The Citizen Curator Project
October 13, 2016 UCF faculty members Yulia Tikhonova (UCF Art Gallery), Barry Mauer (English), and John Venecek (Libraries) have been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The grant is devoted to the development of the Citizen Curator Project. In partnership with the Orlando community, the grantees will...
Architect Curtis Fentress to Discuss Orlando International Airport Project in Free Talk
September 29, 2016 The UCF School of Visual Arts is hosting a lecture by architect Curtis Fentress on Monday, November 7 in the Bridge Auditorium at UCF’s Center for Emerging Media. The talk will begin at 6 pm and advance reservations are strongly encouraged. Fentress, the principal in charge of design at Fentress...
UCF Professor Creates Latina Personality to Explain Art World
September 21, 2016 Before she became a professor, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz had her work exhibited in galleries around the world. Now, this assistant professor in UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design serves as a self-styled for first-generation college students and any others who are intimidated by the culture of academia. To read more...
UCF-based Limbitless Solutions Visits White House
September 15, 2016 Stephanie Valderrama, creative director for UCF based Limbitless Solutions, is visiting the White House today as part of the White House Design For All Showcase. The event, including a fashion show to celebrate inclusive design, assistive technology and prosthetics, is designed to highlight the ways that assistive technology breaks down...
SVAD's Assistant Professor of Art collaborates with the National Museum of Mexican Art
September 14, 2016 Visual Arts Director / Chief Curator of the National Museum of Mexican Art Cesáreo Moreno invites Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz to participate in the 30th annual Day of the Dead Exhibition this September. Ortiz will create a site-specific ofrenda style installation in response to the recent tragedy of the Orlando Pulse nightclub....
ARTBORNE features SVAD's Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz as September Cover Story
September 14, 2016 Artborne Magazine is an independently published, print and online publication dedicated to the development and advancement of Orlando’s art scene. The monthly magazine features local artists and organizations, and ranges from Q&A’s, essays, reviews, and artists spotlights on the fine arts, music, performance, fashion, and literary worlds. Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz is...
Sandler's Crimes of Passion Restored for Blu-ray Release
August 22, 2016 Crimes of Passion, a film written by associate professor Barry Sandler, debuts on Blu-Ray this summer. The new Blu-ray/DVD set features commentary and interviews by screenwriter Barry Sandler and director Ken Russell. The new 2K restoration of the 1984 film is based from the original, unrated Ken Russell director’s cut....
UCF Patent Helps Grow Local Tech Firm
August 17, 2016 A popular Orlando-based organization app for students plans to relaunch at University of Central Florida with a new feature. Schoolflow, a mobile app that helps students automatically organize their school assignments, now is licensed to feature UCF’s remote collaboration tool – software that broadcasts an instructor’s lecture with interactive notes....
UCF student film 'Tucker' challenges digital filmmaking
June 23, 2016 oshua Evangelista, a UCF Film BFA student working under the nom de plume “J. Ellis Evans,” has successfully crafted a short film that uses this gimmick to challenge what we would typically expect from digital filmmaking. Tucker is a film that takes place entirely from the perspective of a young...
UCF Emmy-Winning Documentary to be Shown on 100 PBS Stations, Campus
June 06, 2016 An Emmy-winning documentary film created by UCF honors students began airing this week on more than 100 PBS television stations nationwide, telling the story of a Florida Legislature panel that tried to remove homosexual students and employees from state universities decades ago. The film will be shown during the next...
2016 Hopes Scholarship Winners Announced
May 25, 2016 The UCF School of Visual Arts & Design proudly announces two winners of the 2016 J.R. Hopes Art Scholarship. This year’s recipients are Kirkland Macy and Robert Shirley. Kirkland Macy is a sophomore specializing in drawing and experimental animation. With a strong interest in designing and modelling characters and creatures,...
Oxford American features photos by M. Laine Wyatt
May 25, 2016 M. Laine Wyatt is featured in the Oxford American‘s weekly column “Eyes on the South.” “Eyes on the South” showcases weekly selections of work from Southern artists or artists whose work concerns the South. Wyatt is an associate professor of photography at the University of Central Florida. She has shown...
UCF SVAD collaboration brings student artists' talents to University Park
May 18, 2016 Art meets business with a collaboration launching this week between the UCF School of Visual Arts and Design (SVAD) and Crocker Partners, owner of the nearby University Park office center. Works by UCF students will be showcased in University Park’s five office buildings, beginning with a May 18 event marking...
Orlando Science Center Fuses Art with Science at New Gallery
April 18, 2016 The national educational movement to promote the seamless working relationship of science and art has taken the next step, teaming up the UCF School of Visual Arts & Design and the Orlando Science Center with a permanent new gallery of science-inspired artwork. “Fusion: A STEAM Gallery” is the name of...
Zachary Beckler Appointed as a Lecturer in Film
April 18, 2016 The School of Visual Arts & Design within the College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Central Florida is please to announce the appointment of Zachary Beckler as a Lecturer in Film starting in August 2016. Zachary Beckler is an award-winning filmmaker specializing in narrative horror cinema in...
Alumna Clarissa Bonet named 'Work Worth Collecting'
April 11, 2016 Clarissa Bonet is a professional photographer living and working in Chicago. She received a B.S. in Photography from UCF in 2008. Bonet went on to earn an M.F.A. in Photography from Columbia College Chicago where she was also a two-time recipient of the Albert P. Weisman Award. Most recently, Bonet...
Film Student Tyler Marino Produces Award-Winning Documentary Code 9
March 30, 2016 BFA film student Tyler Marino produced the award-winning documentary Code 9 that will be featured at the Gasparilla International Film Festival in Tampa, Florida. A groundbreaking Documentary Film, Code 9 explores the darker side of law enforcement as it tells the stories of police officers who are suffering the mental...
Student Documentary Nominated for College Emmy
March 28, 2016 A team of UCF students has been nominated for an Emmy for their documentary film about the challenges to academic freedom nearly 90 years ago at Florida State College for Women. The film, Filthy Dreamers, is about state lawmakers and religious activists who tried to ban certain textbooks and the...
Orlando Science Center collaborates with SVAD students in parallel SOLO shows
March 24, 2016 SVAD’s new relationship with the Orlando Science Center hosts rotating exhibitions featuring student work that explores themes in science. On view is two parallel SOLO shows by BFA student Clayton Dunklin and MFA Grad Forest DeBlois. Both artists share similar intellectual and emotional responses to the complex contemporary dilemma of...
SVAD Film Lecturer Zachary Beckler’s Feature Film INTERIOR to Screen at Festivals around Florida
March 24, 2016 Continued success for Zachary Beckler as his award winning Horror Film INTERIOR screens at several Florida Film Festivals. Beckler’s film will be a contender for additional Awards at Gasparilla on April 1st at 10:50pm (In Competition), Silver Springs on April 8th at 11:00pm (In Competition: Best Florida Feature. Cash Prize:...