SVAD - School of Visual Arts & Design

Associate Professor, Carla Poindexter teaches intermediate and advanced painting, advanced drawing, foundations design, various classes in upper level experimental book arts and occasionally, a graduate level studio concentration course in the MFA program, Studio Art and the Computer. Poindexter is actively involved in the program’s growth and has served as chair on several master’s thesis committees. She is a UCF Faculty Senator (2010-2012) representing the SVAD and is Chair of the Faculty Senate Budget and Administration Committee for 2010-11.

Although most of Poindexter’s studio work is in painting and drawing, she has also explored and created work in still-life photography, etching, book arts and recently, a nine-minute animated short film in collaboration with electro-accoustic musician, Jay C. Batzner, who created the soundtrack. The film has been selected for official screenings in numerous nationally competitive film and music-video festivals.

She is the recipient of numerous honors including a commission from the State of Florida, Art-In-State Buildings Program to create an 8' x 28' painting on canvas, which is permanently installed in the atrium of the Darden Theatre Auditorium at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management in Orlando. Her works are in numerous private and public collections throughout the United States and she has exhibited widely in commercial, educational, and public galleries for over 25 years. She resided in Texas for nearly twenty years prior to coming to Orlando in August 2000, where she worked as a studio artist pursuing fine art, and for five years, as art director for Houston Metropolitan Magazine where she directed and administrated the visual content of a monthly magazine with a large creative budget and an annual circulation of 800,000. Her fine art exhibition record includes 16 solo exhibitions and numerous nationally and internationally competitive or curated group exhibitions.