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Majors, clubs, and opportunities at Spring 2024 Open House

Families pose for photos in front of the College’s iconic green plant wall.

Prospective students and their families traveled from across the state of Florida and even the United States to attend Ringling College of Art and Design’s Spring Open House last week. Almost 300 students registered for the event and 550 guests were present.  The visitors started the day with a breakfast at Cunniffe Commons, the College’s […]

Illustration alum gives artist talk for Sarasota arts community

Police car with lights on in traffic.

Illustration alum Jamiel Law ’19 will give an artist talk at the Arts Advocates Gallery in Sarasota on Feb. 23 from 4-6 pm. Law’s talk, “Don’t Breath,” takes its title from an illustration Law created. The work and talk consider the psychological notion of police presence in the African American community in the United States. […]

AI & Copyright Law: Guest Speaker Announced

An AI-generated image of a boy sitting on books surrounded by other media and orange and blue squares

Ringling College of Art and Design’s AI Task Force is pleased to announce that the next guest expert in its speaker series will be Washington, D.C. copyright lawyer and legal author Mark Traphagen. On Monday, February 19, 2024 at 7 pm, Traphagen will present “Is the Algorithm the Author? Generative Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, and the […]

Ringling College to host fifth-annual Anyone’s Game Conference

A purple, pink, and blue logo for Anyone’s Game tabletop game conference

Calling all designers, players, and lovers of games!  Ringling College of Art and Design will host Anyone’s Game from Friday, Feb. 23-Sunday, Feb. 25 on campus at the Roskamp Exhibition Hall. Anyone’s Game is a tabletop game conference that explores creativity, design, and openness in gaming. Up-and-coming tabletop game developers can test their game designs […]

Ringling College 2024 Alumni Honor Wall Revealed

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Twelve alumni were honored in a ceremony on campus in the Keating Center on Jan. 26. The hybrid ceremony celebrated the reveal of the Alumni Honor Wall, a wall of large portraits featuring exceptional Ringling alumni. Each year since 2018, a selection committee chooses 12 alumni to celebrate for their post-graduation achievements—awards and accolades, as […]

Ringling & Moffitt host 8th-Annual VR and Healthcare Global Symposium

A girl with a VR headset stands in front of a lifesize protected human skeleton

The Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium 2024 is the 8th annual event scheduled from Feb. 29 to March 3, 2024. The event’s first two days will take place at Ringling College of Art and Design, followed by two days at Tampa’s Moffitt Cancer Center. The symposium aims to foster partnership and collaboration in healthcare, […]

Cunniffe Commons Earns LEED Gold

Students enjoying the patio at Cunniffe Commons.

The Ringling College of Art and Design dining hall Cunniffe Commons is the latest campus facility to earn LEED certification from the US Green Building Council. Built in 2021, the 28,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art building was recognized LEED Gold for its optimized energy performance, water efficiency, waste management, overall innovation, and other environmentally responsible factors. Among the […]

Computer Animation alum nominated for College Television Award

Still from animation Strings Attached.

Ria Shinde ’23, Computer Animation, has been nominated for a College Television Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (aka the Television Academy). The nomination, in the category of “Animated Series,” recognizes Strings Attached, a piece that Shinde wrote, produced, and directed while she was still a student at Ringling College of Art […]

Ringling College to host first-ever VR Healthcare Hackathon

Blue and white logo for VR Healthcare Hackathon

Ringling College of Art and Design is set to host the first Virtual Reality Healthcare Hackathon Invitational this year, from Feb. 9 at 6 pm to Feb. 11 at 3 pm. The College will be joined by peer institutions, each represented by teams of three students from both undergraduate and graduate schools. Each student team […]