Susan Hubbard to Speak at Orlando Public Library
August 23, 2012 Award-winning author and UCF English professor Susan Hubbard will speak at the Orlando Public Library on Saturday, September 8 about writing and her Ethical Vampire novels. A Q&A session, book sale, and signing will follow the program. Susan Hubbard is the author of seven books and winner of two national...
Voice Undergraduate Awarded National Scholarship
July 17, 2012 Amber Farish, an undergraduate student of UCF’s Voice program, has been awarded a $2000 Scholarship for the 2012/13 academic year by Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc. The award, in honor of Phyllis Dobbins Holt, was awarded to only three students in the country. From SAI: “There were many outstanding applications...
UCF Students and Alumni at Aspen Music Festival
July 16, 2012 Rachelle Jenkins, a 2011 UCF graduate with a BM in Horn Performance, is featured at the 2012 Aspen Music Festival on a Student Spotlight Banner. Rachelle is in her third season at the Aspen Music Festival and holds a New Horizon Fellowship, the most prestigious student award given at the...
Flying Horse Printmaking Workshop Featured in Orlando Sentinel
July 12, 2012 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...
Flying Horse Editions Publishes New Print with National Artist
June 28, 2012 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...
Big Screen, Tiny Budgets
June 27, 2012 “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...
Potter to Teach and Perform in Europe
June 19, 2012 UCF Opera director Thomas Potter travels to Germany to teach at Music Theater Bavaria this summer to teach voice, German diction, the International Phonetic Alphabet, and to assist in the directing of several opera scenes. Additionally, Professor Potter will be singing a 90 minute guest artist recital in the Blaue Quelle Performance Hall in...
Giordano Awarded for Lifetime Achievement
June 18, 2012 On May 26, Descu Rundu (Round Table), the cultural association of the city of Bordighera, Italy, honored Professor Paul Giordano with the award Parmurelu d’oru (Gold Palm). This award is given yearly to an individual from Bordighera who has brought honor to the city in the fields of science, literature,...
Robinson Featured at Washington DC Fine Art Gallery
June 06, 2012 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....
Flying Horse Editions Prints Purchased by St. Louis Museum
May 29, 2012 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...
Flying Horse Celebrates Season's End with Third Annual Gala
May 22, 2012 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...
2012 Music Scholarship Winners and ΠΚΛ Inductees
May 04, 2012 The UCF Music Department recognizes the 2012 Special Music Scholarship winners and Pi Kappa Lambda inductees. Pi Kappa Lambda is an honors society for undergraduate students, graduate students, and professors of music in higher education. 2012 Performance Excellence Award Winner Joshua Herrington 2012 Presser Foundation Scholarship Winner Nick Buonanni 2012...
Graduating Design Students to Hold 1st Show
May 03, 2012 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...
Faith Arts Village Picks Winning ADLab Team's Redesign
May 02, 2012 A design by a team of UCF students caught the eyes of judges at last weekend’s competition to select a proposal for turning an old Orlando motel into an arts village. Thirty teams made up of more than 150 freshmen and sophomores in the Advanced Design Lab course made their...
SVAD Students and Faculty Awarded Sony Scholarships
April 25, 2012 Five UCF students and two faculty members from the School of Visual Arts and Design were awarded Sony Scholarships on April 13, 2012. Sony Scholarship is awarded to current, full time University of Central Florida students or faculty who have shown superior academic achievement in the fields of digital and...
E. Brady Robinson Exhibits at FotoDC Gallery
April 23, 2012 “Desks as Portraits: An Inside Look at the DC Art World” by E. Brady Robinson will be featured at FotoDC, a premier photography gallery located in Washington, D.C. The gallery will host a reception this Thursday, giving patrons an opportunity to meet the photographer, subjects and preview the work which...
School of Visual Arts & Design to Host Premiere, Exhibition
April 19, 2012 The UCF School of Visual Arts & Design will host its annual premiere and exhibition on Monday, April 23, at the Center for Emerging Media, featuring student projects of animation videos, gaming applications, computer-based puppeteering, architecture, and traditional fine arts. The projects will be on public display from 6 to...
Five Chosen for J.R. Hopes Art Scholarship
April 19, 2012 Five UCF art students were selected recently to receive J.R. Hopes Art Scholarships, ranging from one who wants “to challenge the audience’s senses” to another who wants “to create positive change.” Chosen to receive the $2,000 scholarships were: Austyn Bynon (sculpture, junior): “There are boundaries present between what may be...
STILLmoving Exhibit Features Art by Graduating Students
April 11, 2012 The works of University of Central Florida fine arts students will be showcased during an art exhibition that debuts this week. Hosted by the UCF Art Gallery and the School of Visual Art and Design, STILLmoving will run from April 12-May 5 at the gallery, located inside of the Visual...
Theatre UCF Summer Season is Sexy, Mysterious
April 09, 2012 Each summer, Theatre UCF brings three productions to its stages. In 2012, the University of Central Florida program is presenting No Sex Please, We’re British; Deathtrap; and Spike Heels. No Sex Please, We’re British is a comedy by Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot. A straight-laced newlywed couple innocently order Scandinavian...