Feldman and Kanhai Finalists in National Science Foundation Contest
October 31, 2011 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...
Scott F. Hall exhibits sound art internationally
October 26, 2011 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...
E. Brady Robinson Featured in The Washington Post
September 07, 2011 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...
Flying Horse Editions’ book purchased for MoMA permanent Collection
August 31, 2011 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...
E. Brady Robinson to lecture at Smithsonian American Art Museum
August 16, 2011 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...
E. Brady Robinson: Transfer solo exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum
August 16, 2011 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...
CAH Faculty Deliver Games Workshop in Costa Rica
July 22, 2011 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...
SVAD faculty present at international videoconference on social networking
June 02, 2011 Natalie Underberg, Daniel Novatnak, and Maria Cristina Santana presented on their work at an international videoconference entitled “Las redes sociales como una novedosa herramiento de la investigación” (“Social Networks as an Innovative Research Tool”). Organized by the University of Costa Rica, UCF was invited to participate along with Kansas State...
Snap! Orlando Showcases Students, Profs’ Photography
May 03, 2011 UCF students and professors’ work will be on display during Snap! Orlando this week. Snap! Orlando is a five-day photography celebration showcasing the work of renowned international and national photographers, as well as images from emerging local talent. The event and its programs are designed to inspire and galvanize a...
‘Green’ Fashions Displayed at Rockefeller Center
May 02, 2011 When Erin Gordon created and photographed dresses made of recycled material for a photography class, she didn’t expect her designs to grab the attention of the NBC network. But they did. Last week, the University of Central Florida senior’s designs were on display at the NBC Experience Store, located in...
2011-12 Hopes Scholarship Winners Announced
May 02, 2011 Five aspiring UCF student artists have been awarded the 2011 J.R. Hopes Art Scholarship, named after the senior vice president of marketing at AOL-Time Warner during the height of the Internet boom. The scholarship was established to encourage talented arts students with financial need to further their artistic careers. Each...
Digital Media Students ‘On Display’
April 20, 2011 UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design will hold its annual “Premiere and Exposition” this week at the downtown Center for Emerging Media, showcasing student work from throughout the year. The event will be held from 6 to 9pm Thursday, April 21, at UCF’s 500 W. Livingston St. campus. It...
Carla Poindexter at Twelve21 Gallery
April 08, 2011 Carla Poindexter is featured at the Twelve21 Gallery along with Robert Poindexter in Our Small Private Stories. Both artists are native to Houston, Texas and have exhibited in multiple solo exhibitions and group shows nationally. Carla is also known for her animated short film produced in 2009 and for her...
Hammond's Painting Featured at Verge Art Brooklyn
March 03, 2011 M.F.A. in Studio Art and the Computer graduate student Bryce Hammond’s painting will be featured at Verge Art Brooklyn Art Fair, March 3–6 during Armory Week 2011 in New York. Verge Art Brooklyn is a highly competitive national art fair juried by a panel of distinguished arts professionals, curators and...
UCF Interactive Expeditions teaches from Southern Africa
January 13, 2011 UCF’s Interactive Expeditions (INTX), a partnership between the university and Cobham Inc., recently returned from South Africa and Swaziland. While on the road between Johannesburg and Cape Town, the team led by Phil Peters produced real-time, interactive webcasts that connected over 100 undergraduate anthropology and philosophy students at UCF with...
Flying Horse Editions to Host Orlando’s First National Fine Arts Print Fair
January 11, 2011 The University of Central Florida is teaming up with the Orlando Museum of Art to host the area’s first national fine arts print fair next month. “Impressions Orlando” will offer the public a chance to peruse and buy high-quality, limited-edition works by emerging and established artists from New York City...
Flying Horse Editions featured in Orlando Weekley
November 23, 2010 Across the street from the old Amway Center downtown, tucked inside an institutional-looking brick building, an unobtrusive printing operation with a big reputation is quietly turning out some unique items. Flying Horse Editions, a 20-year-old nonprofit that publishes limited-edition art objects and fine-art books, is located here in the University...
Animated short "Mocha Latte" selected for international animation festival
November 03, 2010 “Mocha Latte”, a 3-D computer animated short created by six students in the Art – Emerging Media B.F.A. program, has been juried into the 2010 Red Stick International Animation Festival. Joseph Barbour, Christina Fowinkle, Janae’ Fox, Nadia Jarquin, Donald Marks, and Nicole Walsh produced the short in just four months...
MFA students display ‘Transformations’ in Gallery 500
October 27, 2010 Five MFA art students will be exhibiting their multimedia work at Gallery 500 in UCF’s Center for Emerging Media next month. The new works were created by Heather Comparetto, Corey Robertson, Sherri Nienass, Jeffrey Hoffman and Nanette Cherry — all pursuing MFA degrees in Studio Art & the Computer in...
E. Brady Robinson featured in Washington, D.C.
October 26, 2010 New work from E. Brady Robinson appears in Remote, a group photography exhibition at Civilian Art Projects in Washington, D.C. The opening reception is Friday, October 29 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.