Music Faculty Perform and Lecture in Austria
August 19, 2014 This July, John Almeida and Lyman Brodie, UCF Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, performed throughout Austria as invited members of the European Brass Ensemble. Under the direction of Maestro Thomas Clamor, the ensemble is comprised of virtuosic brass and percussion instrumentalists from 17 countries. Almeida and Brodie were joined...
MFA Film Wins Top Honor at New Hope Film Festival
August 07, 2014 The Tailor’s Apprentice, a film by Jeff Lehman (M.F.A. Emerging Media – Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, ’13), won two awards at the New Hope Film Festival. The film took top honors with the jury award for Best Picture as well as the Audience Choice Award for the Mid-Atlantic region. Founded by D....
Hall Featured in European Art Journal
August 05, 2014 Scott F. Hall and collaborator Freya Gustava were recently reviewed in the art journal Stigmart10. Their piece, “Strata (Fleeting Memories),” is featured along with 14 other works from a pool of nearly 700 submissions. “Strata” was co-produced by the pair in 2012. Hall and Gustava, an experimental artist/musician in Tyne...
The Committee Wins International Jury Award for Best Documentary
August 01, 2014 A documentary by University of Central Florida students and professors won the International Jury Award for Best Documentary at the Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in South Africa. Florida’s Purge: The Johns Committee Witch Hunt is the product of a 2011 UCF honors class taught by Lisa Mills of...
Tobias Elected 2nd VP of National Band Association
July 29, 2014 Scott Tobias has been elected 2nd Vice President of the National Band Association. The National Band Association is the largest band directors’ professional organization in the world, with members working in elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities throughout the U.S. The association promotes the musical and educational...
Digital Designers Bring Opera to Life
July 24, 2014 When a dark and dingy prison scene fades quickly into a sunlit desert landscape, it’s evidence of good theater. But when it takes place without stagehands, set pieces or painted backdrops, it’s innovation. State-of-the-art digital projection transformed 13th-century Asia and entertained opera viewers during “The Red Silk Thread: An Epic...
Short Story by Poissant Featured in Pegasus Magazine
July 22, 2014 “The End of Aaron,” a short story from The Heaven of Animals David James Poissant, is featured in the most recent edition of Pegasus magazine. Animals is Poissant’s debut book from Simon & Schuster. In each of its short stories, Poissant explores the tenuous bonds of family—fathers and sons, husbands...
Terry Ann Thaxton Wins Florida Book Awards
July 15, 2014 Terry Ann Thaxton’s poetry collection is “as toughly accepting as her own small-town protagonist girls, who are unforgettably beaten, duped, and finally opened into a womanhood that makes them too smart, too sad, and too dangerous for any one man or lifetime,” wrote Terri Witek, a previous Florida Book Award...
Read Latest T&T Newsletter
July 15, 2014 Read the latest T&T newsletter here, including information on dissertation award recipients, incoming students, and important dates to note. Keynote: James Paul Gee Congratulations to Grads, Scholarship Winners and more Welcome New T&T Faces Honors, Awards, Publications and Workshops T&T Speaker Series New Specializations
Alumna's Short Film Honored at Cannes
July 09, 2014 Growing up in a family of movie buffs and watching the Oscars every year, it seemed Katie Damien, ’01, was destined for a future in film. In fact, she made her first movie when she was 12 years old, and she hasn’t stopped making movies since. Born and raised in...
Christopher Harris will Screen Reckless Eyeballing at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
June 27, 2014 Christopher Harris will screen his film Reckless Eyeballing at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London as part of their Artists’ Film Biennial 2014. The film will be screened in the “Avant-Noir” program on Saturday, July 5th, 2014. Avant-Noir surveys the work of contemporary film and video artists who are...
Metrah Pashaee Won the First Prize Award at the 2014 Haverhill Experimental Film Festival
June 18, 2014 UCF alumni Metrah Pashaee won the First Prize award at the 2014 Haverhill Experimental Film Festival in Haverhill, Massachusetts for her short video Human Body Battleground Organ Organism. Human Body Battleground Organ Organism is an appropriated moving image collage investigating human sex organs as disembodied vessels. Utilizing a digital voice...
Harris Selected for Inaugural Exhibition of Florida Prize in Contemporary Art
June 18, 2014 Christopher Harris is among artists selected for the inaugural exhibition of the Orlando Museum of Art Florida Prize in Contemporary Art. The invitational exhibition will feature ten of the most progressive and exciting artists working in the State today. Additionally, one of these outstanding artists will be selected to receive...
UCF to Host Arts Festival at Orlando's New Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
June 17, 2014 The University of Central Florida will join the inaugural season of downtown Orlando’s new Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts by hosting a 10-day arts festival in April, organizers announced Thursday. The center is planning a year full of concerts, Broadway shows, dance performances and other events, including the...
Francis and Moshell Granted Emeritus Status
June 13, 2014 Two College of Arts & Humanities faculty members were granted emeritus status Wednesday during the annual Founders’ Day ceremony. The status is awarded to faculty and administrators who have worked at the university for at least five years. The title honors the contributions and distinction they achieved at the university,...
Lighting the Way for Some Pretty Hefty Stars
June 12, 2014 Charles "Chip" Perry’s summertime work is not just in the spotlight – it is the spotlight. The assistant professor of lighting and sound design for the University of Central Florida’s Theatre department is spending his summer months as lighting director for several World Wrestling Entertainment television production shows. His shows average...
Wyatt Presents "Obsessions, Curiosities, and Fancies" in Solo Exhibit
June 05, 2014 Obsessions, Curiosities, and Fancies, a solo exhibition by M. Laine Wyatt, opens at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach with a reception on June 11. The exhibition, which runs until September 21, features photographic works drawn from five different series traversing expansive topics: the nature of women’s relationship...
Flying Horse Print Featured in NY Exhibition
June 02, 2014 A recent print Flying Horse Editions published with Carmon Colangelo is currently featured at the International Print Center New York. New Prints 2014/Summer features 49 projects by 49 artists, culled from more than 3,000 prints. The collaborative image from Colangelo and Flying Horse Editions appears on the cover of the...
UCF Offers New Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and Cultural Studies
May 29, 2014 A new Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and Cultural Studies is being offered at UCF that will include additional courses in theory and methods along with the traditional historical focus. The revised degree replaces the previous Bachelor of Arts in Humanities to reflect developments in contemporary scholarship and research areas...
UCF Gallery to Feature Photos Chronicling Icons of Arts World
May 21, 2014 The photography of the late Jack Mitchell, who chronicled the arts scene in New York for 35 years, will be on display at the University of Central Florida Art Gallery from June 12 to July 11. Black-and-white photos depicting memorable personalities of American culture from 1960 to 1995 will be...