SVAD - School of Visual Arts & Design

Five University of Central Florida scientists and an internationally renowned musician were recognized as Pegasus Professors on Wednesday, April 4, 2012, during the annual Founders'' Day ceremony in the Student Union.

The award is the most prestigious a faculty member can receive at UCF. The honor recognizes extraordinary contributions to the UCF community through teaching, research and service. Each recipient received a statue of the UCF Pegasus, a gold Pegasus Professor medallion and a c...

UCF Art Gallery
BFA Student Exhibition
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The faculty of the School of Visual Arts & Design in the College of Arts & Humanities of the University of Central Florida, the administration, and staff are proud to host this annual group exhibition of our impending 2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts degree graduates. The BFA is the standard credential taken in visual arts at an American institution of higher learning through a combination of four or more years combined academic study and cre...

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 and commercialization.
Georgiopoulos, also a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, said researchers sometimes hav...

Graphic Design Junior Elizabeth Williamson designed and created a mural for an Orlando women and children's shelter run by the Salvation Army. She received the commission after winning the mural design contest sponsored by Papa John's Pizza.

"I completed my design using symbols of hope such as the blue iris, snowdrops, and butterflies. I wanted to create an artwork that would brighten up the area and make the women and children smile," she said.

Papa John's brought in about 1,000 volunteers on ...

March 23-May 26
Opening Reception – Friday, March 23rd from 5:30-8:30
Curator: Stephen Heywood
501 Central Ave. St. Petersburg FL 33701

UCF faculty members Hadi Abbas and Chris Thomas feature artwork in One 2 One.
One 2 One is a ceramic exhibition that highlights the history of the student/teacher relationship and the strong academic ceramic traditions that we have in the state of Florida. Professors from various institutions have been selected to invite current or former students to e...

Enrollment appointments for Summer 2012 and Fall 2012 are available for viewing in MyUCF.

Log onto https://my.ucf.edu and go to “Student Self Service” and then “Student Center.” Click on the “Details” link in your “Enrollment Appointment” box to view the day and time you can begin registering.

Click on “Search” in the “Student Center” to view the schedule search for the entire year and see when the courses you need ar...

The MFA Studio Art & the Computer graduating class of 2012 presents “Epilogue”, a group thesis exhibition showcasing contemporary work in painting, photography, sculpture, and multi-media.

Light treats and music will be provided at the gallery.

WHO: Corey Robertson, Heather Comparetto, Jeff Hoffman, Nanette cherry, Sherri Nienass, and Spider.
WHAT: Thesis Art Exhibit
WHEN: Opening Reception March 9th from 6pm-8pm, showing until March 31, 2012
WHERE: UCF Art Gallery, ...

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 project using technology to help prepare for the future while preserving history for generations to come.
Electronic 3-D representations of downtown buildings will be combined wit...

The UCF School of Visual Arts & Design is proud to announce that BFA candidate Seth Czaplewski has been accepted with scholarship for MFA degree study in sculpture by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Notably, Seth has been accepted many weeks prior to his BFA graduation date.

As an undergraduate at UCF, Seth has created an original body of compelling work consisting primarily of hand-built clay abstractions which are sited in natural and man-ma...

ALL STAR: Illustrations by Tim Eggert
An illustrated series of the greatest basketball nicknames of all time.

Opening night: Saturday, February 25th, 8pm-2am
Open through: Friday, March 2 at 2am
Location: The Falcon ( 819 E. Washington Street, Orlando ,FL 32801)

Tim Eggert is a designer, landscape painter, and illustrator. He studied Graphic Design at UCF and graduated in 2002. After graduation, Tim moved to New York to break into the design field and work in advertising and marketing. He now...

Laine Wyatt won Third Prize in the Professional Women Photographers' 36th Anniversary International Women's juried Exhibition. The work was jurored by Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery, NYC.

The exhibition will be held at .No Gallery, NYC, summer, 2012.

The exhibition can be found online at: The PWP website.

Christopher Wegman has been awarded the sole Undergraduate Award from the Society for Photographic Education Southeast Region which is a $500. scholarship and registration paid in full for the National Conference in San Francisco.

The work was judged by Natalie Zelt from the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. The work Christopher submitted, (portraits of fathers and sons) was created during Laine Wyatt's Image, Culture, and Society class, fall 2011.

Announcing the Spring Character Animation (formerly Visual Language) Specialization Open House

Are your career goals in the world of digital computer animation? The Character Animation Specialization is designed to prepare students for careers as animators, modelers, riggers, or texture artists in the film or computer game industries. If you are interested in applying to the School of Visual Art and Design’s Emerging Media: Character Animation Specialization, it is highly recommende...

SVAD Professor David Haxton presents work at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in "Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image". The exhibition celebrates artists whose work has "transformed video into a contemporary art practice". The Smithsonian's recently acquired films include Haxton's: “Bringing Lights Forward”, “Vertical and Receding Lines”, “Painting Lights”, “Landscape and Room” “Painting Room Lights” and â�...

UCF SVAD Professor Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz is featured in this month's issue of ARTnews. In Carolina Miranda's article Biting the Hand That Feeds Them she explores contemporary artist's who use their work to make commentary on the socially exclusive nature of the art-world and invite, even redefine through art, new ways to break social barriers. Professor Raimundi-Ortiz has been delving into the perception of art by bringing awareness to race, culture, and class in her artwork and YouTube series...

