Successful UCF Celebrates the Arts 2017 Already Looking Ahead to 2018
April 20, 2017 Just a few days after the third annual UCF Celebrates the Arts concluded its eight-day run of concerts, presentations, lectures and workshops, planners have already started working on next year’s festival. “If you liked UCF Celebrates the Arts 2017, just wait until you see 2018,” said Steven Chicurel-Stein, interim director...
Dr. Keri Watson Awarded Fulbright-Terra Foundation Award
March 27, 2017 Dr. Keri Watson of the School of Visual Arts and Design has received a 2018 Fulbright-Terra Foundation Award in the History of American Art in China. The award, sponsored by the Fulbright Scholar Program, offers an opportunity to teach American Art History prior to 1980 at the undergraduate or graduate...
UCF Art Professor and Performance Artist Lands Spot in Smithsonian Exhibit
March 22, 2017 Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz feels she represents more than just herself in her art. When she is creating, she feels the characters bursting forth to tell their stories – and all the while she struggles with all they represent. “I keep them [characters] locked up, you know, because if I let them...
UCF Celebrates the Arts Expands Venues for Works by SVAD Students, Faculty
March 22, 2017 Presentations by students and faculty in UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design – fine art, tableau vivant (living art), films, interactive gaming and other fields – will expand to multiple venues in this year’s UCF Celebrates the Arts. In addition to art presentations at the host site of the...
Chromactive: An Interactive Color Experience by Ryan Buyssens at Art31
March 13, 2017 Each March, the Art & History Museums of Maitland’s Art Center host Art31, a month-long series of art exhibits. At this year’s fourth annual gallery event series, the art is centered around Borrowed Light, an exhibition inspired by Stephen Knapp’s brilliant paintings that incorporate lights, glass, and color. Ryan Buyssens,...
UCF Students Present at the Florida Conference of Historians
March 13, 2017 March 10-12, 2017 Punta Gorda, Fl Several UCF students from the History and School of Visual Arts and Design presented their work at the 57th Annual Florida Conference of Historians March 10-12 at Florida Southwestern State College. The conference highlighted historical subjects through paper and new media presentations, and gave...
Art History Student Wins Barbato Fellowship
February 24, 2017 Art history student Gaby van Ravenswaay has been awarded the Barbato Fellowship for Graduate Study at Case Western University One of the largest awards given at the university, the fellowship covers tuition and includes a stipend. Gaby will continue the work she started at UCF on Northern Baroque art with...
UCF Student Wins at Orlando ADDYs
February 24, 2017 José Manuel Llanos won a student award for his package design project at the 2017 Orlando Addy Awards. His Golden Age Beer design took the Silver Addy in the category of Stationary Package – Single or Multiple Pieces. José is an undergraduate student in UCF’s School of Visual Arts and...
UCF Celebrates the Arts to Return April 7-14 for 3rd Season
February 24, 2017 UCF Celebrates the Arts – the university’s annual showcase of student and faculty presentations – will return April 7-14 to the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Orlando. The eight days of music, performances and visual displays, which are open to the public for free, will feature...
Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz to premiere live performance portrait at Knowles Chapel
February 10, 2017 Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, assistant professor in the UCF School of Visual Arts and Design, will create a live performance portrait at Knowles Chapel in Winter Park on Tuesday, March 21 at 6 p.m. The piece, inspired by Michelangelo’s Pietà will feature Raimundi-Ortiz sitting and cradling 33 young people of color, the...
Robert Rivers Featured in Artborne Magazine
February 10, 2017 Robert Rivers, professor of art at the UCF School of Visual Arts and Design, is featured in Artborne Magazine . The article includes an interview with Rivers in his home and studio, and expounds upon his life experiences in accordance with his art. Robert Rivers has taught art at UCF...
UCF Represents at Love Your Shorts Film Festival in Sanford
February 07, 2017 Educational workshops for aspiring and veteran filmmakers and an exhibition of 14 student films will be sponsored by UCF’s College of Arts & Humanities as part of the seventh annual Love Your Shorts Film Festival in Sanford on Feb. 9-12. This is the third year of the university and festival’s...
Haran's models and drawings feature in solo exhibition
January 06, 2017 The Anita S. Wooten Gallery will host ‘Counterpoint,’ an exhibition of work by Kevin Haran. The show features Haran’s 3-D models of miniature tanks, battleships and other war machines, along with mixed media drawings of UFOs. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday January 12, 2017, 5-7...
Artists Confront Topic of Climate Change
January 04, 2017 Science and art often overlap – as in an upcoming climate-change exhibit presented by UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design and the CREATE Program. The exhibit, “Today for Tomorrow: A Visual Response to Climate Change,” will feature emotionally driven artwork created by students from UCF and local elementary schools...
Sandler to be honored at Outfest screening
December 21, 2016 Outfest, the world’s foremost LGBT Film Festival, will honor Barry Sandler with a screening of The Mirror Crack’d. Sandler wrote the screenplay based on the novel by Agatha Christie. The 1980 comedy/mystery stars Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring role, along with Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Angela Lansbury...
Raimundi-Ortiz Named Visiting Artist at Renowned School
December 21, 2016 Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz has been invited to be a visiting artist at Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C. next fall. Sidwell has been described as “the Harvard of Washington’s private schools.” Raimundi-Ortiz will also present a solo exhibition of her work at the school’s Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery. In addition, Raimundi-Ortiz...
Kovach Presents Photo Journey through Cuba
December 21, 2016 Cuba In Transition: A Photo Journey, a new book from Keith Kovach and Linda Grimm-Kovach, explores the island nation through image and text. Fine art photographer Keith Kovach captured the images in Cuba in May 2016. His compelling street photography illustrates subtle urban beauty that’s nearly invisible to hurried passersby....
Students and alumni launch all-girl art 'zine
December 21, 2016 An All-Girl Art-Zine Set Out to Empower and Inspire! A group of students and alumni have pooled their talents to create their first digital art-zine. Lana Lasher and Stephanie Nava are two recent UCF graduates that are also active in the Orlando art community. They launched their ‘zine in October...
Grinch Christmas TV Special Turns 50, Reminds What is Important – UCF Animator
December 12, 2016 You’d think that after a half century the Grinch would remember his lesson. But every year since the December 1966 television special How the Grinch Stole Christmas! first appeared, the animated green curmudgeon returns to his old tricks of sabotaging the holiday once again. “Basic human nature does not change,”...
American Advertising Federation Chooses Two Knights for Most Promising Minority Students Class
December 12, 2016 Two Nicholson students were named to the 2017 class of the American Advertising Federation’s Most Promising Multicultural Students Program. Alexandra DeCespedes and Linnea Goodman are advertising-public relations majors who will graduate in the spring. Alexandra DeCespedes, an advertising-public relations and graphic design major, said she felt honored to be recognized....