UCF College of Arts & Humanities

Just no-clipped into the SVAD backrooms 🚪

What does it mean to create devised work? Sage Tokach, co-director and UCF theatre professor, explains the process ✨

Come see this team’s original work, BETWEEN SHADOWS AND LIGHTNESS, this weekend only at Pegasus PlayLab (PAC-Studio 1)!

🎟️ Tickets and more at the link in our bio.

Meet ✨ Shayla Marshall, a finalist in ✨ Pathways 2026: The Carlos Malamud Prize.
 
A contemporary mixed-media artist working between Miami and London, Marshall uses world-building to imagine new histories and futures through storytelling, memory, and identity. Drawing from her upbringing in Miami’s culturally rich Black communities, her immersive works explore belonging, visibility, and self-definition.
 
“My practice uses world-building as a tool for liberation, challenging the linearity of time to explore the complexities of history and identity.”
 
Born in Miami, Florida, Marshall holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art in London. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Saatchi Gallery and Greenspace Miami, and she is a recipient of the Miami-Dade County Artist Grant.
 
Learn more about Shayla and Pathways 2026: The Carlos Malamud Prize at link in bio.
 
🗓️ On view through August 28 at UCF Art Gallery
🗓️ On view through August 30 at Rollins Museum of Art

Pegasus PlayLab 2026 opens tonight with Drew Paryzer’s OFFSHOOT!

Performed May 29 & 30, OFFSHOOT explores what human-to-human connection might look like in a near-future world that’s saturated with AI relationships. Through the lens of a teacher striving to connect with a pupil in an offline classroom, Paryzer’s play invites audiences to see what happens when people dare to be inconvenient to one another.

🔗 Tickets at the link in bio. Performance IRL.

Couldn’t be me ☝️

Installing, hanging, tweaking, repeat ✨

Pathways 2026: The Carlos Malamud Prize opens tomorrow at 5:30 PM at the UCF Art Gallery! Come experience work from the six finalists featured in the first part of this juried exhibition.

The exhibition continues Thursday, May 27 at 5:30 PM at , where the winner of the 2026 Carlos Malamud Prize will be announced.

Register for the UCF opening at the link in bio!

Meet ✨Ebenezer Nketsiah Mensah, a finalist in ✨Pathways 2026: The Carlos Malamud Prize.

A multidisciplinary artist whose work is shaped by his experience as a former gold miner and construction worker in Ghana, Mensah explores labor, migration, and identity through sculpture and installation. His practice reflects on the physical and emotional realities of work, while honoring the resilience of the communities connected to it.

Using found and industrial materials, Mensah transforms personal and collective histories into powerful visual narratives rooted in memory, survival, and belonging.

“My work is deeply informed by lived experience, using material and process to speak to labor, movement, and the human condition.”

Learn more about Ebenezer and Pathways 2026: The Carlos Malamud Prize.

Exhibition opens:
🗓️ May 27 at UCF Art Gallery
🗓️ May 28 at Rollins Museum of Art
🔗 Link in our bio!