2012 Music Scholarship Winners and ΠΚΛ Inductees
May 04, 2012 The UCF Music Department recognizes the 2012 Special Music Scholarship winners and Pi Kappa Lambda inductees. Pi Kappa Lambda is an honors society for undergraduate students, graduate students, and professors of music in higher education. 2012 Performance Excellence Award Winner Joshua Herrington 2012 Presser Foundation Scholarship Winner Nick Buonanni 2012...
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...
Theatre UCF Summer Season is Sexy, Mysterious
April 09, 2012 Each summer, Theatre UCF brings three productions to its stages. In 2012, the University of Central Florida program is presenting No Sex Please, We’re British; Deathtrap; and Spike Heels. No Sex Please, We’re British is a comedy by Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot. A straight-laced newlywed couple innocently order Scandinavian...
Folse wins National Geographic Award at 2012 TESOL Conference
April 05, 2012 At the 2012 TESOL International Convention & English Language Expo in Philadelphia, Keith Folse was presented with the National Geographic Learning 2012 Heinle Outstanding Achievement Award. This award is given at the annual TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) conference to a National Geographic author who has made a major contribution to the...
Yonetani Performs with Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo in First American Tour
April 02, 2012 Ayako Yonetani will perform with the Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo as they present their first American tour. As a part of a celebration for the Japan-U.S. Cherry Blossom Centennial, the group will play at the Verizon Hall in Philadelphia on April 27, National Gallery in Washington, Harvard University’s Sander’s Theater in...
Yonetani Performs at Japanese Embassy in Panama
March 27, 2012 Ayako Yonetani recently performed in Panama at an event commemorating the one-year anniversary of Japan’s Tsunami/Earthquake. Yonetani played the famous Bach Chaconne from Solo Partita No. 2. The Japanese Embassy hosted the event on March 9, 2011 at the Museo del Canal. Guests included the Vice President of Panama, the...
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...
Koelble’s Relentless Curiosity About Music
March 20, 2012 As you take the steps down into the belly of Tanqueray’s, an underground bar in Downtown Orlando, you come across a smoky jazz haven adorned with Christmas lights and a wall of mirrors that makes the cramped venue appear twice as big. Cast in a shroud of blue and red...
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...
Poissant Wins First Place in Chapbook Contest
March 06, 2012 David James Poissant has been announced as the winner of the 2011 RopeWalk Press Editor’s Fiction Chapbook Prize. Lizard Man, published this year by RopeWalk Press, received praise from Pulitzer-finalist Lee Martin and Frank O’Connor Award winner and PEN/Faulkner-finalist Ron Rash. The chapbook will be featured in an interview in...
Theatre UCF Brings Home National Honors
March 05, 2012 Two Theatre UCF actors have been recognized by the National Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF) for performances given in 2011. Kevia Goins, a junior in the BFA Acting program at UCF, was awarded “Distinguished Performance by an Actress” for her role as Black Mary in Gem of the Ocean....
Potter to Sing with Sarasota Opera
February 23, 2012 Voice faculty Thomas Potter will sing the role of the Old Doctor in Samuel Barber’s dramatic opera VANESSA with Sarasota Opera. With a libretto written by Gian Carlo Menotti, the performances [March 10, 13, 15, 18, 21, and 24] will be sung in English with English supertitles. Tickets for the...
Nora Lee García joins world-class musicians for idyllic workshops
February 10, 2012 Internationally renowned flutists Deirdre Manning and Nora Lee García-Velázquez are collaborating on two unique workshops. This summer, they are offering weeklong experiences in the foothills of the French Pyrenees and in the quaint lobstering village of Winter Harbor. Participants will spend a week of intensive study with classically trained flutists...