At the UCF INTX Lab, our primary research objective is developing a transformational means of experiential teaching and learning through a real-time, interactive media platform that enables geographically remote research teams to produce on-the-fly educational webcasts while any web-connected student can collaborate worldwide. Over five years of research and development, we have piloted this platform (originally called ―Interactive Expeditions‖) primarily through external fundin...

Scott F. Hall and select others were invited to London in late November to create new work at SoundFjord, the United Kingdom's only dedicated sound art gallery and research unit. He concentrated on a piano built there by Collard & Collard 100+ years ago; the instrument was recently restrung but randomly tuned thereby allowing Hall to press, pluck, and pull out an unusual range of timbres and tones. The material he produced is now under further development; his finished work will become the c...

Grand Prize Winner in "American Life" 2011 Lishui Photography Festival, China

"Desks as Portraits: An Inside Look at the DC Art World" by E. Brady Robinson received the Grand Prize Award and Cash Prize of $10,000 RMB in the "American Life" exhibition in the 2011 Lishui Photography Festival, China. Select work from this new series was selected by independent curator Larissa Leclair from the Indie Photobook Library. Photographer Ben Huff from Alaska also joined us in the exhibition curated by La...

The NSF ICubed project at UCF sponsors the collaboration of students doing STEM research and students from the School of Visual Arts and Design for the creation of artifacts that are inspired by the STEM research. Last year, STEM students who were involved in research collaborated with Visual Arts students for the creation of STEM inspired artifacts, such as paintings, sculptures, and posters. This year similar collaborations are under way.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal...

The School of Visual Arts and Design is announcing the Fall Character Animation Specialization Open House to be held at The Center for Emerging Media on October 25, 2011 from 6-8pm.

Are your career goals in the world of digital computer animation? The Character Animation Specialization is designed to prepare students for careers as animators, modelers, riggers, or texture artists in the film or computer game industries. If you are interested in applying to the School of Visual Art and Desig...

The UCF Art Gallery is pleased to announce the annual Faculty Art Exhibition which features an eclectic arrangement of artwork by renown faculty artists. The opening will take place on October 13, 2011 from 6-8 p.m. The event will consist of food, beverage, live music by talented guitarist Joseph Keebler, and ample opportunity for rich conversation with the artists. The exhibition runs from October 13 to November 13, 2011. Come and support the UCF Faculty and local arts community.

John M. Maudlin-Jeronimo, Director of Architecture, has been featured in Central Florida Lifestyle publication for his continuing contribution to the discipline, education, and progress of architecture as a whole and in the Orlando community. John Mauldin-Jeronimo joined the SVAD family as Director of Architecture in January of 2011. Click here for featured article.

UCF Art Gallery is excited to announce our open call to all Central Florida Artists for our January 2012 juried art exhibition. The gallery will accept original works of art which fit the theme “Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow”. All media will be considered for entry. The Juror, Tiffany Sanders, is a UCF Alum who holds a M.A. in Modern Art and currently serves on the board for Orange County Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Orlando downtown arts District and the Rollins College Cornell ...

On loan from Daytona State College, Departures is a juried exhibition which showcases recent photography from graduates of the University of Central Florida and Daytona State College photography program. DEPARTURES is a touring exhibition which was organized and circulated by the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College.

The University of Central Florida and Daytona State College have a remarkable partnership that offers students a four-year bachelor's degree in photography thr...

SVAD recent graduate and Experimental Animation alum Andrea Jones was recently offered the job of Junior Art Director in Manhattan at Mcgarrybowen.

Mcgarrybowen is an advertising and design agency based in New York, Chicago and London. Their clients span from Disney, Burger King, The Wall Street Journal, Kraft and Reebok. Congrats to Andrea on this amazing accomplishment!

E. Brady Robinson will lecture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on Sunday, August 28. She will discuss early landscape paintings on view in the Luce Foundation Center in relation to her own work, in which she explores the immediacy of capturing images made possible by modern technology.

Drs. Si-Jung (“Jun”) Kim and Natalie Underberg presented a paper entitled: “PeruDigital: Approaching Digital Storytelling and Collaborative Interactive Media Design Through Digital Ethnography, HCI, and Digital Media” at the 2011 HCI-International Conference in Orlando, Florida. The conference offers an international forum for the exchange of ideas related to applied, general, and theoretical areas of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction). The 2011 HCI-International Con...

Profs. Natalie Underberg, Daniel V. Novatnak, and Maria Cristina (MC) Santana presented on their work at an international videoconference entitled “Las redes sociales como una novedosa herramiento de la investigación” (“Social Networks as an Innovative Research Tool “). Organized by the University of Costa Rica, UCF was invited to participate along with Kansas State University. Dr. Underberg presented on her digital ethnography research concerning the use of Web 2...

Please join us for the opening reception of the BS Photography Thesis Exhibition, 'Synecdoches', on Saturday, May 7, from 3 - 5 PM at the VAB Fine Arts Gallery. Works from 23 students will be exhibited in the gallery until May 14. You can find further information about the show and works that will be exhibited - here: http://ucfthesis2011.com

Vigil, the latest art video with stereo sound by SVAD faculty members Matt Dombrowski and Scott F. Hall, was jury selected and screened on Sunday, May 1, 2011, in the Gluck Theater/Mountainlair on the campus of West Virginia University, Morgantown. The event in which Vigil was included was the annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival. This juried screening was the premier of the piece; the first screening of their new film anywhere. Later in 2011, Vigil will compete to gain jur...