Arts & Culture News

A UCF grad and former university staff member took a spontaneous trip to the iconic festival — which kicked off 50 years ago today — when she was 19 years old.

Fifty years after the cultural phenomenon that brought 400,000 people to a farm in upstate New York, associate professor George Weremchuk shares his knowledge about the festival in his “Survey of Rock Music” course.

From Universal Orlando’s Epic Universe to Rainforest Cafe, here’s the rundown on the themed-experiences industry — and how UCF students will be poised to lead it.

As with other art forms, good and bad musical theatre will always coexist. Finding the good is just knowing where to look.

The North Carolina resident, who is married to a Marine and had to be ready to move at any time, says UCF’s courses gave her the ability to remain mobile and study on the go.

A new book by Mike Chase ’07, a UCF film graduate who later became an attorney, looks at the peculiar federal laws that are still in effect.  

Grad students teach fourth and fifth graders how to animate their own films during a week-long camp run by a partnership between UCF and Page 15.

UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design (SVAD) and Center for Research and Education in Arts, Technology and Entertainment (CREATE) will host Pompeii-related arts initiatives in the months leading up…

These tidbits might make you rethink the Fourth of July — or at least arm you with some trivia for the holiday picnic.