitless variations in […]

“I believe our students learn in three years what it took me 20 to learn,” says Stephen Schlow, interim chairman of the UCF film department, “which is that the amount of money you have is in fact a tool, not a barrier. It’s just another thing you work with to make your film.” UCF’s M.F.A. […]

E. Brady Robinson will be featured in “Click: Space and Time”, an exhibition of selected photographs illustrating one of the core premises of photography, as part of Washington DC’s Addison/Ripley Fine Art gallery. Whether digital or film based, all photographs represent two dimensional space at a fixed instant in time. As Albert Einstein mused, “Space, […]

Carmon Colangelo’s O LAND O, a limited edition portfolio of prints with an edition of 15 copies (7 recto-verso prints on Kitakata paper and in a custom archival portfolio with cover and colophon pages), was recently purchased by the St. Louis Museum of Art. The prints were created at Flying Horse Editions in collaboration with […]

UCF’s fine art press, Flying Horse Editions, wrapped up the 2011-2012 season with Ink!Rub, its third annual end of the season gala celebration. Ink!Rub was hosted in the Flying Horse Editions studio at UCF’s Center for Emerging Media. As part of the gala, Flying Horse Editions supporters, fans, and subscribers were able to purchase and […]

The first show featuring works by graduating UCF Bachelor of Fine Arts design students will be Saturday, May 5, at the downtown Faith Arts Village Orlando. The Graphic Design Student Association organized the show, which members hope will become an annual event. Works to be shown include a variety of projects completed while at UCF, […]