‘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.
Flying Horse Editions Mentioned on Daily Serving
October 12, 2010 Flying Horse Editions was mentioned in an article on Daily Serving.
Art grads ‘Face Off’ in NYC art exhibit
October 05, 2010 UCF alumni Kristofer Porter and Christopher Davison face off with more than 100 individual drawings in their “Tall Tales” exhibit, featured at Fred Torres Collaborations in New York City through Nov. 13. Read the complete article from UCF Today.
Student's App Makes Knightcast Mobile
August 30, 2010 Knightcast listeners no longer have to sit in front of a computer to listen to UCF’s nonprofit, student-run radio station because, thanks to Michael Seifollahi, there’s an app for that. Seifollahi, who graduated this summer with a bachelor’s degree in digital media, created the free app, which is available for...
Art in Motion: SunRail-inspired exhibit features UCF installation
August 18, 2010 What moves you? That’s the question three UCF graduate students pose in a new interactive art installation to be featured during Orlando’s 3rd Thursday Gallery Hop next week. The installation, dubbed “CONNECTIONS,” is a 10-foot sphere illuminated by projections of images and videos about movement. It’s inspired by recent debates...
Choose Your Own Adventure course to be offered this fall
August 18, 2010 In February, the School of Visual Arts and Design received an Undergraduate Education Pilot Project grant from UCF to develop an innovative model for online instruction. The resulting course, entitled Adventures in Emerging Media, is based on the choose your own adventure novels that were popular in the 1970s and...
E. Brady Robinson's Photos featured in Corcoran Gallery
July 28, 2010 The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC has acquired two photographs from the series E. Brady Robinson: Shift for the permanent collection. More of Robinson’s work can be seen at http://ebradyrobinson.com/.
McDaniel edits special journal issue on video games for good
June 08, 2010 Assistant Professor Rudy McDaniel recently guest edited a special double issue of the international journal Cognitive Technology focused on video games and cognition. Specifically, the issue focuses on “games for good,” video games that impact cognition for a particular pro-social purpose. Also guest editing this special issue is former Digital...
Art History grad curates exhibit of "Miracles"
June 02, 2010 Art history graduate Natália Marques da Silva is the curator of “Requesting Miracles: Votive Offerings from Diverse Cultures,” an international exhibit of sacred objects. The exhibit runs through Saturday, June 5 in the Alice & William Jenkins Gallery at Crealdé’ School of Art. Read more at the UCF Newsroom. Watch...
Nathan Redwood at Flying Horse in June
May 28, 2010 Nathan Redwood, a young painter from Los Angeles whose work is currently gaining international recognition, will be in residency at Flying Horse Editions from June 7 to 17. The LA Times recently wrote about Redwood: “His extravagance leans toward both the baroque and the surreal. Much has fed into this...