Robinson Authors Guide to Self-Publishing for Artists
June 14, 2013 Professional Artist magazine recently published E. Brady Robinson’s Pocket Guide to Self-Publishing for Artists. The guide takes a broad look at publishing opportunities for visual artists, including several in-depth interviews with artists who have recently gone through the process. It also looks at the many ways in which artists publish...
Photography of Steven Spencer Featured in Museum Exhibit
June 04, 2013 The Southeast Museum of Photography is currently featuring recent work by Steven Spencer, a faculty member in UCF’s Photography program. The exhibition highlights work from Spencer’s Six Miles and Also Equivalents, reflections of life on the Florida coast. The exhibition runs May 29 through July 28, 2013. An opening reception...
SVAD Student Selected for Atlantic Center for the Arts Exhibition
April 25, 2013 SVAD student Aleisha Breter’s work will appear in the Atlantic Center for the Arts 24th Annual University Student Exhibition. Breter is one of four university students from around the state to be selected for this prestigious exhibition, juried by New York-based artist Diana Cooper. According to the ACA, “The selection...
SVAD Students and Faculty Receive 2013 Sony Scholarships
April 24, 2013 Five UCF students and two faculty members from the School of Visual Arts and Design were awarded Sony Scholarships on April 19. The Sony Scholarship is awarded to current, full-time UCF students or faculty who have shown superior academic achievement in the fields of digital and emerging media such as...
Free Year-End Film Screenings
April 18, 2013 The School of Visual Arts & Design celebrates the end of another academic year with four days of free screenings. The refreshing and engaging presentation features the creativity and hard work of UCF film students. The screenings kick-off Thursday night with first-year B.F.A. students’ Directing I film projects. Friday evening...
Web Design Major Featured in Vero Beach Newsweekly
April 12, 2013 Undergraduate Charlotte Tripson was recently featured in an article by the Vero Beach Newsweekly. Charlotte is making a name for herself in the graphic design industry. While she wraps up her last year at UCF majoring in Web Design, Tripson is also running her own design company, Anabar Designs. Her...
Kevin Haran's Art Featured in City of Orlando Exhibition
April 09, 2013 Fragments, a new exhibition hosted by the City of Orlando Public Art Program, features art by KYLE and UCF’s own Kevin Haran. A public reception with the artists will be held on Thursday, April 18 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the rotunda of Orlando City Hall. Fragments is...
Winners of the 2013 Hopes Scholarship Announced
April 05, 2013 The J.R. Hopes Art Scholarship review committee is pleased to announce four winners from all areas of the UCF School of Visual Arts & Design. All applicants are commended for their fine work and for the excellent statements outlining their goals as artists. This year’s recipients are: Austyn Bynon Andres...
Ilenia Colon Mendoza wins Excellence in Undergrad Teaching Award
April 05, 2013 Ilenia Colon Mendoza was honored with the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching award for the College of Arts and Humanities at the 2013 Founder’s Day Convocation. Mendoza was nominated by Margaret Ann Zaho, an art history professor in the School of Visual Art and Design. She teaches art history and specializes...
Sung and Listengarten Recognized Among "Top 25 Women Professors in Florida"
March 27, 2013 Stella Sung and Julia Listengarten were named among the “Top 25 Women Professors in Florida” by Online Schools Florida. Sung is a Professor in UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design and director of the Center for Research and Education in Arts, Technology, and Entertainment (CREATE). She recently received the...
Together, Science and Art Can Provide Answers in Search for Truth
March 25, 2013 As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of UCF this year, we are reminded that the core benefit of an upper-level education is the opportunity to pursue and obtain insight and knowledge over blindness and ignorance. We live in a time in which faith in religion is believed by many to...
Book Published at Flying Horse Editions is in MoMA Exhibition
March 21, 2013 An artist’s book created at UCF’s Flying Horse Editions by James Siena, Sequence One, and was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in 2011, is included in their current exhibition,”Abstract Generation: Now in Print.” Sequence One, which was printed and published by Flying Horse Editions, “is a hand-printed, double-sided...
Family Art: Steve and Theo Lotz featured in Pegasus Magazine
March 19, 2013 Theo Lotz didn’t attend UCF, but as he points out, he was educated there. While his father, Steve Lotz, served as the university’s first art professor, young Theo chased snakes and turtles around campus. “That was pretty much what was out there,” he remembers. “Someone told me once that I...
Poindexter Writes for Radiations Magazine
February 04, 2013 An article by Carla Poindexter was included in the Spring 2013 issue of Radiations Magazine. Her article, Humanities, Sciences Must be United for our Collective Success showcased examples of the arts and sciences coming together with the STEAM Exhibition: Searching for Ultimate Truth in Science and Art and a national...
Flying Horse Editions' Open House Just in Time for Remembering Valentine
February 02, 2013 Want to impress your loved ones this Valentine’s Day? Give them a handmade card – made on a fine-arts letterpress at UCF’s Flying Horse Editions. The opportunity to create the cards will be offered during the facility’s periodic open house on Thursday, Feb. 7, when visitors can see the downtown...
Robinson's photographs featured in Shijiazhuang Contemporary Art Museum
February 02, 2013 E. Brady Robinson’s work featured in new exhibit at Shijiazhuang Contemporary Art Museum in China. This exhibit is curated by Yan Li and opens Feb. 1st for one month featuring Robinson’s photographic documentary Desks as Portraits: An Inside Look at the DC Art World. This work was first featured in...
STEM-Inspired Artwork on Display at Otronicon
January 22, 2013 A STEAM Exhibition of paintings and posters created by collaborative teams of UCF art and science students heads to the Orlando Science Center this weekend for Otronicon, an interactive technology expo. The event runs now through Monday, Jan. 21. The artworks are all inspired by cutting-edge, STEM-related research of leading...
E. Brady Robinson's Work Among Top Ten DC Exhibit Photographs of 2012
January 08, 2013 Associate Professor E. Brady Robinson’s photograph “Jerusalem Model A.D. 66” was featured in Washington City Paper recently as among the top ten photographs in Washington, DC exhibits 2012 by Art Critic Louis Jacobson. The photo, from Robinson’s series “Scenes from Jesusland,” was on exhibit in “Click: Space & Time” last...
Alum's Experimental Film Screens in Brooklyn
January 08, 2013 UCF alum Metrah Pashaee’s new experimental video Talking Me was selected from 350 international submissions to screen at the Microscope Gallery’s now what program in Brooklyn. Talking Me is a cinematic Dadaist collage comprised of appropriations from online videos. By subtly manipulating preexisting pieces and choreographing these images to a...
E. Brady Robinson's Work Featured in Worldwide Photo Launch
December 31, 2012 Associate Professor E. Brady Robinson’s documentary “Desks as Portraits: An Inside Look at the DC Art World” has been featured in the launch of Art Photo Index which includes nearly 3,000 vetted photographers and photo-based artists from 85 countries with 12,000 images. Art Photo Index is owned and operated by...