Alumni shortlisted for global creative showcase

Ping Ho’s exhibition 離 Departure

Four recent Ringling College of Art and Design grads have been shortlisted for the Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2024—Yuki Li ’24,  Motion Design; Tristan Mundt ’23, Visual Studies; Ping Ho ’24, Visual Studies; and Emma Doing ’24, Photography and Imaging. The competition is open to all undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate art and design disciplines for […]

Lazarus scholar named Young Leader by national hospice org

Ringling College Lazarus Scholar receiving award for her commitment to community through volunteerism.

“I haven’t had a substantial death impact me, but I have experienced grief before,” said Madison “MJ” Helmick ’26, Computer Animation. As a Lazarus Scholar with Ringling College of Art and Design, Helmick has committed time throughout her college career to Tidewell Hospice’s Blue Butterfly program for children. Her contributions to the local nonprofit recently […]

Ringling College recognized for nonpartisan democratic engagement

Ringling College’s Community Engaged Learning initiative Ringling Votes wins Campus Democracy Challenge.

Ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election on Nov. 5, Ringling College of Art and Design has been recognized for its commitment to democratic engagement by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. Ringling College is one of 192 colleges and universities throughout the country that have earned the Highly Established Action Plan Seal for the 2024 […]

Alum’s short film, Spare Me, funded for full-length adaptation

Will Mauricette’s short film Spare Me has won a number of awards this year and will become a full-length film.

Will Mauricette ’24, Film, began working on Spare Me in the summer of 2022, just before his junior year at Ringling College of Art and Design. The short film has since been selected for entry to more than 20 film festivals and earned a number of awards—including 2024 Best Picture from the Mometu College Shorts […]

Film program ranked in Hollywood Reporter’s Top 25 for the fourth year in a row

The Ringling College of Art and Design Film program was named a top film school by the Hollywood Reporter for the fourth consecutive year.

The Ringling College of Art and Design Film program was ranked 20th on The Hollywood Reporter’s list of the Top Film Schools for 2024. This marks the fourth consecutive year that Ringling College has made the list, which ranks film programs in the United States based on how well they prepare students for a future […]

Faculty-illustrated book about Wounded Knee wins Colorado Juvenile Literature Award

Illustration of Brave Bird by Eric Freeberg.

The 2024 Colorado Book Award in the Juvenile Literature category has been awarded to Brave Bird at Wounded Knee, with cover and interior art by Illustration and First Year Program faculty member Eric Freeberg. The book is the 10th in the I Am America series, all illustrated by Freeberg, which gives fictional retellings of real […]

Rookie of the Year 2024 awards announced

Motion still by Lucia Eugenia Alonso Eiras.

Ringling College of Art and Design’s Computer Animation, Graphic Design, and Motion Design majors shined in the annual Rookie of the Year awards this summer. Each year, students from around the world compete for the coveted title that awards creative emerging digital artists in 12 categories, from Motion Graphics to Immersive Media and Film of […]

Computer Animation alum releasing Netflix animated series

Still from thesis film.

Ringling College of Art and Design alum Echo Wu ’17, Computer Animation, is currently in post-production on her Netflix animated series, Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld. As creator and director of Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld, she shared that the series is inspired in part by her own experiences as a first-generation Chinese-American. It follows […]

Motion Design faculty wins Silver at inaugural Collision Awards

Still-frame from FutureProof 2024 opening sequence.

Ringling College of Art and Design Motion Design faculty Kelly Warner won the Silver award for Craft Sounds Design at the inaugural Collision Awards. He was awarded for his creative sound design in the opening title sequence for Motion Design’s 2024 edition of their annual conference FutureProof. Warner’s sound design amplifies the student collaborative motion […]