Inaugural 'UCF Celebrates the Arts' Festival to Showcase Talent at Dr. Phillips Center
February 12, 2015 Staging a week of artistic presentations – ranging from a musical based on historic Civil War diaries and letters, to the futuristic tale of a young boy traveling to the edge of a black hole – the University of Central Florida will host UCF Celebrates the Arts 2015 at the...
Artist-in-Residence in Vienna: Keith Kovach
February 12, 2015 Last month, Keith Kovach was selected as artist-in-residence for Quartier21 in Vienna, Austria. During his month-long residence from January 15 through February 15, Kovach will produce a body of street photography capturing the sense of time and place of Vienna in the winter of 2015. His work will be displayed...
UCF Art Graduate Serves Our Local Community
February 10, 2015 Patty Sheehan earned her B.A. in art at UCF back when UCF was a commuter campus. She then went on to serve as President of the Colonialtown North Neighborhood Association and is a former Administrator with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Currently Sheehan is serving as the...
López honored as Keynote Speaker in Panama
February 09, 2015 This past month, UCF’s Humberto López Cruz was honored as a keynote speaker at a conference on literature in Panama speaking on the novel El Lunar Eterno by Javier Riba Peñalba. His passion for the literature of the country was noticed and celebrated on his arrival in the country. He...
Boyd Receives Kennedy Center Medallion
February 06, 2015 Each year, the eight Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival regions honor individuals or organizations that have made extraordinary contributions to the teaching and producing of theatre and who have significantly dedicated their time, artistry and enthusiasm to the development of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Most importantly,...
UCF Art Gallery Welcomes New Director
February 02, 2015 Since her arrival in Orlando six months ago, UCF Art Gallery Director Yulia Tikhonova has been busy introducing herself to the Orlando art community. She has an ambitious agenda of expanding UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design presence downtown through the arts and highlighting local artists. Her overall goal...
A Concert Abroad: Professors Perform in Denmark
January 27, 2015 On February 18, Dr. Yun-Ling Hsu, Assistant Professor in Piano, and Dr. JoAnne Stephenson, Associate Professor, present a collaborative recital of all-American music at the SMKS Concert Series in Odense, Denmark. Dr. Hsu will be performing the seldomly heard Gershwin Piano Solos by Earl Wild, the legendary American pianist. Dr....
Spanish Graduate Association Annual Colloquium Call For Papers
January 27, 2015 The Spanish Graduate Association (SaGA) is accepting proposals for the 2015 Colloquium: Decimoquinto Coloquio Anual de Literatura, Lingüística y Cultura Hispanoamericana y Peninsular. Date: March 5-6, 2015 Location: University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Invited Speakers: Dra. Martha García (University of Central Florida) and Dr. Louis Imperiale (University of Missouri...
Promoting Cultural Literacy on Campus and at Conference
January 23, 2015 On January 8-11, Dr. Alla Kourova and her Research and Mentoring Student Irina Pidberejna presented at the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages international conference. Irina Pidberejna, an undergraduate student, won first place in the AATSEL Photo Contest. Her photograph was taken during a Study Abroad...
Jazz Professors Perform Nationally
January 22, 2015 On January 19, The Jazz Professors performed with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra for a tribute to Stan Getz at the Plaza ‘LIVE’ Orlando, including the rarely performed album Focus. The performance included original music and classics recorded and performed by Stan Getz. In December, Jeff Rupert, Director of Jazz Studies...
The Guardian Features New Book by Milanés
January 20, 2015 A new book by Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés has been called a “must read” by The Guardian, one of the world’s most widely-read newspapers. Oye, What I’m Gonna Tell You is a collection of short stories chronicling the lives of Cuban Americans from WWII-era Havana to contemporary times in “el norte.”...
Inventor’s Kinetic Sculptures Combine Art, Technology
January 15, 2015 When he was a young boy, Ryan Buyssens chopped up his toys. “Then I would do something unusual,” he said. “I would take them apart and figure out how things work, and put them together in weird ways and have them do something different. I’ve always made machines.” Until August,...
Congratulations on a Successful Dissertation Defense
January 13, 2015 Congratulations to T&T student, Leandra Preston-Sidler, who successfully defended her dissertation on January 27, 2015. Leandra’s dissertation is titled Watch Me Disappear: Gendered Bodies, Pro-Anorexia, and Self-Injury in Virtual Communities. Photoed (from left to right): Meredith Tweed, Leandra Preston-Sidler, and Maria Cristina Santana.
SVAD Sponsors Game Jam Contest
January 13, 2015 Friday, January 16 – Sunday, January 18 Presented by the University of Central Florida School of Visual Arts & Design, Intel® RealSense™ Technology, E2i Creative Studio and Chronosapien Interactive GAME JAM CONTEST Do you love game design? Have you ever wanted to design for the interfaces of the future utilizing...
Buyssens Featured at London's Kinetica Art Fair
January 09, 2015 This October, Ryan Buyssens exhibited at the Kinetica Art Fair in London. Buyssens, an Assistant Professor in UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design, was invited to be featured among 20 artists from 10 countries. The Fair spotlights the convergence of art and technology and was called “a great example...
UCF Filmmakers Win Emmy for Documentary
January 09, 2015 “The Committee,” a documentary film by a team from UCF, recently won an Emmy for telling the story of a Florida Legislature investigative panel that sought to root out homosexuals from state universities about 50 years ago. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in December presented the Suncoast...
Harris Awarded 2015 Creative Capital Grant
January 08, 2015 School of Visual Arts and Design Associate Professor Christopher Harris has been named a 2015 Creative Capital Artist. His film project Speaking in Tongues will be funded by a grant worth up to $95,000. Harris is one of 46 artists selected from a nationwide pool of more than 3,700 proposals....
UCF Students Create 3D Pedestrian Bridge Designs
January 06, 2015 UCF students are taking the designing of a pedestrian bridge over Alafaya Trail and University Boulevard into their own hands. On Dec. 1, UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design department held an exhibit featuring 27 bridge designs created by UCF students. Ranging from simple one-way bridges with a Pegasus...
Art Gallery to Host Exhibit, Discussion on Creativity
January 06, 2015 A mixed media exhibition and discussion on creativity featuring an FSU art instructor will be hosted by the University of Central Florida Art Gallery. “Leafstorm,” featuring the works of professor Mary Stewart, will kick off with a free reception 6-8 p.m. Jan. 8 in the gallery, Rm. 140A in the...
Congratulations T&T Alum Meghan Griffin!
January 06, 2015 U.S. News & World Report recently ranked the Best Online Programs in the nation and T&T Alum, Dr. Meghan Griffin (2012), leads one of the bachelor degree programs offered at Daytona State College (DSC) that ranked #2! Meghan is the Director of the Bachelor of Applied Science Program (BAS) in...