Department Archives: School of Visual Arts and Design

Starting next month, Ke Francis will be featured in Allyn Gallup Comtemporary Art gallery’s new exhibit, “Paperwork.” His hand-colored engravings will be displayed along with works by three other artists from December 1 – 31, 2011. Ke Francis is a narrative artist who has been actively producing artwork for more than 40 years. He is […]

“Desks as Portraits: An Inside Look at the DC Art World” by E. Brady Robinson received the Grand Prize Award at the American Life exhibition, part of the 2011 Lishui Photography Festival in China. Robinson is an associate professor at the University of Central Florida’s School of Visual Arts and Design. “Desks as Portraits>” documents […]

Art History major and McNair Scholar Adee Benartzy has had a passion for the arts ever since she was a child. She moved to America from Israel when she was eight years old. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. and a career as a museum curator and is currently involved in numerous research endeavors. Adee […]

The National Science Foundation ICubed project at UCF sponsors the collaboration of students doing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics research and students from the School of Visual Arts and Design for the creation of artifacts that are inspired by STEM research. Last year, STEM students who were involved in research collaborated with SVAD students for […]

Scott F. Hall, a 2011 recipient of the UCF Research Incentive Award, exhibited sound art this summer at the Brunel Electronic and Analogue Music Festival at Brunel University in London. BEAM is a playground of homemade instruments and sonic robots, focused on electronic music being performed or created live.  In early November, Hall’s work will be included in the PNEM […]

In January, while waiting to photograph head shots for an annual report by the CuDC, a local arts nonprofit, Robinson noticed a private workspace in a back room at Flashpoint Gallery. An ordinary assortment of stuff — glue sticks, a half-eaten box of gourmet crackers — sat on a steel desk belonging to Karyn Miller, […]

The Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, has purchased for its permanent collection a limited edition, hand-printed book by artist James Siena that was developed and published by Flying Horse Editions. The book has also recently entered the collections of Stanford University and the Johnson Art Museum at Cornell University. As his dealer, […]

E. Brady Robinson will lecture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on Sunday, August 28 at 1:30pm. Robinson will look at early landscape paintings on view in the Luce Foundation Center in relation to her own work, in which she explores the immediacy of capturing images made possible by modern technology.

The work of E. Brady Robinson is featured in Transfer, a solo photography exhibition on display through October 9 at Cornell Cornell Fine Arts Museum E. Brady Robinson’s work is informed by a culture of instant and mobile image capture. She uses the camera to examine her environment and record fleeting moments of existence. Transfer […]

From July 11 to July 15, professors Rudy McDaniel (School of Visual Arts and Design) and José Maunez-Cuadra (School of Visual Arts and Design and Latin American Studies) traveled to Puntarenas, Costa Rica to deliver a hands-on workshop to nine faculty at the University of Costa Rica, Pacific Campus. The workshop covered topics relating to […]