Faculty and Staff

Carla Rossi Poindexter, M.F.A.

• Professor
• Carla.Poindexter@ucf.edu
• Office Hours: M 5 - 6:00pm CEM Downtown, TTR 10 - 11:00am Office or VAB 220
• Campus Location: VAB105K
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Professor Carla Poindexter teaches intermediate and advanced painting, advanced drawing, foundations design, various classes in upper level experimental book arts and studio concentration and seminars in SVAD's Studio Art MFA program. Poindexter is actively involved in the BFA and MFA programs growth and has served as chair of several HIM and MFA thesis committees. 

Although most of Poindexter's studio work is in painting and drawing, she creates work in still-life photography, printmaking, book arts and she previously created 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. Currently she is working on a stop action animation. Her studios are located in her home and in UCF's Research Park.

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 18 solo exhibitions and numerous nationally and internationally competitive or curated group exhibitions.

Education

• M.F.A. from Texas Tech University (1999)

Courses

• Spring 2022
• Fall 2021
• Summer 2021
• Spring 2021
• Fall 2020
• Summer 2020