Mon Mar 22
After much anticipation, a student-designed solar sculpture has been installed at Exploria Stadium, home of Orlando City Soccer and Orlando Pride. The sculpture was designed by 11 studio art and engineering students as part of a challenge posed by OUC for the Advanced Design Lab (AdLab) class in the spring of 2018. UCF students (now alumni) involved…
Wed Mar 17
I enjoy teaching the history course Western Civilization because it has great tips for parenting. I have three children — ages 6, 4 and 21 months—and my wife and I face a problem common to the rulers of the ancient world’s great empires: how to maintain order among an unruly population when you are outnumbered.…
Wed Mar 10
UCF artists have spent the last year making theatre in front of webcams, blowing horns in parking garages and dancing in kitchens. They’ve been hosting poetry readings over Zoom and painting alone in empty studios. But now, they are ready to come out of isolation and — following safety protocols — experience the arts together.…
Tue Mar 9
Class Name WST3371 Women and Leadership Instructor Anne Bubriski When is it offered? Spring. How many students in a class? Honors: Maximum 20. Online: Maximum 45. Prerequisites ENC1102 (Composition II) From the Professor Why should a student take this class? It’s so empowering for the students. It’s one of my favorite classes. The first day…
Sun Feb 28
When UCF alums Teresa Falcone ’14 and Christopher Sanchez ’14 first looked at the storyboards for Pixar’s Soul, they had a gut feeling they were going to be working on something memorable. “You can tell it feels special, when you know that people are going to love the movie when it is released,” Sanchez says. “I could feel it when…
Fri Feb 26
Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, associate professor of studio art, is the first SVAD faculty member to be be elected for a four-year term on the College Art Association Board of Directors. As a member of the board, Raimundi-Ortiz will help set policy for all aspects of CAA’s activities. The nationally-renowned organization promotes the visual arts and their…
Fri Feb 26
Jazz is all about improvisation and experimentation — and that is what the annual UCF-Orlando Jazz Festival will do when it improvises and goes all virtual Feb. 26-27. Performances for the 14th year of the event will be streamed from Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts in Winter Park (where UCF musicians will be shown) and…
Wed Feb 24
Class NameLAH 3470 – History of the Caribbean InstructorLuis MartÃnez-Fernández, Pegasus Professor of history and member of the Puerto Rico Research Hub When is it offered?Spring, summer and fall semesters How many students are in a class?About 35 PrerequisitesEUH 2000 and EUH 2001 From the Professor How would you describe this course?This course is a multidisciplinary introduction to the historical trajectory of…
Wed Feb 10
Once again in 2021, a time of new beginnings is upon us as the Lunar New Year looms Feb. 12, kicking off the Year of the Ox. A solar year — the time it takes Earth to orbit the sun — lasts around 365 days, while a lunar year, or 12 full cycles of the…
Tue Feb 9
UCF’s seventh annual Healing Art Exhibition, curated by Counseling and Psychological Services in partnership with the School of Visual Arts and Design, will be held virtually on Wednesday, Feb. 10 at 6 p.m. via Zoom. The exhibition will feature a virtual art gallery and awards ceremony celebrating the 2D artwork created by students, alumni, faculty and…
Thu Jan 28
A new two-year Master of Science program in themed experience at the University of Central Florida will prepare students to lead the innovative industry into the future. Beginning this fall, students will work closely with notable academic scholars and renowned industry professionals to learn to design and lead teams in creating world-class themed experiences, ranging from educational…
Thu Jan 14
The show must go on, so Theatre UCF is finding new ways to bring live performances back to the stage for in-person shows this spring. The three outdoor performances include a hopeful musical concert, a colorful Commedia dell’arte play and a family-friendly show about wanting to be anything but average. To maintain the health and…
Wed Jan 13
On Inauguration Day — January 20 — I always think there’s no better time to recommit to the spirit of the man who held the president’s office first. George Washington, the man who invented the inauguration speech, crafted an address that speaks to what unites Americans. Washington took office in a precarious moment. The previous…
Wed Dec 16
Orlando’s own Flying Horse Big Band celebrates the legacy of Ray Charles. On their 7th album, The Flying Horse Big Band, joined by a host of distinguished guest artists, stands on the shoulders of genius. Ray Charles spent his formative years in Florida and went on to forge a long, successful career unique and stunning musical interpretations.…
Tue Dec 1
Like several of the people in your Twitter timeline, Dominique Allen Lawson ’14 spent a part of his Thanksgiving holiday watching Hulu’s “Happiest Season”. The only difference is that when Lawson watched the movie, he saw himself in the film playing the cheeky, ambitious, side-eye-giving character of Levi.Finding His Footing Lawson, who grew up in Jacksonville and…
Fri Nov 20
Ceramicist and studio art professor Robert Reedy has been chosen for the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens’ winter exhibition. Entitled “Robert Reedy: Revival,” the exhibition will run from November 3, 2020 to April 11, 2021, both in person at the Winter Park location and online at polasek.org. Reedy is an Orlando-based contemporary American artist whose career spans…
Wed Nov 18
Peter Weishar, director of UCF’s Themed Experience program, shared with InPark Magazine how he and the students in the MFA Theatre – Themed Experience track collaborate with Carolina Cruz-Neira, Agere Chair in Computer Science at UCF and creator of the CAVE virtual reality system. Read the full interview: http://www.inparkmagazine.com/a-meeting-of-minds-and-disciplines/ The CG image above is a work in progress from “Pegasus…
Tue Nov 17
The application deadline for applications for the 2020 Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts & Wellness Innovation Awards has been extended to December 4 at noon. The two awards of $25,000 each were founded in 2018 by philanthropists Chuck Steinmetz and Margery Pabst Steinmetz and are awarded to cross-disciplinary teams focused on the area of arts and wellness. The purpose of the Pabst…
Tue Nov 17
After much anticipation, a student-designed solar sculpture has been installed at Exploria Stadium, home of Orlando City Soccer and Orlando Pride. The sculpture was designed by 11 studio art and engineering students as part of a challenge posed by OUC for the Advanced Design Lab (AdLab) class in the spring of 2018. UCF students (now alumni) involved…
Fri Nov 13
Associate Professor Alla Kourova was a fifth grader in Moscow when she heard a song that sparked her love for languages – Yesterday by the Beatles. “From then I wanted to learn English so I could learn to sing it and play on the piano,” says Kourova, who grew up in Russia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany and Hungary.…