"Eye For Broadway" Competition Names Latest Winners
May 07, 2015 The UCF School of Visual Arts & Design announces the latest winners of the J.R. Hopes Art “Eye for Broadway” Art Competition. The competition invites SVAD students to create art inspired by upcoming Broadway performances at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Winners receive $500, and the chosen...
Film Graduate Wins First Prize in LA Comedy Festival Competition
May 07, 2015 Jeffrey Ashkin’s film, Frankenstein With Benefits, was awarded Best Screenplay at the 2015 LA Comedy Festival Screenplay Competition. Frankenstein With Benefits is a horror/comedy about an online dating expert that tries to pair up an undead monster with the right mate. The Los Angeles Comedy Festival is the largest comedy...
Chapter Written by T&T Community Published in Routledge Studies
May 06, 2015 UCF’s T&T Community had a chapter Teaching the Repulsive Memorial published in Pedagogies of Public Memory, a Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication anthology. Authors include Barry Jason Mauer, John Venecek, Amy Larner Giroux, Patricia Carlton, Marcy Galbreath, and Valerie Kasper. For information about the anthology, please visit the publisher...
SVAD Alumna's Artwork Gaining Renown
May 06, 2015 On Saturday, May 16, Omalix Arlette’s artwork will be on exhibit at the Sirona Fine Art Gallery in Hallandale Beach, FL. The exhibition will feature paintings and photographs from Omalix’s body of work exploring aspects of womanhood. The opening reception will held 6-9 p.m. and will include light hors d’oeuvres...
Three SVAD Students Win At District Four ADDYs
May 06, 2015 Three SVAD students received awards at the American Advertising Federation’s, Also known as the ADDY’s, Fourth District. Winners include: Brandon Stocker Gold ADDY and Judges Choice Award for Craftsmanship for his Fantaisel Salt Packaging Silver ADDY Award for his logo Marion & Dodd’s Adam Lehman Gold ADDY Award for his...
López Cruz Named Pegasus Professor
May 04, 2015 At the 2015 Founder’s Day Honors Convocation, Humberto López Cruz received the Pegasus Professor Award. López Cruz received the award for the College of Arts and Humanities and was one of five professors who received the honor overall. The Pegasus Professor Award recognizes faculty members who have made a significant...
UCF Photographers to Host One-Night, "Pop-Up" Show
May 01, 2015 UCF photography students will hold a one-night-only, “pop-up” gallery event tomorrow. Graduating seniors from the Bachelor of Science in Photography program at the University of Central Florida, Daytona, will hold their 2015 graduation exhibition at an alternative gallery space on May 2 from 5-7pm. The event will take place at...
Milanés Recognized for Anthology Contribution
April 30, 2015 Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés is part of a group that has been recognized at the International Latino Book Awards. Milanés’ contributions to the anthology, Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, were acknowledged in the Most Inspirational Nonfiction Books in English category. Wise Latinas is a collection of personal essays addressing the varied...
Pidberejna Receives 2015 Foreign Language Award
April 27, 2015 On April 8, Irina Pidberejna received the 2015 Florida Foreign Language Award as University Scholar of the Year for her Russian/TESOL language studies. The award was a part of Russian Culture Night at the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning and was presented by Dean José Fernández, Chair of Modern...
2015 Character Animation Premiere and Digital Media Showcase
April 22, 2015 The 2015 Character Animation Premiere and Digital Media Showcase will invade the Soundstage at the UCF Center for Emerging Media in downtown Orlando on Monday, April 27 starting at 5:30 p.m. Two short animated films will be shown, both under the direction of UCF Professor JoAnne Adams. Screenings are at...
Spanish M.A. Students and Visiting Instructor Present at GRAPHSY
April 16, 2015 UCF was represented at the 8th Annual Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium (GRAPHSY) at Georgetown University in Washington, DC April 10-11. Two graduate students in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Spanish M.A. program and one visiting instructor presented their research at the conference. Matthew Burner presented linguistic research...
UCF Student Produces TV Series Thanking Hometown Heroes
April 15, 2015 On April 4, Star & Shield’s Copout Adventures aired across 210 TV markets in the US on Destination America. The show, produced by SVAD Film BFA student Tyler Marino, and Marino’s company, Nebula Productions, will be wrapping up its first season mid-May. Star & Shield’s Copout Adventures is a national...
Santana Presents Keynote for the American Association of University Women
April 13, 2015 On April 11, 2015, M.C. Santana was the keynote speaker for the American Association of University Women in Flager County. Her speech, “The Half-Truth About Gender Pay Gap“, given on Tuesday, April 14th, marked the day white women in this country make the same amount of money for 2014 as white males....
Flying Horse Big Band to Perform at UCF Celebrates the Arts 2015
April 08, 2015 On April 11, the Flying Horse Big Band will perform “Shakespeare Swings!” a cabaret-style production giving Shakespeare’s works a jazzy twist with vocals coordinated by the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. The performance is part of the 5-day UCF Celebrates the Arts 2015 festival. The festival will showcase studio art, music, theatre,...
UCF Photography Grad Honored by Photo District News
April 06, 2015 Clarissa Bonet has been selected for this year’s Photo District News 30. Bonet is a graduate of the UCF School of Visual Arts & Design’s Photography program. The editors of PDN selected Bonet from a field of more than 300 photographers from around the world. Criteria for becoming one of PDN’s...
Award-winning Artists: Announcing the 2015 J.R. Hopes Scholarship and Competition Winners
April 03, 2015 The UCF School of Visual Arts & Design proudly announces the winners of two award programs, the J.R. Hopes Art Scholarship and the J.R. Hopes “Eye for Broadway” Art Competition. Both awards are dedicated to nurturing young artists at UCF, encouraging them to make an impact in the Orlando community...
Fernández-Rubiera Presents at University of Oslo Conference
April 01, 2015 On March 9-10, Francisco Fernández-Rubiera and Christine Meklenborg Salvesen presented at the Traces of History conference/workshop at the University of Oslo. The paper presented, “V2 and Enclisis: A Uniform Analysis for Germanic and (Some) Romance Varieties,” provides a syntactic account to explain the connection between V2, a specific restriction on...
Women's Studies Student Selected to the President's Leadership Council
March 25, 2015 Amy Maitner has been selected for the UCF’s President’s Leadership Council. Maitner is one of 35 students selected for excellence in leadership, scholarship, and service to the university and the Orlando community. The President’s Leadership Council was established during the 1977-1978 academic year to recognize students who exemplify well-rounded excellence...
Digital Humanities Workshops by Dánielle Nicole DeVoss
March 18, 2015 The T&T Guest Speaker Series brought Dánielle Nicole DeVoss to campus in March to discuss innovative new directions in Digital Humanities. She conducted a workshop, "Composing Multimodal Projects,” and presented “Creative, Innovative, Digital, and Entrepreneurial: Constellating New Directions for Humanities Work.” Students, faculty and staff enjoyed learning how to engage...
Film Student Wins Graduate Teaching Award
March 16, 2015 Ben Lancaster will be honored with UCF’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Award at the 12th Annual Graduate Research Forum on March 31, 2015. "I’m so grateful and humbled to receive this award,” says Ben, “and I hope it’s a testament to the great work that all of the TAs in SVAD...