Kevin Su Liang, sophomore studio art major, creates art while sitting under his own piece at the Framework Craft Coffee House on Friday. Liang’s piece combines his love of art and music, as his print features four of the instruments he plays: piano, tuba, bass and double bass.
Cassandra Joseph
Vibrant colors and patterns lined the walls of Framework Craft Coffee House as students and spectators gathered to view the work at the UCF Screen Print Show on Friday.
For the first time, any student who had taken the screen printing course, ART 3433C, in the academic year 2025-26 was eligible to submit their work in hopes their art would be displayed in partnership with The Chained Gallery, Framework’s in-house gallery.
Kevin Su Liang, sophomore studio art major, displayed his art piece titled “Room for More.” Liang said this is the first time his artwork has been displayed in a gallery, allowing him to get involved in the art world.
“It’s like, you know that meme with the little creature that says ‘yippee’, and it has the confetti? That’s literally how it felt,” Liang said.
Liang used a stencil for the design, placing it on a mesh screen and rubbing paint so that the paint went onto the clear parts of the design.
“That took a total of at least 48 hours in total,” Liang said. “Plus, a couple of weeks drawing.”
Liang’s artwork combined his love for music and art by creating an image of a man playing the piano, bass, tuba and a double bass standing alone to represent all the instruments he plays.
“I’m like, I’m here, I got my art here — people can know me now,” said Liang.
Sapphire Servellon, artist and curator at The Chained Gallery, has been an art curator since she started her first DIY home gallery in 2016. She has been working to curate art for the Framework Craft Coffee House for two years.
Servellon said she enjoyed seeing UCF students come out and see what she called their “hunger” to have their prints featured for the first time.
Artists and spectators view and discuss the artwork at the Framework Craft Coffee House on Friday night. For some students, this was their first time seeing their prints displayed in a gallery.
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“There is a little bit less stress of the format, because it is coffee shop gallery and it is more versatile to like the general public,” Servellon said. “There’s a little less tension for anyone to feel like what they can show.”
After considering student application completion, visually analyzing the artwork and taking into account the available space, Servellon selected nine student artists with 14 prints to showcase for the gallery.
Vanessa Moran, senior graphic design major, said this was her first gallery since attending the university. She submitted a print titled “Hurricane Ian,” which focused on using high contrasts and saturation to emphasize the dramatic before and after effects of the 2022 hurricane.
“Screen printing and art in this process lets you be more hands on,” Moran said. “You get to think about your artwork in a more critical sense of layers, design, texture and color overlays and the relationship between colors.”
Moran used the high saturation of the colors blue, red, green and yellow to represent the hurricane radars.
Graduating this semester, Moran said she hopes that her designs will be intentional about having an impact on the community after the event.
Artists and spectators observe the artwork from UCF’s screen printing course, ART 3433C, at “the chained gallery” in Framework Craft Coffee House on Friday night.
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Lorna Galloway, a lecturer in the School of Visual Arts and Design, reached out to the gallery to coordinate an exhibition for her students. She said she wanted to give them an opportunity to build confidence and have a space to practice showcasing their art, but also to experience rejection.
As an artist with a passion for screen printing, she said that even the students who did not get selected learned to take rejection well.
She said she understands that in the art world, every “yes” means there were still a thousand times before that there was “no.”
“I hope they kind of carry that confidence with them and the experience of having submitted and being kind of seen outside of an academic context and also understanding that there’s a community here that’s excited to see your work, that’s excited to share your work,” Galloway said.