UCF Among Top Destinations for Animators
April 28, 2014 The University of Central Florida is one of the nation’s top destinations for aspiring animators according to Animation Career Review. UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design is ranked #10 nationally and #3 in the southern region. UCF offers an impressive 13 bachelor’s degree programs, 3 master’s degree programs, and...
UCF Student's Award-Winning Photography Employs Unique Process
April 22, 2014 The photography of Christopher Boyer is featured in a national juried show as well as an online showcase. Boyer is a senior in UCF’s Photography B.S. program. Boyer’s work appears in Memory, Bone and Myth, an exhibition at the University of North Dakota. His piece was selected for a Purchase...
Grad Student Featured in Comic Art Journal
April 15, 2014 Gary Dufner is a teacher at the International Academy of Design & Technology in Orlando. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cartooning from the School of Visual Art in New York City. Gary is also a graduate student in UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design. While taking...
Ice-Cold Oscar
April 14, 2014 After twice applying for Disney’s talent development program, Mo Hassan, ’11, finally received the news he’d been hoping for. He packed up his car and drove more than 2,500 miles across the country from his home in Bradenton, Fla., to the Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, Calif. “They offered...
Film by UCF Student to Premiere at Florida Film Festival
April 10, 2014 Where Is Alice?, a short film written and directed by award-winning director Zachary Beckler, premieres this weekend at the Florida Film Festival. Zachary is a Film B.F.A. graduate and current M.F.A. student in UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design. The film will screen at 2:00pm on Sunday, April 13...
Donor Plans Major Gift to UCF Architecture Program
April 07, 2014 In 1963, Florida governor Farris Bryant signed a bill that created a new state university in Orange County. With Florida Technological University scheduled to open in the fall of 1968, there was much work to be done. Central Florida architect Frederick G. Owles was hired to lay out the vision...
Partnerships Celebrated at President's Circle Reception
April 07, 2014 Members of the UCF President’s Circle – donors who make annual gifts between $1,000 and $24,999 – were acknowledged for their contributions to the university last night at a reception in the UCF Art Gallery. Surrounded by a collaborative show entitled “The UCF S.T.E.A.M. Exhibition” – which presents paintings, posters,...
Award-winning UCF film Featured in Orlando Sentinel
April 01, 2014 “The Committee,” a documentary by University of Central Florida students and professors, tells part of its shocking story: how in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Florida college students and teachers were pulled out of class and questioned for hours — not about their politics but about their private lives,...
Alum's Short Film to Screen in New York
March 27, 2014 UCF Film alumni Benjamin Pearson (B.A. Cinema Studies 2007) will screen his short video Former Models at the Art of the Real 2014 film series hosted by The Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York on Thursday April 24th at 7:00 p.m. in the new landmark state-of-the-art Elinor Bunin...
Animation Alum's Oscar-Winning Effort
March 18, 2014 Recent graduate Mohanned “Mo” Hassan is one of the animators behind Disney’s latest box office smash Frozen. The film has been honored with a host of awards including Best Animated Feature at the 2014 Academy Awards. Hassan is a member of the Visual Effects team at Walt Disney Animation Studios...
Short Film by UCF Grad Screens at Florida Film Festival
March 14, 2014 Gabrielle Tillenburg’s short film Fantasy Land will be screening during the Florida Film Festival in Winter Park next month. The film follows the UCF alumna’s journey to revisit Disney’s Magic Kingdom and explore her childhood relationship with her now-deceased father, with the hope of discovering whether those memories were just...
Public Invited to View UCF Student Art Inspired by Science
March 13, 2014 A unique showcase featuring scientific research as it has been interpreted by student artists will be open to the public from March 27 through April 4. The UCFSTEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) exhibit presents paintings, posters, prints, photographs and 3D artworks created by UCF fine arts students in...
Gallery to Host Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
March 05, 2014 With artworks that blend photography and sculpture, to those that challenge personal beliefs, and others that play on memories, the 2014 Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition will be shown March 6-21 at the UCF Art Gallery. Seven artists will be featured in the “Down the Rabbit Hole” show that...
UCF CAH promotes Creative Careers through Florida IT Performance Grant
March 03, 2014 The Creative Career Speaker Series is a collaboration between the UCF College of Arts and Humanities (CAH) and UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design (SVAD), recipients of a Florida IT Performance Grant. Rudy McDaniel, Assistant Dean for Research and Technology for the College, noted that “the Speaker Series was...
UCF Film Wins Best Documentary Award
February 26, 2014 The film The Committee won the award for Best Documentary at the Love Your Shorts Film Festival in Sanford on Feb. 15. The Committee was directed by faculty members Lisa Mills and Robert Cassanello. The 24-minute documentary was produced during the fall 2011 semester by a Honors Advanced Documentary Workshop...
UCF Alum Flourishes on New York Art Scene
February 13, 2014 In a culture that tends to fixate on fame and fortune, it is easy to overlook the real success achieved by everyday people living their dream. UCF alum Elana Eda Rubinfeld is one of those people. After graduating from UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design, Elana moved to New...
UCF Collaborates with ROBOTIS in Robotics Workshop
February 11, 2014 On January 18 at the annual Otronicon expo in the Orlando Science Center, UCF’s HCI Lab and CREATE teamed up with ROBOTIS to hold an inaugural teacher’s workshop for STEAM learning with robots (http://hci.cah.ucf.edu/roboticsworkshop). ROBOTIS is known globally for making stand outs in the field of robotics. In 2011, DARwIn-OP,...
New UCF Public Art Designed to be Temporary
February 05, 2014 The latest piece of art on UCF’s main campus won’t last forever — by design. The “pop up” sculpture, a project by senior studio art major Lea Fales, is meant to exist only for a short period. “Untitled,” which Fales created over a five-week period for Associate professor Scott F....
Retired SVAD Professor Exhibits Among Art Giants
January 27, 2014 Recently retired professor David Haxton is among 40 artists exhibiting at the Museum of Modern Art featured in the exhibit Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New. His film “Overlapping Planes” is on display alongside artists including Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris and John Baldessari. Haxton’s film is on...
UCF Hosts Game Competition at Orlando Science Center's Otronicon Expo
January 21, 2014 The Orlando Science Center is holding its annual Otronicon video-gaming expo this weekend, and part of its draw is a 48-hour competition organized by UCF to create a video game for a virtual reality game system. The 20 chosen competitors, which have already been placed on four teams, will be...