Florida Watercolor Society Selects UCF Art Student for Award
September 21, 2012 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...
UCF Art Gallery Hopes Outreach Exhibit is Catalyst for Community Engagement
August 31, 2012 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....
E. Brady Robinson Featured in Washington DC Exhibition
August 29, 2012 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,...
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...
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...
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...
Flying Horse Editions Exhibit Featured by Mennello Museum of American Art
March 23, 2012 Since the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg in 1440, the process of transferring ink to paper has continued to evolve and integrate the latest cutting-edge technology. Here in Orlando for the past 20 years, the University of Central Florida has nurtured Flying Horse Editions, a collaborative research studio...
Researchers, Artists Expand Horizons in UCF Project
March 13, 2012 Some view science and art as heading in opposite directions. But many University of Central Florida research and art students say the two fields are complementary and have come together in a project that “is creating synergies that weren’t there before,” said Michael Georgiopoulos, interim assistant vice president for research...
Virtual 3-D Project to Show Orlando From All Angles
March 13, 2012 Emergency responders, school children, planners and even tourists half way around the globe one day will be able to explore Orlando in 3-D with the click of a mouse. University of Central Florida architecture students, city planners and other agencies have partnered to create the Orlando Virtual City, an interactive...
UCF Art Gallery Holds 1st Open Juried Art Exhibition
February 03, 2012 Artists from around Central Florida are being featured in UCF’s first open juried art exhibition, which opened with a reception Thursday, Jan. 26, at the UCF Art Gallery and will run through Feb. 25. Forty-seven artists were chosen to show a variety of original works, from plaster to painting to...